If time machines were real, I would be able to travel back in time, visit the three dudes developing the game between December 9th and December 12th and tell them a thing or two.
For example the moment they said things like: “This will be easy.”, “We will be done way before the time”, “We will have so much time for polishing.”  I would respond:
“Seriously? Are you kidding me? You bring more than 30 years of experience to the table and yet you still say things like this. And even worse: you are not only saying this – you believe it!”
Because obviously in the end it wasn’t easy, nor were we done before time and there was zero time left for polishing. But the reasons for that weren’t anything that any of us had expected and really surprised us.

This is part one of two of a post mortem for our Ludum Dare game Hitler’s Cactus or Only you can stop Trump. If you haven’t played it yet, you can do that here

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