For my game, I wish I'd taken more time on getting the 'physics' right. Somehow, after a period of sleep after submission, how that should have worked has become bizarrely clear to me :P
As always, there were features I had to cut or partially cut (there is an integrated cutscene system I only use twice), but that's jammin'.
I wish i had slept sunday instead of just trying to work through it. I lost so much time doing things to get myself alert again, still nodding off sometimes (i discovered i can fall asleep with an energy drink, it's not a happy experience), and making antiprogress just trying to correct mistakes.
It was a good learning experience though as this is both my first jam and the first time i made something for someone other then myself.
I wish I had checked the art assets I was going to use before the jam started. After the theme popped out I spent the whole night writing a script. Finished it. Then after a short break, I went to start mapping - and learned none of my assets were the right size/style for the engine I was using.
It took me until Sunday night to figure everything out and get them resized and re-formatted (and they look clunky in the end). But I sat on my hands for almost a week waiting to see what the theme was - when I could have been formatting those assets if I'd done a little pre-check. =/
so I couldn't work out a game breaking bug in our game (https://byazzle.itch.io/robot-fighting-mechanic), just looked at it again now and realised I literally just needed to add a single "break;" to my code, and now it's perfect.
Tragic!
It's our first ever game, so I was feeling pretty proud of it, despite missing a lot of our original planned features.
The main things I've learned are to dedicate more time to the jam (got a 10 month old baby so that didn't help!) and to work out the whole game on paper before we start!
Learned so much working on it though - can't wait to at least submit my patch after we can reupload :D
