Draw! Project Summary
For the GMTK Jam 2026 my team and I decided to make a game inspired by classic flash dueling games. I had been working on 3D characters for one of my other projects at the time so I rather foolishly convinced the group to do a 3D game for the jam. To no surprise at all, this ended up being a mistake since the additional time required to develop and debug a 3D project vs a 2D project was too much for a 4 day jam. Even though we were not able to submit the project to the jam, we did come back to the project afterwords and completely refactored the codebase. This was greatly needed and we were able to put the game together and deliver on our original vision for the project.
Project Take-Aways
- No really, don’t go 3D on a time crunch
- Always spend the time to make good finite state machines
- Godot has great animation library and inverse kinematics systems.