I maybe need to add proper input locks for ENTER (so that you can't accidentially press it too quickly, it is used throughout the whole game but not for dialogues) and have a proper "skip" button for dialogue.
1. No, it is not just you. I was too busy playing with concepts for puzzles and core mechanics. I thought about it for several days straight mostly on paper and in sandbox-y mode, so when the time came to actually load those levels into the game and weave into/around story i was wastly behind the schedule so i made a deliberate choice to include "cool stuff" sacrificing much needed in-between levels of difficulty curve.
It is quite absurd in retrospective - the game even contains a level i can't solve myself (as a bonus), but not the basic stuff :(((
2. Yep, i should have made junk more obvious through first dialogues.
At the same time, it is kinda in line with the fact that it could be really anything instead of junk because it is people who are creative and see things and make them "fun" and not things themselves.
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I think that the main problem is that you've got tons and tons of original ideas and a lot of creativity, but sometimes we gotta accept that if we are not in a team and have a little time we can't realize everything that is in our mind, and maybe the coolest things we fulfill in won't be appreciated or understood like simple features that just work for a jam.
Anyway, I really like your work and this game expresses your own personal style, which is not so common in jams. I think that this is what really touched me the most
I have not yet found cool people to team up with in such a way that makes resulting collaboration cooler from my perspective than solo work.
People call me in to join projects from time to time, but mostly it ends up being quite dull and not motivating enough and i quit soon.
How one around finding the right people to work with?
Do you have some experience with it?
I guess my games and other work might attract some community eventually and i can collaborate with community people in a typical opensource fashion, but that seems a bit distant. ^_^
I also can try and actively search for creators i personally consider cool and who do FOSS.
I think that nowadays finding people on the internet is the easiet thing on the planet. What's truly hard is finding the right people you can really trust and have fun together.
Sometimes a message on Reddit, on a Forum or simply on Discord could attract the right people, and this is something I personally experienced since I'm one of the Godot Engine Italy Community's curator, and a couple of nice teams came up together for jams and projects.
But it depends a lot on your character, attitude in teamwork and what you are looking for.
If you didn't find the idea of a team project yet, you simply don't need it!