Spent AGES yesterday trying to come up with a gameplay mechanic for Light and Dark.

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Though my intention with this week's game was to recreate the first 5 Wednesday Workshop games, the fifth one is proving to be quite tricky. .. Mostly because the original isn't really all that good.

In the original game, you could move the black character over the white squares and the white character over the black, but they would then draw their coloured squares on the opposite side of the screen.
I *think* I was originally hoping for it to turn into some sort of magically awesome puzzle mechanic, but it never did.
It also had a "Dual WASD/IJKL" movement control scheme, which for obvious reasons isn't going to work in GotoJSE.

So far I've got as far as "WASD + Toggle Button", or alternatively, "WASD = Mirrored controls", which I think would probably work ok.
Ideally I should come up with a whole new gameplay mechanic for this one, but right now my brain's frazzled! I have, after all, coded 4 other games this week!

Today's task, then, is to figure the game out and get it coded ASAP. It is, already, Sunday after all..

Ugh..


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