The realisation

Damn

I just realised that this LD was my personal best basically in every category

The other ones were in some hundreds overall and had like 1000+ places in some categories, this is what was the best before: imageem2025-10-27/em173255982.png

And it was done in a small but, like, a team nonetheless, while this year is my second compo in a row (wasn't in a good mental state last time to give any ratings sorry, I actually still have a couple of games from it I wanted to check open in my browser somewhere lol)

While this is what I got this time (I posted it already but for the context)

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Now I'm left to wonder if participating in stuff like GameOff is a good idea considering my tight schedule (full time job as a game designer + masterate with semester ending in mid-december, I have some considerable works to do + occasional activism + chronic mental stuff as you could see in my game lmao).

I'd really like to finish a game demo we had to drop at ShovelJam this summer because miscommunication and broken promises (assets were a little bit rushed but basically ready to be used in game, then dev failed to communicate with me about anything and just ghosted me till the very end, I barely can code something complicateed, so I couldn't do it by myself and gave up at the deadline hour) but my team might be busy af as well :(

ngl LD is always inspirational and I actually feel that I chose a right field to work in but severe AuDHD burnout takes its toll