"Jokes to find an excuse to use:
Achievement: Armed With Teeth - craft a weapon
Achievement: Armed To The Teeth With Teeth - craft EVERY weapon

And obviously all the weapons in this theoretical game are made of teeth,
for some reason I'm sure would be clear if it were a little less theoretical."
---- Me, making a one-off joke in 2021, or so I thought.

TO THE TEETH is a game idea which I and my good friend Wolf worked on in late 2021 and early 2022, which started with a joke and quickly built outward.
(not a whole game tho)
Wolf can be found on tumblr here! Some of the art and quotes around here are hers :)

The premise is this:
You are a little alien who looks somethng like a millipede or gastropod - nicknamed "Slug". You crash land very badly on a planet that, at some point in its past, was overtaken by a planet-scale meat-moss monster. The surface of the planet is all raw gore and viscera, as far as the eye can see and for leauges underfoot. Thankfully, at least, the thing is long dormant.
You're really not concerned with what happened, or why, or how. You have bigger things to worry about: your ship is wrecked. Beyond repair, not even able to signal for rescue.
Lacking much other option, you arm yourself with a makeshift spear and begin to make your way down to the old surface of the planet, in hopes to find something there to signal with. It's only anything biological that was assimilated, right? Buildings, electronics, those should all still be intact, more or less.

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A couple key points of the idea were

• playercharacter cannot jump, although she might have been able to climb.
• stupid puns and jokes + the gritty, self-aware deadpan of the og DOOM narrations.
• more puzzle based than combat based. There are things you can fight, but fighting your way through is not the goal.
• You are considered a stranger. Creatures treat you with curiosity, fear, or as a foreign body, but rarely as prey or with outright agression. This does not mean they won't kill you.
• unique failiure/death animations especially for certain creatures. Ideally funny enough that you're encouraged to die to them at least once.
• more goofy jokes

"First boss defeated:
achievement get: `stomaching the issue`"
---- Wolf, pingponging my joke

--under construction--