About the game

Take my charge is a philosophical game where you have to solve puzzle and explore deep into the dreams of an advanced AI.

What went well

• Game finished.
• Sound effects that relate to the mood.
• Managed to write a cohesive story.
• Simplicity on art made me spend less time on it and more onto polish.
• Easy design led to quick development (All features were done in ~5hr).
• Some cuts on the game design did not affect the gameplay.

What went wrong

• Spend the first day working on another game, them realized the scope was to high.
• Wanted to do compo, but decided to polish it further for a better release.
• Physics sometimes feels a bit clunky. (Should use Unity physics only for collision detection)
• Camera follow is slow and offsets too high on the Y axis from the player. (Spend ~3h on this and after release solved it by putting the camera as a child of player).

Conclusion

I got caught on the first idea I got and spend a valuable day on it, I should have done more planning before compromising. But at the end I managed to make something simple with a great user experience and I’m proud of that.

Next time I’ll try be more careful on what idea I decide to work on.