It’s day three of #adventurejam, and I have the first half of the game done!

Of course, that doesn’t include fleshing out the story with any optional content. If all I get done is the primary storyline, at least it will be playable when the jam ends.

The “LucasArts philosophy” of adventure games says the player should never die or reach a dead-end. For playing long games, I really appreciate this choice. For short gamejam games, I understand using dead-ends as a narrative device, because the game’s length might only be 10 minutes maximum. Forcing a player to replay that 10 minutes isn’t too egregious as to be unfair. My game will include some of these dead-ends as part of the narrative.

I’m going to try to make those pathways very short, and incredibly apparent.