So this is my first game jam, and I came in rather ambitious to it. I wanted to try to make an idea of a game that I had in mind but didn't quite have the best ideas on how to entirely code it so I kinda took it as a challenge to try to create that game for the Jam. That game being a sandbox game (akin to 2D Minecraft or Core Keeper) where you'd be able to go from area to gather resources and survive against a storm. And honestly, it came out not too bad, but between the tutorials I needed to look up, some of the code that I tried to implement from said tutorials or my own ideas and some code not really working out, I ultimately didn't come out with the best of products at the end of the day and it even has one coding oversight of something I did last second that makes it so it isn't really functional at all with what I submitted unfortunately. That said, it was still good fun and honestly with another day or a few to work with I could honestly iron out the game to be what I had hoped for it to be in the first place. It was also fun to challenge myself to learn some new code for a game type I had no idea how to code and it really wasn't that bad, though I definitely have some places to better optimize it overall. That said, definitely maybe look into tutorials before the actual jam rather than during it, to save time and perhaps submit a higher quality (and fully functioning game).
But that all said, I'm looking to try and rate some of the other games out there and see what all I can that others have created in that same space of time, so please do comment some of your games you submitted and I'll see what I can get to.
Also if you care for it, even though it's broken and doesn't really work fully, here's my game Stormbound: /jam/shovel-jam-2025/rate/3738766
