Thank you! <3 If Hexbear/you ever does/do another mini game jam, count me in! The one I joined advertised itself as for beginners, so with my first game finished just a few days before, I joined that one, and it was great.

I did have a time in my childhood when I created silly "choose your own adventure" style "games" in BASIC with a friend, that exclusively worked with PRINT and IF/ELSE, and never had anything but 3 choices of which 2 kill you. I also fooled around with RPG Maker XP and the Warcraft 3 map editor a lot as a teenager. All of that was long before I had internet access (my parents were quite late on that one), so it was mostly just fooling around with little resources to get better and learn more.

I have some training in programming, but no real professional experience, but did enjoy amateur programming as a hobby for a long time in my life. Art, music and sound, I have no experience whatsoever, game design only from playing way too many games myself and above phases of fooling around.

I'd recommend game jams, targeted at beginners, for everyone wanting to get into game dev after my own experience. It's completely different from just making anyhting and throwing it into the void - when you instead have some guiding theme, a time limit and the guarantee of at least some people looking at what you made and giving some feedback.

Thank you <3 It was a great experience!

Thank you so much <3

Yeah, I tried to balance that a bit with the "quick finish" bonus - but I am thinking of revisiting it after my current game jam project (due at the end of may), to make it more proportional to how quick you are instead of just being a flat bonus. Although, I was also thinking that it may work as sort of a "they took their time interacting with me"-thing. For the confused customer, I viewed it as sort of increasing their satisfaction by being patient with them.

By the way - the game should save progress, so if you want to revisit it and play to the end, you can do so any time. Don't want to spoil anything, but I got pretty good reactions in reviews for the ending ^^

Oh, and thank you so much for playing and taking the time to give feedback, it really means a lot to me <3<3

Thank you <3

Hi, thank you so much for playing and giving feedback, it means a lot to me <3

That is not a bug, just a little bit of a mean additional challenge. Look what "C.R.A.P." might stand for :)

Thank you <3

Thank you so much <3

It really was an amazing experience, I can only recommend it to any devs wanting to jump over their own shadows and commit to something, getting good feedback along the way.

Am already knee-deep in my next jam :D