pre-jam devlog (optional)
A prototype for a turn-based management sim game about sending adventuring parties into dungeons for loot. Only the most basic mechanics have been implemented, but you can hire adventurers, send them into dungeons where they level up and bring back loot, heal them back up in town, and train new traits.

One of the big things I'm going for is the idea of team building--I want an adventurer's social skills to affect the party's success. Right now this means the bravery stat and half the charisma stat are added to party morale at the beginning of a dungeon quest. The party loses morale each day and when adventurers fall in combat, and if it drops to zero, the group disbands. I want to build on this idea much more--there will be a designated party leader, whose charisma will have a greater effect, and I'm considering many other possibilities like trait synergies and combo attacks. The ultimate goal is for team selection to be the bulk of the strategy, and the player will need a flexible array of adventurers to tackle different combinations of dungeon hazards.

The dogs have no special meaning--they're just mixed in with the randomly-selected character portraits. I don't know, I thought it was funny at the time.

Post-Jam Devlog | Post-Mortem (optional)
The hardest part of this project by far was creating a flexible, dynamic menu system that responds to changes in the underlying objects. I'd guess a solid 10 days in total were spent just on that. It's a big challenge, and I understand now why web development frameworks like React and Vue are so complicated. If I were to start this project over from scratch, I would consider other frameworks and solutions besides rolling my own in Godot.