Congratulations, fellow jammers! I'm all excited with the relief of finishing my entry (and, you know, the joy of sharing it) and figured I'm probably not the only one!

What challenged you during this jam? Did anything interesting happen while you were working on your entry? I ended up doing a bunch of math to figure out how many cards on average I'd expect the player to see before the game would end (so I could try to calibrate point values)... then figured out that there was a much easier way to calculate that same answer. But it was fun!

This was a fun jam and set of mechanics to design a game for! I tried to write up a dev log for Borealis so that I could capture the stuff I found difficult (or not) and thoughts I had before I forgot it, and that was a useful thing to do in itself, I found. It took quite a while to actually write all the different events... :-)

We decided to join the jam a week before it was originally set to end under the guise of "What can we get done in a couple days?". As it turns out the answer would have been a probably non-pretty pdf for a game that was taking an average of 2-3 hours to complete. With the extra week we rethought the card layout and some other smaller things to get the playtime down to under and hour and made time to get the pdf looking spiffy.

Other than the extra time constraints we put on ourselves, I think the biggest challenge was realizing halfway through that we'd started with the carta base as a jumping off point but were eventually in a space where the game/concept wasn't really being helped by the card map/movements basics of carta. Needed to spend some time iterating after the first couple prototypes to get back to the concept and the base system meshing in a way that enhanced one another. It's interesting as, in most development cycles I've been in if you end up in a place that doesn't fit the original jumping off point that's fine as it's a journey. It was fun to need to go back to the drawing board and make sure we were still utilizing the benefits of specific constraints.