First shot of the new engine:

I'm aiming for a rock solid 60fps.

The engine now has dynamic lighting and weird shadow casters and cube maps. You can see in the above image the lighting and shadow debug images top left.

So in the above shot you can see some trees and a torch stand with dynamic particle fire.

Everything is custom written. there is no unity, no unreal, no 3dsmax or maya

it's all a work in progress. Just took time off to work on the title, logo and icon

but this is a test of character design:

It's sort of 2d in 3d.

If you look closely at the archway you can see the floor textures being re-used as stone textures

Progress for me is pretty slow so far, but this is my first game jam and i'm proud of this so far. this is my main character, Russ and his house. I just finished creating that seamless grass texture and will be moving on to texturing the house and then creating more props.

I had to google Paper Mario (I haven't played it), but yep, there are definite visual similarities. (Note to self: Don't try and copy Paper Mario, lol).

I like your grass texture - making repeating textures that don't 'jump' or have seams is not an easy task, Keep up the great work :)

for todays pic. I thought I'd show something completely different...

work in progress from paper idea to 3d:

This will be the 'Nomicron', a triptych containing 'stuff'. don't know what stuff, but it will be the base portal into the game, a sort of magic box of things.

What is nice is this gives everyone an idea of how simple the models are. I haven't even thought about how it will all fit together yet, but you can see the hinges and how the box is supposed to work...

This is my early prototype. When the theme was announced the first game that came into my mind was a RPG call Half Minute Hero. I therefore decided to try recreating the game mechanic and see how to go from there.

The game now basically have a timer that count down from 30 sec. The player have to kill the Boss enemy before the timer reach zero or else the game will reset from and the player have to start over.

I though it was simple but I encounter lot of problems to go from world screen to combat screen. I want to keep the world scene in the background. I am using Unity and Playmaker visual scripting. I can't really do much coding in C# as I am not a programmer.

This basic prototype is still incomplete. When done, I would see whether to add something unique, improve or scrap the whole thing and redo with a new idea.

Thank you.

http://i.imgur.com/8YFdn8U.png

decided to spend the 1st week on art and the 2nd two on code. this is progress for day 3. the art was made in blender, rendering without antialiasing and toon shaders to get that pixel art effect

Day 1 down!

So I have a game idea, basically a procedurally generated zelda dungeon, with a key room, boss room, 30 seconds to get through it but each enemy you kill, add time, each time you get hit, remove time, you die when the timer hits 0.

I'm a little concerned the idea isn't very unique, but it does give me an opportunity to play with procedural level design.

I spent the night brute forcing a level generator, I'm sure there's better less error prone ways of doing it but here's what 50 runs gave me with 10 tile dungeons, key placed in the back half of the tiles.  (The green tile is the player spawn, gold is the key room, red is the boss room, black with normal enemy spawns).

I'll spend some more time on the algorithm tomorrow but barring a few bugs I can see (boss room isn't always last) etc. I'll build some place holder rooms and generate actual maps this week, I should be starting player controls and enemy ai this weekend. So each room will be a designed  puzzle but the overall map is procedural. I'll post more details in the  discord unity channel if anyone's interested. 

Thanks!

My 2nd update, I've created trees and multiple textures. I've also done work on the controller and animations for Russ.

I thought for todays pic I'd show something moving....

I now need to start work on writing a timeline control. at the moment the opening is controlled by the x mouse position

Skeleton enemy for my game.  Hope it's going well for everybody! :D

Day 2:

Merged the level generation into creating a 3d map.

I'm just adding doors to intersecting rooms and walls to non-intersections. I'll modify this to add some walls to non-critical paths. Then move on to enemies on the weekend. I'm not 100% tied to the 3d levels though. I'm a really poor 3d artist so we'll see where I land.

First time creating a game and first time modelling without a tutorial; I'll try to finish it tomorrow:

first sneak peak ;)

Early version of player's apartment. It will be some kind of hub, so after every mission the player will come back here and from there he can choose the next mission/quest.

Now I'm prototyping core mechanics of the game. After that i can finally make a simple level to see what will work in it with that mechanics.

Day 2, lets have another animated pic...

This shows 4 'tiles', one is a glowing red fluid and 2 have torches with particle fire added along with lighting, etc

If you look closely you can see the multi-show system casting shadows and moving as the light moves.

Currently working on the timeline system - still no game yet though.....

So today i start off with the Game Jam. Came up with some cool ideas over the last days. Unfortunately Matthew had the same basic idea. SO i will see how i'm going to make my game unique. The following picture is just a simple 2min voxel of one of my levels, to get the idea how i want to make it.

Good luck everyone !

Today I managed to get something coherent when generating a level. Nothing fancy but it's a good start.

Day 2 of creation: Finished my character mesh and have rigged it. There are some ugly problems that I'm not sure how to fix but they are not game breaking so not too important.

Well I think I'm pretty far behind some... but i spent most of today with some light coding and a butt load of prop modeling XD.  no textures yet (not even unwrapped) but its progress! 

Progress was made over the weekend, actually have a game now. Have basic follow enemies, sword attacks, item pick ups (right now just another copy of sword), tied to secondary mouse, key with a lock on the boss door, adding and removing time on hit/enemy kill. Most of the programming work is out of the way, so now's my arduous task of 3d modelling. 

Preview for this week:

Didn't come as far as I hoped, but some simple mechanics are implemented along with some nice models with animation. Next week, I will focus on implementing the combat system which will become important.  As of now the player can only run and collect these chalices, which is a placeholder for various loot within the dungeon. The goal will be to collect this loot while fighting off the monsters in the dungeon. The loot can be used to buy upgrades etc. after the 30 second dungeon run.

This is what ive done so far

My progress so far :D I know this isn't 20 seconds long and it isn't on youtube so I completely understand if this doesn't get put in the spotlight.

https://migiesmith.tumblr.com/post/163886674505/made-some-more-progress-on-my-ga...

EDIT: Shorter, 20 seconds, clip showing new mechanics 

it's something... yay?

So (after a weekend break) here's todays WIP Pic:

alarm clock in the background showing time ticking down and yep the clock goes nuts...

'red' things are a test of 3d clicking. possibly how you will place tiles. but not sure yet.

And centre is a card! Originally these were going to be 2d. but I decided on 3d with hand drawn 2d graphics. they fit much better using this style...

I like the fact they are hand drawn but NOT flat. they have a lovely 3d quality to them. Not sure how they will all fit together though

This is a month-long game jam, so we thought to go a bit ambitious:
So here are the first screenshot of our WIP Multiplayer Roguelike ARPG!

The theme of this jam is 30 second quest. We are thinking to have dungeon environments be filled with Aether, which is toxic to humans. If you breath it in for more than 30 seconds you start taking very rapid damage. However, you can hold it off using certain artifacts, spells, abilities, and items. This adds another level of strategic thinking to the mix.

The game will play sort of Dark Soul-sy in its pacing. You really have to think about attacks, and when to defend. Difficulty is definitely something we are focusing on in terms of balance. There will be a need to learn enemy attack patterns. On the art, a lot of focus is being put on enemies telegraphing their attacks.

Art style is rather simple at the moment. The minimalism is real in this one! We have not done our "beautification" yet, but we will be keeping this simple style. It simplifies animation, content creation, and eliminates the need for up/down animation (because of a lack of legs).

At the moment, we are working on the base systems, then finishing the town, then we will be working on dungeons. Still undecided if we will be tackling random dungeon generation or PCG for this jam. One month is still too short!

Stay tuned for weekly updates!

http://imgur.com/gallery/TjpSE

More Update Finally made my character >.< Not as good as i hoped but he's rigged and ready to animate :D yay! 

So. Todays WIP Pic is all about cards...

You can see the card edges have grown a bit.

This is all still in dev, but there are 2 different 3d views being used; one for the table and one for the cards - think 2 camera being used at the same time.

You can also see the cards rotating around the z axis giving a feel that they are 3d and not flat.

It's sorta coming together a bit now...

Update on my multiplayer roguelike:

Implemented enough to show.  Not yet enough to be a viable game :D

I've put a proof of concept server up, mainly to test network code.

Feel free to play around with it!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6jsioy13tkyp0yp/DungeonQuest.POC2.Win64.zip?dl=0

WSAD - Move

Left click - Main hand item use

Right click - Offhand item use

I - Inventory

Esc - Disconnect

HEAD SOUTH to enter dungeon

(EDIT: POC 2 posted, location update bugfix)

I hope next post will be a video with our prototype already working. Some fun with Isometric Graphics :D

Update 2,3 levels and a menu shown

Hey! It's an actual video of the thing I'm working on. Whaaaaaaat.

End of week WIP. We've got movement....!

The time now counts down only at certain times when you have to make a decision. So you have 30 seconds to get from the 'start' to the 'end'

Lots missing at the moment. to do with enemies, treasure. but the basics is now functioning and playable

Hope you enjoy my game jam project.

The first level of my game from start to finish. Any feedback would be awesome.

Starting to kind of look like a thing i guess?  haha sorry long way to go ~.~ 

Props Color'did (probably going to need more props later but this is a good start i think)

Just finished a rough pass of the character, going for the Journey style with lots of cloth physics.

Been cleaning up robed characters. First time ever making my own game characters in blender and loving it so far.

Detail pass and bug fixes! I meet with my team tomorrow to talk about settings and then I'll be level designing and creating assets in earnest.

Hey Guys, just a quick video update on my progress the video is just a quick run through of one of the levels, still plenty to go but doing what i can in the time i can put in. still needing to do animations first time ever doing them in blender. also need to implement the damage system, music and make many many more assets.

uuuugggghhhh spent way too long getting the camera to function the way i wanted it to :C nearly half the day!!!! but its doing now so thats good lol. (super newb at programming) 

Newho. progress for the weekend! 

I'm a week behind , but I finally made A LOT of progress this weekend!!! FINALLY lol Here are some screens! :)

For Todays WIP. It's the base GUI

You can see there is a top line with you health (hearts) the clock and how much gold you have collected.

Looks like there is something strange going on with the Relic Card as well...

hi guys!

me and my friend started last week during our free time. Now that he finished his studies, we can push the game forward. so far, we made a design that both of us agreed on and will start doing the gameplay mechanics.

here's our progress

GIF here: http://imgur.com/hL5wwnK

Final one for the day - and animated.

this shows the Battle Arena and battle cards. in the distance you can see that the enemy has already placed a water shield card. so if we played anything with water it would be shielded!

in essence the card system is nonoperational with a proper ransomed shuffle, pick from the top, etc. this is all being done in the background. the visuals will now need to match.... <grins>

Hey so i have done some more on the game,

 I have added extra enemy's that each drop different amounts of time so they can be added to the clock. 

A  damage system for player not for enemy's yet. 

Finished working on the system that allows you to move to the next area after you defeat the enemy's in that area, an arrow pops up to alert you to keep going.  

Done a leaf Particle Effect.

Still need music and animations but hopefully can get them done this weekend. 

Matthew, can't you just use the gif animations instead for the preview????

I'm a complete noob at the youtube stuff ;(

Hi all, this is my progress so far. I still have to replace the character, have the HUD update and add some sound effects. In this video you can see some turrets trying to kill me (I'm not great at avoiding them), pickups (5/10 seconds, double jump and stars - which I will probably get rid of) and moving platforms, very easy to customize, you just have due to the use of splines (they are amazing if you haven't tried them).

This being my first game, I'm quite proud with what I have so far :). Let me know what you think.

Would be great if you could ignore the sound in the video and the first 5-6 seconds. I struggled finding a proper free screen recorder, any suggestions?

So I have been using Unity for about 3 years. Recently I got really inspired by Matthew using the Unreal Engine 4.

Here is my 2 days progress of learning Unreal Engine!

https://gyazo.com/1f57fef0bfaa991becede563fc66c4a4

Today's Pic is the battle arena:

Pink Knight is using a fire attack and has 3 hearts, the blob has a water shield and has 2 hearts.

So... I suppose a water shield would stop a fire? No damage to either side

Here's a little update from our side, we finalized the core gameplay elements and are moving on to level assembly:

Here's another update from my game!

My very first video update! 

Didn't have much time the past weeks due to work and business travel, so I am super behind as well. 

Update progress have a sword swing another one coming to make a combo and walk and run animation finishing up animations for the enemy's. Have all my areas in each level working so once all the enemy's in the area are destroyed it then makes the next area available. Made some changes to the level design still going to work on it while i have the time, once the level is finished you move on to the next level.  Been working with holland on the music for the levels i think it suits the forest area great. New opening menu.

Update.

Not sure if I'm going to have time to finish T.T

Heres my update though!

Here's today WIP

adding some spice to the display. also some more mechanics to do with doors... and rooms... and lighting...

Hi everyone,
a video of my project so far. Here's the idea :
You're the tester of a new tech that records your every move in space and time. It's limited to 30sec so you have to figure out how to pass the test rooms.

I hope to finish in time but it will be hard ! 5 days left ><

All your projects are so cool, I can't wait to test them.

Well I've finally finished and uploaded.

https://itch.io/jam/lets-create-game-jam-1/rate/169756

So, today there is no pic ;( Basically nothing new on that front as I have been hard at audio production. Everything coming together slowly.

I need to work on a beginning, and ending now. luckily I have ideas of how it should go.

There should be something ready for the end of the Jam, but I'm not saying it will be (so far) completed. You'll just have to take it as it is...

But it is currently fully playable now :)

Hi everyone, I'm leaving the game jam since I didn't have time to work on the game because of work, which is a shame. I have a video showing a little bit of progress since last time. I'm going to finish this game when I get more time for it after next month, but not for this jam. Good luck to everybody else, I think everyone has done some great work and can't wait to play your games :)

It is with a very heavy heart that RogueTable 30 will not be entered into the Jam ;[

It is completely finished! works very well, has all 8 levels, and everything you have seen.

The issues started this afternoon while trying to recompile for windows10. Nothing went well. and it has taken until tonight to get the compiler sorted and the sources working.

Then I came up against and unknown opengl error and it looks like part of the display is now missing!

Testing and debugging was started. but I tried a second compile for the mac. Similar issues occurred. I am not exactly sure where the problems lie, possibly memory and also OpenGl faults (which cannot be solved in time)

The dev system is a big mac with lots of memory and special source and a few pickles thrown in as well, so it may be that there are issues to do with that.

On running on the lower machines I also found the speed was taking a big hit as well.

With all of this taken into consideration. I have to pull out.

I am not exactly sure what to do now, but I have an idea to drop the entire programming language and move to something more stable and predictable like Unreal!

I am also sorry to all and any of you who were waiting to see the real thing in action. I think you might be able to understand my own disappointment in this too. ;(

Brilliant luck to everyone who takes part though. We all deserve some sleep and thanks for all the hard work.

Signing off now... Goodbye Dave... Daisy, Daisy...

Just submitted my entry: https://itch.io/jam/lets-create-game-jam-1/rate/170914

Unfortunately I didn't have time for music and more complex stuff like enemies, better character, story. I worked on it for 2 weeks and only after work. I had no prior experience with any of the software used (UE4, Blender, Photoshop).

I'm pretty happy with the result, it was a really fun experience and I already look forward for the next game jam.

Good luck everyone!!!

Am I allow to fix game breaking bugs?