Having had recently learned about the strategy pattern, I wanted to use it to help speed up AI development. I created abstract scripts for enemy movement, attack, and behaviour types to use as foundation for extensions. This reduced a lot of boilerplate code, allowing me to primarily focus on creating unique class behaviours, such as the druid's speed bonus, and simply plug in the other components.

The limitation of the jam was that you can only use five colours in your game. With this, I essentially only had 4 shades to work with, as black was designated to just be the primary background colour. I quickly realized that I need to choose my colours carefully, and decided to shade the objects in the game with consideration of the actual importance to the game.

Things like the path background were made the darker shades, as they were simply aesthetic, and provided no practical info to the player. Conversely, the characters, projectiles, and UI elements were all made the brighter shade of my palette, so the player could easily focus on the most important information on the screen at all times.

An important diegetic choice I made near the end of the jam was to create Skully, your familiar that helps guide you through the waves. When a new wave starts, an arrow appears over Skully, directing you to the next gate at which the heroes appear. This ended up getting a lot of positive feedback, which has still influenced my propensity towards favouring diegetic communication of information to players.