End of day for me, Here is my blog entry:

My entries have been getting shorter, Huh

6th day over, here's the blog

Day six done--and for me, the jam! My entry should--hopefully--be uploading to the jam's site, and a backup link should be found below:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9nolug0mimkmzld/WoA_StrangeLights_Submission.zip?dl=0

(At time of writing, the submission site estimates that it has an hour to go in uploading the zip.)

As for my final day's blog, the GameDev.net version:

And the version on my personal site:

http://thaumaturge-art.com/index.php?/archives/98-Week-of-Awesome-V-Day-6-The-Tower-of-Chains.html

I intend to rest now! Good luck in the judging, everyone!

I spent all day working on the actual game, and I'm significantly closer to finished than I ever imagined I would be. Most of the main (and fortunately simple) mechanics are actually working now. I'm using Unreal since I have a lot of experience with it, so it was really the only viable option given the time pressure. That also meant that I could re-use a bunch of materials and effects I made for past projects, like a procedural dust function that I can just slap on to make it look like my game is a lot more polished than it really is.

The game is definitely more focused on style and atmosphere than on "gameplay" or "fun" per se, so I'm not exactly expecting it to get great scores in the competition, but I'm hoping that someone finds it engaging for what it is.

Having such a small game also means I can afford to use crazy high-detail light/shadow maps that would probably be too large for a "real" game. I started with some non-real time renders as reference, which I find really helps; it's easy to spend so much time staring at a scene that I can't tell if I'm making it look more "real" or not, so I need something to compare with.