Now that comments and notes from other jammers are coming in what is the biggest regret you've had about how you went about this game jam? What's the one thing about your game that you wish you had spent more time on, or a big bug that you may have just simply overlooked in the rush?

For us it was our movement. Our team designed a puzzle platformer. While I think we did a great job adhering to the only one theme and designing interesting puzzles based on only one player moving at at a time, it was the platforming movement that we really should have spent more time on. We received a lot of feedback noting that it was slippery, and as it's the core mechanic of our game, we now realize it should have been one of the first places we concentrated our efforts in play-testing and programming.

Please link your game so we can all support each other's mistakes : ) Here's ours:

https://bobby123jack.itch.io/quantum-entanglement

I regret how big my scope was for this jam. My game ended up being almost unplayable, but I still uploaded it because I didn’t think people would play it. Turns out that some super nice people downloaded it and now I’m sorry for wasting their time :/

Probably the biggest regret I have is that we (as in my team) failed to account for a difficulty-nullifying exploit that can be performed in the game. I don't want to say how to perform the exploit because I still want people to enjoy the game for how it was meant to be played. Thankfully, though, the exploit is something that is completely under the player's control (once they realize they can do it), so it's not like the game forces them to perform the exploit, if you see what I mean.

Here's our game! https://charliechumbuck.itch.io/thevengefulorb

There's a bunch of stuff that I wish was better in my submission, but most of it I wouldn't say is something I regret per se, just stuff that had to be compromised for time reasons.

I do regret making 50-50 grinds worth points though. In hindsight I think it would have made more sense to make them something that will keep a combo alive but not grant points, like I did with manuals. (especially since manuals are actually harder to pull off)

I regret putting too much detail into my main character art, think he would have looked a lot better if I stuck to a more simplistic theme (like the red bad guy :P)

I also regret not making more of the levels easier, because some people come with the feedback of it being pretty difficult, when I really just wanted  a game that made taking a step satisfying on its own!

https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/462760

For our team, it was the fact that we didn't have a minimum viable product ready sooner for others to help us play-test. This meant that we found a number of unprecedented balancing & quality-of-life issues rather late in the jam, and some of them couldn't be resolved before the submission deadline.

As an example, some of the minigames in It's Rude To Point didn't explain the objective clearly enough, which was problematic considering how little time we gave players to react. One way we tried to circumvent this was to give objects differently-colored outlines, which would indicate whether an object needed to be grabbed or flicked. Though it was implemented without any issues, we never really explained it in-game, instead bargaining on the notion that perhaps the player could figure it out themselves. Since there was only one minigame involving grabbing, however, I can definitely understand how some wouldn't have quite caught on.

I guess one could argue that participating in a jam is about forming an MVP in as little time as possible, but I think our game could've really benefited from some more polishing and tweaking. That being said, I'm still very proud of what my friends and I managed to accomplish in just 48 hours!

If you'd like, you can check out our entry here: 
https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/461113

I regret a lot not adding a way to postpone a switch, and also not adding a way to know how much time you have until the next switch.

If you want, here's my game: https://nitai99.itch.io/twisty-chess

Turns out the mechanics i made were way to complicated for the very brief intro i made before expecting them to climb a wall. I wish i had made a proper difficulty curve instead of a right angle, teach players slowly and by design ya know.

https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/462355

I regret not compiling my game earlier. It took way too long time to compile and I was very worried all my work would be for nothing. If I had compiled the game earlier it would have gone faster to make the final build (it would be able to reuse some compiling steps). Fortunately the deadline was extended due to the server overload, so I could finish building the game in time.

But then I found out that the title screen looks bad in some resolutions (like in the browser build), which I would've found out earlier if I had time to test the build before uploading.

Here's my game btw:

https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/463448

A lot of people have been saying that I made my game too hard and I have to agree. I should have added a level thats easier than the first level to kind of ease into things. Also while I was making the game I thought it was going to be too easy so I programmed a diamond enemy that teleports to your location and worked a while on the mechanics and animations for it, then decided the game was already hard enough and I never added that enemy in. Other than that I think I went about this jam pretty well and dont really regret anything else!

Heres the game for a little context: https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/461217

Gameplay-wise, our biggest regret was not making keeping the camera static on one particular level - it really made the puzzle more punishing than we intended!

Other than that, we really regret how we handled our priorities in some cases. We *really* didn't need a custom font for our game, and as it turned out we didn't even use it enough to justify its creation!!

Still, we're pretty proud of what we made, and we'd love if you folks could give it a shot (currently going through the thread to give you folks some rates as well!)
https://catscratcher.itch.io/you-are-the-only-one

I added these tentacle sprites as decorations but they look like they are hazards so everyone thought they would hurt you. 

My regret? Only having about 8 of the 48 hours to actually jam, because… Life. Still uploaded it anyway:

https://doctormikereddy.itch.io/thomas-was-a-line

because the idea intrigued me of a 1D platformer. I’ve now (well after the jam) got a few clearer ideas of how this might work. At the time, I was more exploring than developing 

My biggest regret is not spending enough time on enemy spawning mechanics and enemies in general. I could have done a lot more there if I wasn't so fixated on the physics of the disc. I'm definitely going to address this in future post-jam updates, if I do any.

Game can be found here: https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/461473

Ours is starting on the marketing front way too late, which resulted in us struggling to get over 10 ratings, now we are hoping for 15 :P

This turned out to be a big lesson for our team, since it's been hard getting a game which got a lot of positive feedback into anyone's hands. Our solution for future jams is to have a dedicated community manager who will post about the game as we're making it and try to get the hype going.

In case you want to give our entry a try, it's a game about hammering your way to inner, or outer, peace.

https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/463231

My biggest regret is spending too little time to teach the players how to play:
-I was planning to make a nice "tutorial" with some GIF images to teach the player how some of the interactions are.
-I spent a lot of time polishing the interactions so they felt more intuitive (at least to me).
-Finally I only had half an hour to add quickly some cryptic sentences that don't really help the player to grasp what he needs to do.
-Being my game a weird puzzler, I think a lot of players haven't really seen the depth of it, and with a little scratch of the surface they decided to rate it as a simple unoriginal group breaking puzzler score attack game.

I had this issue in a couple of gamejams already and it's something that can really ruin the experience to a majority of players who will only play for 5 minutes or so. I'm happy that at least some people took time to understand the game and, supposedly, they liked it. I hope this time I learnt the lesson.

https://le-slo.itch.io/monologue

Biggest regret is creating a game too large (always do this every jam!) This led to not being able to fully test and play the game until too late and leaving some horrendous game breaking bugs and it also not being clear on what to do. Also made an isometric game which meant that we had to create a bunch of animations when we should have went side on, top down or 3D. I'm super proud of what we have achieved in the time (and seems like people are pretty shocked too!). Feels like the scope of the game was more for a week jam rather than 48hrs. Love for people to check it out though!

https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/461633