One thing I intend to take away from this jam is that, as much as QCF seems to pride itself on spending a while coming up with as many ideas as possible, there's a limit to how far we should push that... I mean, we only started on actual implementation of anything on saturday. Marc's initial concept was the thing he ended up working on and doing really well with.
Sure, we came up with something like 12 game concepts before we picked something, but I feel like we could have turned a lot of those ideas into something interesting if we'd just started on them earlier. At worst, we'd have spent a couple of hours prototyping the core concept of an idea that sounded like it might go somewhere and end up discarding it and using that to create more ideas.
So, next jam I'm going to push for implementing stuff earlier... Of course, watch me go ahead and not believe in every idea I have for like 8 hours again ;)
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One thing I intend to take away from this jam is that, as much as QCF seems to pride itself on spending a while coming up with as many ideas as possible, there's a limit to how far we should push that... I mean, we only started on actual implementation of anything on saturday. Marc's initial concept was the thing he ended up working on and doing really well with.
Sure, we came up with something like 12 game concepts before we picked something, but I feel like we could have turned a lot of those ideas into something interesting if we'd just started on them earlier. At worst, we'd have spent a couple of hours prototyping the core concept of an idea that sounded like it might go somewhere and end up discarding it and using that to create more ideas.
So, next jam I'm going to push for implementing stuff earlier... Of course, watch me go ahead and not believe in every idea I have for like 8 hours again ;)