The first two months we were making several prototypes in two different pairs of the four people that we were. Another partner and I told him:

• An immersive first-person horror puzzle experience.

• A postman delivering packages in a town with a van.

The second couple did:

• Kitchen management and automation.

• A pirate roguelike.

After much mulling over what to decide to do over the next few months, the one chosen in the end was, obviously, this.

The reason is that, despite its difficulty in programming due to its multiple systems, we considered that there was no other game that made the mix we had in mind.

After the decision we began to establish our roles in the team, mine being product manager, designer, artist and programmer.

Being such a small team, we had to fulfill many roles, however the ones we performed the most were programming and design.

After this we did many design and conceptualization sessions and when we had a clear roadmap, we used Jira to establish tasks and we got to work.

After a two months and a half of hard work, the following things were implemented:

• Improved enemy AI

• Status Effects

• Inventory system and Store

• Improved UI

• A “moba” style control system

• Basic onboarding

For the beta we had a big date and that was the presentation of the game for Demoday, an awards gala at our university, for which we were also not making any effort because we were not looking forward to being nominated for something.

During this time we mainly implemented the following:

• Improved enemy AI

• Improved UI

• Improved onboarding

• Bugfixing and polishing

• Playtesting

We also have to start paying close attention to the promotion aspect of the title since we had the opportunity to take it for playtesting with quite a few users.

After the gala in which we managed to win two awards, we prepared the release of the demo for our itch.io.

• What was done was the following:

• Swinging

• Polishing

• Presentation

• Own soundtrack

There was still a lot left to consider it a 100% complete experience but it was a very interesting development and we could still extend it further...