Table of Contents

1. Project ideas

1.1. Games

  • Open Source remakes of things…
    • Storybook Weaver Deluxe
    • Kid Pix
    • Harvest Moon
  • Terminal-based games
    • Survival / wilderness
    • Text adventure
    • Roguelike
    • JRPG style?
    • Virtual pet?
  • Visual Novels?
  • Random prompts…
    • Trumpet Ball
    • You're a landmass in the ocean looking for a friend
    • GarPG - a Gar (fish) playing game.
    • Morse Code Fighter. (I wrote this note down but have no idea what I was thinking.)
    • Mr Peasant's Cooking Sim (it's all onions and potatoes).
    • Murder at the Murder Party
    • I made a random idea generator
    • A visual novel where you're a homemaker and you're trying to get people to sell you their souls
    • A rhythm game about the gig economy but you're a terrible driver.
    • A dinosaur kart racer but a meteor is headed towards earth!!
    • A 1v1 fighter with magical girls but everyone's middle age and has back pain.
    • A cookie clicker in prohibition U.S. but you're just a henchman.
    • A space shmup in the gig economy and you're grandma.
  • Educational?
    • Morse Code Piano
    • Math Kingdom Quest
  • Abandoned ideas
    • Roller Beasts
    • Attack of the Mutant Lawnmowers
    • Rawr Rinth
    • Lenxion: The Cursed Castle
  • Miscellaneous
    • Customizable Solitaire/Freecell

1.2. Creative commons game assets

  • Art
    • Take pictures around K.C. or campus, use as reference to draw visual novel backgrounds.
  • Music
  • Fonts

1.3. Podcasts

  • Ranting about bad UI/UX. :P

1.4. Tutorials/educational

  • Linux/FOSS for non-technical people
  • More game programming tutorials; different libraries…
    • Python/PyGame
    • Lua/Love2D, Lua/Gideros, Lua/Tic80, Lua/Playdate

1.5. Videos/blogs

  • About my course designs
    • CS 235 project (e.g., Shopazon)
    • Policy rationale, designing to make academic dishonesty less appealing.
  • GUI sucks let's live in the CLI
    • Gopher, Geminispace, MUDs, terminal utilities, EXWM…
  • Canvas LMS tips and tricks

1.6. Webapps

  • Game development utilities…
    • Tilesheet generator

1.7. Website

1.8. Zines/Books/Documents

Author: RWS

Created: 2025-03-26 Wed 00:30

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