This jam was really awesome as a whole. I had a ton of fun with everyone's games. I loved your project. To be completely honest when playing it it made me a little bit sentimental about being a kid and spending way too much time with my sister raising Chaos in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. I never played any of the other games you mentioned as influences but Chao Garden memories really hit me in the soul! :p I also was slightly reminded of Monster Rancher 2 and that was also some grade A nostalgia for me.

As I saw you write somewhere, there isnt really a full game loop. I was actually pretty ok with that, and I am totally in support of using game jams as weird, off-game experiments. I actually think you nailed what you were trying to do and even though there wasn't much to do, I was still like "awww dang I love my cute little pet". With a little more content I think this could be fun. 

Even though the pet drawing was a little hard to control for me , I liked how they turned out. That said, I think if the drawing somehow was a little more fleshed out it would be great. I couldn't get the exact pet I wanted. 

I'm a pretty big newb and have no idea how something like drawing on that 2D thing then translates into a 3D object so it was really cool to think about those kind of possibilities. 

I've done the last 5 or 6 of these game jams and this one was one of my favorites. Not because of the project I made at all, but because of all the other projects. Really cool! :)