Oh and concerning how often to back up, honestly just when you feel like you made a bit of progress, so that if something breaks you can just reverse it without losing anything meaningful. So no certain time just vibes based
Viewing post in First ever game jam as a complete noob any tips?
If you are doing pixel art then here's a great video. To sum it up the easiest way to choose a resolution is to take a base of 320x180 and scale it up as you see fit (so if you go 2x its 640x360). I would suggest going 640x360 if you are new to pixel art because doing 320x180 might overwhelm you a bit with trying to make every pixel count. If you are doing non pixel art, then probably 1280x720 is a good spot. Also you should look up pixel art rendering settings (it's pretty easy to setup in godot) or it might look blurry