Impressive work for such large team to be managed in such a short time! The results is proof of the great management, and the strength of all the individual team members! As others mentionned the difficulty is a bit high but it's a common thing in game jams!
Congrats to everyone!
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Normal Activities's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #98 | 4.533 | 4.533 |
| Overall | #382 | 3.947 | 3.947 |
| Creativity | #537 | 3.956 | 3.956 |
| Enjoyment | #1236 | 3.352 | 3.352 |
Ranked from 227 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
Instead of haunting as the ghost, you're trying to keep your haunted house in check!
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam
Comments
297 days ago(+4)
For me, I think I would do it again. There are some big hurdles to deal with for a big team, but getting to meet and work with so many talented people is a really great opportunity. 🙃
297 days ago(+2)
Yeah, I kind of feel the same. It took a really long time until we had a playable gameplay loop from start to finish, largely due to the organizational effort of getting everything together from the programming team. That made it tricky to really develop the gameplay into something more unique and varied, or to make the tutorial we wanted to make (at least we managed to make the tutorial interactive but that was done in a few hours on the last day).
Believe me, there was just as much effort to get the game loop going as there was for making assets but it was tough to bring everything together and the NPC AI kept acting up well into day 2, making it basically unplayable for a really long time. I suppose this is an interesting learning out of this: With art, it's easier for people to kind of work side by side on assets whereas code is more interconnected and it can be tough to bring it together with so many people working in different places and timezones, handing stuff over to each other and having to connect things into one gameplay loop. From a project management perspective, code is also harder to get an overview on since you can't just look at a script and tell at a glance how well it's going.
Overall, I'm really quite happy with how it ended up but yeah especially early on there were certainly some major challenges on the tech-side that held us back.
298 days ago(+1)
Yeah! It sort of is like that but not very obvious. For the first half of the night the photographers will stay together on the same path but once it strikes midnight, they split up and go different ways.
298 days ago(+2)
It definitely helped in a lot of ways but it was very chaotic and had many unique challenges, to say the least. 😅 Part of the challenge is making a “small” game that utilizes the time and expertise of the entire team. Another challenge is just like communication, coordination, avoiding duplication of work, etc.
It was a very interesting experiment and honestly was a little less crazy than I had imagined it would be. Also very cool to get to work with a ton of new people!
298 days ago(+2)
I think having so many people actually increases the scope to a certain level no matter what, which can make it tricky. Having more audio, 3d/2d assets, scripts etc. means there's a lot more to implement and interact. But it was really fun :)
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