The game jam came to an end. From understanding the theme and gathering members for the team, to figuring out how to best represent our game concept , we went through some adjustments in characters, quantity of items, map size and some design logics as well.

On the first iteration, we would like the game to be about stealthily gathering the items for the ‘parody’, avoiding interrogations from the PIDE (the Estado Novo police). However, that would create a great dissonance with the main character, who was not aware of the party’s real purpose. Therefore, we changed the idea to our character ‘cluelessly’ talking to Óbidos' citizens to find the location of the required items.

Talking about items, we had some adjustments on it. A priori, the item list would consist of common objects that would gradually increase the level of suspion of our protagonsist—from chairs to bottles of alcohol and cloth. Then, the player would have choices in the dialogs with the PIDE to try to deceive them. Still, this idea wouldn’t be on the same page of what we were really trying to bring for the player and the reality. So, we adjusted the item list to more inoffensive objects that could pass unnoticed by the police and even for our main character, such as cassettes, a radio and a book. Other two items had to be cut down due to time constraints: pen and chair.

In the end, we had a great experience as a group, interacting, learning new skills and living the intensity of this event, and we believe it to have been worth for our self growth.