I have a couple Unity assets I created to make jamming easier on myself. A base project and a simple pause/quit asset.

PAUSE AND QUIT

https://shaolindave.itch.io/pause-and-quit-with-esc One thing I've noticed is that people run out of time making their actual game, and they wind up missing simple quality-of-life stuff, like a simple way to exit the game. This asset can pretty much be dropped into an existing Unity game. Once imported, the ESC and tilde buttons will pause the game. Holding them down will exit the game. It's that simple. If for some reason you want a certain scene to be unpausible (ie the title screen or a cutscene) there's a script you can attach to any gameobject within that screen to prevent pausing. There's two version of this asset, one for the legacy input system and one for the new input system.

BASE PROJECT

https://shaolindave.itch.io/baseproject This one is a bit more advanced. It's a base project that can cut the first few hours off of your development time so you can concentrate on your actual game. - It also includes pause/quit functionality (though only with the legacy system, I need to update this) - It contains a title screen with placeholders - An options menu, pre-populated with volume settings - A playerprefs manager, pre-setup to save those volume settings - A pre-configured audio manager - A singleton manager with auto-loading on project start - A event/delegates manager, with a sample subtitle event - A how-to-play menu where you can put gameplay instructions - A credits menu where you can list your developers and tools. There's also a customizable links panel for things like Ludum Dare, Itch.io, Email. You could add in your personal website, twitter, newgrounds, whatever you want. - A quit button

I hope to update the Base Project before the jam, to at very least put in support for the new input system for pause/quit/menu navigation.

This is of course, free. Feedback and suggestions are appreciated.