Hey ;-) It was also the first jam for EinsteinsErbe and me. But we're both professional programmer (for machines, plc to be precise and EE is studing some Neronal network stuff) and the theme was sooo a lucky punch for us! We both love to hide eastereggs (and intended buggs) in programms our coworkers use ^^ We had great fun.
We started at 9am desinging the game, listed bugs and stuff and started to create the first 2 Levels and of course the crappy mainmenu for our game (player was a square at that point) we finished the day at arround 9 o clock playing some Mario card on the Switch and made a game out of it to write down Title ideas as fast as possible while the other one keeped on driving. After maybe 30min EE looked at me laughed out hard (he lost the game because of that ^^) and said: "The Glitcher!!" Well the idea was born,.
Satturday was not very intensive as we both had also other stuff to do, but EE improved the menu further (Level select) and I worked on some levels but not a lot work was done.
Next day I started creating the thumbnail which turned out so nice and bit by bit I drew all the graphics for the game, we added a shop, enemies and finally an endbos (muahaha), by the evening (11pm) we had 10 Levels with a lot of crappy mechanics and glitches, forced my GF to play test it (jumpscare made here jump... ^^). and then... we were finished ;-).
What I learned:
- Pixelart is fun!
- I actually ARE able to do animations (if enough pressure is apllied ^^)
- I really like making games
- We really should take part in even more jams (once or twice a year at least)
- AND I CAN NEVER EVER HERE THAT FUCKING SOUNDTRACK AGAIN!!! ^^
What I recommend:
- using Github and Git (don't know what it is, google/youtube it, it will save you a looot of hedache if working on any sort of programming project)
- Spend the most time with stuff you are really good at
- Do that kind of game you already have experience with
- kiss -> keep it simple and stupid :D
Thx a lot Jonas for hosting this Jam, It was a real treasure!
cheers
Saturn91 (and EinsteinsErbe)