Lately I’ve had a YEARNING to do a game in 7 days. There was a good article about making/designing a game in a short period of time, but I can’t seem to find it at the moment (the article mentioned Finnish developer Kloonigames, who’s been doing that sort of things).
Usually with a games that takes about a month to make, the development starts fine but it usually slows when the point is reached where the game is “ok” and you should add all the finishing touches and balance the game and for me it always takes a lot longer that it should, because there is no official “deadline” and balancing the game is not really that exciting.
With seven day games I can take a crazy idea (like the sailing & aliens idea), because if the idea turns out to be sucky, I’ve only spend 7 days on it, but it might have a potential to be something cool & crazy
Edit: I think this was the article.
