The theme back then was "Stuck in a loop", I'm sure lots of you still remember that theme :p The whole process felt like the image I shared here haha. The game I made had some useful feedback though, I'll share the most noteworthy ones:

• Add some background music if you have the time
• Add a background to side-scrolling levels (don't leave it empty)
• Make something special. Something that is interesting in some way. Not "just a game".
• If something could be misinterpret as a bug, make sure it very clear it is not a bug ^^"
• People liked the score system very much

I won't use an engine, just javascript. I still don't like that language at all, but it's very fast to code and does the job well enough for me. I want the game to be playable inside almost every desktop browser. For the backend I'll use a combination of PHP and MySQL. The scoreboard in my previous game was received very well, so I'll do my best to integrate some sort of interaction between players again (e.g. a scoreboard, or some other approach).

I have an extra personal limitation for this year's game. There has to be a king in my game! As I'm from the Netherlands and the submission day happens to be Kings day (Koningsdag) in the Netherlands. I thought it would be funny :P

This year the theme will be revealed at 03:00AM Dutch time. Which is a bit crazy for me. My plan is to go to bed early and to wake up around 05:30AM. Then I can look at the theme and think about ideas while I eat some breakfast. Hopefully that will be enough to get the most awesome game-ideas known to mankind :D