Game jams are fun, but they sure are exhausting as well, so I'm glad the main grind is now in the past :)

Any other teams who have a mostly dedicated game designer? I'd love some tips about what I'm supposed to be doing in the middle of the jam. I have a lot of work at the start and towards the end, but in the middle I still fall back to being a programmer. This time around, after we did some brainstorming and decided on an idea, I spent quite a bit of time writing things down and defining them in a bit more detail. After half a day I felt like most things were defined well enough that everyone else could work on the implementation. I had to add and change a couple things, help around a bit, but honestly the design doc didn't change much. After that I felt like I couldn't really do much until the game was kind of playable so I could playtest to see what works ok and what doesn't. So I started programming and helping the others out.

So, fellow game designers, what do you do in the middle of a game jam? Do you all have secondary roles?

I'd love to hear what you guys do, but I'd also love it if you check out our game :P

Check out Packed Ride at: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/packed-ride