3 Hour challenge

Make a game in 3 hours (plus time wasted earlier trying to record it), sounds impossible right?
Well I made Steam Rider, but it's ridiculous(ly bad). Certainly a great experience in keeping it simple as fast as possible.

Let's start with my mistakes:

• Record the process
  • I wasted nearly 2/3 hours trying to record everything, with fancy window-transitions and all. This was a bad idea. Just leave the recorder on.
• Switch ideas mid-way
  • It's really important to have this down before you start coding, but if you really must, take a break for it
• Use unknown features of the engine
  • I started using Rigid Bodies to have free "gravity" and later found out they didn't move how I expected
• Make too many assets
  
  • I made a total of 6 distinct clouds and used 1, I also made 2 "mini-songs" and used 1.
    See where I'm getting at? Thank goodness I didn't animate the Kite. it took around 20 minutes.
• Over-testing
  • I played the full 30 seconds to make sure it reached game-over in either case (time-out or out-of-screen), this could be greatly sped up with code-changes

Amd now the good parts:

• I knew exactly which Engine I wanted to use (Godot)
• Making and Adding music was very fast since I had experience
  
• Took breaks, after all, you can stop the timer