For me the work started even before the game jam, I started out by studying past year's winners and their common themes/genres/elements. Alongside determining the best strategy for the group to create the best game we could in a short timeframe.

During the actual game jam we had to choose between 3 themes (Outgrow Hunger, Friendslop, Minesweeper). We ended up combining Outgrow Hunger with friendslop.

While the entire team worked together to create the general idea, it was my job to finetune the details such as balancing the quotas and difficulty.

While a lot of the code was created by our programmer, anything more relating to the engine and game logic was created by me.

The quota system, the camera system, implementation of the animations and characters, map creation and more...

Creating a full game system in 2 days was one of the most stressful "20 minute coding adventures" I've ever had to do, but it was also weirdly fun to block out all these different systems and how they would communicate with each other.

Originally we had planned to have a procedurally generated level every day, but that ended up being out of scope. However I managed to find a workaround that made it seem like a new map by randomizing berry locations and the terrain painting.

One of the biggest issues I faced was the animations, nobody on the team had experience with creating working animations in unity, fortunately for me we were in a room filled with people who make games and I was able to ask for help, and now I am able to create animations in other projects by myself! Asking for help is one of the best ways to learn something new.