https://flippydolphin.itch.io/frost-and-found

Works on mobile too!

Honestly, for my first ever game and jam this was a big learning experience. From art to sounds to code and music, it all had to work together. Don't forget the late nights where you just could not find why your game wasnt displaying correctly only to find out you did not hook up you UI. Tough times haha. I really enjoyed it though and I look forward to seeing as many entries as I can this week!

Check out my game: https://cursedsoldier.itch.io/two-forms-vim

Well, I learned a lot about global variables, respawn systems, and moving platforms. If you want to play it my game is: https://itch.io/jam/vimjam/rate/765176

I learnt a lot during the Jam, but the one i should highlight is planning.

i realized after like half the Jam,that i wasn't truly happy with where it was going.. so i decided to delete half of the game. 

but considering the time crunch and that it is my first game, i am pretty happy with the results.

Here's the game if you'd like to check it out: https://markuscpersson.itch.io/dream-hunted

I learned how to use raycasts this jam (unity), and this is my first puzzle games and my game is here https://pvplayz27.itch.io/diggyrescue

fking playtesting ):

You need to playtest, playtest, playtest. That’s all that matters. (I didn’t playtest it enough so as a result it became kind of difficult.)

Here’s my game if you wanna play it by the way:

https://itch.io/jam/vimjam/rate/767859

I learned that I suck at organizing code, especially when the deadline is near.

1) I think I improved my audio creation process. Usually audio eats up a huge chunk of my time or I just don't get it done. This time it went pretty smoothly.
2) I now have a far more solid understanding of the ins & outs of the Godot engine.
3) I decided to tinker with 2D lighting effects.

If you'd like to play my game, it is here: https://itch.io/jam/vimjam/rate/768153

This was my first game jam, but no my first game. It actually was stressfull to me, because my game had some bugs at the end and I had to solve them really quick few hours before deadline. The deadline really pushed me to finish the game, so I'm grateful and proud of my work and overall the experience building my game for this gamejam. https://treemolo.itch.io/lights-out

It was my second jam and so I learned that I improved a lot even after one jam.

It was my first solo jam, so I had to organize a lot more.

Game specific, I used raycasts for the first time and the whole unit placingand rescource rts part was totally new.

This was my second jam i think i improved alot.Also learned that you really need to test your games on other computers, learned it hard way :(

This time i learned delegates,particle systems,actions and pixel art :D Also wrote songs for my game!!

Here is my game:https://mrpdf.itch.io/fluxandreflux

There is a massive bug in the game that couses data to not load! To solve this

open the game press play and press the invisible button under the[MONEY : 00] text and hit esc to close the game. 

Now you can play the game. 

I am working to solve this bug will update after the jam. 

I used Godot and am rather new to the engine. I learned a ton: tweens, scene-changes, simple shader animations, tilemaps etc. :)  ... ah yeah, and how to do a platformer in that engine.
Just a bit bummed out I didn't manage to submit, since the game-submission flow at itch confused me and this was my first jam.

If anyone wants to check it out anyway, here is the link: https://devdave.itch.io/there-and-back-viking-edition

It was my first jam, and I've messed around a lot with tests and prototypes but I've never made a full, completed game. I learned how to do audio and ui, and I also tried making a song for the first time!

Here's the link if anybody wants to try it out: https://skrank-gangster.itch.io/meltdown

The biggest thing i learned from this jam, is to test out the core of my game (for example: character controller) with big numbers before you make anything else.

I made the mistake (ofc), and so i had to start everything again (except for the art)... i really hope I will remember this in my next jam!

Also here is the game (sent the link bc everyone else does lol): https://pampogokiraly.itch.io/switching-there

I taught myself how to make a dialogue system that's interesting, with characters interrupting eachother. Also I played around alot with post-processing and changing post-processing values in code :)

Here's my game if you're interested :)

Honestly I learned an insane amount in a very short time for this jam. Stuff a lot of you probably consider basic programming knowledge by now. But let me tell you. My game is built on a foundation of coroutines and invokes haha. Both of which were new to me. 

I learned a lot when it came to working with 3d games: mainly rigging 3d models and creating animation controllers. It was good practice for 3D graphics in general. I also learned more about particle systems and creating a third person camera.

Here's the link to my game if anyone's interested in trying it out :)

https://ml-5600.itch.io/polyhedrons

I learned a lot from this jam, which was a first in making a game, using an engine, and joining a jam. I learned a ton about the Godot engine ( and I guess kinda how game engines work in general lol) and how the node system worked, and about how to make amatuer music, and how to work with a team, and that's just the half of it. Basically everything I know about making games and game engines was learned in the last week :D. But in general, 2 big things stuck out to me.

1) Time management is key. It's great and all if you can make a dialogue system with the ability to have different animations/sounds played for each character and line, and have skippable and non-skippable dialogue, and with conversations that can be easily changed by outside events, but if that takes up half of your development time, so much so that you can use none of these features and the quality of the whole game suffers, it's probably not a good idea to implement all that. (And yes, that's abstractly specific, definitely isn't what happened to me and my team...okay, fine, it's exactly what happened).

2) A little less serious, but still important...If it's your first time using a certain game engine (or any game engine in general) and you think "Hey, I'll work on my game until 9:55 and submit it in the 5 minutes before 10 AM! What an amazing idea!", DO NOT LISTEN TO YOUR BRAIN, SUBMIT EARLIER BECAUSE YOU CAN'T LEARN HOW TO EXPORT A GAME IN LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES WITH ZERO EXPERIENCE/FORETHOUGHT. So yeah, my team missed the deadline because of me. That was a big learning experience, a mistake I will definitely never make again lol.

Overall, it was a super fun experience and I'm really glad I participated. Here is the link to my game, which is not in the jam but I'd still really appreciate feedback: https://trinitygamesdev.itch.io/buffcat.