Ryan and I thought we could just recreate the magic of Function Conjunction and Lay Down Your Roots. Just the two of us, no artist. I would make some procedurally generated art and we'd make something compelling and interesting and it'll be great.
It did not turn out that way. Seven Pips is probably my least favorite game, my most embarrassing flop. Ryan and I had a great postmortem after that where we determined that we're going to bring at least one artist onboard for GMTK going forward. We followed through on this for Pest Control and the game is much better for it.