I decided to try to Ask the A.I. for another idea, and though it came up with "something", I couldn't quite make it work.

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AI Art Prompt : A photograph of a squirrel playing a single-player solitaire board game.

I then fed this photo back into Claude.ai, and asked it what game it thought the squirrel might be playing.
The first thought was the classic peg-jumping solitaire, but I then pointed out the fact that there's different coloured squares and pegs.

We spitballed the idea for a while and came up with this.

There's a squirrel on each of the 4 corners of the board, each one a different colour, red, green, yellow, blue.
The board is multi-coloured with each square being one of the four colours.

Starting with the red squirrel, you jump to any position horizontally or vertical.
When you land, you drop a nut of your colour. Only that coloured squirrel can, in future, leap over that coloured nut.
Whichever colour square you land on, is the colour of the next squirrel that have to move.

The game ends when the required squirrel can no longer move anywhere on the board.

That's the game.. Or, the idea, at least.
The main issue with this plan is the whole Colour Blindness issue.



In order to avoid colour blind issues in Shoebox, I've used the different shaped tokens.

As great as those have been, if I want to have playing pieces and board squares AND dropped tokens, all with the same kind of sprites, it's going to look a bloomin' mess of bright vibrant colours and symbols!
It's really not going to be easy to look at in the slightest.
So, until I can figure out a way to do that, this game idea is, I'm afraid, going to have to wait.

Which is a shame, because between the two of us, me and Claude.ai managed to come up with a really neat little idea.
I think..
Maybe..

On the plus side, I've just thought of a really interesting idea to put together something that I've not yet managed to do properly, so I might go and see just how viable that might be.
There may yet be AGameAWeek in the works for this week.
We'll have to wait and see how well this new plan comes together.

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Udio came out much better, today.

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"Cartoon @Derek dressed in an ill-fitting squirrel costume, with @Derek's face, for a children's birthday party, fun party, bright colourful lighting, balloons" by ArtFlow.ai

It couldn't cope with the request of a squirrel with Derek's face. It just couldn't do it!!!

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