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Tips for Game Jams! Sticky Locked

A topic by Yilian created Jan 25, 2021 Views: 6,361
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If you are new to gamejams, here are some useful tips that might help you out!

Tips

  • Aim very small, a week may seem like a lot of time to make a big project, but it never works out that way. Keep it small, make a working game very fast and keep adding features and polishing from there.
  • Don't worry if you come out of this jam with a "not so great" game. The point of the jam is to have fun working on new, interesting concepts. Think of it as a very stressful prototyping phase. Go crazy with ideas! After the jam you are always allowed to polish it out and get a much better game out of it.
  • As we, the community, are a programming-focused Discord server, don't worry about crappy programmer's art. The goal is to have a fun, working game.
  • If you are stuck on something, don't stress over it. Go and do something else in the meantime, clear out your head. Game jams are a long sprint, the best thing you can do is not rush and keep your cool.
  • Can't come up with ideas? Do something completely unrelated, inspiration comes from weird places you'd never expect!

Useful Software

All tools listed here are free!

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