Hi, my name is Kyle, and I just joined this jam less than an hour ago.
I'm mostly using this jam as a vehicle to escalate my art skills. As I am primarily a programmer with a background in animation, I've never been behind the aesthetics of anything at a core level. I plan to change this, and this genre has struck a lot of inspiration in me.
What I love about this jam is that it's a solid month long.
I can't guarantee my entry's story will be great, or deep, or even possibly there at all, I may just have the time to create art assets and get the character to run around an environment, we'll see.
Noir isn't even a genre I've strongly been interest in, so as I sit here and think of the story and characters, my inspiration comes directly from stereotypical sources of 50's style black and white / early colour detective sources.
I have a laundry list of things I want to tackle for this regardless though. I'm psyched!