Originally, the Twine version of Theocrasaurus was going to be an outline and proof-of-concept that I would then build into a small game in Unity, but that changed along the way for two reasons. 

The first and most obvious one was time. Making even a small game in Unity is extremely time-consuming, especially by oneself, and the Jam fell on a week when I had very limited hours to create my game. As a solo developer, I felt that I would need more time to make a Unity game in a way that would properly convey the tone I wanted. 

The second reason was that I was having fun with making the game in Twine. Developing only in Twine where I could focus on the content of the narrative and the branching structure let me carry the lighthearted mood of the game the entire way through.

Making Theocrasaurus into a word replacement game also presented some unique challenges. I had to be mindful of the number of words the player could use due to the exponential increase of combinations one can make by adding even one more word to the mix. This meant that every word had to be useful in making the sentence either correct or ridiculous, which was a difficult balance to find. 

The number of combinations one could make also meant that I had to write over 60 endings, one for every combination the player could make with their words. Writing these endings to be satisfying and witty took time which I might have otherwise spent fleshing out gameplay around collecting words that I chose not to include. However, I wrote them all over the course of just a few hours.