I had recently watched a Youtuber do this challenge and he didn’t consider creating the menu, credits, etc. towards the 3 hour time limit. He just included assets and gameplay. Does this mean that any time spent on scenes outside of the gameplay are not counted in the time limit?

Thanks in advance.

It was under my expectations that any time spent working on assets/code that make it to the game, would count towards the total time. So this is surprising to me.

Sorry, we missed your question, but menu is part of the game, so it counts towards time spent on development!