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Thanks for all the kind words! In terms of advice for game development, I’m probably not the best person to ask, because I usually just mess around with a mechanic or concept I think is fun and expand on it, then try to make something of a story out of it and use that to create the world, environment, and basically everything else. For this game, I liked the idea of making a Survivorlike, so before the jam actually began, I made a simple prototype of a submarine that would shoot bubbles that bounced around. When the theme was announced, I made a two-frame walking animation of a cute bomb guy and a zombie bomb, which eventually evolved into Lil’ Bomby’s Nuclear Winter over the course of the jam. Though I didn’t really start development when I made that first prototype, or even use any code from it, it definitely helped with figuring out how to implement the things I wanted to. There are also plenty of tutorials and guides online for making fun game mechanics and even just game development in general that definitely put it much more elegantly than ‘just mess around until something seems fun.’ I’m really happy you liked this and wish you good luck with the next step of your game dev journey!