K, here's my go:

Genre:

• Your game must involve fantasy and escapism. No mundane work sims allowed!

• Your game should be based on a sport of some kind. Mini-putt, soccer, chess, javelin throwing. Any sport, real or not, is permitted.

• Your game must involve growing, building, developing, or nurturing something over time.

Art:

• Your colors must be limited to the Zughy 32 Palette.

Technical:

• Game must be in a large open world.

• Your game must include procedural content. Bonus points if procedural generation is used to create the gameplay environment.

• Your music must change as the action or gameplay changes. If the gameplay becomes more intense, pump that music! If it slows down, let the music chill.

• Your game should involve crafting or combining items in some way.

Bonus:

• Act of Isolation - You will gain enormous points if you can institute multiplayer online play.

• Test of Might - You may modify one word in any rule if your code contains integration or unit test coverage. (Best C++ testing library is Google Test).

Genre:

• Traditional ATB (a la the earlier Final Fantasy games)

• Roguelike

Art:

• Adobe Flash lookalike - make everything look like it was drawn with the paint tool.

• Undertale battle palette - white-on-black only, except for special effects.

Technical:

• No RNG allowed at all.

Bonus:

• Act of Brainfuck: you may omit any one rule if your game is written (or includes scripting in) an esoteric language.

• Act of Sonic Boom: you may omit any one rule if every in-game event is accompanied by an annoying scripted vocal sample.

Color palettes are very common theme I see

Oh man, that's a good one.

Yeah I'm bored to tears of discussing coronavirus at this point. Dead meme.

Harsh! But yes, that's exactly what I meant

Bonus:

Act of "Cool Story, Bro": skip one rule by explaining how totally awesome the idea was that you were going to implement but unfortunately didn't have time for...

(It's a variation on the act of desperation)

Genre
Victorian (kings, queens, serfs, etc...)
Gothic (vampires, castlevania, etc...)
Medieval (castles, knights, lords, etc...)
Fantasy (can't be real)

Art
Mountains in background
Flowing water
Moving clouds

Technical
Layers
Parallax
Shader must be used

Bonus
Add an additional rule to gain an additional day of hack time.???

Genre:

- Butt sex

Art:
- Art of Butt sex

Technical:

- Technical mechanics involving butt sex.

Bonus:
- Bonus round involving butt sex

These better be in the picker.

I guess that's ok as long as you provide an offline fallback. I once saw a speedhack entry that included low-fi sound files, but immediately started downloading hi-fi versions.

They are suggesting rules to be added to the rule's generator. The final set of rules will be made public in the TINS website when the competition starts.

Be more creative than me and throw some suggestions yourself! They could end up being part of the official rules and restrictions.

Genero:
- Gore (lots of blood)
- Dead (zombies or massacres)
- Terror
- Retro game (In the style of the 80s, 90s)
- Exploration and search

Art:
- Scenes that make you sweat with fear
- Palette of Atari 2600
- Toggle between B&W (Not gray) and Colors according to the course of the game, as a bonus, combo, or as part of the game.
- You have to include swords, spears, bows, or any other weapon with your best artistic sense.

Tecnicas:
- Division of objects (they are duplicated) and / or Spawn of objects (they are created), must be part of the game
- 3 or more difficulty levels
- Have gravity at different points in the game
- Include a Menu, we all love a nice menu
- Include Particles or lights
- Include a secret Bonus
- Make the visual 3D in the game
- Animations in the characteristics or states

Bonus:
- Rainbow of Friends: You can omit a rule in exchange for replacing weapons and violence in the game with love and friendship.
- Symphony of Exchange: (Only in the last 24 hours) You can replace a ruler (only for Art) in exchange for an Anime music as background.
- I'm Fixed!: (only for the Techniques) Take 2 rules and create a coherent rule using your word mix, you can discard up to 5 words and there must always be at least one, the new rule replaces the previous 2.
- Act of Self-Destruction: Discard 5 rules and then cry on the forum and on social media that you are a losser for 1 whole week.

Ok, you can drop the last bonus, it's ridiculous. At least it has served as a joke...

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I could think of some more for the Bonus, but they were incomplete or not working. It is difficult when there is little to offer within 3 days and after 3 days.

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Art:
- Includes one or more graffiti in the game.

90s is super nintendo, sonic, street fighter, doom, arnold, terminator 2
wolfenstein.

80 is nes, mario, bubble bobble, duck hunt, donkey kong, pac man, manuals, amigas.