If you haven’t played Pandemic 2 by crazymonkeygames..com, I suggest you do. It is not the best flash game I have ever seen, but man it is addictive, it is simple enough to pick up, and the way Madagascar and New Zealand always shut you out is frustrating enough to keep you playing till you kill everyone in the world.

What has given me an idea is not the actual game but the premise of the basic UI, and user interaction (mouse  with mouse over events etc etc).

I like the idea behind these map based games.. make the map simple, like in pandemic 2 where they have used basic regions which everyone is familiar with, simple highlighting of the region that you are mousing over. Obviously, I have really simplified their UI but it is the just of it.

But the UI idea is there. So I think I am going to have a look at developing some game, what the game will be is still to be decided but I want to try using a map of the world with simple icons etc etc to indicate POIs and players etc.

I will try to fester up an idea for the actual game over this long weekend and see what I come up with, and hopefully, I will be diligent enough to blog about the development as I go a long.