1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself? I'm Isorfilas! He/him. Musician, recently took up programming as a hobby this past year.
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 very first game jam! Stumbled on a link in social media and though: "why the heck not?"
3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own? Love 16-bit classics of SNES / Genesis era (especially Chrono Trigger and Link to the Past), and many indie titles drawing inspiration from those games. I also really enjoy sandbox, survival, and colony sim games. I've been playing a lot of Oxygen Not Included and Valheim recently.
4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine? I have very limited game dev experience, though I always wanted to be a programmer. I started learning during the lock-down this past year, mostly messing around with Scratch and python, following various tutorials online. On my own, I managed to program a hang-man game in python, a very clunky Asteroids clone with Scratch, and a solitaire game that was unbelievable laggy in Godot.
5. Tell us about something you're passionate about! I'm really enjoying learning about programming. It's something I've always wanted to do, but never thought I was cut out for. I've had a blast diving into it this past year though, and would definitely call it a growing passion of mine.
6. What are your goals for this game jam? I'm looking forward to designing my own game (instead of recreating simple existing games) and hope to have a working prototype of something at the end of the jam. I'm also hoping to learn more about the process of game design from others during the game jam.