Night of the Spook - Lessons Learned

Submission Link

Another Ludum Dare under the belt! I feel like we've really applied a lot of our lessons learned from previous jams this go around, that helped us make one of my favorite submissions yet:

• Aggressively cut game ideas the first night and focused on coming up with the concept as quickly as possible
• Forced ourselves to target an MVP playable by the end of the first night
• Chose an artstyle we could pump out assets quickly for, and relied on simple motion and scale curves to do the animating for us
• Pushed off most polish until Sunday, while still making sure the core elements of the game felt good
• Liberally cut features if we did not feel we could get them right quickly, staving off feature creep
• Re-familiarized ourselves with our tools a couple of weeks before the game jam started

I hope to continue improving and honing our approach to LD, and look forward to the next one! 😄

The Game

_Armed with the newly minted Spookbuster™, our hero bravely ventures forth into the decrepit pit of ghosts and ghouls. Be warned, however, for the Spookbuster™ needs 10 seconds to cool down._

Fight back hordes of the undead with your handy Spookbuster and a selection of upgradable equipment, featuring gameplay reminiscent of _Vampire Survivors_ and _Project Lazarus_.

Interested in playing? Give it a go here! Feel free to link your game in the comments and I'll play + leave feedback.