Last year was really fun and I'm looking forward to playing everyone's submissions!
EDIT: Finally finished! https://adambkehl.itch.io/penumbra
I've got 10 simple puzzles so far. Thinking I'll add at least a couple more. Not sure if I want to add any new mechanics.
I've got my test file posted here and will be updating occasionally before posting to my itch.io account and submitting.
https://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=66a3fe32cd0c02188b502043c78f9899
I had my own goal of finally finishing a game, unfortunately I aimed to finish it before the new year... Fortunately I wasn't able to, as I still miss a few tweaks (and all the sound) and therefore I can put it in this jam :D
It's a simple shooter where you go straight for the boss. A big dragon with big guns: the Dragun!
I really wanted to finish this one as it was the first time I made any graphics for a game myself and most of them were already there to use after I couldn't make it in time for the Jam that it was for. Despite the small numbers of pixel I used for my sprites, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out ^^
I started DJ Adam's Interdimensional Mixtape 2020 early last year in my free time. It's the first game I've ever really tried to make. I've been learning everything from Unity to coding to pixel art on my own. I'm pretty happy with my progress but I want to at least get this to some sort of prototype phase. 2019 I'm looking to grow as a developer and work on more projects! Anyway, here's some pics of the game so far...
Thanks! I'd definitely say the main inspirations for this game are A Link to the Past, Earthbound, and Jet Set Radio. In the future, after I get better or meet artists, I'd love to come back to this and recreate it in a way that matches more of what I see in my head. But for now, I'm digging how it's coming together considering my limited skills
In it's current state, the game switches audio tracks when you switch to different dimensions. I also might try to add in hidden mixtapes so players can just have different tracks to listen to. I have bigger ideas that would incorporate DJing into the gameplay like "mixing" elements of a level together, or "scratching" to shake and effect the world in some way, but I'm trying to keep things as simple as possible for now while I'm still so new to game development. The goal is to get this prototype up for the Jam, work on new projects, and come back to this in a couple years with more skills at my disposal.
(Well, it's less "school" as much as it is "a bunch of weirdos roleplaying school during a plague outbreak," but I'm glad you think it has promise. I'm a little worried it will turn out poorly, but I would much rather finish it and rewrite the ending in a later update than have it sit in my project folders and haunt me with its incompleteness. Anyway, thanks for the compliment!)
(Well, I finished. I think I ruined my hand in the process, but at least I'm done. Check it out here: https://strung-up-starlight.itch.io/the-academy-window-of-opportunity )
Happy new year, everyone!
Dropping in here to share the game project I'll be finishing for this jam. The game is called Blank Bit, and it's a challenging hybrid of platformer and card game mechanics. I started making it for GitHub's 2018 Game Off game jam, where it was named a "Staff Pick" among 300+ entries. I'm super happy with the basics of its design, but I definitely know it could be improved and polished in many ways. Really looking forward to getting all that done this month!
My prototype for Blank Bit is officially finished! I can't say how happy I am to have made it this far in development, and I really couldn't have done it with the motivation this awesome game jam gave me.
Big thanks to the organizers, and I can't wait to check out everyone's games!
This is actually going to be Asperity Games' first ever distributed game! Been making games on and off since 2013 as a single individual, and this game is actually the first concept I had before scrapping it in 2014. The game is called Delve and its a roguelike, souls-lite dungeon crawler. The gameplay consists of slaying monsters, looting chests, and delving ever deeper into the dungeon while keeping the darkness at bay. Anyone interested can keep up with our development blog on my website, Asperity Games, where I'll be posting regular updates on the progress of the game. Programming this game has been a blast and the game jam has given me a lot of inspiration to finish it. It's written in MonoGame C# and should run on anything Windows Vista and newer.
This sounds really interesting! I'm looking forward to keeping up with your dev progress. Have you heard of or played the recently released dungeon crawler BELOW? Your description reminds me a bit of that, especially the part about "keeping the darkness at bay". Could be worth taking a look if you haven't already. Good luck!
I personally have not, but I'll totally look into it! If you want to keep up with my development progress, our website's where I will be spamming updates with descriptions of what is getting done, screenshots of the work in progress, and general information on gameplay as it's updated! You can also like our Facebook page, but the website's where the majority of updates will be.
I'm looking for game testers! Over the last couple of days I've polished up a space shoot-em-up that I started working on almost a year ago. The only way to set a good difficulty curve for this kind of game is to have it play tested, so I'd really appreciate it if a few people would play it and answer some questions.
I can't pay anyone, but I can promise to play test your game in return!
https://kaia-sequillion.itch.io/test-my-shmup-plz
I like that the movement is the primary obstacle, as that is a bit different. Although the fact you can't move diagonally seems a step too far maybe (Not sure if that is an intentional design decision?)
It would benefit from a lot more feedback across the board, I think feedback would be useful when you fire, when a bullet hits, when you move/accelerate, when you crash into an asteroid, when you get close the part of the sun that kills you, when you get close to an enemy and when you are destroyed. There are load of options for feedback like that, so some kind of new animation, an explosion sprite, some particle effects, the sprite flashing, a slight change in movement, a brief slo-mo or some good old-fashioned screenshake.
Uploaded the v0.9 update for my CastleBreak. Hoping to finish it with FFSJam. Lots of work made, but still a lot of polish to do :)
I'm redoing my first game published on itch ( LARS ) . I'm turning it into more of a point and click meets visual novel graphic adventure, with additional and refined story, environments. and animations. Inspired by a lot of old dos point and click games. I've got a lot of work to do, the original game is a mess, and I'm hoping the jam will motivate me to finish the project.
I added jumping, time slow fields, and dynamic gravity. https://twitter.com/AdmiralSkye/status/1084154297674354690
I wasn't able to make as much as I wanted for this Game Jam, but I'm satisfied with what I was able to make. A basic attack combo with giant energy fists https://twitter.com/AdmiralSkye/status/1090342005622956039
Man I was such a big fan of SAMP, I spent a couple hundred hours on some of the servers on that game. There were some RP servers that had like full gangs, businesses run by those gangs, and entire economies. It was pretty cool. You could buy businesses like car dealerships or gun stores and passively make money whenever other players bought stuff from your store.
Hope this works out nicely for you guys :)
Here's my (WIP) game: https://requios.itch.io/car-park-game
I started working on it in August of 2017. Back then I made bezier roads, the driving physics and the car lighting. After about a month of development I put it on hold, but with the thought of eventually going back to it. Now that I have completed my study it is time to finally finish it.
This month I've added 8 more levels, made trailers work, added different car types and added collision detection.
Fail to Win is up to three stages, or about 20-30 minutes of unique challenges and puzzles. We'll keep making updates before uploading it to itch, but we'd love to get some people testing it soon. We started a discord for updates and feedback, and it includes a download link for the latest build of the game. Please check it out: https://discord.gg/VTn38aw
