Welcome to My First Game Jam: Summer 2020! For those of you just joining us, it's been a tradition to kick things off with a little getting-to-know-you questionnaire! For the first-time game developer, things can be pretty intimidating... which is why we want to show you you're not alone! This is not a required activity— it's just meant as a way to break into the community for returning jammers and newbies alike.

We'd love for you to share your influences, passions, and jam goals with the rest of us. Who knows — you might meet a potential team member, or even a new friend!

(These questions are entirely optional; they're just here to warm things up, so feel free to skip them as needed!)

Onto the questions!

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?
2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?
3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?
4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?
5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!
6. What are your goals for this game jam?

For returning jammers:

7. Any advice to new participants?
8. What can the admins do to improve your jam experience?
9. What are some of the past works you've made for the jam? Show off your favorites!
10. Bonus: Got any question suggestions? Let us know for next year!

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hello! My name is Elanor, also known as KittHaven in various places on the internet.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I haven't participated in one before. I decided to join because I really want to make a game and actually finish it. One of my problems is that I really struggle to finish things when I start them, so I'm hoping this will be fun and inspire me to keep going.

3. What games are your favourites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

I like RPGs in general, simulation games... I wouldn't say anything specific really inspired me but I have wanted to make a game for a while.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I haven't made and finished a game before, however I will be using the RPG Maker software and I have experience using it for small maps.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

Creativity, even if I sometimes struggle with inspiration and art blocks I always find myself going back to various hobbies like drawing, fuse beading, playing with RPG Maker, writing.... I also like animals I suppose lol.

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

No, never participated. I just want to finally finish a game and call it mine, bad or good.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

My all-time favorite game is CT and I really like adventure games of any type, also love all Akira Toriyama works.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I have a relatively good experience with programming but the maximum experience I have with game development is some clone games in Godot, I not liked it so much. I will use Haxe(not so much popular I wonder why) and Heaps("Dead Cells" was made with it) or OpenFL("Papers, Please" was made with it, probably my choice).

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

Programming with no doubt.

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

My objective is to learn more about creating games, finishing something.

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

Finish making a game and exporting it  and learning how to draw and animate in the process + adding sounds if I have enough time.

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Computer Science Student who is bored. Call me Simmy. 

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

I was hard core addicted to a game that shall not be named LOL!  I want to put the extra time I would've spent playing that game into actually learning the craft of making games.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I didn't participate in the last jam. My reason for joining is I want a outlet to express myself and I believe games is a good way to do it. 

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

I'm passionate about Japanese culture and anime. Though have not been keeping up with anime's nowadays.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

Currently learning Unity. Completed 2 tutorials so far.

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?
I'm CynderQuill, and I like the masculine and feminine forms greatly.
2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?
Frankly, I'm not sure. Maybe I wanted some experience Jamming before LowRezJam rolls around? Or maybe I wanted some more structured game developing to work with.
3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?
The most difficult question. I kind of want to make every kind of game, really. And I owe it all to every kind of game I've played. Except for those hidden object games. I don't like those.
4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?
I made what is essentially an overgrown minigame about fighting monsters and monstergirls in a dungeon and then having impolite interactions with them afterward.
5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!
See number go up very fast.
6. What are your goals for this game jam?
To make a game I've not made before, I suppose.

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hi!! My name is Ausia. I'm a graphic designer and digital artist, and I've been trying to get into game development for a few months now but felt intimidated by other jams because people are at such a high skill level already, so this seemed like a cool idea to me

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I'm joining because I really like art and storytelling and I feel like games are a neat way to convey that, also because I've always wanted to design a game but never finished any actual projects

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

I love Undertale, Persona 5, 2064 Read Only Memories, and Celeste. I think 2064 and Celeste inspire me the most because of the atmosphere and storytelling

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I have some experience with coding in Javascript and Lua game engines but never really finished anything. I've also used Stencyl 

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

Art! I love pixel and digital art

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

My biggest goal is to actually finish a game

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hi I'm Michael, I write automation software for a living. I've been into game development for over 15 years, but mostly just for myself.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?\

Nope.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

Probably Zelda Ocarina of time, Goldeneye N64. I think my desire to create games comes from a desire to program and solve problems. If "a game" inspired me, it's the game I'm trying to make for the last 10 or so years... It's still nothing more than an idea and I've started and given up at least 10 times. 

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I started with Flash back in the day, tried Unity, Unreal, Godot and GameMaker. I liked parts of all of them, but also "hated" parts. I stumbled upon LibGDX at some point and always came back to it after trying one of the aforementioned engines. It's a framework more than an engine and I like that about it. 

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

My family.

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

1. Hi I'm pycho, a programmer, who recently have started practicing how to do animations.

2. Yes I joined las jam, but couldn't submit anything with my team. That's something I want to do better, maybe if I would have been more proactive my team could be more motivated to submit at least something.

3. Love most kind of games but rpgs, puzzles and vn are some of my favorites 

4. I have shared a couple of (really bad) games heare on itch. I have used Unity the most, also have other personal projects that have not show yet, some with renpy, and others with plain javascript.

5. I love most of japanese culture, mostly the anime style art. Also love doing puzzles and painting.

6. Not sure yet, maybe I can find a team (I really need to learn teamwork) or marbe I could go solo and try to experiment aoing a game with mechanics I'm not familiar with yet.

For returning jammers:

7. A jam is for learning and having a good time, do not stress yourself and also tey sharing your progress, that helps to keep the motivation 

8. Not sure, you do pretty good. Maybe help the new participants to share their daily progress on social media or maybe streams 

9. https://pycho.itch.io/marble-maze-maker this one is from last year

10. Not sure, maybe just the help for new participants to share their progress as I said earlier. Thanks for organizing this amazing jam.

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hi! My name is Morgana and I'm taking programming classes in school, but they don't give us many opportunities to experiment

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

This is my first jam and I joined because I want to  see how far I can go with creating a game starting with my very little knowledge

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

My favourite games are the fire emblem games, but I'm planning to do a platformer for this jam

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I don't have any experience

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

Dogs and all kinds of animals! Also karate and other martial arts

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

Learning a new programming language and trying to stay motivated

Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hello!! I'm smallcat, or Jude if you prefer. I'm just a hobbist game dev, mostly an artist (though I've never really made game assets). I'm super friendly so if you want someone to talk to, I'll be in the Discord.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I did participate last time! This time, I have a different style of game (2d platformer this time vs 3d last time) so hopefully it'll help me learn some new aspects of gamedev. I also plan on making my own assets for this one, so wish me luck! 

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

If you look at play time, my top ones are Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing. They're just too wholesome and satisfying to put down... I've always been fascinated by games as a storytelling platform, so stories like To The Moon and Night in the Woods are super inspiring to me. 

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I've made a couple games in a platform called Bitsy and my jam game from last time, which is in Godot. 

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

Cats! (obviously...) 

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

I think the main thing I'll be focusing on is assets. My plan for now is a pretty simple platformer, so I'll have the time to create assets instead of struggling with mechanics the whole time, like I did for my last game.

7. Any advice to new participants?

Join the Discord!! It's super helpful to have people to ask if you get stuck on something and it's a morale boost to be able to just joke around with everyone. It makes the whole thing less stressful.

9. What are some of the past works you've made for the jam? Show off your favorites!

The game I made last time is called Warm Kitty. It's supposed to be about a cat wrecking the house trying to get warm, but the warmth mechanic never got added (I might get around to it eventually...) so right now it's just a physics sim.  (smallcatstudio.itch.io/warm-kitty)

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hi guys, my name is Hertz Lenin I live somewhere in Philippines. I have been inactive due to internet problems

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I did not participate, because I am very nervous when uploading something... Trauma hits.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

I have played many games and thought, hey I can make something like this.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I've made unfinished games using Gamemaker and Renpy... because again, I'm very nervous.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

Making stories and games, draw beginner art. I also love web development.

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

Make my game noticed and little less ugly... if I managed to get the courage to upload it.

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hi, I'm Dan. I currently work full-time and go to school part-time, pretty much filling the rest of my time with other learning, such as Udemy courses.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I did not. I've been interested in game jams for a while, but never felt I was at the point to be able to make a complete game. Now I feel like I can probably complete a small project on my own.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

Journey is probably still my favorite indie game of all-time, followed closely by Flower by the same studio. Those games are beautiful and are a huge inspiration to me. Otherwise I've always been a fan of RPGs and MMORPGs. WoW, OSRS, Witcher, Skyrim, etc.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

Very little. I dabbled several years ago when 3D Buzz was still a thing, and only recently got back into it. I've completed the GameDev.TV Unity 2D course on Unity and I'm currently working through their 3D Unity course.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

Bettering myself. The philosophy of "no zero-days" has kept me sane and productive over the last year or so. Every day, I need to do something to better myself, whether it's learning something new, working out, or even simply doing the laundry/cleaning the house.

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?
Hello, I am Chingy. It's a shortened version of my full name. I have a dream to make something great.
I've recently started learning Unity. I am also, what most people would categorize as, a NEET. Hmm, strange way to start but, nice to meet you all.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?
I have never participated in a jam before, so I'm not too sure what to expect. I joined because I wanted to experience what all of this means.
It also seems like a good place to start working on something so that I (and the community) can gauge my ability and see how I can improve and further push myself.
I also hope I can receive some valuable tips and feedbacks from experienced developers.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?
It's hard to list down as I have many favourites. But they all fall mostly into these categories, mainly Anime, and JRPG.
Seeing how this place is supposed to be family friendly, I would just say that I'm inspired by some really great adult anime VNs, those with great writing, visuals, game-play elements, as well as a bunch of romance options and scenes that makes everything wholesome. Now that I think about it, there is a few that I can list down here.
I guess I am really just inspired by those simulation games like Harvest Moon, Rune Factory, and Story of Seasons. The characters are adorable, and gameplay is fulfilling. Other themes include those such as the Legend of Heroes series, Tales of series, Atelier series.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?
Umm, a little bit? I followed Unity tutorials, and they provided us with assets and a step by step guide to teach us various things and that. I guess that counts (or not)?
Basically learning C# and how Unity works

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!
Music and drawing. And playing games of course! ...
I lost my passion for the future a long time ago, but I'm starting to slowly gain it back. It was a major setback in life, but I'm starting to get back on my own feet. I play the guitar and the keyboard, and I also compose music as a hobby. I also like drawing anime related stuff. I drew and coloured my profile pic myself! It's a fanart of my favourite pokemon, Sylveon, and my favourite trainer, Mallow. It's a cropped picture of a bigger artwork.

6. What are your goals for this game jam?
Though I have an ambitious goal for my future games, I guess I should start out small.
I plan to at least learn how to make 2D anime sprites using Aseprite, and incorporate them into the game using Unity.
Maybe make a really simple track to refresh my feel for music.
And also to definitely make a finished game... a really simple one at least. I hope I can do it.

Thanks for reading! I hope I can achieve something in this game jam.

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?
'Sup, the name's Revenge.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?
Yeah. It ended up as a disaster last time, but this time, I plan to try again and end the jam with a better game.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?
Touhou. Yeah, all of them.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?
Yep, with Godot engine. And to an extent, Warcraft III world editor which is surprisingly a pretty great tutorial for beginners.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!
Touhou and weebstuff

6. What are your goals for this game jam?
To try again and do better than last time.

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hey! My name is Candler, you can call me by that or my username. I just recently got into coding/game development, and am having a blast so far.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

This is my first ever game jam, I'm joining for the experience, learning opportunities, and to help my self increase the scope of creativity for myself.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

My favorite types of games are the ones that give of their own charm. Whether it be a game that's half finished but you can see what the creator was going for, or a project that was abandoned years ago but is open to play at any time. My absolute favorite games I've played are: The Stanley Parable, The Beginner's Guide (Out of all the game's I've ever played, this has brought me back so many times. Absolutely enamoured), Excellent Game by BK-TN on gamejolt. There's a whole list of games that I love mostly for nostalgic purposes (Super mario 64, SSBM, Mario sunshine, turok 2, Doom, etc).

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I'm currently working on a project called Blocket Ship, developing it for both PC and Mobile, has really helped me get a better feel for game development. Making it in Unity. It's a 2D game but I have virtually zero experience with 3D

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

Language learning, I just reached my goal in spanish about a couple months ago, I just love learning several things in general. Coding is a new hobby turned passion aswell. Loving it.

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

Maybe learn some 3D game development and use the skills I've learned from my own personal projects in other ways.

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

hello, everyone. I'm Iakoff, and this is my first game jam!

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I joined the jam for two reasons. One, because I really like the idea of being given a theme and building something -a videogame, in this case -around it. I know this jam's theme will be optional, but I'll still most likely keep it in mind when making my game -unless I really can't think of anything to do with it! Reason number two is that I want to start getting acquainted with the indie gamedev community, and because I think it will be fun to see other people's projects come to life and share my own project with them.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

My favorite games mostly belong to the RPG genre. Final Fantasy IX is my favorite game of all time, followed close by FFVI and Chrono Cross (yes, Cross!). Some of my other favorite games include Shadow of the Colossus, Resident Evil 1-3, Silent Hill 1-3, Fable I, Daggerfall, Crusader Kings II and, perhaps the outlier here, Fight Night Round 3.

All of these games have inspired me in one way or another. FFIX and VI have some phenomenal characters. Chrono Cross has one of the most beautiful OST's I've ever listened to. Shadow of the Colossus is unique in a variety of ways... well, I could keep going on and on, lol. 

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

My, this is a long story. I've had an interest in game development for something like... fifteen years? I don't even remember when I started, anymore. I think it was trying to code a game using Perl. At some point I came across RPG Maker. The XP version was the brand new toy back then, but I never used it that much. I liked 2000 and 2003 better. I made some (very) small games with those, but never finished a full one, sadly. Still, I learned many useful things, like some notions of programming, doing non-horrible looking pixel art, stuff like that.

Eventually, I began learning programming. I started with Java and JavaScript but I ended up mostly focusing on Python. Unfortunately, not long after that I had to put my interest in game development (and all my other hobbies, really) to one side, because life got weird. Probably the reason why most of my favorite games are pretty old. But nevermind that, we're not here for sob stories. The thing is that I ended up pursuing a different career, and for some years I didn't go back to anything related to videogames, programming, etc. 

Recently, like many others, I've found myself working from home because of the pandemic. Suddenly, I had a lot more free time, so... why don't go back to that thing I really used to like? And that's what I've been doing for the last three months. I found out about the Godot engine and fell in love with it. I've been learning to use Blender (don't expect a 3D game yet, though, lol). I've been having a blast. Luckily, I seem to remember just enough not to be helpless at everything. I've been making (and finishing!) some small learning projects, and I'm feeling confident enough to challenge myself to a jam. And will you look at that! 'My first jam' is about to start! Perfect!

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

Creating things. Throghout my life, I've joined writing contests, I've taken art classes, I've learned to play a couple of instruments. I just love making stuff. And that is what I really like about game development: I can take all of those things and make something with them. 

Also whales. I flippin' love whales.

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

Well, I've had an interest in game development for long, but I've never showed it to anyone. Why? Because I used to think it was scary, and that my stuff wasn't good enough. I want to change that. I'm no genius, of course, but I can't get better if only I judge my work. So that's my goal. I want to just make something, be like "here, look at it!" and have people tell me why they love it and why they hate it. I know it sounds silly, but it will be a big step for me.

That's also why I wanted to join a jam. Because all the games will be made in a short period of time, none will be perfect, probably few will be complete, and I will feel more comfortable sharing my own lousy, incomplete project :) 

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hi. You can call me Nano, or just call me by my user name.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

This is my first time joining a jam.  I'm currently motivated to create my own interactive fiction from... something. It was just yesterday but I can't rememner anymore. Then I found this jam and thought "Why not?". I would also like to finish a game all by myself, as all my previous succesful attempts I did it with other people. I think having a time limit and a theme will motivate me better.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

I love games like Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, Stardew Valley, Graveyard Keeper, etc. I also love Undertale. In general, I like games that tell a story, have a unique concept, and I can go back to play it any time I want even if I forget that I even have that game for like a year. I have wanted to get into game development for years now, even consider going to school for it but in the end decided to keep it as a hobby of sort. I want to create games to tell stories.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I have used Stencyl to create a game for a high school competition once. It was very simple and we didn't get any prize. I went to a camp that taught me to make a game with Python once. I did the code with a friend. Both times the games were finished within the time limit( a few hours and a few days), but I wasn't working on it alone. They also weren't the type of game that I would choose if I work by myself. I have tried out RPG Maker(VX or VX Ace? I'm not sure) and Unity, but nothing came out of it. I just downloaded Twine today. I'm still looking around and reading about what I can do with it.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

I LOVE READING! I just love it. Most of the time when I'm awake is spent reading or searching for something to read. I mostly read fanfictions right now. Other than that, I want to write stories. I have too many plots and concepts that I want to write about but never get to do because I'm terrible at time management.

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

Finish a game in the timeframe and make the story at least a little interesting. Also learning to use Twine to do things.

1) I'm David a software developer getting into game dev.

2) Nope, just want to find an excuse to practice on a schedule

3) Adventure games like Full Throttle. The Chzo Mythology, Sam and Max. Jedi knight 2, Half life 2 ,Outlaws. I always wanted to make my own adventure game or FPS. So far haven't.

4) So far I've published 2 games. One was for a game jam. The other was a personal project. Both made in Unity. I've dabbled with RPG maker and using extensions. Also played with Godot before.

5) I like games that you can learn about their world outside of exposition

6) work on polish and make a mouse focused game

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hi my name is KID0MY and that is my first time making a game and participating on a game jam. I hope to have fun making games 

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

i didn't participate from the last competition because i haven't heard of it  .

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

my favorite is Hotline Miami but the game that inspire me to start  making games was FEZ , the film Indie Game The Movie and the indie developer Takorii (http://takorii.com). 

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I know a C# and Python and to create my games i use Unity

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

I am passionate about how just one people can make really meaningful games.

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

Try to make a game that works and share with the other participants my experience. 

1. Hi there! What’s your name? Want to introduce yourself? Hi, my Name is Nate. I’m currently a JavaScript/C# developer, who enjoys video games. I’ve been a hobby game developer for a while now, but haven’t really completed anything. I enjoy being creative and finding creative solutions to problems. I’m really hoping to be able to have something to show for it.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what’s your reason for joining? I’ve entered less than a couple of Game Jams but not this one, but have never been able to finish any of the projects.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own? I enjoy a wide variety of video games with the exception of horror genre. Whenever I play a game, I’m always thinking about ways to change the game or thinking about why it was such a great game.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine? I’ve done a couple of projects, but the scopes always got away from us.

5. Tell us about something you’re passionate about! I’m always passionate about any sort of media you can imagine, especially video games.

6. What are your goals for this game jam? My main goal this game jam is to submit a finished game. My secondary objective is to make the game fun and artistically pleasing.

NEW JAMMER HERE!!! 
1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hi I’m Madipup, aka Madi! I’m a digital artist of nearly 10 years, and game design is a huge passion of mine.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I have never participated in a jam before, and I plan on making this my first one! I want to get experience making a game on my own, instead of constantly procrastinating and being intimidated by programming. 

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

Undertale, Stardew Valley, and FEZ are the games that made me really want to become an indie developer. They sparked something in me that no other games made me feel. 

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I have a little bit of experience with Clickteam Fusion. I made a small game on the Google Play store. However, the engine I want to use and I love is Unity.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

I am passionate about the way games can inspire others to learn and make their own games. I want to be a light in someone’s life. I also love the way games can make someone feel. It’s like an interactive story book in my opinion. 

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hi! My name is Fatima, but I also go by Silly online!

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I did not participate in last year's game jam, but I did participate in another one back in the Summer of 2018! I tried to make a platformer game and tried to make a level but... didn't really worked out b/c I had no idea what I was honestly doing on Unity lol. 

I'm coming back to this jam to develop a Twine visual novel instead (easier and honestly my favorite to do!) to develop a world for my characters!I've created some Twine games and they've been super fun to make and I wanna make more of them! What I plan on doing better is learning how to manage my time better and also learn a little bit more about what Twine is like so that maybe... I can play around with certain things in it and make my game more unique!

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

I like all kinds of games from platformers (Super Mario), to Adventure (Legend of Zelda),  to fighting games (basically any Dragon Ball Z game). I have been getting into visual novels recently (like Serre, Butterfly Soup, DDLC, etc.) because I love the various outcomes you can make with every choice you make.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I've dabbled with Unity but I'm not very confident in my skills to make a game on it so I just stick to making games on Twine. I made a Twine game for my Senior Media Project last year called "pythia_logs" which you can check out on my page!

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

I LOVE ART!!! And I love talking about shows and media I'm into! And I adore my characters a lot!

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

My goals for this game jam is to complete at least two routes for my game.

7. Any advice to new participants? Remember to pace yourself, know what your skillset is, and keep the scope of your project in mind when working on it.

8. What can the admins do to improve your jam experience? Provide more resources to tutorials on game dev/game design programs?

9. What are some of the past works you've made for the jam? Show off your favorites! I do have a dev blog of the game I tried to make but I never made a demo for it. I hope to make one for it someday. Here's a link: https://fates-journeydev.tumblr.com/

Hello, new jammer Melon here.

Reason for joining: I've been lurking this series of jams for a while, but this is the first one I've had time to participate in. Game jams I've been in before have been really fun, and I'm sure this one will be too!

Favourite/inspiring games: I'm a big fan of strategy games, particularly RTS. I'm also fairly big on TT/RPGs, visual novels, or anything with a compelling story. My inspiration this jam is some of the various TCG from my childhood (like Pokemon, Yugioh, or mother-of-all Magic: The Gathering!) and to a lesser extent autochess.

Past experience: I am just a hobbyist, so have mostly made fangames(using things like RenPy/Twine) and game mods(mainly Blender 3D) in the past, and I am now trying to move into more original content.

Passion: I am a musician by trade, and it's almost always what I find most compelling in a game.

Goals for this jam: For this jam, I will be trying to make a TCG/CCG. My goal here is to expand my horizons a bit and try to get into the number crunching of a game, and what systems might make it strategically interesting, without worrying too much about wrangling software (I am very clumsy with code, despite my efforts) and the various tricky problems that come either with AI or with multiplayer/online play. 

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hi I'm Meezlo! I am a first timer trying to make good use of my free time.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I didn't, but recently I've tried to get into coding because it has always been an interest of mine, and now because of the field of work I want to go into, I figure learning new skills like this is beneficial.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

I've always loved creepy indie games (Fran Bow, Sally Face, Alice is not Dead etc.) , but I also appreciate pixel games (Undertale, Please Don't Touch Anything etc.) and games that are more story/text based (West of Loathing).

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I don't have any real experience but I've been playing around with Game Maker for a little while and am really psyched to try more!

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

I love art and animation. For the profession I'm going into, it seems like games are a large part of the industry. I draw almost all the time and make stories just as often.

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hi, I don't want to say my name for reasons, but you can call me ataby, and I don't know how to indroduce myself so... no, sorry.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

No, it's the first game jam I try. I joined it because every single game I worked on I just gived up, so this time I want to complete a game for once in my life.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

I really like Metroid and Mega Man X, they inspired me, and my inspiration made me try doing fangames and stuff, so I started learning programmation. And now, 2 years later, I'm here.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

Yes, I have experienced 4 engines, Unity, Game Maker, Clickteam Fusion and Construct. I don't know much about Unity and GM, but Clickteam and Construct are the ones I mostly use. Principally Construct 3, is the one that I'm using for this jam.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

Drawing, I really like making my ideas come true in the paper, drawing make me feel relaxed, and know that the idea that I had and added it to the paper will be there forever, calms me. And of course, games.

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

Learn to focus on a single project, and learn more programmation.

Sorry if it was to simple, It's my first time doing this

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hey! I'm Justin (he/him). I'm, uh, extremely bad at talking about myself?

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I've never participated in a jam before and honestly always thought it was something "real devs" did, but I was clicking around here and saw this one and decided to take a big swing. I'm terribly intimidated but it's been fun and sort of comforting to read all these introductions and already feel a bit of kinship with other beginners here.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

Well, I could easily go on waaaaay too long on this one, but I'll try to keep it brief. Legend of Zelda was my favorite series for a long time, but was eventually supplanted by anything BioWare (yes, that includes current BioWare; Andromeda was awesome and no one will convince me otherwise). At this point though I'm usually more excited about indie stuff than anything, and Supergiant is probably my favorite developer. Transistor is absolute perfection, and the ending makes me cry. Recently Celeste has totally blown me away, and yes I know I'm super late to that party.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

Years ago I found this program for making text adventures called Quest, and that got me rolling with the idea that I could actually make a game of my own, like I'd been dreaming about since I was six. From there I got into Twine, Clickteam Fusion, and a bit of Ren'Py, but I never really finished anything. I suspected for a long time that Unity was where I was headed, but I didn't feel ready for it. Nor did my computer, when I at one point downloaded it and it took ten minutes to start...yikes. A year or so and four times as much RAM later I'm finally getting going with it.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

Almost anything creative. Music, writing, art, and about a hundred other things. Most of all right now I think probably worldbuilding. I've been working on the fictional world of my dream game for years, with multiple continents, tons of cultures, hundreds of years of history, a dozen different made up languages, two different forms of magic, and so many secrets to slowly reveal. Also at the moment I'm extremely passionate about the Haru Nemuri album Haru To Shura. And my cats.

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

To start to get a handle on Unity by putting a little bit of pressure on myself. I've always done better when there's an element of commitment to a project and a deadline. Of course sometimes I also fall apart for the same reason, so it's a bit of a die roll, lol. I'm also not a super social person naturally and it's good for me to do things with other people once in a while.

Cheers, everyone!

1. My name is Daniel. I'm not going to include my last name.

2. I did not participate in the last game jam. I am joining this jam so I can get better at programming. Also might start improving my modeling at this jam because my table looks like two staples stuck together.

3. I like all things equally except sports games. Those are not my taste. Actually, it was a friend that got me to study games and how they work (not from programming but looking at what happens) I then started studying games on Roblox. I made mental notes about what works and what doesn't

4. Yes, I have plenty of experience with Roblox LUA and wanted to learn more about the coding in Unity. I watch a tutorial, see what they do, and replicate it.  I then try to go by memory about what to do. If I don't remember, i go back to the tutorial. Mindset is key :D

5. V I D E O   G A M E S.

6. To make a working game that has cool mechanics and feels good. I am not worried about art. That is something that I can learn another time.

10. multiple themes is something I don't see. I wonder if you can do that?

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

My name is Jmar. I'm a self taught dev from watching youtube videos!

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

This is my first time joining a game jam and I hope this helps me have the skill of finishing games because I have never finished any of my past projects :(

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

I like precision platformers like mario and celeste but also puzzle games at the same time.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I started my dev journey using the Unity engine but later on switched to the Godot engine because I figured out that I like dynamic programming languages better!

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

I want to release my first game within this year that I am happy about :)

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

My goal for this jam is to be able to finish my first project.

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

I'm Jon, or JohnnyJones. I am a recent college grad with an engineering degree that I am not sure I really want to use.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I haven't finished a game despite multiple attempts. I think I might just need a kick in the pants and some more knowledge to get me over the hump.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

I like games where mechanics and story work together instead of being separate. Games like Hollow Knight, Rimworld, Dark Souls, FTL, etc.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I have some limited experience making games in GameMaker and Godot. Godot is what I'm currently using because it seems to be a good bridge between GameMaker's more limited programming language vs something like Unity or Unreal, which I have found daunting.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

I llove games with good music. It can make or break an experience. I am somewhat of a musician myself, but I am not a good writer (maybe something I can work on).

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

I want to learn what it takes to actually finish a game and bring everything together.

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

I'm Kyle , 

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I didn't.  I only started learning programming a few months ago.  

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

My favorite games include Cave Story,  most of the Platinum game series, and RPG's like the original Paper Mario.  So naturally I'm making visual novels. 

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I've played around with Renpy, but haven't completed anything yet. 

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

Stories!  Especially with LGBT characters!  I am an absolute Lore Whore and story nut. 

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

I'm (at this point only formally) a CS student and I normally work with Kubernetes. Also English is not my native language and I'm trying my best, but sorry in advance for any language mistakes.  They're not a result of laziness.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I've never participated in any game jam before.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

My favorites are the Mass Effect and The Witcher trilogies (yes, both as trilogies, I don't count Andromeda). But I won't use them for inspiration now, because I want to keep the scope reasonable :)

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I've once made a game as a student group project, using Unity. The game itself was barely playable, but making it helped me discovered how much fun game development can be.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

Music and music festivals.

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

You can call me Pseud. I'm 22. I have ADHD. I'm terribly nearsighted and currently have no glasses, so reading is very squinty right now and I don't anticipate being on the forum very often.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I joined this jam because I'm a bit bored, I'm having trouble holding myself to self-set deadlines, and I want to finish a creative project to get that sweet, sweet dopamine and validation.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

I've sampled so many games that it's hard to say what exactly inspired me to make one for myself. It's kind of a cumulative effect from thinking games are neat since I was a kid. The games I've stuck with and/or keep coming back to include the Animal Crossing games, almost any Legend of Zelda games, DDLC, Minecraft, Bioshock.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I've tinkered with Python and Ren'Py before, but never made something meant for other people to play. About as far as I've gotten before is making a shark trivia quiz in Python, and sticking my childhood scribbles in Ren'Py for "teh lolz" (as I'd probably put it then).

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

I'm not sure what I'm passionate about because ADHD hyperfixations come and go so quickly, but a pretty general theme is video games. The current aspect I'm fixated on is that video games are a medium, not a genre, and that some of my favorite games come from matching up themes and mechanics that aren't expected. Kind of like fusion cuisine, I guess? 

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

Hey, just signed up for the game jam :) 

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?
Hi, I'm Melanie from Germany. I have a background in IT but never have done game developing or similar. In my free time I like to draw and paint (analogue and digital) and have lots of story ideas. I did some Unity basic coursesbut have near to no idea what I am doing :D 

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?
This is my first jam, I like to have a timeline for creating a game and get some feedback. 

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?
I love horror games (Layers of fear is epic) but also like atmospheric walking simulators, puzzle games and Point&Click. Firewatch did inspire me but also e.g. Caligo and The First Tree.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?
Just really (!) basic experience in Unity with Playmaker.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!
I love to create stuff (writing, painting,..) and to convey feelings and emotions with athmospheric animations and fitting music.

6. What are your goals for this game jam?
To have a functioning small game :)

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

I'm Mark :)

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I joined because I need to learn Unity for an internship I'm beginning in about 2 months, and I work best under pressure and in a community.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

I think my favorite games are Animal Crossing and the Lego Harry Potter series :0 but it's mostly games from developers like Porpentine or Brianna Lei that I find inspiring!

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I have no experience, unless you count using GameMaker for a Technology Student Association project when I was 11 :^)

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

telling stories!! also pretty colors!!!!!!

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

To get a handle on what Unity is and what I can make with it, as well as improve my modelling skills in Blender 3D and learn how to use both software programs together.

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hello! So "Team Shave" is made up of me and my boyfriend ([Sh]ell and D[ave], see? Hilarious I'm sure). We're pretty nerdy and both enjoy learning new things, this seemed like a fun way to spend some time together.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?
No this is the first time for both of us. We're joining the jam because deadlines help to stay productive, and also because it's just more inspiring to do things along with other people! This jam specifically because we're beginners and most others sounded a bit scary ;)

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?
I love games that are a bit more chill, puzzlers and story-driven experiences. Anything that gives you a sense of exploration without requiring mad gamer skillz. He loves Metroidvanias, so we're going to try and meet in the middle somewhere for our first project together!

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?
We're using Unity for this project because it just seems like an easy platform to get started with and has a solid helpful community. So to that end, I've been learning the basics of the engine for about a month. He's only been learning Unity for a couple of days, but has released a game once before (for the Spectrum Next, of all things!). That said, we're both coders by trade so a lot of the concepts come easier to us than to a lot of beginners, plus I have graphic design experience and he's a talented writer.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!
I suppose there's no point saying gaming here, since that goes for all of us. But it is a shared hobby and we really enjoying "playing" together even if that means one of us controlling a single-player game while we both give input on where to go or what to do next. Other than that, I'd say a primary passion for both of us is making things, and learning new skills that help with making things! Various crafts, woodwork, 3d printing, we tinker with all sorts of things really.

6. What are your goals for this game jam?
Honestly just to have a fun time creating something together and learn some new things. Game-wise I suppose the goal is to have a completed project that is very small scale but reasonably polished. Bonus points if it makes us laugh.

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hello I'm mj... Sorry I don't do well with introductions

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I joined the jam because I was really interested in game development and I wanted to see how well I can do on my first time.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

It's pretty difficult to say since I don't have any, ONE game that I like in particular... I think all games are unique in their own way.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I have completely no experience in game development, well maybe a little when it comes to code but that's about it.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

Making stories and learning more stuff

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

My goal is pretty much simple, make a game and maybe learn new stuff and get more experience.

Hi everybody! You can check out my recently-made game in here: https://nestorherre.itch.io/fountainoflife

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

My name is Néstor and I'm from Colombia.  Glad to be here.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

This is my first game jam, started playing around with Godot a couple of weeks ago and decided to try making a full game. 

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

I used to play a lot of games but nowadays I rarely play; currently intersted in making them. I enjoyed mostly platformers, topdown arpgs, 2.5d rpgs and mobas.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I developed 2 games around 8 years ago for a college assignment. Used android and coronasdk. 

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

Passionate about self development and achieving the best self that I can within my life.  Martial Arts practitioner (currently Muay Thai). 

6. What are your goals for this game jam?

Finishing a game within a reasonable scope that I'm satisfied with, learning more about godot engine, practice programming and achieve a high rank! I already completed the first 3 goals, waiting for the last one. 

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself? 

Hello everybody, my name is Pasha. I am beginner game designer from Russia. I just finished my master's degree in China, and now trying to find job in game industry. I'll hope I can make something to this 3 days, but if not, I'm just glad to join this awesome jam. Good luck for all, and hope it's gonna be fun.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining? 

I've never participated in jams before, but I've watched a lot of videos about them. Finally, I decided to participate myself. I hope this will give me a lot of new experience. 

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own? 

Legacy of Kain series forever in my heart. I hope someday Square enix will make the next part or remake of the series. I'm also a big fan of Arkane studio games. Dishonored and Prey was really awesome

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine? 

Actually, not so much. I followed some gamedev tutorials and courses, but I think I need more practical experience 

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about! 

Drawing and little bit sculpting. I'm also trying to develop as a graphic designer. Currently creating t-shirt designs.

6. What are your goals for this game jam? 

My main goal is finish the game in 3 days. I plan to create a simple game about space to learn about how unity works.