Hi. So now I can say I started this in another jam now, since it is now published:
https://patriciamendes.itch.io/where-the-wind-sings
We took and entire month, I should say, to get to the first 70% of the game. A lot is still missing from our original plans and plans. And by 75% I mean still how the saying goes: “the first 90 percent is 90 percent of the work, and the last 10 percent is the other 90 percent of the work.”
We can walk around the world, and pick up things.
We have a day/night cycle, but it’s stuck at night forever apparently, and the night doesn’t have consequences.
We can craft an object. But we can’t craft all the tools we meant to craft. But I guess the base mechanism is there.
We can’t cook, and we wanted to be able to.
We wanted minigames for crafting and cooking, and we don’t have even a glimpse of those.
we wanted unique characters to choose from, each with advantages and disadvantages, and we have only one (an without advantages or disadvantages);
We wanted to have journal entries for everything we collect, and we don’t have a journal at all.
And I could go on and on. (there’s a lot of bugs also but that is I guess what is considered the actual last 10%).
You can try the game and see for yourself that it still feels kind of placeholderdy. Although we do have an almost complete map that should be pushed in a couple of days or a week and, not as of yesterday but as of today, probably 95% of the sounds for the sound design, and (for this jam), probably 90% of the art as well. However if we can keep working for some months, we will be making this bigger if we can, adding animals, adding sources of danger, adding the states of cold and poison, etc.
In the end this might still end up something like… yeah this is ‘game-ish’, but there is no victory and actually there’s not much to do. Also the multiplayer isn’t working (we can get to the same world but no interaction whatsoever. What I build in my ehd, you don’t see on your end).
So that’s why I wanted to check if this is still ‘legal’. Frankly, what I want to do is still ‘a decent amount of work’ during the jam time. The only thing is yes, I guess we are pretty close to having something actually playable. But we would want to do a lot during this jam. So it sounds like it’d be allowed. But I just wanted to officially check it once again and let you see the state the game is at! Cheers and thank you.