I Made a Game for a Game Jam, Here’s What I Learned

Recently I made a game and entered it into the Github Game Off 2019. The premise of the game is that there are a series of cows that run around following rules. The aim in the earlier levels is to get all of the cows into a green area. The aim in later levels is to use the cows to create and program a basic computer.

With these kinds of game jams, there is a restrictive time limit involved. In this case, 30 days. On day 0, you receive a theme in which to base your game upon: the theme was “Leaps And Bounds”. Generally there is not enough time…