So I am using this game jam as a learning experience, trying new things and such. I was wondering if anyone else was as well, and if so what.
As to what I am hoping to gain from this jam, the following are all my goals (just an FYI, I use Unity):
Good Luck to everyone, have fun!
As to what I am hoping to gain from this jam, the following are all my goals (just an FYI, I use GameBoy Color):
* Optimize spritesheets and palettes
* Maybe getting better at pixel art
* Manage to somehow play music on a GameBoy
* Using one of my favorite spritesheets (zoria)
* Doing and getting better at hardware hackery
* Build/improve my toolchain
I'm in a similar boat. I haven't done any game dev for a few years...
But now that we are living in this social distancing, pandemic world, I decided to use this game jam as an opportunity to teach myself Vulkan. I have a game framework that I've built in C++, but it uses OpenGL and Direct3D. Vulkan seems to be the cool new kid on the block, and it's definitely much more attractive to me given that it is completely cross-platform (even runs on macOS and iOS thanks to MoltenVK). I'm using glfw for windowing and input. Seems like a winning combo.
It's coming along well. Got my first triangle rendered on the screen yesterday. But it is looking like I am going to be scrambling last minute tomorrow to actually build a game for this jam, haha!
Wow, My First JAM! So Glad I joined this. I actually made a full game! I'm exporting it with about 1 hour 30 minutes till deadline. It's a silly little game but I'm proud of it! Learned A LOT! Before this game jam I had a box that could shot at another box that didn't move. Things I learned: Just about everything involved in the game... lol
Worked with Godot and Krita.
