Aren't I good with puns SO GOOD WITH PUNS. The title is tentative, but I thought it was too cute of a play on Hudson's "Lode Runner".

This is one of my favorite ideas ever! Big goofy character, big goofy loading effects, the idea of framing this situation as a video game!? This concept just does things to me, man...

So I heard from a friend someone once wanted to make a game based around the idea of pooping your pants at an office and then having to sneak out and go home. SOLD! So I conceived my own idea around it. There was a point in time where I was like "Dude if you make this game with my designs I will just tell my job to sign their paychecks directly to you". Well that person's game didn't make it to production (I don't think...) but even if it did, I'd want to change my own idea so that it didn't conflict.

The idea I came up with was this plain purple hippo goes to work one day and, oops! Unleashes an unholy mudslide in his pants. And the idea would be to sneak out and get home--This isn't just a squirt of diarrhea or one persistent brick--this is the kind of movement that normally you'd really have to brace yourself for the 'long haul', the kind where you hold onto something during it. why do I like the things I like

Ideally I'd want it to be a stealth-based game. But I've heard that idea before. I could also see it working out as a variety type game, not unlike the PS1 title Incredible Crisis, where every stage is different.

In any case, as of today it's just an idea. I don't know a lick of programming and I'm unskilled with pixelart. But if ever I did sit down to this idea I'd be down for learning Pixelart and most parts of designing the whole thing.

Oh by the way thanks to  Locke it was brought to my attention such a game was done with stick figures. Now I really couldn't make a game based directly off of this concept, but it's cool to know it's done already!: http://www.notranslation.com/files/smelly/