GMTK Game Jam 2021

This year I and the other members of Studio Gomp participated in the GMTK Game Jam 2021. The theme was "Joined Together" and we created the game DAD. You can find a link to the game here.

Overall the game turned out decently. It was fairly fun to play and was prettier than our other game jam submissions. The mechanics were somewhat interesting but were too challenging. All the art in our game was completed quickly meaning that our artist had time to really make the game look good.

Despite this, the game was extremely short and we had to cut a lot of mechanics due to a lack of time to balance them and this resulted in the loss of a lot of what made our game unique. This was due to poor time management and poor task prioritization. If we had prioritized tasks better that would have given idle teammates time to balance the game while new mechanics were added. This would have resulted in our game having much more depth and possibly put us in the running for one of the top spots.

You can read more about DAD. here.