4E6... The Elements...

So... accounts then... apprently o.O

This is an offical request for some of what Superpig was on when he came up with the list of elements [razz]

So, the four we have to work with are :
"Explosions" - Easy. Everyone likes stuff which goes boom!
"Crystals" - Can anyone else say 'power ups'?
"Ponies" - Hmmm... ok...
"Accountants" - o.O

I've had two ideas thus far, one which uses 3 of the 4 elements and one which uses all 4... kinda.

The first is a scrolling shooter, the player controls Sparkles, the atomic flying armored pony, and generally shoots 'stuff'. This stuff explodes and drops crystals. crystals = power ups. In keeping with the old Neo-geo type games the kinda power ups I was thinking about involves stupid amounts of firepower flying about the screen. (It occurs to me that the 'stuff' which is shot could form themes of waves, one of which could be, for no apprently reason, stuff bussiness related, thus including the accountants. Other themes would include 'food stuffs', 'animals' and 'famous monuments'. What? No one said it had to make sense [grin])

Idea two also involves Sparkles but this time in the role of walking armored pony in; Sparkles Hates Bussiness! This basically has your killer pony assulting an office building, moving up the levels and heading for the chairman. What do you get in offices? Yep: accountants [grin] Explosions would be people exploding, crystals would be down to how they die (zapped into crystal and zapped again to explode or you can collect the crystal for something or the other... cheese bonus or something... hmm, maybe I'll throw the cheese bonus into the other game...)

I'm tempted to go with the first just for the bizzarenes of seeing what I can make fly at the Pony, however first of all we have one critical problem; pony artwork... I wonder if I can 'steal' my dad's pen thing for a bit and draw me a pony.

Also, idea one lets me play with vector graphics and gets Bonsai and intresting upgrade to support this...

Idea two is pretty much a tile engine type game, wander about, shoot stuff and find the exit to the next level; which is also fun.

Working on idea one however will require some of what Superpig was taking when he dreamt up 'accountants' and 'ponys' as two of the elements [razz]