For me its been pretty stressful but really rewarding. I have experimented with countless new things and already learned a ton. My main goal for this jam was to create a game that was actually fun and I think I succeeded so far. Plus I got to team up this jam which made things a lot easier and I could focus more on gameplay.
Don't worry you still have time. How about a game where the screen is all dark, and you move around by having a light flash on and off so you can temporarily see where to go, but there are also enemies lurking that you cant see until the light is on, so its like a puzzle platformer. Or if you want to make something quickly just make a local multiplayer game, it will fit the theme no matter what because you are never playing the game alone but rather with somebody else.
There are some people putting ideas in this thread (including me): https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-8/topic/2320121/dump-you-unused-ideas-for-others
oh that's too bad, but if you want to take on the challenge you can always create a new game, it doesnt have to be much maybey a short platformer where you think that you are by yourself throughout the game in an abandoned city but once you beat the game you find other people and realize you aren't alone.
Well I have only had about 6 hours to make my game, I had only used Unity for about a week before the jam, so my game is pretty bad :) I also only have until friday because we are going on holiday on saturday. I really wanted to enjoy my first jam more than this, but i've had some pretty bad luck this week with my bike breaking down, then my cat of 14 years passing away. So it seems a higher power really doesn't want me to work on my game!
Learned a lot about pathfinding and world generation in the last days. Normally I do 48hour jams so I propably just wait until friday night and then start with a pretty well 5 day prepared setup.
Don't stress so much. Write clean code with a lot of comments so it can be debugged in the last 5 minutes (when you try to build and upload it).
AND BUILD IT NOW so you can big build problems you face right now.
I’m pretty surprised at how smoothly things are going considering this is my third game jam and didn’t complete the first one. I’m working solo, Pretty much done animating the character and adding basic functions for the Player. Running, walking, jumping, etc. The scenery is also done. The only thing left is the UI, Level design, sound, and puzzles. Then I’m off to send it out for playtesting.
edit: I just knew things wouldn’t go so smoothly at the end, unity just decided to f my project and now it takes 20-30 sec to reload a script assembly. Editing scripts have become completely unbearable
This is my first game Jam and hopefully first game ever made. I undoubtedly learned tones of new stuff but it was really hard. 4th day I was about to quit jam because i had way too ambicious project and messy idea how is it supposed to look like. Yesterday i decided to abandon my old project and start new one using only some lines of code and ofcourse gained experience from the old one. Now its looking better and better. Now I have very litle time to polish everything. But hopefully the game will be fun.
