so I been trying to think of a game project for smooch month, which you know, a third of the time just doing concept work, that's fine. Got a few ideas for different games, too, including a worker placement avatar based one.
but now I got a bee in my bonnet about this idea, for a space-explorer style game, where you're flipping cards to reveal planets with traits. This is the basic idea for the three scales of planet; small planets have one trait, mid planets can have two, and big planets can have four. The medium planets can fit together across cards, the big planets can fit together in a rotated group of four, and each turn you're adding cards to the universe, and choosing places to put your ... I dunno, spaceships? resources?
And as people explore planets based on where they are, you can lay claim to a big planet, and anyone exploring nearby can complicate your life by exploring the same big planet and discover a fact about it you may not want them to discover, like it smells like dinosaur farts