What would you do if you had more time?

I felt highly accomplished for a 36 hour jam, however, if I had more time I would have put a higher focus on the core game design. I struggled coming up with game mechanics & wanted to incorporate another core mechanic to tie the game together, but I didn’t have the time to allocate to further developing my idea. It would have been helpful to have more time to playtest & iterate on concepts.

What would you do differently next time?

I attempted to do everything on my own, including music & sound effects. Next time I would focus on what I wanted to get out of the project & not put my energy into parts where I could have just used royalty free assets from the beginning. I had a problem midway through the jam where I hadn’t saved some files & I had to redo them, obviously in the future I’ll be more careful & make sure to save my work more frequently.

What did you learn?

I learned a lot from this experience, & I’m glad I did it on my own as I had planned. Working by myself allowed me to really handle all parts of the pipeline & enhance my skills. I was able to learn more about developing game ideas, 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, & working in the Unity Engine. I really put my time management skills to the test to develop goals for myself for every few hours, and to know when to move on from a task when it was time to focus on higher priorities.