I'll preface this summary by first saying we are very proud of the game we created for Brackey's Game Jam 2025.1! We did not win, nor did we even make it in the top 100 games. By the end of the voting period, there were 2,199 entries eligible for scoring. Overall, our game ended up ranking #650 of 2,199. We had 66 ratings this time and our overall raw score was 3.1 out of 5. This was significantly better than our previous submission, which had an overall raw score of 2.5 (which was then adjusted to 1.3 based on our lack of adequate ratings.)
Before we knew what the theme would be for Brackey's Game Jam 2025.1, we were already preparing for the challenge by reviewing our "lessons learned" from the previous one (Brackey's Game Jam 2024.2) That was our first time ever participating in a game jam - and we learned some hard, but valuable lessons.
We have been making software as a hobby for years, but it was always a side gig or just a hobby for fun. But now we are going to make software full time. With this change we needed to update the website to reflect our future plans.