I'm happy to have created my title "Dandy Handy" for this LD41 compo. The game/concept(rather) was fun to make and showed me some strengths as well as weaknesses I have in rapid development.

Early development and idea forming was tricky with such a broad theme but I fixated on the word "incompatible". I thought to myself, "there isn't a game that's incompatible." This lead me to the belief that a games genres isn't really in-compatible with others. It is more or less the barrier in controls that go into making an experience. This LD was a challenge to create a intuitive control scheme paired with fun.

This idea became my objective to merge face paced platformer elements(SanicSPEED) alongside traditional Point & Click Puzzle/Adventure games.

I ate 3 ceasar salads with baked chicken that night and I cannot tell you how gracious my stomach reciprocated this LD!This brain fuel would help me in solidifying the player platformer logic to wrap up my Friday- Saturday morning.

After some sleep, I was ready and wired to start on the hand controls.While starting the mouse clicking I discovered I could use the hand itself as a half working platform. After slapping my primitive Unity capsule,I knew this was a mechanic to stick with.

I decided to give more functionality to the Hand by introducing puzzle elements & other hand commands. This however was the bulk of my development & after looking back; sapped the most hours while painstakingly coding convoluted if statements.

Today, I woke up even more confused than saturday. "What does this even do?", "L2Comment." are phrases thought as I relearned quaternions & crappy naming conventions a 2nd time.

I remember the dissonance felt while looking to figure out the spaghetti of code that I had to un-twine to continue creating the game.

I notice there's 9 Hrs remaining for the compo. (Here would have been a great time to yah' know... create something not 8 Verts) Instead I decide to take the route of "perfecting" my controls. The timer went from 7 Hrs, 6Hrs, 5, 3, 1Hr in an instant.

3 Minutes before submission deadline I publish with Google Drive links ready.

Post Mortem/Conclusion/ TLDR

• Allocate 2 Hrs for a Main-Menu & 1 Hr for ALL things UI.(Free Fonts, Title Screens,Credits)

• Programmer Art is powerful,however, a cut-off in-order to solely focus on essential art is important. I can only imagine how cryptic my floating hand would look in a grayscale arbor.

• After an Hr of debugging a feature, I recommend to live by these words.("If it compiles,move on or face more trials.)
• Drink water & have fun with the challenge!

Thank you! Happy Jaming! ~ Sean Howard Entry Link (LD41-Dandy Handy) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/dandy-handy