I won't start the development of the game until tomorrow, but to save time I'm starting the devlog already.

My jam game will be called Corridor Fight Scene, and it will be a tribute to one of the greatest tropes of action cinema: The protagonist on one end of a hallway, a door on the other end, and a lot of enemies in between. 

The project is built on the bones of Piss and Vinegar, both in concept and on a technical level. I've made a lot of improvements to the JavaScript engine (which I'm really, definitely going to spin off into a separate project any day now) and I'm hoping to address most issues of Piss and Vinegar:

• Keeping momentum: Every level consists of a single hallway, with the camera panning from the entrance to the exit. It's up to the player to keep up with the shot or perish.
• Better readability: A clear display of what's going on, with better visual feedback for what the player is planning and what happened.
• More diverse, tactical play: Turns will be slightly longer, adopting a Jagged Alliance 2 style energy system to budget your moves.

I'm also aiming to make this game as cinematic as an ASCII grid can get.

Let's see how things turn out!

I like the art style, the paper-esque color palette on ascii is cool. if like the details of what the floor tile is or lighting elements are not a major concern. 
Interface looks sort of mobile-like? 

Day 4: More combat and AI

Allowing for multiple moves per turn ended up being a mayor hassle to implement. I ended up slapping together a system to add attacks and other actions to the movement queue. It's not very elegant, but it works and can be used by both the player and enemies. Enemy AI has been expanded, once aware they will now look for the player at the last place they saw them. I'll not make them too smart, to keep the pressure low.

I also added shoves and throws to the player vocabulary, because tossing enemies around is where the fun lives.

Up next:

• Ranged combat
• Inventory and equipment
• (Very) basic physics for tossing enemies and items.

And it went live last night: Here!