Hello everybody... 

So, I have been toying around with game making for the last 8 months and I have found that game jams are really helpful... Add to that a cash prize and (even more important) a publishing opportunity and it's no wonder why I joined... 

The game is temporarily titled "Not Gundam, Nor Macross" based on the type of anime I watch lately... The genre will change from a free roaming space arcade shooter when the character is in spaceship form to a top down "Hotline Miami style" shooter when it is in mecha form...

I have already made a similar space shooter for the extra credits jam this august so I am familiar with this genre... The other will prove a welcoming challenge...

For Art I have been messing around with blender and I have basically completed the character model as you can see in the following photos...

I am currently designing the minimum viable product, that is the jet flying, shooting, transforming to a robot and doing the whole top down thing to see how it plays... 

I hope you like it and I will try to keep updating this thread as the game progresses...

Any comments are welcome...

Hello again... 

My updates is that the MVP is over for now... It will probably change for now but I am at a point where I like it... 

In its current form the character can switch between spaceship and mecha forms and move and shoot...

You can try it out if you like in the following link in the current web format...

The controls are:

Spaceship form: <W> - Thrusters, <A> & <D> - Rotation, <S> - 180 degrees rotation, <Left Mouse Click> - Fire

Mecha form: <W> - Forward, <A> & <D> - Strafe, <S> - Backwards, <Mouse> - Look & Aim, <Left Mouse Click> - Fire

<Space> - Transform

meviportal.mygamesonline.org/igmc/05

Again, any and all comments are welcome...