The game concept was about someone who had to look after a monster incubator, whose babies needed feeding and the incubator needed cleaning. You have to manage these two goals while trying to find a way to escape your sysiphian work.
There was a bit of a point and click adventure vibe going on.
It started out with some very experimental sketches about a monster incubator. I’m not entirely surely what spawned this, the jam fugue is real.
Next up was rendering the incubator, and then all of the other game scene backgrounds.
I had to work really fast with these, as I still had to create all the characters and interactive elements. I was NOT used to working in pixel art and felt really clumsy using a new tool to do so, but it worked out pretty well in the end as I adapted to the style.
Some animations and sound effects were only finished after the jam, that 8 hour budget is rough. But by the end we had a mostly functional game loop!
