Big post below involving Insanity Jam Idea Generator
Alright so I used the Insanity Jam Idea Generator and found a few cool ideas for games. (This was using the Genre lock on most because it kept pulling up genres that I either fail at developing (Historical for lack of accuracy or Racing because I fail at making physics for cars) or ones that I despise and won't do out of rejection of their very existence (Pay to Win comes up quite a bit for me, and I think it's a flawed way to release a game and it's a scam.) Typical genres I lock are: Bullet Hell Shooter Hack N' Slash Beat Em' Up Collect a thon Horror Exploration Fantasy.
But I digress...
Anyhow, I've started work on a small bullet hell SHMUP where you are tortured by your own death. You are a ghost that has been contracted by Death to gather souls for him. Every enemy shot down releases a little ghosty thing and you collect it to fill two meters: Your energy, which serves as your timer and constantly goes down; and your Soul Gauge, which acts as experience and levels up your ship. If you get shot down, you either regress a level or your ship explodes. This doesn't mean you've died though. Upon destruction, you become a little ghosty thing as well that is invulnerable to enemies and enemy fire. The catch is that your energy rapidly depletes in this form, and you have to touch an enemy ship, morphing it into a new player craft before it depletes completely.
I have quite a few sprites made, but I'm quite tired right now, so I think I'm going to go to sleep and post them when I wake up.
