I signed up for this jam a few days before it started so I had the opportunity to approach and plan how I would use the 72 hours to develop this project. What I knew going into this was firstly, that the theme of the jam would be “Islands” and second that the participants were voting for what the limitation would be for the jam (the Limitation is not announced until the start of the jam). Knowing this one can assume that the limitation would be one of a finite list of options that people were voting for.

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Knowing these two things I started planning. The idea was to develop a core concept that would cover not only the theme but also several of the possible limitations. From there it was to devise a strategy for each unaccounted for limitation option and have a plan on how to modify the core design to fit that use case. for example if the limitation ended up being “non linear progression” the project would have feature several different types of ship upgrades and the focus of the game would shift towards upgrading and customizing the player’s ship. Another example is if “Death is only the beginning” was selected then when the player died they would then become a ghost ship and instead of fleeing from the large “boss” ship that slowly chases the player they would need to instead fight them. If they win they are brought back to life and the game continues as normal. 

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With these outlines in place the next and final step of the planning process was to schedule out the work for the 72 hours (including when to eat, sleep, and walk my dog lol) as well as a list of what kind of art asset I would need create vs using open sourced options; leaning towards open sourced whenever available for time limitations.