GameJams are stressful, you spend a weekend working instead of relaxing, many times is frustrating...and still I find myself finding new excuses to participate.

Over the recent years my game development journey has been bringing me back over and over to this situation. Do you wanna join this game jam? And looking at the games done here and playing them I can't stop thinking on how was the game developed and by who.

Over the excuses I have used to persuade me are: - "join it, and stick together with this guy and learn from him" - "let's do it with my videogame class friends and for sure we finish something cool" (spoiler alert - it did not) - "let's just meet new people"(great reason to join) - "I'll make it this time with my friends and teach em how games are made" (not great) - "this time my only goal is to finish" (mature thinking?)

... which brings me to "I want to try something new" which is this time excuse.

Deeper and deeper a digging game, a dungeons game, a submarine/diver game... we've all shuffled those ideas and got discarded for the same reason, many people are going to make it, which has nothing wrong but we wanted to aim in a different direction.

Deep into relations + deep into a mystery = Deeper Learning -> our entry this year with the only goal of trying something we have never done before. I hate to make narrative design games because usually the person who suggest it and the people strongly endorsing it are not conscious of the difficulty behind it and later on will bail from it...writing something interesting. Writing is difficult, time consuming and writing something interesting is even more difficult. Still I accepted it because my objective this time was trying something new...guess who did the majority of the writing...

With no further ado, I'd like to invite you all to try it and leave a comment. Do not worry if it is a criticism, I'll appreciate if it is even a bad comment.

By the way, this game was not possible without my amazing grilfriend and our amazing composer and friend.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/deeper-learning-1