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It was a combination of the game jam theme and wanting to make a horror game where darker psychological themes could be explored a little bit. The '10 years later' trope kind of worked out well in this case because it lines up with a reference the game makes. Thanks for playing though!  

I saw this post and wanted to respond earlier, but was super busy trying to get everything working at the last minute.
The game jam was wild ride for me though. I'll probably write a blog post about it later, but I went through like at least four phases mentally during this project lol.

Basically, the first phase was the ideation phase where I knew I wanted to make a scary game, but wasn't sure how to include Undertale references because they seem at odds with each other in terms of style.
The second phase was just committing to an idea and running with it even though I didn't really have a complete vision of how the game would look when it was done,  and getting a grey-boxed set of scenes with a bit of atmosphere that told a coherent but vague story.
The third phase where I completely crashed out for a day because I was convinced I'd spent three and half days working on a stupid idea and the first person to playtest it got hung up on one of the two puzzles in the game. I was convinced it was going to be super easy and obvious what the player needed to do, but that ended up being a bit of developer-blindness I guess, lol. I was so bummed at the midpoint of the jam, I was considering just giving up, not submitting anything , and continuing work on my long-term project instead. A friend convinced me to just stick with it and finish the game jam even if the game isn't great.

Then I hit the fourth phase where I was determined again, but had so much stuff that needed polish or needed to be reworked after the playtest and I was convinced I couldn't get it all done in time. The last hour or two before submission was just absolute manic panic, because exporting builds from godot wasn't working for any OS. Eventually I did finish everything, but it really needs a second playtesting/rework pass. Obviously, it won't get that now lol ¯_(ツ)_/¯, but I'm still proud I finished something even if it looks kind of bad. If nothing else, hopefully it'll make someone laugh.

I was on crunch for more than 24 hours straight leading up to the submission deadline. I saw this post and wanted to comment earlier, but figured it could wait until we had a submission. I just woke up from a nap lol.
As a fun side note, I spent a decent chunk of time on that last day making a low-poly version of Vinny because I was planning on having him twerk over the end game credits, until someone said that it was a bad idea and so that model will never see the light of day. 
I can't tell if I'm still sleep deprived or not, but part of me still thinks it'd be funny and well received, but I understand not wanting to risk it.  Oh well  ¯_(ツ)_/¯

You're braver than me!

Godot's easy to learn, but has little annoyances that they haven't finished working out just yet. If C++ works for you though, than stick with it. I'll be interested to see how your project for this game jam turns out! 

Thank you and good luck to you as well!

Interesting choice of tooling! For this game jam I was just going to use Godot tbh. I do have a bunch of experience with C++ (using MFC and Qt for GUIs) but I don't think I'd want to try and do it for a video game unless it's something pretty specific? You mean C++ and not C# though?   

Well, we could have two programmers on a team, but it might be overkill lol
Were you looking to team up with someone? If I find teammates then whatever we build would have to stay a non-commercial project (We'd have to do it just for the love of the game so to speak)

I'm best at coding, followed by 3D modeling, and then music. I'm slowly getting better at the last two though.
Do you have a specialty? You have some cool game jam projects by the way!

Hello!

I'm just excited to be doing a project this year.
Hoping to finish something in one week! 
I do a little 3D modeling, a little code, and a little music.
Partially, I want to join a team, but probably I should compete alone so I don't feel guilty if I don't complete my project in time XD

Anyway, good luck everyone!