Maps, Mechanics, and a Very Bad Sleep Schedule
Building a game under jam conditions
A build log written immediately after the fact: what the map was meant to do, which mechanics survived contact with a deadline, and the sleep schedule that paid for both.
Originally published on LinkedIn in January 2026. The original remains the canonical version.
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