I loved every second of it! Almost all of what I've done for our game was the first time I did it, so it is a huge motivation boost that we did so well. I'm in seventh game dev heaven right now.
I literally bought Aseprite for this game, calculated a game economy for the first time and learned a ton about unity from my experienced buddy Xan.
Both of us work full 40 hours but sitting in Discord in the evenings building this game was amazing to me. Even the weekend crunch was great. First times are just always a little special 😁
Thanks for this post, Autumnus really was a beautiful Journey-like experience!