game-jam-chat

[small fern]

small latency issues wouldn't change the overall game

so

now we have one week time to try to inject some theme ideas into your head

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

A fighting game where you pinch rocks in the year 30,000.

[small fern]

nope

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

A role-playing game where you pound the fabric of reality in a cabin in the woods but you have no legs.

[small fern]

well, that would be a seated experience..

[rigid fog]

The theme has to be random

Because I'll want to participate sometimes

So I am just using some random generators online

Any theme I deem crappy, I will add the following: "in the bed" at the end

https://gyazo.com/1f3cadc19d6e72204ef8364fad56a29d

I think "hit" is missing

And this sounds like a perfect "in the bed" ending

Chinese Fortune Cookies

op

[small fern]

well, if you randomize them, you could do like 10 of them and then run a poll like one day before it starts

[rigid fog]

Aye, that's another way of doing it

[small fern]

just going with one randomized thing could mean the theme would put a lot of people off

if it's just some nonsense thing

[rigid fog]

True true, but isn't that how we did it every month though?

But, I like the idea of a poll

I guess for next week's, anyone tuning in can just vote

[small fern]

well the epic jams themes still had some thought on them, if it's just one thing from random generator, it can be something totally unusable

[rigid fog]

"some thought" ?

[small fern]

😄

yeah, I didn't like the early ue4 jam themes

they've been better on second year though

[rigid fog]

They have gotten better for sure

[small fern]

oh right

this will mean that those Game Jam Finalist star badges will be more rare for new jammers too

[rigid fog]

Aye, I still need one more for prestige 😉

[ashen meadow]

my chances of ever winning have vanished

[rigid fog]

@ashen meadow Only lessened a bit

Unless the prizes are rediculous

and participation is equal

[ashen meadow]

more prizes = more competitive

[rigid fog]

Right, and sadly, it shouldn't have to be

(that people only participate when there are prizes)

[ashen meadow]

glad to hear the other ones will still be weekends at least

[small fern]

I dunno

I expect quarterly jams to have way more people attending as they aren't that common events anymore

so getting into top-3 might be a lot more difficult

[ashen meadow]

agreed

on a slow month maybe i had a chance

with teams competing the entire time for big prizes, forget it

unless they add in some of those incentives every month like they had for the last megajam

not every month. every jam

[small fern]

you mean the special categories?

[ashen meadow]

yeah

[rigid fog]

Well, if they don't, I can

Obviously need to get at least the participation of last month's before we can expand

[digital fern]

@small fern - Today at 3:13 AM
@digital fern why you don't have a star on marketplace badge? You have 3 items there
as allar said need 5 :p

[arctic widget]

rip

[grizzled zenith]

you need to get the marketplace pack of the month to get this

damn I gotta finish the replay system

[pure harness]

kek

kek

[digital fern]

lame

espcially since I am against that voting bs

[rigid fog]

Vote for mine

[digital fern]

voting already closed :p

[arctic widget]

^

[ruby cradle]

I gave you a little social media love and broke out the good cat gifs for you @rigid fog

[rigid fog]

Thank you sir

[arctic widget]

That sure is a good cat gif 😮 😛

[somber hazel]

UnrealAlexander - Today at 12:00 AM
I'd rather have you all really competing then just sending me raffle entries :p

I smell chicken, oh wait, that's me, I got roasted 😄

[arctic widget]

😛

[small fern]

yeah, I don't like the community pick thing either

it's not fair at all

it can become a popularity contest more than people actually voting for the best asset

[sweet flame]

But isn't it what community pick is all about?

voting for what you enjoyed/find interesting/beautiful/funny ?

@small fern

[small fern]

@sweet flame that's what it should be about but as people cough promote and ask people to vote for their thing, it unsets the balance of the whole idea

[arctic widget]

😦

[small fern]

as marketplace seller, it makes sense you to do that kind of thing as you'll get tons of visibility for the asset

[arctic widget]

I like the idea of community, as you have a large group of people voting, so it isn't like 2 people's preferences, but yeah, biasing etc is a thing :9

[grizzled zenith]

Can we see the community pick list somewhere?

[small fern]

I just don't like the separate voting scheme at all, it should be rather some statistic from people who've actually bought the asset

that would be way better metric

[ashen meadow]

#fab is that way <---- 😋

[grizzled zenith]

Yeah a voting button should appear in the marketplace asset page once you buy it

[ashen meadow]

altho with quarterly jams this place is going to be quiet

[arctic widget]

Technically there is rating I guess

[grizzled zenith]

but who are you going to pick from 5 star and 5 star?

k lets move to #fab

[pale eagle]

So Epic are looking at LD success and trying to mirror it + give more time to their community people to promote fewer, bigger jams? Should be a neat experiment.

[ashen meadow]

Definitely trying to do something

[pale eagle]

Kinda sad about losing my monthly 'oh god it's 5am I need to stop watching the Jam stream and go to sleep' day.

[ashen meadow]

the quarterly jams are for you!

ha ha

alex didnt want you to get burnt out anymore

just looking out

[pale eagle]

I did 9/12 jams last year, and I missed two due to just straight up burnout.

[ashen meadow]

wonder how many i did

right in that ballpark

the ones i missed either couldnt come up with a good enough idea

or went too far down the rabbit hole on an idea that ended up just sucking

[pale eagle]

I think 9 anyway. Missed December, October, and...August?

[ashen meadow]

but i mean so you were burned out and took a month off

nothing wrong with that

you still came back

ha ha

i dunno. it was a dumb excuse when there are plenty of other reasons why they are doing it

[pale eagle]

October I wanted to do but the wife didn't want me ignoring her and jamming on our honeymoon.

[ashen meadow]

yeah thats a tough one

[pale eagle]

August/December I had the mechanics done for a game, it wasn't fun, and I just stopped.

[ashen meadow]

yeah

ha ha

i had a couple of those too

or it took forever to get what i wanted working, then i realized it was awful anyways

and i mean real awful

[pale eagle]

Spent the team actually playing video games for a weekend. Was nice.

[ashen meadow]

i submitted plenty of awful games

ha ha

but yeah should be interesting to see

especially come december or after a few of them

see if they are still getting 100+ entries for them

which i am guessing what they are hoping for

[small fern]

wonder how long it'll take now for the results to arrive

they may come one month late now =p

[ashen meadow]

have three months to get it sorted out

game jam stream for the next quarter

[pale eagle]

Yeah. I'm thinking the point of the Jam from Epic's standpoint is to get people creating with the engine. Bigger carrots at the end of that stick may work.

[ashen meadow]

that would make sense

can you not just say that?

ha ha

still not sure why they cant do both?

like just have 4 bigger ones every year and keep the monthlies

[stable kiln]

i dont think big prizes on something where u can cheat easy is a good idea

[small fern]

that would burn out people even more ;D

[stable kiln]

this will bring shitstorms and fingerpointing

[small fern]

I just think they need to get rid of raffles

[ashen meadow]

you need to cheat harder

they did get rid of the raffles

[small fern]

yeah, for now

but I have a feeling they bring them back :p

[ashen meadow]

see this is all the stuff they could test during the monthlies before the next big one

different rules etc

actually enforcing a deadline

[small fern]

😄

yeah, I've seen many times a game win that was submitted past the deadline

[somber hazel]

Wait, this means I have 3 more months to prepare and make assets for the next jam :3

[small fern]

I don't mind if people submit late, but it would need to affect the scoring

yes, it means exactly that ;D

[somber hazel]

Nearly used all my assets, next jam it would start to be obvious if I reuse my old stuff

Thanks god I have more time now

[pale eagle]

I'd like to see it be more of an event since it's less frequent now...theme voting, group plays at epic, stuff like that. @ruby cradle

[ashen meadow]

ha ha

[small fern]

yeah, I'd love theme voting

like even ability to vote for the final theme day or two before jam starts

you could kick of the voting on tuesday stream

[pale eagle]

A theme you can't think of anything for in 72 hours kills jams for you for six months now instead of one.

[stable kiln]

@ashen meadow did u start ur last 2 project from blank btw?

[ashen meadow]

i did

[small fern]

I'm pretty sure the pipetetris was from scratch

it was buggy enough to make it believable

[ashen meadow]

yeah

ha ha

[stable kiln]

lol i totally cant do that, i dont get any ideas staring at a gray lvl 😛

[ashen meadow]

wish i had tried tetris before

[small fern]

I liked it though 😃

I probably still have the highscore

[ashen meadow]

i think so

[somber hazel]

And then - I think it was - Derzo, who just made a great game with like 0 assets and beat teams :3

[ashen meadow]

i looked at it during the decemebr jam since they are both on the epicleaderboard

plus if you really want to watch me struggle, i stream most of the jams at twitch.tv/shattyue4 #marketing

[somber hazel]

And this other guy who pulled out f<3king Age of Empires

And all doubt about cheaters were gone

Epic is actually smart

[small fern]

well, strategy game reused some assets without disclosing them

menu system was obvious but if you don't discose the obvious bits, who knows what else you reused

[arctic widget]

Yeah that rps thing was a bit shady

[stable kiln]

starts fingerpointing 😛

[arctic widget]

I mean it looked like it was just a few assets and perhpas a tutorial bunged together 😛

[somber hazel]

But let's be honest, he did a great job adjusting things for the theme

[arctic widget]

But who knows, it could be legit

[small fern]

I don't mind reusing menu and using tutorials

but if you use existing stuff, they would need to be mentioned

[stable kiln]

hey i disclosed my crappy menu 😛

[glass fossil]

The trick is to cheat without cheating

[small fern]

people who do it honestly get less points

so it's not fair for them

[glass fossil]

You need to be a liar, but an honest liar, people respect that.

[arctic widget]

😛

[somber hazel]

He obviously had a strategy game in his Library, but adjusting all the stuff for the jam, I still give him probs

[stable kiln]

and my menu was only like 20% left of the original 😛

[somber hazel]

I don't think people who do it honestly get less points, I mean Derzo won, probably one of the most honest submission... I think 😄

[stable kiln]

i might as well not disclose anything , im not gunna win anyways 😛

[small fern]

I didn't mean you couldn't win by doing it right

[somber hazel]

So, what are "less points"?

It's not like there is ranking or something, you either win, or you dont

^^

[small fern]

I just said by picking winners from people who don't play by the rules lowers the chances to win

it should be obvious

as that already happens all the time

of course you can still win but you need to work twice as hard when playground is not even

[somber hazel]

you could go solo and make it 3x times harder ^^

[small fern]

that's the plan

[somber hazel]

but so far, no one came up with a good solution for an "online gamejam"

[small fern]

and usually just run out of time with my ambitious plans because of it

[somber hazel]

except everyone streams their s<3t 😄

[dire heart]

I can speak on behalf of me and @pearl roost: As someone who makes their gamejam games from scratch, we find it pretty discouraging seeing people who has already made a game and just shove the theme into it. And then goes even on to win. It kinda sucks.

Then again, there's not much we can do about it.

[somber hazel]

That's right, you can't proof how much time someone put in

[glass fossil]

I like a man that's honest about his lying, but never lie about about being honest

This is the way of the cheater

[somber hazel]

I trust Epic and if they pick a black sheep, at least it looks good in the highlight reel ;P

[small fern]

@glass fossil are you hinting you didn't actually make the chicken? 😦

[stable kiln]

chicken meter was a lie!

[glass fossil]

nah I definitely made that chicken, which is why it has a missing face on it's back ><

only realized after submitting

there is a tiny sliver where I forgot to put a face

[small fern]

didn't see any missing bits 😃

[glass fossil]

yea you can only see it from very specific angles that aren't visible in the game

[small fern]

worked as designed then

[glass fossil]

😄

[somber hazel]

f<3k these cheaters, I'm out, need to check out my aimbot for Widowmaker, going for Grandmaster, peace 👉

[glass fossil]

^ an honest liar if I've ever seen one. godspeed

[somber hazel]

I still don't get the 2nd part of what you said before, welp, can always argue with "english is not my native language"

[rigid fog]

What do you think would be the most unfair gamejam prizes?

[small fern]

one year Unity+ license

sorry, can't think of anything else

[rigid fog]

That's not unfair. Just torture.

[glass fossil]

credits for the game maker asset store

[small fern]

last megajam main prize was pretty unfair

[rigid fog]

What was that, the Tiki?

[small fern]

I wished they would have done smaller prizes so they could be split with the team

yeah

[rigid fog]

Ah yeah, well, there was more incentive to participate then

Alex joked about dev kits

As prizes.

For these quarterly ones.

Well, I am assuming joking. But maybe not.

[small fern]

dev kits for what?

like switch?

[wise apex]

Hmmmmm the most unfair gamejam prize?

Unfair to the winner?

[small fern]

if they were VR headsets, that would make more sense

but devkits for consoles you never planned to dev for would be weird

[rigid fog]

Um, no I meant rigs

[small fern]

ah

that makes more sense

[rigid fog]

Which would probably be like 10 rogs to one Tiki

10 rigs

Depends on gpu they use

[wise apex]

A book on how to use Unreal for the winner of an Unreal gamejam is really unfair to the winner.

[rigid fog]

Heh, Unreal books are poop atm

[wise apex]

Yeah

[rigid fog]

I have read almost all of them

[wise apex]

That's the whole point, and why it's unfair

[small fern]

yup

[wise apex]

I would be so mad though

I think I'd leave UE4 if they mailed me a book

[carmine kindle]

Heh, I just bought one not too long ago.

[rigid fog]

Which one?

[carmine kindle]

"Learning C++ by Creating Games with UE4"

[rigid fog]

Ah yeah...

Not great

But it was fine after I learned C++

[wise apex]

Wait what?

A book teaching C++ is fine after you learn C++?

[rigid fog]

Yes

[grizzled zenith]

Playstation 3 dev kit + unity license?

[rigid fog]

Because you already have the knowledge to make fixes on your own

[wise apex]

Oh, you're talking about using that book to learn UE4

Once you know C++

[rigid fog]

Since the book was outdated and had shit explanations

Right

[grizzled zenith]

I think I should buy that udemy course, just 10€

the ben tristem one

[rigid fog]

Ue4cpp api undergoes quite a bit of change every release or so

[small fern]

wasn't that book the free book on packtpub?

[rigid fog]

It is almost stupid to make a cpp book

It would be outdated by the time it got piblished

[carmine kindle]

I was hoping I'd learn more about C++ in a familiar UE4 environment, because I know how UE4 mostly works.

[rigid fog]

Right

I mean, did you enjoy the book overall?

It was fine. Nothing super awesome though.

For me anyway.

[small fern]

ah, it was the free one

[carmine kindle]

I haven't read it yet. Been too busy for that.

Ah great...

[small fern]

yeah, that was terribly outdated

[rigid fog]

I do like seeing how drastic people are when it comes to using Cpp in UE4

Not using standards

Totally butchering classes

I read the How to make an RPG in Unreal one

And was like wtf is this shit

He did some crazy things.

I like when Epic actually does Cpp streams

[sharp berry]

Will there be a jam this month?

[grizzled zenith]

no, but Victor is hosting an unofficial jam

https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?133153

[sharp berry]

Why isnt this in the channel topic yet? 😄

[small fern]

@glass fossil cough

[silver swan]

lol

[glass fossil]

Done. Will update again to remove the first message after a day just in case stragglers are unaware

[sour trail]

Hello Everyone

I am one of the local organizers for the annual Global Game Jam in Lagos, Nigera

Nigeria

Our local game jam site kicks off a bit early

on the 17th, 3 days earlier than the scheduled 20th on the global calendar

the 3 days have been scheduled for talks, presentations and demo's

I have scheduled one of those days to cover Unreal Engine tutorials and presentations

though I do have some videos from youtube to present our local attendants

I would like someone to call in our jam center and just talk to the attendees about their experience using Unreal Engine

[rigid fog]

@sour trail you don't have your own experiences to share?

[sour trail]

Nah

My pc is quite limited with its graphic card

so I have not been able to use Unreal Engine 4

I am however familiar with the Unreal Interface

and my past experience has been with UDK

@rigid fog, can you help with this?

[rigid fog]

No idea TBH, I can't plan out that far ahead, too many moving parts as is, I have other priorities to ensure get accomplished first. Sorry. But you can ask again that week if you haven't found anyone.

[sour trail]

ok, I am open to anyone really

if anyone is interested, they can post here

and then we will discuss the timing for the Skype call

[thin wraith]

I wish I was good enough to take part in a game jam. Regrdless, @masterxeon#3869 I wish you all the best hosting yours!

[quiet thistle]

maan i was gonna do this ue4 gamejam too, just read about it only being in march, june, september and dec.

maybe for the best though, I did get a little burned out doing them frequently

[rigid fog]

@quiet thistle Never heard of you in a jam recently though?

[quiet thistle]

done like 6 this past year

[rigid fog]

Also, the jam this month starts next week Friday 12PM EST.

[quiet thistle]

I got honorable mention once a few months back

yeah i noticed that unofficial one. I might do it, been kinda bored lately.

but honestly i dont really feel like doing another one by myself. I also dont feel like gathering up a team... so if anyone wants a programmer

pm me

[rigid fog]

Or not

You can follow the directions in the thread

Many potential teammates are there waiting

[quiet thistle]

hm yeah I guess I'll post there later. its late over here, 3 AM

[rigid fog]

That Central time

[quiet thistle]

yeah

[fair ivy]

why did the official montly jams stop ?

[rigid fog]

Lots of reasons

https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?133153

Unofficial monthly jam starts next Friday. There will be prizes and a few special categories to compete in.

[stable kiln]

@glass fossil u still wunna jam?, things got changed up a bit..

[glass fossil]

I noticed, when is teh unofficial jam?

the*

[stable kiln]

friday after the stream

[small fern]

friday after the thursday stream

[stable kiln]

now im confused 😛

ahh i guess ur right 😛

[glass fossil]

When is the thursday stream?

11am PST

[stable kiln]

its not after that stream anymore, click the link in the channel topic 😛

[rigid fog]

Right. This is mainly a test to see if the regulars like the shorter time frame and/or can submit something while lowering their scope even more. While obviously a day and a half being taken away may feel like a punishment or unfair to some. I am hoping that the majority will feel more energized and focused in the time crunch. One of the key techniques to game jams has always been about keeping in scope anwyay, so this will be a pretty good test to those who have never done a 48 hour game or one hour one ;)

[glass fossil]

I have some particle emitters to create tehn

then*

With @digital fern 's face

😛

[rigid fog]

Tbh, i participated in a ONE HOUR jam the other month...

And I was shocked at wtf people came up with

[glass fossil]

Haha well a set time frame can boost productivity

[rigid fog]

I mean, people try to make this one hour game, when it doesnt have to be

Just one solid level

All it takes to win

[glass fossil]

Best thing about it is small levels can be super unoptimised and the player would not even know

so no need to do any refined work xD

[rigid fog]

Right, tbh, anyone trying to optimize in a game jam before completing their mechanics is silly

Anyway. I am also hoping for new faces with it just being two days, devs may be more inclined to participate. We'll see.

[stable kiln]

last slack jam had 5 teams so dont get ur hopes up 😛

[rigid fog]

5 teams is better than 0 ;)

Also, don't forget to sign up on the discord channel if you are participating.

You will have to submit your links on there.

[glass fossil]

-|-
/\

[digital fern]

kinda cool you are doing the uue4jam btw @rigid fog

[rigid fog]

Someone's got to do it. A lot of devs looked forward to it, even if they couldn't participate, they knew it was going to be monthly, and there would be another chance the next month.

Obviously with only 4 official jams a year now, that cuts down on their chances, because if they miss one to work, well, there's a chance that they'll miss out on them all

[digital fern]

yea, fo sho

[stable kiln]

cant say i like the idea of fancy carrots dangle in front of me when i cant reach em either :/

big prizes wil add more frustration than motivation for me ..

[rigid fog]

@stable kiln can't reach what?

Do you mean, because you think you can't win a jam?

And won't get a chance at those super prizes?

[stable kiln]

not anymore 😛

will get 1000% harder now

i was getting closer tho 😛

[rigid fog]

Heh, who knows.

Maybe they'll be a lot more like you and they won't do as well and then you will come up with something crazy good because everyone else slacked off

And bam, you won one.

Don't give up so easily 😉

Not everyone can perform at their best all the time.

[velvet echo]

what is the change to the game jam format?

maybe i read Victor's post first 😄

[glass fossil]

last I checked Victors thread doesn't go into the changes to the official jams, but essentially jams run by epic will only be four times a year now

March, June, September, December

[velvet echo]

yup, just read that

[glass fossil]

September will be the Epic Mega Jam

[velvet echo]

should have read before asking a question

did epic provide reasons somewhere visible to the public?

i expect it would take a bit of time out of their employees workday to organise and judge entries

[glass fossil]

so what would happen is that every 4 or so jams they'd get a lot of participation, with dips in between

it was also incredibly hard to get universities to be interested for anything but the mega jam

so Alex is attempting to make each one count for more, also allows them to consolidate prizes

so that winners get even bigger stuff

[velvet echo]

sounds good to me

now have all of them run for a week too 😄

[dire heart]

I hate one week jams

[glass fossil]

only mega jam will be a week long

the other three will remain 3.5 days

[velvet echo]

i wasn't being serious

should have added Kappa

[small fern]

@glass fossil did they tell that?

I kinda fast forwarded the last weeks stream so I might have missed something

I was under impression they didn't tell any details yet on how the jams will be held

[glass fossil]

They didn't say it in the stream

Just in this chat over the course of a few days

[small fern]

ah ok

must have been lounge etc then 😃

[rigid fog]

No

Alex said it here

@velvet echo join the #uue4jam be cool

[small fern]

ah found it

I must have missed that part before 😃

[12:46 AM] UnrealAlexander: Yes
[12:46 AM] UnrealAlexander: That's the September Jam now
[12:46 AM] Alice R 『Valkrysa』: so then can we assume that non-mega jam will still be 3.5 days?
[12:46 AM] UnrealAlexander: Correct```

[rigid fog]

Monthly #uue4jam starting this Friday! Details: https://goo.gl/mW51ew Prizes: SOMA, Vermintide, Project CARS + more #ue4 #gamedev #ue4jam

[velvet echo]

Lol. That's the humble monthly. I already got it.

[small fern]

Me too :)

[faint magnet]

Hey, where can I request to join a team for the upcoming game jam?

[glass fossil]

Whats the game jam for

Is there rewards?

[rigid fog]

@faint magnet @glass fossil Monthly #uue4jam starting this Friday! Details: https://goo.gl/mW51ew Prizes: SOMA, Vermintide, Project CARS + more #ue4 #gamedev #ue4jam

Click the link

[faint magnet]

Thanks @rigid fog

[rigid fog]

http://globalgamejam.org/news/and-ggj17-diversifiers-are

[somber hazel]

Switcharoo!
Two teams swap games halfway through the jam and finish the other's game.

[rigid fog]

Aye

Probably the best one

[dusky vessel]

@rigid fog Are they not doing an Official one for January this month? I haven't been paying much attention the past couple of months.

[small fern]

@dusky vessel they are not

[dusky vessel]

Did they give a reason at all or was it just not announced?

[small fern]

"to not overwork jammers"

[dusky vessel]

Oh I see... but what other Unreal jams are there apart from this unofficial community one? I feel bad about the idea of joining an itch.io jam to do Unreal stuff because everybody else is doing 2D or basic Unity things...

Not that I'm super good at Unreal though

[small fern]

also

UnrealAlexander: Alice nailed it: March -> June -> September -> December

so, next official UE4 jam on March

Sept is next megajam

oh right, this channels topic says that too 😄

[dusky vessel]

I wish those titles were more obvious, I never notice or even look at them on my own

[small fern]

me either

[dusky vessel]

Jams are the only way for me to poop out a finished project, sadly. For everything else, the project size grows beyond my ability to organize and manage so I never finish it.

[small fern]

deadlines are good

that was main reason why I attended all game programming courses at uni

I did those only to make game projects with deadline, didn't really care for the courses themselves (didn't attend lectures)

[dusky vessel]

I was the complete opposite kind of student as you @small fern

[small fern]

well, one course was an exception as it was mainly about talks from gamedev industry folks

that was interesting

well, school group projects do suck

but I did many solo there

as it was often easier

but it was nice to have the projects around

[dusky vessel]

pls no memes

[small fern]

as they pushed me to do something quick

😄

sorry, too late ;p

[rigid fog]

@dusky vessel https://forums.unrealengine.com/authorize.php?code=3f0d725978c4414cb32d34d35f17c0f4&state=https%3A%2F%2Fforums.unrealengine.com%2Fshowthread.php%3F133153-January-uue4jam-(Unofficial-ue4jam-name-tentative)

Just join the fun

[native vortex]

Is there a consistent day each month when the jams (official and unofficial ) take place? Always seems to be around the middle of the month.

Want to try and plan ahead this year 😃

[arctic widget]

First unofficial ue4 jam is tomorrow to my knowladge

So I think the official jam gets the theme announced the second week of the month during the thrusday stream (not sure tho)

[native vortex]

hmm yeah. going back over 2016's jams it looks like that was the case for almost all of them. Thanks!

[arctic widget]

No think the unofficial one starts to.morrow :)

[velvet echo]

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20170113T12&p0=623&msg=Unofficial+%23ue4jam+aka+%23uue4jam+Start&font=sanserif&csz=1

[arctic widget]

Yeah tomorrow, ty for confirming 😃

[velvet echo]

@rigid fog did provide a link to his discord for the unofficial jam. I think you have to check for information and submit entries there.

https://discord.gg/AeUQBCE

[burnt hedge]

is the theme already announced?

[rigid fog]

Theme will be announced at that countdown on the stream

[burnt hedge]

Awesome.

[faint magnet]

@rigid fog Looking forward to the game jam.

[rigid fog]

@faint magnet Good, should be interesting. I'll be going over some quick little reminders/rules and then the theme, shouldn't take too long.

[faint magnet]

@rigid fog will the theme also be put up on the official ue4 forum thread?

[rigid fog]

Nope

[glass fossil]

so watching the stream is mandatory?

[rigid fog]

Nope

He asked if it will be in the official gamejam thread

well

[glass fossil]

I read the question differently

[rigid fog]

ue4 forum

But nope

[glass fossil]

I read it as your thread, on the official forums

[rigid fog]

At the very least participants will need to be in the discord chat

Because that's the only place I am accepting submissions for now.

I'll post the theme over there for sure. Maybe over here I guess.

I suppose I could do it over the forums, whatever.

[glass fossil]

as long as the theme ends up here I think it'll be good
https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?133153-January-uue4jam-(Unofficial-ue4jam-name-tentative)

[rigid fog]

Yeah

I'll spam twitter/fb one last time also afterwards

[faint magnet]

@glass fossil @rigid fog that is what I meant by official forum thread. Thanks.

[rigid fog]

@faint magnet Oh 😉

[small fern]

I dunno about accepting submissions only on discord

it means people who do not attend can't try the games themselves if they want to

(unless they join the discord group for that but it's unlikely)

[wise apex]

Could just be done on a google spreadsheet, and then also posted to the discord (or not)

[rigid fog]

True true, didn't think about that

[glass fossil]

⏲

[glass fossil]

how many hours left? @rigid fog

😃

[small fern]

@glass fossil https://goo.gl/vJXMDK

[glass fossil]

what timezone is that

sry

4 hours left 😃

[faint magnet]

Not sure this is the right place to ask, but still, not sure where else to post. Would anyone be interested in teaming up for the upcoming game jam?

[potent sluice]

You may have better luck on the jam discord server, people are teaming up over there

[faint magnet]

@potent sluice Isn't this the jam discord server? Sorry, really, pretty new to discord.

[arctic widget]

This is a discord used for basically any gamejam, however as there is no official gamejam this motnh, @rigid fog started his own gamejam <3! He requires you to submit it to his server, so he can keep track of evertyhing @faint magnet more info and server link can be found here: https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?133153. Hope this awnsers your question 😃

[faint magnet]

Thanks @arctic widget

[arctic widget]

np!

[ashen meadow]

hurry up starts in an hour

[arctic widget]

Oh it does? 😛

I thought 2 but hey, got it wrong

[small fern]

https://www.twitch.tv/victorburgos_

[rigid fog]

January #uue4jam THEME: Goodbye Clone

[arctic widget]

yay

[nova oxide]

@rigid fog how many people are you expecting for this jam ?

[rigid fog]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

If it's only my team that submits, it's a win

😉

But, I can see maybe 5-10 submissions

[nova oxide]

awesome, good luck man! considering participating, but i'm terrible with ideas

[rigid fog]

@nova oxide Sometimes the most terrible ideas are the best ones

[nova oxide]

vr poop flinging simulator here i come!

[frigid mist]

@rigid fog wasn't about government clones or something at the first ?

[rigid fog]

They wanted it reverted

[frigid mist]

[rigid fog]

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20170115T12&p0=623&msg=January+Unofficial+%23ue4jam+Countdown&font=serif&csz=1

[small fern]

@glass fossil something tells me you are not jamming

[glass fossil]

in my soul I am

[small fern]

with Unity 😄

[glass fossil]

also I think victor said there were no rules, you can use whatever you want 😄

[small fern]

he said only rule is to use Unreal Engine

and after that he said no rules

and then he said there's a rule you have to submit before deadline

[glass fossil]

nothing is true, everything is permitted, this is the way of the assassins creed

except you must use unreal

[small fern]

everyone should be born to c# though

no updates on ue4 mono plugin =/

[glass fossil]

yep, that thread has been completely dead since

[native vortex]

I'm about to start streaming my work on the unofficial jam if anyone cares to watch :)
https://www.twitch.tv/shaunbanshee

[sharp berry]

Still in doubt if I'm going to join in on this jam

[native vortex]

Here's my submission for the Unofficial jam:
https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B6OUPl5nDshSYzVFYWI4UGM1cEU&export=download

Solo submission with some Marketplace assets and pre-made main menu

15 minutes to spare. Phew 😄

we still doing submissions in this channel @rigid fog ?

[small fern]

@native vortex https://discord.gg/AeUQBCE

there's submissions-channel there

[native vortex]

oooooooh. Thanks

[rigid fog]

Alright let's roll

https://www.twitch.tv/victorburgos_ Playthrus

[tepid mango]

https://itch.io/jam/vr-jam

[raw kite]

Hey guys

I'm looking for artists to participate with me the next ludum dare

[stuck edge]

@raw kite What's your plan for it?

[raw kite]

Umm

Make a game

[rigid fog]

lol

@raw kite next one is in April right?

[raw kite]

Yes

[carmine kindle]

Well, I'm never putting in any effort into any game jam with physical prizes ever again. Got a notice that my "swag bag" has arrived in my country and... FedEx wants 70+ euros to handle customs for me or the customs office wants me to deal with hours of paperwork and nonsense and pay a slightly smaller fee. Neither of which are things I particularly want to do. I'm considering just letting them send it back.

[pine fulcrum]

@carmine kindle Was it a special prize or your standard swag bag?

[carmine kindle]

Just a normal one

[pine fulcrum]

Well... in that case, not to demean @ruby cradle 's wonderful prizes

I'd probably not pay that 70

:p

[sweet flame]

I'm about to deal with simillar nightmare

[carmine kindle]

Yeah, that's my thinking too

[pine fulcrum]

I bet if you yell at @ruby cradle enough he might do something, maybe

[sweet flame]

just got email from fedex about handling customs

[pine fulcrum]

But for 70, he can probably like send you 6

[carmine kindle]

Well it's my customs office being the problem really. Those bastards.

[sweet flame]

posted that in lounge erlier

I just got email from fedex about dealing with customs.... holy sh*t. I have to register at customs to get some number, send them list of thing that are in the package with description of what material are they made of, send how much does the shipping cost me (which I don't know) and fill another form and add copy of my id. And since the package say the value of those things (t shirt, pen and button) is 50$ I'm probably going to pay 17% tax, because tax doesn't apply only on packages under 25$. You would think, that we live in a modern world, where all this crap could be handled more elegantly.

but yeah, it's the way customs work. It's such a stupid system

[pine fulcrum]

holy shit

America is just like "heres your imported 1000 rounds of ammo"

[sweet flame]

maybe it would help to list smaller prices

[pine fulcrum]

List a value of $0

[sweet flame]

I mean pen for 20$ ...

if it would be under 22€ non of this would apply

[rigid fog]

$

[ruby cradle]

WHOA damn

@sweet flame Ok, I had seen there was a holdup here and the shipping department was not able to find it, but if that's what happened, I can see if we can have that paid off

Pinging them now to see how we pay for it or send you funds

[sweet flame]

@ruby cradle Don't worry about it. The customs thing is not your fault, it's just the way it works.

[ruby cradle]

Yeah, but we have a budget through Epic

[sweet flame]

I haven't actually been billed anything yet

[ruby cradle]

It's not like it's my money

[sweet flame]

just sent the forms today

[ruby cradle]

OH HO HO HOOOO

As it turns out we have paid them already for this and they are probably just daft

So, it's getting late here and the staff is leaving, but we're calling them in the morning

[sweet flame]

Bohrium had more serious situation happening

[ruby cradle]

What's that?

Oh no

[sweet flame]

a little bit up

[ruby cradle]

That's the same situation

[sweet flame]

yeah, but If I'M bill it'll be like 10$ or something like that. Nothing serious. And that's if.

waiting to hear from them

[ruby cradle]

So there is clearly an issue where either we didn't pay and thought we did, or they didn't get updated

But all of the swag we send should be covered

[sweet flame]

I don't think you can pay for it

[ruby cradle]

Yeah, all the duty is paid on it, so customs should just push it through I think

But I may be totally wrong because that's just here maybe?

[sweet flame]

if there is a package from outside EU (above 22€) are charged local tax

[ruby cradle]

So... lie a lot from now on then?

But yeah, I can budget to pay that local tax too

[sweet flame]

I think there is different rate for gifts, or something like that

I never had anything sent from outside EU that was above 22€, so I'm new to that too 😄

Maybe it's all ok and they just needed the form that let's fedex handle the customs, idk.

@ruby cradle I don't want to be ungrateful or anything. I was just surprised about the process of how customs work in my country

[ruby cradle]

Oh no, I don't think anyone is ungrateful. I'm more annoyed at the customs folks.

The most difficult are the russian ones... I can barely get anything in there

[warped zephyr]

Heh, yeah, I wanted to chime in 😄

You're lucky that you got anything!

[small fern]

In my country (fi) you only pay customs for the price you paid for the item

[warped zephyr]

I can't get anything there

[ruby cradle]

Many times I have had to find people who are outside of russia to give the prize to and have them send it through a friend

[small fern]

If it is truly a gift, I dont think they can force customs for it

[ruby cradle]

US -> Russia mail is so hard right now due to politics

[small fern]

We also have nice online custom service here, you just fill the form online and pay online the fee if needed

It's not tedious to handle directly on customs either but it takes time

[sweet flame]

I don't really have an option to handle it directly. Would have to drive 400km to Prague 😄

[small fern]

Huh

[ruby cradle]

Wow

[small fern]

You sure there isnt like small side office anywhere near?

[sweet flame]

I already sent everything they wanted, so now I'll just wait for their response

nope

It arrives to Prague and that's where it's holded

You could maybe somehow make them to move it elswhere, but I don'T know how

and they would probably charge you for it

[small fern]

Around here it doesnt matter where it arrives, you can have it transferred to nearest office without extra fee

Done that couple times in past when I didnt live in capital area

[sweet flame]

I usually order stuff from EU countries and that works differently.

Or buy some small stuff from china and that rarely exceeds 22€

[small fern]

China packets dont usually get stuck in customs anyway unless it is big or heavy packet in my experience

They always stamp $10 on top

[rigid fog]

OP

[ashen meadow]

this is why i try never to win anything

if you make bad games you dont run into these problems

🤘

[glass fossil]

#NeverStopMakingBadGames

[arctic widget]

Lmao

[grizzled zenith]

I didn't have any problems with the swag delivery this time

[carmine kindle]

Took me most of a day dealing with customs, but finally got my swag bag now. 😄

[small fern]

did you have to pay anything?

@carmine kindle ^

[carmine kindle]

Yeah, in the end I had to pay VAT off of the marked value. Which was like 14 Euros.

The bigger trouble was trying to tell them I didn't actually have a receipt for ordering it, because receiving something for free from a company is an outlandish idea and they don't know how to handle that.

[small fern]

well, that's actually on Epic

not on customs

if epic would give you 0 USD receipt for the items, you could hand it to the customs

of course customs want the receipt as everyone just marks things with lower value / gift to avoid customs

they know it and that's why they want the receipt

[carmine kindle]

Well they understood it eventually, after about the third email I sent them about it.

[silver swan]

i had a problem when i won the ssd and the jam at once and they accidently marked the t shirt as 300 value so the value of package was stated at over 1000 and customs stopped it, epic fixed the problem real quick for me though i think i recieved it within a week after i told epic

[ruby cradle]

Y'all excited for the GGJ?

@small fern Basically, that's my strat going forward. Being honest has not helped our shipments at all

[small fern]

@ruby cradle well, it's still honest if you give receipt that the person who got the goods didn't pay a dime to the sender about them 😃

as it's true

I can understand customs as those people probably don't know anything about the arrangements here, they still have to deal with lots of people who genuinely try to avoid paying the customs

[ruby cradle]

Oh yeah

[small fern]

I know that on some countries you still have to pay for the value still

even if you didn't pay anything yourself

[ruby cradle]

I'm still following up on this payment stuff btw, I want to make sure no one is stuck

Oh man, I hope that Falcon NW Tiki PC didn't get stuck 😦

[small fern]

yeah, that would suck

there's still one video online (but it's in finnish) where some finnish guy won the biggest prize on lottery but he lived aboard by the time it happened (in Sweden), by the time that happened they could somehow doublecharge the taxes for the winnings in such case as the prize paid into another country

it was absurd case

guy who won it, had to pay more taxes than the prize he won was worth

and lost everything he ever owned

bit extreme example what can happen when you win something 😄

[dusky vessel]

Does anyone know of any Unreal-eligible game jams happening right now or starting soon? Because the itch.io ones are the only place I know of to look and all of their jams are either other-engine-specific or not feasible (e.g. university class or club doing their own inhouse thing)

[rigid fog]

@dusky vessel GGJ

Or mine

but that's not for another few weeks

GGJ starts tonight though

[dusky vessel]

Yeah I wanted to do your thing last week or whatever but I was part of another jam coincidentally that overlapped it beforehand

[rigid fog]

Did you win or get anything?

Finish game?

[dusky vessel]

Yeah we entered it. idk about any prize or whatever because that's not why I do it

I looked into GGJ because I heard about it just a few hours ago and the closest one to where I live had an application period and already started it earlier this afternoon

[rigid fog]

Good good

?

Um, as far as I know...you can do GGJ by yourself

You can apply online to make your team

[dusky vessel]

That's news to me

[rigid fog]

Now, it may be location based though

[dusky vessel]

I'll look into it in a bit

[rigid fog]

I've only ever done it at SCAD

But I know we do our team registration online

Won't be doing it this year because well, damn professors are not taking any late assignments... and so there's no point in me failing any classes for one game jam

It was much easier to do them in my other years

Not as a Senior though ;)(

[somber hazel]

I can't believe I've actually touched Paper 2D... Tried so hard to avoid it since UE4 went free :3

Welp, at least it was an experience, but no thanks, not again 😄

[rigid fog]

@somber hazel It's not the best out there, but at least it's something

I try to complain as much as possible whenever possible, but I am only one voice

[somber hazel]

At least it's working, but it misses features and I had to do some workarounds that were pretty dirty , which were also mentioned on answerhub, but welp, no love for Paper2D :D. To be fair, I would also not focus on this type of games ;P

But you know, sometimes you end up as programmer in a group of new artists and they all specialize in 2D 😄

[loud basalt]

@ruby cradle following your convo from saturday, when you guys shipped me a vive I was really surprised, because my country DOES make you pay the value regardless, but they said you guys had left a note to charge it to epic

or.. something along those lines

going off what @small fern said about some countries making you pay it

[wicked sonnet]

Hi, i am new to this, can anyone drop a hint or help with starting up the game? I have been through couple of discussion groups and posts but had no luck finding the solution for my initial crash of the game after i launch it.

[celest cradle]

I want to share our game Nami made at GGJ17.
We had a team of 6, here in Brazil, Curitiba. We got the best game made with unreal and best game by jammers vote.
http://globalgamejam.org/2017/games/nami

[rigid fog]

@celest cradle awesome work!

Hope to you see you guys doing UE4jams every month also!

Check pinned msgs

[glass fossil]

@celest cradle great job~

[celest cradle]

thanks you all!

studying a lot to be our epic jams

*on

[stable kiln]

@celest cradle #blender masterrace 😛

[celest cradle]

@stable kiln haha for sure

[ruby cradle]

@loud basalt Good to hear! Yeah, I want to make sure these get paid for by us (or reimbursed at the least)

[loud basalt]

@ruby cradle That's awesome! 👍

[dusky vessel]

Hey guys I found a Game Jam specifically for Unreal: http://jams.gamejolt.io/TheUnrealJam

It's got 6 days left. Anyone want to get together and make something?

[wise apex]

Seems very.... unorganized

not even a theme tho

[dusky vessel]

Game Jams are the only thing that motivate me to actually finish projects, sadly. I just want an excuse to make something, that's all.

[rigid fog]

Just wait for mine next month if that's really all that motivates you

And...gamejolt jams?

THey trying to be the next Itch?

[dusky vessel]

I just googled game jams because everything on the itch.io calendar was either more than a month long, was about local irl stuff, or were specific for a particular engine.

[sweet flame]

@ruby cradle Swag arrived! 😃 And so far they did not want any money from me 😃 Thanks a lot 😃

[ruby cradle]

Oh thank goodness 😄

How is it, do you like it?

[sweet flame]

@ruby cradle Even better than I imagined 😃

[ruby cradle]

Great!

[rigid fog]

Man, everyone got some cool winter gear and backpacks. OP

[raw kite]

@dusky vessel I'll join with you

xD

@sweet flame swag?

[glass fossil]

A racing game where you drive trucks to score points.

[small fern]

!gameidea

could do

[glass fossil]

That is incredibly tame, what is wrong with you unrealbot?

[small fern]

yeah, that sounded a lot like a game that I would actually do :p

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

A strategy game where you sell androids in a secret research facility.

[small fern]

how they find the buyers since it's all secret?

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

A puzzle game where you control bread to save the environment in cyberspace but you can't see anything.

[stable kiln]

@dusky vessel @DragonFyZex#5821 i could do a few simple models and stuff, but its a month long jam with 5 days left 😛

[cyan night]

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

A role-playing game where you kick allegories in virtual reality.

[faint magnet]

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

An action game where you team up with things of unknown origin at the top of a volcano and the graphics get worse as you progress.

[raw kite]

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

A shooting game where you explore spiders in an abandoned village but you're made of fire.

[raw kite]

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

A racing game where you drive vans in a lush jungle.

[raw kite]

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

A racing game where you drive sports cars to prevent an evil plot.

[raw kite]

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

A strategy game where you crush puppies in a huge mountain fortress and the sun gives you more power.

[raw kite]

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

A shooting game where you ruin cosmic entities to start a business.

[raw kite]

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

A shooting game where you wrestle with puppies to save the galaxy.

[raw kite]

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

A fighting game where you smack food to forge an incredible magic sword in an abandoned hospital and you can customize your character.

[rigid fog]

@raw kite any chance you could stop spamming this channel?

[raw kite]

Yes

Wrong channel

[rigid fog]

Thanks, sucks missing out on actual game jam related discussions with spam

[faint magnet]

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

A racing game where you fly passenger jets to start a business.

[wise apex]

lol

[rigid fog]

trolllllllllllllllsssssssssss

hmm, why don't we have a trollface emoji

[wise apex]

[flint mesa]

Hello guys, I'm programmer & I searching for a team to join for next Epic Game Jam...

[rigid fog]

Why wait?

Join the Unofficial #ue4jam next month !

Feb 10-12th

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20170210T12&p0=623&msg=February+%23uue4jam+%3A+Unofficial+%23ue4jam+Start&ud=1&font=cursive&csz=1

https://discord.gg/AeUQBCE

[flint mesa]

Thank you @rigid fog

[rigid fog]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?135138-February-s-Unofficial-ue4jam-aka-uue4jam&p=657030#post657030

[celest cradle]

👏 👏 👏

[dusky python]

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

A simulation game where you pinch squids to unlock a mysterious door in a deathmatch arena but the game won't stop scrolling up.

[strong plinth]

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

An action game where you pummel planet-devouring monsters because you can.

[digital fern]

sounds like a few episodes of One Punch Man

[simple fjord]

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

An action game where you seduce crows to save a princess in a deathmatch arena.

[simple fjord]

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

A fighting game where you pounce on slime in a dark cave and you're the last of your kind.

[arctic widget]

@glass fossil The title of this channel seems outdated 😉

[glass fossil]

If Victors Feb jam is already planned I'd be happy to update it. But I'm currently unaware of his jam details.

[stable kiln]

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20170210T12&p0=623&msg=February+%23uue4jam+%3A+Unofficial+%23ue4jam+Start&ud=1&font=cursive&csz=1

[rigid fog]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?135138-February-s-Unofficial-ue4jam-aka-uue4jam

@glass fossil ^

[glass fossil]

Unofficial February UE4 jam starts February 10th, 2017. See the following thread for details:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?135138-February-s-Unofficial-ue4jam-aka-uue4jam

[idle mantle]

!gameidea

[sharp berry]

Looking for people to join my team, I'm myself a BPer, I can do 3D models/art, UI/Widget stuff, I'm looking for for people who can: design levels, characters, audio/music. I've 3 positions open. Preferably people with +/- 2 years UE4 expierence. We'll be aiming to use a VictorBurgos Perforce for version control.

[maiden loom]

I might have time, is it this weekend? PM me and I'll get back to you later

[sharp berry]

It's 10-12 februari

[maiden loom]

Clashes with the Polycount event in London :/

[sharp berry]

Good, that will take care of the pro's 😛

[maiden loom]

haha

[glass fossil]

I'll be doing SpatialOS jam 10th-12th so that counts another 5 of us out for february jamming

[sharp berry]

Still looking for 2 more people for the Unofficial Jam 😄

[willow sluice]

what do you mean @sharp berry

[sharp berry]

@willow sluice https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?135138-February-s-Unofficial-ue4jam-aka-uue4jam

[rigid fog]

^Second best UE4 gamejam ever

[willow sluice]

i am not good enough yet 😦

[rigid fog]

sure you are

every bit helps

[willow sluice]

Well if anyone whants me to join them i dont mind but i will not be much help to be honest

[arctic widget]

I knew barely any BPs my first jam but it's an amazing way to learn <3

[willow sluice]

well if any one whant someone to join them send me a pm

[willow sluice]

@arctic widget you going to take part ?

[arctic widget]

No 😦 I wanted to, but school and family got in the way 😦

[willow sluice]

AHH

i mean i quite like to try just dont have anyone to wrok whith

[stable kiln]

dont worry, we all love too see some broken submissions 😛

[rigid fog]

yup

[willow sluice]

yea i gguees but it would be great to get some more xperiance

[obsidian carbon]

hi, i am 3d artist and i am looking for team 😃 portfolio:https://www.artstation.com/artist/olmax3d

[willow sluice]

You assests look lovely dude really nice

i like the art style

@obsidian carbon

[obsidian carbon]

@willow sluice thanks )

[willow sluice]

Np dude you deserve it

[obsidian carbon]

😃

[dusky vessel]

Me and a guy are gonna do stuff for that unofficial unreal game jam thing -- if anybody here wants in let me know and we can figure something out for you to do.

[rigid fog]

February's Unofficial Gamejam Themes: Wait... it's not what you think it is... and Undercover

[sweet flame]

Double theme?

[rigid fog]

Gotta use both

[grim relic]

@obsidian carbon good polish and stylish

btw I may look by myself for a team I'll feel ready 😃

[rigid fog]

@grim relic https://discord.gg/AeUQBCE

Anytime

[grim relic]

😉

[rigid fog]

Get yourself prepared for Epic's Official Jams

[grim relic]

thanks @rigid fog

hooo

[maiden loom]

Oo, is it jam weekend?

(I'm in Berlin anyway so couldn't compete if I wanted to)

[dusky python]

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

A strategy game where you wipe out birds to save the world.

[shrewd walrus]

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

A puzzle game where you disagree with the universe to find freedom on a space station orbiting a planet you don't recognize and the graphics get worse as you progress.

[shrewd walrus]

lol

[celest cradle]

any news about the dates of the jam in march?

[dusky vessel]

I crave an excuse to sit down and poopsock out a video game project quickly

[glass fossil]

it should be the second Thursday of March as per usual

[celest cradle]

thanks

[heady lynx]

hello everyone, im a newbie who's willing to attend some gamedev competitions

what is gamejam?

and how can i take part in it?

[wise apex]

various jams have various rules, but generally you make a game from scratch in a time period that has to follow theming outlined at the start of the jam

[heady lynx]

can you recommend a jam

[wise apex]

ue4 does a quaterly jam, I think

Victor does a monthly jam

For the UE4 community.

Another jam might be GDL

https://itch.io/jams

^^^ then there are these

[heady lynx]

thx 😃

[wise apex]

np happy jamming

[keen frost]

!game idea

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

An action game where you clobber tombs on a recently discovered planet.

[keen frost]

!gameidea

[glass fossil]

A simulation game where you raise tigers to find the cure for a terminal illness at the top of a volcano.

[dusky vessel]

Anyone want to work together for the game jam next month? Send me a PM

[summer storm]

there is a game jam next month?

i checked out the link above and realized the more appropriate question is, which one?

[small fern]

@summer storm I doubt there will be unofficial game jam parallel to official one

whole idea of the unofficial ones was to fill in the gaps since epic didn't do monthly game jams anymore

I haven't seen any recent official info on official game jams but everyone expects there to be one on March

@ruby cradle can you deny or confirm that? 😄

awww, he escaped

I can swear he was on green when I asked

anyway

I think the only reason why there's no announcement for the forthcoming game jam yet is that they want to announce the whole deal at once

if it were up to me, I wouldn't at least announce the possible prizes that much in beforehand, because that have always put people on the move before jam has even started

people making jam games prior to jam used to be more of an issue with megajam but it could now affect all epic jams as there's only few around

[small fern]

why not link the actual page instead?

jam entry is made with ue4, so at least I'd think it's related to the channel

[lusty lodge]

any game jams happening right now?

[modest garden]

resist jam is about to start

and itch.io has a whole calendar of jams to look at

[austere glade]

train jam starts on thursday, if anyone is going

[dusky vessel]

@modest garden Most of those jams are local-specific or engine-specific, though. Otherwise I'd be doing jams left and right

@austere glade I just looked at it -- that sounds really cool, actually. Too bad I'm nowhere near Chicago

[dusky vessel]

I really don't understand this Weekly Hour Game Jam though. How is it possible to make anything in just 1 hour? I mean you could maybe do gameplay in 1 hour... but then how do you do the UI and whatnot? That's gotta take an hour as well. Do you just spend the whole week planning out the design and then crank it all out in one hour, throwing it all away and starting over it you fail the challenge?

[maiden loom]

an hour seems kind of naff, you can barely get anything done in an hour

it's enough time to string together some really basic blueprints and that's about it

[small fern]

if you do minimalistic UI that you've DONE BEFORE, it's doesn't take many minutes

but yeah, doing everything in one hour is silly

or even 2 hours

it's like speedrun for the engine, you can't explore anything new, you have to know each thing you use really well beforehand

that pretty much takes away all learning experiences from it, and doesn't really provide you much IMO

most of us don't speedrun games either

[dusky vessel]

I feel really bad because the only time I can make any progress or sit down and grind out work on a project is if I'm doing it for a game jam

I wish I could find these game jam things more often

[open glacier]

Have you checked ludust?

[proven badge]

Hi everyone.
We are a pair of game jam artists on the lookout for experienced coders / scripters/ blueprinters for the next upcoming UE4 jam.

When it comes to jams we are long timers with over 15 entries under our belt, multiple 1st places and sponsor awards.
Our latest jam endavours can be viewed here -
http://jakayaki.com/game-jams
http://slapunas.artstation.com/pages/projects-i-worked-on
Our skillset covers entire pipeline for both characters and environment that includes:
Concepting > modelling > texturing > rigging > animation > Anim blueprint setup (Anim blending etc etc.)

Currently we are on the lookout for equally passionate coders wishing for a team to make a next killer jam game and, if we are a good fit, possibly work together on future projects / contests.

You can pm me directly or drop me an email at [e-mail]
Bear in mind we are going to reply only to individuals who can show examples of their previous work.

That's it! We are super excited and looking forward to hearing from you. Cheers!

[indigo harbor]

What's the date for the upcoming jam?

[small fern]

not announced yet

probably 10th or 17th

[slate salmon]

Does anyone have a source for the game jams no longer being monthly? Was that said somewhere?

[dusky vessel]

@slate salmon it's the 2nd pinned message on this channel (by Derzo)

[slate salmon]

@dusky vessel That's victors thing, I was hoping for something official

[dusky vessel]

You're right I am stupid

[small fern]

@slate salmon Alexander confirmed it in Dec... Also no official gam jams since is pretty good proof it's not monthly anymore :p

Not sure if he mentioned that on some stream as well

[glass fossil]

@Tyler#3861 you'll have to look through the history of this channel

@slate salmon for posts from Unreal Alexander

there is also a little bit in a stream

don't remember which stream though

[grizzled zenith]

It was the first community stream of 2017 if I remember correctly

https://youtu.be/gyqi-Yd3iuI

@slate salmon 5:10

[dusky vessel]

@[IT] Steyr A.K.A Rapid#7372 I tried checking out Ludust a while ago but unfortunately it seems that all of the Unreal projects listed there are long dead and were each posted at least 6 months ago

.. can't mention

[dusky vessel]

I feel like I'm twiddling my thumbs, going through official livestream tutorial VODs until the next game jam. 😔

[cobalt haven]

You do the jams @dusky vessel

I always find them too late to do anything with it

[solemn sphinx]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?138407-Spring-ue4jam

Finally! A Best VR Game category!

[small fern]

oh

30th

I was expecting it earlier 😃

ha

Best Game Under 100mb

it has returned!

wish they would have split the prizes between major and special categories though

like give SSDs to major and houdini licenses to special cat winners

[sharp berry]

To be honest, I had expected better/more prizes

[small fern]

well, main cat prizes are nice

they actually give SSD + houdini to each teammember on winning teams

[burnt hedge]

SSD's are nice.

[dusky vessel]

I didn't even know it was possible to package an Unreal project such hat it's under 100MB. I thought the base, barebones thing was ~750MB

[stable kiln]

splitting up the top 3 into 3 main cat winners makes little sense to me

if u dont like the theme there are still 5 categories that have nothing to do with the theme? 😃

[glass fossil]

@dusky vessel you should talk to @small fern he has gotten down to 20mb I think

[small fern]

that's bit fo an exaggeration tbh

I only got into 25 MB on blank project

@dusky vessel default fps template takes over 300 MB packaged

[dusky vessel]

That is black magic afaik

[small fern]

I mean, if you just package it with default settings

[ashen meadow]

confusing

are there winners and then additional winners for the special categories

and the special cats dont get additional prizes, just the swag boxes

hopefully no one goes for those and i can pick up a swag box

[ashen meadow]

@glass fossil can you update the pinned message?

[somber hazel]

Wait, can you go for Best Game Under 100mb AND Best Android Mobile Game? I don't think you can, but I don't see a rule that makes it clear.

[upbeat otter]

i prefer game honey

[small fern]

@somber hazel in past they said in rules that you could technically win multiple categories

but I somehow doubt they'd do that

so it would kinda suck if you would have qualified for the top-3 but won special cat 😃

in fact, on megajam, some special category winners didn't make much sense, it seemed like they gave those to project that almost won the main one and only vaguely fit into special category

@ashen meadow did you read the post? 😃 each member in 3 winning teams will get SSD, houdini, swag and Panda Studios assets

special category winners get Panda Studios assets only

oh snap

it was me who didn't read 😄

they mentioned the swag beforehand

and now that I read it again, I see that houdini swag is another swag

so main winning teams will get 2x swag

also, main category winners get highlighted on launcher but special category ones don't

seems kinda odd since they could easily arrange space

[maiden loom]

speciality categories exist, but you'd still be judged on use of theme, so you can't just throw anything up there

I've noticed the dates are absent, but I assume it's running from Thursday to Sunday as normal?

[small fern]

@maiden loom In Unreal Engine game jam tradition, we'll be kicking this one off and announcing the theme on the livestream on March 30th and giving participants a bit more than 3 days to create and submit an awesome game built in the engine.

[maiden loom]

aha, cheers

[small fern]

so normal way as always 😃

[maiden loom]

aye good to know

unfortunately it is also my birthday, so chances are once again I will not be able to take part

[small fern]

my birthday is during the jam too

but I haven't really celebrated them in years

[maiden loom]

chances are I won't, but it is also my 30th

[glass fossil]

The Sptring #ue4jam has been announced for March 30th to April 2nd!
Theme: TBD
For more details - https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?138407-Spring-ue4jam

[small fern]

you heard it folks, theme is "Track before detect"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBD_(disambiguation)

I like Torpedo Boat Destroyer and Triazabicyclodecene too

[glass fossil]

lol

[small fern]

slightly tempted to make a game jam template

people use all kinds of third party menus etc anyway

what I haven't seen though is that someone would make a game unrelated shell and publish it before the jam so anyone could use it

IMO that would be fair to all (vs mention that one used his/her own template that nobody else can get)

[dusky vessel]

@small fern I like the way you think

[small fern]

downside of course is, that I'd be giving out a template that can build 50MB game out of the box 😄