Gonna kick off this thread with a little screenshot of my prototype's current state. It's not much, but I'm very excited for what I have in store.
I'm building a turn-based, "dungeon crawler"-type game with a bunch of roguelike elements, as well as a major focus on character progression, narrative, and randomization. My primary focus right now is building the game mechanics and core gameplay loop, which is why there's no artwork yet. But if I have enough time during this jam, I'll implement as much art as I can after the rest of the game's structure is finished.
Can't wait to see what everyone else is working on!
Along with finishing a handful of various items, power-ups, and movement mechanics, I've also began piecing together an upgrade system and interface. There's a persistent "currency" in the game, which I'm currently referring to as gems and will be used to upgrade your character's ship. I'm also thinking I may take a Souls-esque approach to the currency, having you drop the gems where you "die" (technically, there's no death in this game) and forcing you to retrieve them on your next run or lose them forever. We'll see if I have time for that.
Anyway, the mechanics of these upgrades are still being fleshed out (the names are placeholders in the meantime), and will likely be finished when I post another update. Should have something more like a video or GIF to share next time.
Hope everyone else is making great progress with their projects as well!
Been a little while since I last updated my progress, but I've been working super hard to meet the jam's deadline. I actually started a new job in the middle of this, which is great (of course) but it cut into my dev time severely. I'm confident I'll have a finished prototype ready by the end of the jam, though I'm not entirely sure what the state will be. Here's how the game looks now. (This GIF looks better.)
It's 100% functional and ready to play (for the purposes of the prototype, anyway), so what I'm focusing on next is an entire graphic overhaul, a bit of music and FX, and a fully integrated beginning and end. It's a lot, but I think I can make it happen with a couple more late nights.
Fingers crossed!
Well, it looks like I'm cutting things EXTREMELY close. I misunderstood when the deadline was, and thought I'd have until tomorrow to submit my project. I'm so close to being finished, but there are a number of tasks I'm afraid I won't get to in time. If it's at all possible, I'd love to submit what I have at deadline and then continue to update it. Could someone let me know whether or not that's allowed?
Thanks in advance!
Well, better late than never, right?
I know I'm far too late to enter my project into the voting, but I thought I'd still share what I've finished because this game jam was the reason I did it.
https://pfail.itch.io/gem-diver
If anyone has a spare 10 or 15 minutes to check out my little prototype, maybe even leave some feedback, I'd be absolutely grateful.
Best of luck to everyone who participated, and thanks especially to Second Dimension Games for hosting.
Just a random screenshot of a game I've been working on for far too long. It's probably ok to call it an arcade colour-matching game. It's nearly code-complete, but is missing audio and music and needs some balancing. I also want to implement a set of in-game achivements to give players a bit of an incentive to continue playing as the game is designed to be taken in short, couple-minute bursts. I'm creating it in GameMaker 1.4 and targeting Windows and Mac (although I haven't exported it to Mac yet so hopefully it will magically "just work" or will require only little adjustments).
It's very easy, you just match a colour of a "device" you're controlling with the colour of the block in the top line. There are some simple traps and modificators down the line and it gets faster with time to make it more engaging, but I wanted to make something that would not require any tutorials or text explanation of any kind, and I think I got it. Just by screenshot it might be, huh, what am I looking at? but it's so basic that I hope everyone should get a grasp of the gameplay the moment they start the game. Also, it looks better in motion ;)
I'm making something with this rotary encoder and home made Vive controller I made.
This is the rotary encoder. I haven't looked at it in a while. It's very dusty. It has to come off the breadboard and get attached to the Vive controller.
This is the Vive controller. I made this a year ago. It equivalent with a Vive Tracker, but made by me with hot glue.
I will make a simple game to go along with these parts. The Vive controller and rotary encoder will operate as the left & right controllers (or something) on regular platforms. There will be regular Vive port for sure. I can do GearVR & Daydream ports, also. My Oculus Rift is broken at the moment, so I can't do that one.
I do not know what the game will actually be. Something simple. I'm doodling some designs tonight.
I'm making a 3D game with a unique (complicatedly simple) battle system. It's titled "Adventures' Edge" and I'm using Godot.
A few characters already modeled (in blender)
The preliminary battle system is implemented, but there is nothing to attack. There are still a lot of things to do, and tons to model/texture. It won't be finished even after this month, but I hope to have something playable. After the battle system is finished I might upload it and see what you guys think.
May I upload a build and keep updating it until submissions are over?
Hi, here are the game I am entering with.
The idea of the game is that player starts relatively weak and have to evade enemy bullets at the last moment to boost speed and damage.
As of right now it is probably 70% done, I need to make settings menu for it, some tweaking and also some levels in addition to infinite one that I have right now.
Thanks for hosting the jam and providing me with a deadline <3. Its the last push i need to finally finish my project.
I'm working a "game" for quite a while in witch i visualise my first psychosis (I hope it doesn't need a sequel).
Here are some images of my progress:
So, me and my group were planning to enter the jam with a prototype we made for another game jam we couldn't finish, but then that whole idea did a full 360 in the first day of this jam and now we are making a point and click adventure game in the style of Monkey Island or Maniac Mansion, in Game Maker. going by the working title of "Westwood Casino". There's only one (temp) background, every character is just a white block at the moment, but i did manage to make a pretty nice dialogue system with choices and sweet black outline commodore text! I am starting to work on the Puzzle Dependency Chart as well (Don't worry, no dead ends or deaths). Next step is adding verbs and the inventory!
Hi everyone !
I'm making a pint-and-play card-party-game for this jam, and the name should be "Nuclear Chess", and it will be playable for 3-6 players.
Chess is more of a graphical theme here, as the game take place is the apocalyptic future where there is no boards or sides anymore, and the chess-pieces roam the world, making chaos and destruction.
For now the game is a mix of memory (you can't see neither your or the opponent card, appart for specific moment), chance and reflexes.
The prototype is quite done, i will test and optimize it as the month go on, while making graphism on the other hand.
For now, the cards look like this : )
Have you considered tweaking the colors slightly? That would really help make things 'pop' and be very eye-catching.
E.G. (apologies for my quick photoshop edit)
I've taken the 3 and 4 cards, slightly deepened the backgrounds, given the numbers a good contrast color and made two distinct sides. ivory and blue
Woaw thx : ). Actually, i tried a lot of colors, but the numbers in this game doesn't have to be that eye-catching (you have all the time to look at them), so i focused on them being quite big and legible.
In fact, i divided the information in game as follow :
- The chess-piece give you information on the rarity of the card (extremes numbers are more scarce in the game).
- The color of the chess-piece is related to which side of the average value this card fall in (sometime you want high, sometimes low).
- The color of the background and decorations inform you about some special-powers some cards have on top of everything else.
So the "brown and yellow" color-base can go well with both chess-side (egg-shell and brown), and also don't discord with the other colors (blues and red).
And another infortunate constraint for the color-picking is the spectrum of what-could-be-printed well (with low-budget printing).
So, a lot of "hot colors", no greens, and very clear blues. :' (
"And another infortunate constraint for the color-picking is the spectrum of what-could-be-printed well (with low-budget printing).
So, a lot of "hot colors", no greens, and very clear blues."
AMAZING. I used to work with high-end printers dealing with color, absorption and how different paper stock causes different colors (CMYK vs RGB) etc. You're the first person to come back with coherent knowledge about that - Kudos to you :)
Seeing all the colors with the different backgrounds makes everything clear now - it looks very crisp and clear :) I like it a lot...
haha : D, profesional deformation, but be careful : those advices works only for CMJN laser-printing (xerography), and if your goal is to have vivid, saturated colors.
The trickyest thing with printing : it all depend on the machine you will use in the end. With laser-printing, i don't have to worry about the quantity of ink that the paper can absorb : because it's dry(xero)-printing(graphy), that cook toner at the surface of the paper. But if i was to use a riso or inkjet printer, that could very well be an issue.
Not yet : ). I think i'm waiting to have a "really cool/catchy game" on my hand to do that (also i really got too much projects going on lately...).
But programation is clearly a thing i keep in mind for the futur : ).
As a graph, the closer i got to programation was a school-project : https://www.kongregate.com/games/Chronodrax/antimatiere
Maybe i'll propose myself as a mercenary graph for some game-jam of the futur...
Hi,
I think about using this jam to improve the current version of my game: Xarkanoid. I've been planning to do this eventually, but I haven't had time for it yet. Since it's like upgrading from version 1.0 to 2.0 I'm not 100% sure if it fits this jam theme - if not I'll just not submit the game.
The game is simple Arkanoid clone with few additional things, and it looks like this (Only with lower amount of bonus on screen.):
I have quite a few things planned to improve:
Besides fixing some glitches, adding some little features and doing some refactoring I plan to add level editor to the game. Currently there is an option to make new levels by editing json files. Level editor should allow create json files by clicking and drag and drop things on the screen. Estimated times on screenshot may be overestimated, but it's still going to be a lot of work and requires to think more about level design.
Hello everyone, long time lurker, glad to finally post something here!
My project is a game called "Wally", and it's developed in Unity Engine for Windows only, and it's an idea that is on my head for more than 6 months, This limitation is due to some kinda complex stuff it does and libraries it uses, stuff that only works on Windows for now. It's a point and click game where you help Wally, a little.. thing... to do a list of tasks of his, and at the same time chat and learn more of his personality and his world. But there's much more to it, and I really hope you join me and Wally in this journey. (By the way, the game is only windowed, and there are reasons for it.)
This paragraph will detail more about the game, but it will be kinda spoilerish, and I'd like for you to go in as blind as you could, but hey, if you're that much curious here goes. Otherwise I'd advise you to skip it. The game's primary concept is influenced by games like Undertale, OneShot and Doki Doki Literature Club, and it focuses heavily on making you feel that it is more than just a game. It will ask you to do stuff outside of it and I want to make Wally feel real, and for you to care about him. I've come up with a few ways to "break the wall", and I hope you find them interesting. And due to this nature, there's much more to this little game than it seems. Fun fact: the original name of the project was "Wally Breaks the Wall", but I thought the title was giving away too much.
I started working on this game project as soon as I learned about the jam, kinda 2 weeks prior to it's beggining. I'm FINALLY studying Unity, which was the main point of this: learning other Game Engines, since previously I've worked only with Game Maker Studio, which I used to make my college graduation project.
Since I started this without knowing nothing about Unity,and I still have some college stuff to sort (I graduated last month, YEY), so I don't think I'll be able to finish the game till the end of January, so I'm glad prototypes and demos are allowed. I want this to have a big scope and include some things that I really need to study yet, as well as improve a little on the graphics side. The art style is still black and white, simple drawing-like, but I want to refine that.
I plan to finish a few in game "tasks", around 4, for the demo and have some extra stuff ready for it. The 2 introductory ones are ready, the last one is almost ther, so I need to start the third and finish the background and some functions. I guess it's enough time to come with all that up and do some testing before uploading. (The extra post January days will be wonderful for that).
Last but not least, thanks a lot for creating this Jam. It was the push I needed to start going in the right direction and improving bot my programming and game dev skills. I mean, for the first time I even made a song that I like and think is kinda catchy!
Anyway, see you in a few days with the demo!
Didn't get as finished this time around as I'd have liked - simply did not have enough time this January to spend time on this. The plan was to finish an idea I had on Christmas Day about a game centered around growing a glowing "blob", rendered with a stylized metaball shader. Too bad now it's not really more than a rough prototype with quite incomplete gameplay. Submitting soon anyway, I'd like to get this done and over with!
I'll be uploading my game around Thursday. Item selection and character deployment is done. I'll get the skills done and add an enemy and do a build. I might try migrating to Godot 3.0 after the jam, but I'll be systematically adding characters and features (and some bugs) as time goes on. Finally got the controls mostly tacked down. FPS and strategy games take a bit to meld. Might even nab some of the entrants Thursday and try them out. Many look good. My game might just be a path with one enemy and one deployable character, but I hope to continue working upon it after the jam. I'll try to release it for both windows and linus, maybe mac as well; not sure how well they'll work. Some of those puzzle games and shooters look good. Syntax bomb looks fun, and TomVissenkom looks like he has something interesting.
Here are some plans for an upcoming overworld with access points to each dungeon
