Bara Jam 2023 Post Mortem

So just to be frank I do not like how I made this game. I feel like it would be best to make some quality changes after the game jam when I have time.

I had mentioned it on twitter before but basically I’m not a fan of the Bara Jam happening on October at the same time there are draw challenges going on. Of all the months October is when a lot of drawing usually happens and I havent fully participated since I started doing Bara Jams. I decided to participate this year and got through at least 8 prompts.

However, while I was doing Weretober I had made 2 big mistakes. I had made a plan of everything I wanted to be in the game but that was before I had entered Weretober. I had decided to do Weretober for the first month and the rest of the Game Jam in the 2nd month. But I forgot to decrease the scope of my project and plan for that change.

In addition to that problem, I had spent the first 2 weeks of November coding another dialogue system from Boss Crawler and then didnt even get to use it because I ran out of time to write stuff. So by the middle of November not only did I not have a game idea that could be programmed in the remaining time I had but I had spent most of my time coding mechanics and systems I was never going to be able to use.

I hadn’t even started drawing the characters or the boss yet.

TLDR; I fucked up my planning cause I spent the first month doing Weretober and failed to reduce the scope of my project afterwards which led me spending most of November overly coding the dialogue which I will not have enough time to fully use. I also didn’t do any art until the 3rd week of November so I was just rushing everything to put in the game.

After thinking about it for a while I’ve decided to not post this for the Bara Jam this year I will post it at a later date though