PLANET Game Concept

The player has landed a ship on, well, a PLANET of
unknown language with a culture in ruins. The player
must survive long enough to get off the planet and/or
solve the mystery of why it is in ruins. The planets
the player lands on all have a common catastrophe that
has committed to their demise.

BASIC IDEAS:

* Procedurally generate the alien planet.
   * Generate simple "dungeons" underground.
   * Generate various resources for the player to find.
   * Generate new monsters for each separate 'verse.
   * Alien artifacts tell a story, but nothing's
     translated until clues are found.
   * Keep the "planet" 80 tiles wide to keep it simple
     at first.
   * Persistent seeds (e.g. planet EE32 is the same
     every time)?

* Visual aesthetic: simplicity over all.
   * Simple silhouettes and bright backgrounds. Dark
     but different "solids"
   * Use as few words as possible
   * Use color carefully.

* Pursue challenge/fantasy aesthetics of play
   * Keep the pace of play slow & tense.
   * Make sure monsters/traps/hazards are actually
     dangerous, and deadly.
   * Punish players who rush.
   * See if I can scare/startle players.
   * Death permanent
   * Keep total playtime for a single run-through at 30
     minutes or fewer.

* Allow limited player tools.
   * No crafting. Only finding.
   * 1 climbable rope per game. Reusable but you can
     leave it behind accidentally.
   * 1 gun. Limited bullets.
   * Players can lose resources or leave them behind.
   * Small backpack. Maybe a set 3-4 items?

* Meta-game goals
   * Keep a high-score table
   * Special tokens/skulls that persist across games
   * Keep a log of things discovered about the planets
     and their demise.
   * Generate new monsters by combining the old?
   * Layers from previous games insert into the new?