Development Log

One thing I would do for the next game jam would be to think about UI/UX a lot earlier or suggest bringing in someone dedicated to that on board. For Flavedo, the coder the UI/UX takes the longest to plan out, while updating images is a quick job. For myself, making the images take the longest, while making windows and text boxes is relatively quick. I think the process would have been smoother if I had thought about UI earlier and got that completed first so not to delay flavedo. The other issue is font - I didn't expect that to be that much of a problem, but it's one of these things I find quite difficult to decide on if I didn't had a picture of how everything is going to look. In addition many of the free fonts online might have broken elements like a hypen that doesn't work - this would have been better tested earlier so there was more time to find a replacement.

The end result was the above. I think the colour scheme worked overall. The cards looked nicer than expected - they were the last things I made, and it was quite a rush even if they were simple designs. They were loosely based on tarot cards. Originally I was thinking we could have used an original deck, and had the tarot names as placeholders. In the end it was more straightforward to make the card pictures based on placeholder names. I tried to simplify them as much as possible to keep. My favourite one is the magician - it had the infinity symbol that is synonymous with the original tarot cards with a bird which I felt was associated with magicians (doves in magic tricks, freedom etc). For most of these cards I tried to keep some aspect or association with the original tarot so that they are at least be loosely recognisable.

basic mood board - going with an occult/alchemy flavour

test game by Flavedo. Basic gameplay is to adjust stats by flipping two of the cards for the customer.

A lot has happened this year. I returned to a community college (BCot) for a course on Game Art and Design - I think ideally I'd like to be there for one year. So far, I think the best thing about this experience is seeing how open all the others are with their ideas, and how they can talk without overthinking if an idea is good or not - openly discuss their interests without mortifying self-consciousness

Calling this my first official day of ScreamJam. Thought it would be good to add a game to my portfolio, and also have something to stand on for GlobalJam 2026. It could be something I can talk about in the GDL meetings, as well as the course I'm on. I went looking for a team on the 21st Sept. And thought I had one complete with T-- and Flavedo. We had a discord server for a short while, but there was a lot of trouble deciding on gameplay. There might have been disagreements based on communication style, so it resulted in just Flavedo and me. We are going to work on a card based game, where you play as a fortune teller. I'm now in the position where I'm the lead artist. ngl It's kinda scary, I've never carried a project like this with another person. Let's see how it goes, as my tutor Peter as said - the important thing is to walk the walk. I've always wanted to lead a art design project like this, and have been given many opportunities in the past. I think the difference this time is I will grab it by the horns and make something cool!