Our designer had not used the 2D side of Unity before this Jam. There was a lot of crash course learning there. One of our artists hadn't touched pixel art in 10 years, so she had fun getting back into it. As for publicity, with over 1000 entries, getting your name out there and people trying is important. We've also learned that our scope of game may have been too large for the Jam for some players. They want short and sweet, while ours takes a while to set in and show itself. This is our first Game Jam and we've learned a lot along the way.

Here's our game. It's a longer submission, as we've mentioned, and has a story and quest line leading you to the ending. Give it a try and let us know what you think:

https://strangereality.itch.io/pathologic

I like threads like this. Thanks. It's my first game jam!

In my case, I rarely use Unity. I mostly program without game engines in Java, C# and also making websites in html, css, javascript. So I had to learn a lot of things about Unity:

• The animator graph and animations
• The tilemap with the tile palette and the grid
• The pixel perfect camera
• Camera shake
• A little bit of new unit UI I did not know about
• How to get pixel perfect fonts with Unity
• The rule tiles (Saves a lot of time)
• How to make top down player movements
• How to make a dialogue system
• How to make a spawn system
• How to place things in-game

That's pretty much it. You can see how it turned out, here is my submission

https://stephcraft.itch.io/void

PS: The link to your game goes to Half life 3, I don't know if that was intentional XD

Well i picked up pixel art landscapes and character drawing for the first time so experimenting with that was soooo much fun. Also learned loads about time management, organising a group of people and we learnt shout the flaws within our game! This jam was so much fun, definitely will be entering more jams.. check how my it turned out here! https://itch.io/jam/cgj/rate/474661

In my case I didn't experiment with the mechanics or anything like that, but had some failures in time management and planning, I started working on a platformer based on DuckTales, spent near 3 days working on the sprites, then I realized it was too much time and if I kept going wasn't end like I wanted or even wasn't end at all, so I changed to a new concept that ended in the game I submitted.

In my next jam i will spend a few times before start working, making a schedule and planning everything in advance.

Also, i'm using all the feedback you guys are giving me to improve not only the game, but my skills, all this helps me.

I hope you guys share your experiences with me, and if possible rate and  give me feedback about my game.

- I deleted the post i did about this and switched to here.

I played your game some time ago and already rated it and commented on my thoughts.

The game was cool and I pretty much liked it and the idea, really.

What I've learned is, as you said, publicity is a huge part of the game even if it's finished already and that most of the people don't care about the other games or rating system.

But the best I learned by far is how other people work, the ideas they have and to see these ideas in other perspectives than mine.

With your game, for example, I'd never thought about a mechanic of trust with NPCs, and it can be applied to a seller on a game what just sells x items if he trusts you, for example.

And that leads me to the previous point. Really people, play other games and try different things. I created a post where people posted games and I'm just playing all of them (in fact, that's how I discovered yours) and it can be a f*****g horror sometimes when you see +130 replies with games, but it's totally worth it.

that you can't say your personal things to everybody

I learnt that aiming for making a story based game in a game jam isn't easy...

This was my first game in unity not following a tutorial, so I have a better understanding of c# now (JavaScript was my first language). I also learned some new functions that will come in handy.

And as you said publicity is everything so: https://itch.io/jam/cgj/rate/476607

This was my first time making something without any help from anyone. So I was on my own. I learned a lot about how much time things take and that no matter what I do I will never get everything I want to get done, done. Scope is key. And though I didn't learn this in the jam I learned it before I wanted to share something with everyone, as the start make a list of pillars you want your game to achieve and when adding stuff to the game or adjusting take a second to look at your pillars and ask if the thing your doing fits the game. This is something I found myself doing a few times like 'ooh combat would be fun' but it wouldn't help anything I was trying to achieve.

Here's my game if your at all interested.

https://itch.io/jam/cgj/rate/476876

I learned alot about the unity post processing stack this gamejam.  As well as how to make cutscenes with the timeline animation thingy.  I made cool intro and outro animations after you defeat a boss / enter a new scene.  I also learned alot more about art and animation!

please rate my game! https://itch.io/jam/cgj/rate/477172

I did this by myself while juggling my first week of classes back at college.  

Its a super cool bullet hell boss rush against the gods of trickery!