Where I did well - Theme and Mood

No real surprises there to be honest. The game was based on a sad story, thus had quite a strong mood. The story was also based entirely around the theme, to the point of literally having the theme as a piece of dialogue in both endings.

Where I didn't do so well - Graphics and Audio

Can't say I'm surprised there either. As mentioned in the previous post, my graphics were hand-drawn onto paper with coloured markers, then "scanned" in with a phone app. This is probably not to everyone's taste (and I can't really draw as well as I tend to think I can).

Audio was the absolute last thing I added, and I had struggles with getting Audacity to play ball. A few commenters mentioned that some subtle background music may have helped, and I completely agree. I wasn't in the mood to tackle a brand new challenge late on submission day, so decided that no BGM would be better than terrible BGM.

What next?

Before next time I'm going to try my hand at some music generation. I've had a play with beepbox in the past but not in very much depth. I plan to have a try at using it to make some unobtrusive background melodies so that my next game will be a bit less quiet (and perhaps moodier).

Artwork is something I have always struggled with during my attempts to make games. Pixel art is the only sort of computer art I don't entirely suck at, so perhaps I'll use it for my next game jam. The choice of hand-drawn this time was entirely spontaneous (and I thought it might give me a bit of a boost for being novelty) yet not successful enough for me to try again.