Personally I tend to plan ahead except for the Pirate Kart since thinking took a backseat to shovelware. Like, I came up with the idea for my Afterburner game almost straight after KotM #3, which in turn was going to be my final game for the Pirate Kart but I didn't have two hours to fit that in. So I rescheduled it. Even the original Metal Axe Warriors was something I had been kicking around for half a year prior.

I'm all for adequate planning and forethought, it's quite good and handy to get a crazy idea and then try to predict if it will fit in the time limit to see if you can go with it or have to do something else. I probably should admit though that I used the evil side of it with Highway Speed as I kind of cheated a bit by prototyping various elements so I could guarantee that I would be able to recreate them in the two hour timelimit. I intended on avoiding that for the recent KotM which is why I had to do Assassinatrix Adventure in forty minutes as Afterburner-clone wasn't even half finished by the time I had got to that point. I'd say it left a bad taste in my mouth but I'd be lying since everytime I look at those colourful graphics I just go giddy in my head.

FATHERHOOD: EPISODE ONE was planned out for a week or two in advance of my cranking it out. That was a game that needed to get out of my system, though.

(Incidentally, I was designing Childbirth: The Game in my head as my lovely wife was in labour; it was mostly focussed on rhythmic breathing through unbearable pain. HEE HEE HOOOOOO. The design soon became "Hit E for an epidural", though, which was absolutely the correct move as far as actually having the baby went, but kind of took the challenge out of it from a gameplay perspective.)

It seems kind of inevitable that regularly making little games makes you start coming up with more ideas, and the reckless abandon of the two hour time limit makes you a lot more fearless. That was kind of the original point; to help remove creative blocks. I had originally intended for that energy to transfer to larger projects (I still demand that "Hatworld: World of Hats" someday be made), but the medium of the short game has grown on me quite a bit, and I think now that if there are people here that only want to do two-hour games, more power to them. I do think that if you've got a project that you know you want to do, big or small, you should consider just doing it immediately, rather than waiting for a KotMK. (I heartily approve of your pioneering work in this regard, Señor Cabinets.)

The two most important tenants of the Klik of the Month Klub are:

1. Failure is impossible. This site is about getting off your ass and making games, no matter what their objective quality. If you make anything within the two hours, you win. I don't care how awesome you might think the other entries are compared to yours. If you start finding it difficult to complete a game in two hours that lives up to your standards, it's time to roll those standards back. Preferably, remove them entirely, because:
2. Fretting and indecision is outlawed. There's no time for that sort of thing. Flip a coin, make your design decision, and move on. No design choice is incorrect, because failure is impossible. If it doesn't work out, you've only lost two hours.

So I guess my stance is, do whatever helps you to make more games and take more creative risks. I think that for some people, just having a regular time and place to try things out is enough. Myself, I find it useful as practice for silencing that pesky inner critic that won't let me just write a shitty first draft. Just, you know, make some fucking games, and don't let yourself get bored of it.

Also what does everyone think of perhaps having the KotMK occur more frequently?