This game was a long and rocky road. At first we didnt really know what we should do with this theme ("Roles Reversed"), because somehow nothing fit the theme and on the other hand nearly everything fit the theme. It just came down to what you define as "Roles Reversed".

The development time was around 23 hours. I did all the code and the game direction, while my friend Lain did all the art and discussed different Game-Design choices with me. We tried to follow the fun while developing, which is the reason why we first created a prototype on which we iterated some different ideas until we found what made the most fun. For example: At first we didnt want every npc to drop drash and you should rember which npc dropped the trash. After we tested a bit with the developer tools, we found that the fun was in planning the route you need to take to delivere and pick up the items. Therefor we implemented the arrow, that shows the direction of the npc. We also changed that every npc drops rubbish.

I tried to implement as much *juice* into the game as possible, to make a mediocre game a fun experience.

I hope you all have fun with playing and rating the GMTK GameJam 2023 Games and good luck to everyone!