Global Games Jam 2015

On 23rd January 2015 I participated at Global Games Jam. As the names says, is an international activity where people gather individually or in groups in order to develop a game based on a theme.
    This year theme was "What do we do now?". I say activity because is not a competition as everybody is a winner after 48 ours where you went through the whole process of creating a game.
    The experience on a whole is amazing because no one is obliged to participate and people who attend are really passionate and eager to make something nice and interesting. The team I took part in was composed by six people including me. After we receive the theme we started brain storming, looking for best idea possible. At some point we all agree to go with a 3d top down, gray-scale game. The story of the game is about an ex-detective that was framed after his wife was killed by someone else. Everyone thought that he is the murderer so your goal is to get the clues around the city and prove that you're not guilty.
     On paper the game wasn't very hard to create as we had very good artists. I was doing the code for the game and I was pretty confident. At the end of the day, we all were here to learn as much as possible from this experience.
    The first 12 hours went pretty well. We were going on straight line and  and everyone had something to do. The mask managing was well done. But, as expected we started to get tired and the production slowed down a bit. Fortunately, we were on track and we had everything under control.
    The only issue we had was around 12 hours before the end of the projects, Unity crashed and, even though the project was saved, the files got corrupted and we lost 6 hours of work. That was bad moment for the team because it kind managed to discourage us a bit. We got it back on tracks in couple of hours and everything was fine again.
    After the 48 hours passed we were all pretty happy with our work and at the same time happy that it was all over. The experience is amazing and I think we all learned more or less from it, especially if this was the first time participating.
    The game was can be played here: http://www.waterfrontgames.com/game/index/116