Inception - death is not the end

Another day, another gamejam.  GameDev.TV are hosting a gamejam and I fancied doing something for fun so thought I'd join in with the goal of finishing something.  It's a 10 day jam starting 2022/05/20 so hopefully I can use a little time each night.

After a bit of brainstorming on the theme "Death is not the end", I decided on a top-down 2D game where you play a ghost trying to get your death discovered, the (correct) murderer brought to justice and things you’d left unfinished, completed.  I'm hoping to get some comedy and a little randomisation in but keep the graphics super-simple.  We'll see what I can manage.  WIP Dev doc here if you're curious.

The biggest hurdle was getting pathfinding working in 2D.  It turns out there's a version of the Unity NavMeshComponents especially for 2D!  Took a little fiddling but once working, seems fine.  I forgot to mention the jam mandates sharing source so you'll get to see what I did once I publish!

Unsurprisingly, lots of IRL stuff got in the way on day 1 (Saturday) so not as much as I'd hoped but hey, my little ghosty is moving and an NPC is wandering about (and hopefully might soon have its own thoughts?)

Love to hear your thoughts and ideas on it so far!