Now that the jam is over, what did we gleam from it? Did you learn something new? Did you enjoy the process? And will you continue working on the games if you haven't finished them already?

For me, this was my first ever game jam and while the 10 days were enough for far less things than I thought they'd be, I had fun with it; it was a nice change of pace working on blank sheets of code. As for Potion Pepper: a critical game design flaw I've noticed ended up to be the random piece generation being a little too random and rendered half of the power-up arsenal straight up counterproductive to use as the game would often fill up the empty spaces with more matches of pieces that the player would find unnecessary. I am not quiet sure on how I will go about fixing that, but I'm not abandoning the game, that is for sure.

Thank you for the opportunity!

Hey!

I believe i made the same error of thinking that i could do more than i actually did in these ten days. But, in my case this is the exact same error i do in every jam i participate. Evidently, i am not aware of my own (giant) limitations, or something like that.

This time, however, the reason for the lack of content is different, because in other jams i wrote the game from scratch, and for this jam i made a library with all the parts that are independent of the game—path-finding, screen management, and things like that—, therefore i was a bit (over)confident that i would have more time for the actual game play. What i did not account for was the time that it would take me to try to imitate David Revoy’s style, far more refined than what i usually do. And the keyword here is “try”.

To put this into perspective, according to the timer, i spent shy of 56 hours during these 10 days on the game. I do not have an exact breakdown of how much time i spent on each part, but my guts tell me that around 90 % was for just the graphics, especially the animations and the outside scene, which explains why the basement had such a drop in quality. Therefore, i only had 6 hours or so for the game play. If i hadn’t made the library of common code, i would not have had anything to submit at the end.

So, in summary: i did well in preparing the game-independent code beforehand, but i have to limit myself to a level of graphics that is more in accordance to my low artistic skills—at least for jams.

As for whether i will continue it: No. Even though it is barely a game, specially compared to yours, for instance, with all the ingredient and potency rules that you managed to include, i think of this project as “done”—it was meant for a jam, and the jam has finished.

Although i would love to make a fully-featured Pepper&Carrot point-and-click adventure. But i do not think i would be able to do it all by myself. Therefore, for now this one will have to do for me.

Hellow!

I did notice most of my planning made before jam started was inefficient in practice, but I also enjoyed making my game, and did in fact predict I would be very lazy so my real time of making game was not 10 days but about 30 hours despite me being mostly free during that time.

Also, I learned Godot, not from scratch, but it’s a first project I made with it. It’s also a first time I thought my university c++ lessons were actually useful, since I had a lot better understanding of things I apparently did not understand in Godot before, and this time I was not even using any tutorials, only searching for specific code-related documentation when needed.

I think I will probably continue developing my game someday if I would find motivation and not become sidetracked by another projects - There is a lot to update, and I doubt me making the game open source would make the project find another person to update it.

We need a another, jam / encounter.
improvind game. ( new assets, new ideas)
GODOT is useful
we can share , more easily.