My 5th Game Jam

Another time passed, 5th game jam was here again and our game there.

Things that worked well

• debugging options to test game endings

• todo list in markdown
  • maybe don’t need a whole Notes folder, just place the todo.md in root folder
• using chatgpt for
  • tileset generation
  • npc room and slots assignment code (was faster than if I did it manually)

• use Ctrl + F to find parts of code, files and everything in the godot editor (don’t browse, it wastes time)

• use VS Code for git (faster than typing)
  • maybe add an extension so I have autocomplete and not have to type so much

• have an external monitor so I can use two displays

• always analyze what is the most important part of the game and focus only on that

Things to improve

• DON’T USE DIR ACCESS (it breaks the web build)
  • instead hard code the paths to the assets into an array

• ask other people for opinion on the game even more

• learn how to create a state automaton for npc’s

• measurable game goals in game ending

• don’t edit same scene by two people at same time (we wasted almost an hour fixing merge confict and had to create develop2)
  • editing just the code of same scene is fine but not the .tscn file
• learn how to use inheritance in Godot
  • we used it for npc vs woman and it was not quite ideal
  • I also did not realize I can access variables of the superclass (npc) from within the subclass (woman) right away and created special functions to access them which was completely unnecessary
• play_audio function could be in GM to be used globally instead of copying it everywhere