[Postmortem] IGDB April 2024

The jam ended and result are posted!  I'm making this last post regarding the Jam as a kind of postmortem, of my jam experience. 

First of all, the result, 11th overal, which is awesome ! Thank you for all peoples that rated my game and posted nice and encouraging comments ! 

What went well:

• Overall gameplay / Idea:  I think my game idea/gameplay works quite well. I also scored quite well on the Creativity and Theme criteria, which is encouraging. 
• Art/Visuals: It's something that always scare me, but I think I managed to make something decent.

What went meeeh:

• Messy code: I was trying to use Lua metatable, ended up doing something messy and not very nice. I should have used inheritance. 
• Game content: I did not realise that my game was only 1-2 min longues to finish until late in the jam. I wanted to make something more like 5 minutes. Level design is something that is quite difficult and I need to improve it. 
• Music / Sound: I did the SFX in a hurry, the sound was created with a tool with a slight modification. I just don't have any musical skills, and maybe I never will. There is so much to learn. 

My next steps: 

• I plan to refactor the code to use Lua inheritance, that would be a good way to learn. 
• (add a bit of polish, from the suggestion I got in the comments.) 
• (Try to expand the game, rework the randomized mode)

I'm not sure if I'm going to work much on this game or start a new project. I will think about it...

Finally, I'd like to say that I had a lot of fun taking part in this Game Jam, it's only my second one! I was a bit scared to start doing Game Jam, but I'm glad that I overcame my fear and finally started doing it. I love coding and doing it is a very fun way to practice it. 

I'm ending this post with a gif of my first day and last day of work. It's always fun to see from were you started: