Coding is hard. Game Dev is harder.

Don't let ANYONE tell you that game dev is easy. Coding can be hard but as usual writing JavaScript (yep, I had to switch from Python to JavaScript) is not the issue. Game balancing and testing for win conditions, for example, at a basic level (cause I'm a basic level game developer) is harder. My game is a simple logic puzzle with check boxes. Mad respect for anyone doing complex game play with 2D or 3D, physics, sound, all that. Anyone doing that, YOU are skilled my friend.

After just completing what I have completed, I managed to have enough left tonight to add a splash screen

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Here's my puzzle

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Shooting for the Jam tomorrow, if I can think of anything to polish I'll add it in. My intent was to add a few puzzle levels, that may have to come in the Extra comp.

Mad respect for y'all. I've been following Ludum Dare for years, never really got a real game going, judged a few. I work in GIS and data for a living and I've got Python code I've written that moves around 250 million rows of data a week. That's peanuts, not anywhere near how challenging this is.

And I loved every minute of this!!!

This will be my day job when I retire. I've loved my day job, might as well keep it going with something else I love doing. I'm exhausted and it feels great!