Aw, man. I just wanted to share how I'm glad I joined this even though I wasn't able to submit.
I've dabbled in using things like GameMaker and Godot on and off for years but I never really settled into properly doing it until a couple of months ago.
I thought I'd do the first game jam that came along cuz it would get me to do things I wouldn't normally do while having a goal to work towards.
I heard to really scope things down so that was my goal. Just get something playable and submit and be proud that I did it. I also heard that prototyping and play testing were super important so I took my first good-sounding idea and put it together as simply as I could.
It. Was. Boring.
So I iterated on the idea. Then iterated some more. Then changed the mechanics entirely.
Then iterated on those new things some more. I spent the first few days going back and forth between changing things and trying to learn how to actually implement those changes since I'm so new to this - only to throw away the things that I learned to do cuz it was still lacking.
When I finally settled on something that I thought would be doable? Ho.ly. Cow.
Everything that my design document made seems so simple was a whole journey of learning and looking things up.
I hadn't touched any UI stuff in Godot before but BOY did I get a crash course in that. Not to mention all sorts of stuff I only conceptually heard of but hadn't tried out myself in the last couple of months that i've been speedrunning into all this like Resources and Factory patterns and stuff. I thought I was hot stuff cuz I made a Hierarchical Finite State Machine but I was just dipping my toes in T<T
Anyway, I'm looking forward to trying out what people made and I just wanted to say that I'm glad I did this.
Here's a screenshot of my baby. It ended up just being a single player deduction game ala Werewolf but with ticks disguised as fleas as they escape a flea bath on a dog (LOL). I like logic puzzles and thought it'd be cool to have one you can play on your own:
(P.S.: My friends had a *lot* of fun drinking and coming up with Flea names like Dua Fleapa and stuff. I'm mostly bummed for them I couldn't get it together in time xD )