game-jam-chat

[copper carbon]

Yeah, we'll see what we can ramp up next year

2019 MegaJam is the fifth one 😃

[rigid fog]

Yeah, there's no real hype

[civic dock]

GitHub's GameOff has nearly 4,000 participants. 😮

Of course, they're GitHub.

[rigid fog]

First few MegaJams felt more hyped

They got cool prizes?

[civic dock]

GameOff doesn't have any prizes, I don't think.

[rigid fog]

Wonder why so many

[civic dock]

It's a traditional jam in that the journey and the final result are the prizes.

[zenith gust]

more marketing for sure

[civic dock]

Yeah, GitHub has a way broader audience.

[rigid fog]

hmm

Can you UE4/Unity for Gameoff?

They make it seem like no lol

Ah nevermind

Godot

K, they just promote open source ones

Makes sense

[hearty ferry]

tbh I kinda prefer it this way with less hype/marketing, otherwise you start seeing a lot of people just trying to cash in on the prizes easily, feels more like it's about the project/experience/community this way (or at least that's just my personal experience comparing this jam to the larger jams)

[civic dock]

You can use whatever tools you want for GameOff.

[rigid fog]

Yeah

I meant promotion wise though

[zenith gust]

@rigid fog thanks for playing and giving feedback last year btw, my entry was unfinished and pretty shit but you still managed to highlight the most important things (namely that I had completely skipped audio..)

[rigid fog]

Last Year?

I streamed?

You sure it wasn't Allar last year?

[zenith gust]

My memory might be off

[raven sundial]

Game jams really push your personal growth a ton, it should mostly be about that with prizes/recognition as icing on the cake!

[rigid fog]

Hmm, I cant' remember either so

lol

[civic dock]

Itch tweeted out the Epic MegaJam when it started, btw. So it got official promotion.

[rigid fog]

Maybe not last MegaJam, the one before yeah

[copper carbon]

Think it was last years, Victor.

I dunno. Time is hard.

[rigid fog]

With a fulltime job it's hard to stream

[zenith gust]

It was the darkness, supply our own light one

that was last year yeah?

[copper carbon]

yep

[rigid fog]

Oh... maybe...I might not been fulltime with Contagion VR last Megajam

Ohhh, yeah, I did

Okay.

My bad, terrible memory.

That would be a funny jam theme

I'd win

[zenith gust]

anyway, just wanted to say thanks for honest feedback and the effort put in to test peoples entries 😃

[rigid fog]

"forgot to submit a game"

[copper carbon]

"I did what?"

[civic dock]

A special Unprizes category.

[rigid fog]

I'll give this year another shot

[hearty ferry]

I think I remember you (trying to) play my game on stream last year, seeing someone have no clue how it worked was great feedback on it's own 😂

[rigid fog]

I'll frontload all my work

[hearty ferry]

Definitely will explain the game better this year

[rigid fog]

Aye, I'm pretty honest and to the point 😉

Especially as the night wears me down

[maiden loom]

haha

[raven sundial]

A simple control slide at menu select is highly under-rated, made the same mistake myself!

[rigid fog]

@hearty ferry What game was it?

Man, did I not have ReStream set up... no YT videos 😦

This year...I'll have it backed up to YT

[hearty ferry]

VR game, you had to aim flashlights to block shadow enemies from getting to you

[rigid fog]

ohhh yeah

That game...

@zenith gust what was your game last year?

Speaking of GameJam progress while I'm over here fighting some stupid engine bug

Anyone have any pics?

Ah, the Polygon City map being used

Wonder how many entries will have that

[hearty ferry]

I considered using it, trying really hard to only use original assets though

[warm bloom]

Started swapping out test billboards with models

[rigid fog]

Going Solo this jam, so I need to use my time wisely. I'll be using some art assets, not too many. Have some cool ideas, can't wait to actually start the weekend and dive head on.

[zenith gust]

@rigid fog I (tried to) make a kind of light beam puzzle where you had to add up the lights to make a rainbow. Beautiful in my mind but very confusing to anyone else ^^

[rigid fog]

Hm, yeah. I don't remember a rainbow game.

[zenith gust]

Only had time to make a single working level iirc, so not expected to leave a lasting impression

[quasi girder]

@civic dock - of course, I try to test the bot and I brake it 😄 😄 😄 can I have a new one? I'll be carefull next time
Or ... maybe this IS a game idea !?

[civic dock]

@quasi girder The command is !gameidea

[quasi girder]

kk - thanks - just did what the bot told me and contacted you ;)
is there a list of understood commands? thought "help" would be a good try ...

[civic dock]

Yes, but you have to write !help in a regular channel first, then the bot will DM you the command list. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[quasi girder]

ah - thanks - that makes sense with the permission error it throws. I was just curious

!help

[glass fossil]

@quasi girder, Sent you a DM with information.

[waxen trout]

Is it a problem if we use Mixamo for rigging/animation?

[neat leaf]

use anything you want. just make note of it in the premade assets list you submit with your project

[naive wren]

Hello!

There was a free music asset for the game jam or something like that, right?

I can't find it

[proper adder]

https://archive.org/details/SonnissGameAudioGDC

[naive wren]

thanks a lot!

Gl in the jam 😄

[proper adder]

Same to you 👌

[naive wren]

To keep the project synced with everyone on the jam, what source control do you use?

svn? git?

[waxen trout]

git. We might use Perforce if the need to see blueprints on the fly comes up.

Assembla to be specific

[naive wren]

Okay! thanks 😄

basically using git with unreal is the same as using git with programming languages, right?

[waxen trout]

Exactly right, you can integrate it with the Engine and branch and merge, all that good stuff 😄

[naive wren]

thanks! 😄

[iron musk]

My design ideas if you layered each one on top of each other (AKA: What it looks like in my head right now)
🤘🏼 😅 🤘🏼

[quasi girder]

Thats a material mask, isn't it 😉

[iron musk]

Was totally planning on texturing the landscape with it! 💩

[glossy lark]

We don't have to preregister for the jam right?

[quasi girder]

I don't think so. upload to itch and submit to Epic MegaJam jam page (no glue where that one is, didnt look for it)

[iron musk]

They were tweeting about people joining earlier today.

[minor hemlock]

https://youtu.be/vFdfQTwVz48 we've got the prize in hand for sure

[iron musk]

💙 the scanner sfx.

[civic dock]

@glossy lark You can still join the jam. If you go to the page now, there will be a "Join Jam" button. After you join it will become a "Submit Your Project" button.

[waxen trout]

That face when some one has already submitted something

Oh I guess it was made entirely before the jam started 😅

[iron musk]

Ha. On a related note, I remember the jam announcement video mentioned submitting the first working copy anyway, then resubmitting a finished product later.

[carmine kindle]

You do sometimes get people who don't really know how a game jam works and they just post their old projects.

[hollow horizon]

Can anyone help me getting the quixel megascan thing to work?

[glass fossil]

I always wonder why people submit their already finished games

I guess just for people to check it out?

[rigid fog]

Promo

At least they were honest

I am sure you'll see people submit stuff like this without saying anything

[warm bloom]

@hollow horizon I filled out the form and I guess I'm waiting for some extra credit.

The welcome pdf is basically just starting an account, the form from the jam page is a google form and it might take them some time to get back.

If you find out anything let me know.

until then https://www.textures.com/

has some pretty good textures and you can download a decent amount for free

[hollow horizon]

Thanks, im the same situation as you. It wasnt really clarified whats supposed to happen after you fill out the form

[minor hemlock]

haven't gotten any credits here either

[worldly night]

Yooo

[warm bloom]

if nothing else comes out of Quixel for me during this jam...my 3D programming instructor will love the story of this free 8k texture

[warm bloom]

I think I might spend the rest of the jam in Soundly 😲

[rigid fog]

Rofl...this progress

I'm over here trying to learn some more things I've neglected over the years (animation stuff)

https://gyazo.com/01c6141580ae7aa15825c9558c28d5a3

[glass fossil]

ok i have a better idea

its about mirages, thats perception of reality, that does not represent reality, so its inaccurate

i have a plan for objective things that you need to walk over to collect to disappear if you look at them and get close, but get picked up when you dont see them

but

idk how to tell the player to do that

or make him think about turning his back

[oblique cairn]

@glass fossil - similar thing that springs to mind is the ghosts in mario64 - when looked at they become 50% transparent, stop moving and cover their eyes.
When you look away, they smile, become opaque and chase you

(not sure if that helps)

[glass fossil]

i will have to go rewatch mark brown's tutorial on how to teach game mechanics without hand helding tutorial

[worldly night]

reeee

[warm bloom]

starting by saying, first ue4 jam,,
anyone know how parody/logo kind of stuff works with submissions?

ZNN and Box News too close?

While I heavily edited the logos , I've never tried doing parody or only just read the rules......

[worldly night]

just use blue's clues news

great tv show XD

[warm bloom]

....dude
that's the theme
that man lives a trip.
there should be game from what that dude actually must be seeing.
just a dude talking to inanimate objects
constantly breaking the fourth wall
trying to solve mysteries that don't exist

[glass fossil]

ok i will get at least 1 point for unique use of the theme

good enough 4 me

[worldly night]

hahaha

[glass fossil]

ok so most of art and programming is done

ehh, will add some more variety to models

[glass fossil]

now im happy that everything is working out perfectly

worked for about 2 hours, maybe a bit more, and almost everything is done already

[worldly night]

Show me your amazing art @glass fossil

[glass fossil]

no

😛

im focusing on making UI right now

[worldly night]

fair enough

Like my door?

[glass fossil]

it doesnt look like a door yeah

[worldly night]

its half a door from a spaceship

[glass fossil]

you like my UI?

[worldly night]

thats amazing

[glass fossil]

"SHIP IT"

[worldly night]

"SUCK IT"

[glass fossil]

ue4 crashed ;-;

i cant set effect settings to low or ue4 crashes

nice

[worldly night]

gosh this looks shit

fuck it thats good enough

flip flop i suck in maya

[worldly night]

Team limit 5?

[carmine kindle]

Yes

[worldly night]

Alright cool i got 4

[glass fossil]

i got 1 😄

[worldly night]

and that 1 is kind of sucky im guessing

im kidding ❤

do you hate me yet @glass fossil

[glass fossil]

im so lazy to make options menu

and yes, i do hate you now

[worldly night]

❤

i finally found a 3d modeler thank fuck i can't do it for crap

[glass fossil]

gonna make options tomorrow

dont wanna do it now 😛

[worldly night]

fair enough

what type of game you making?

[glass fossil]

idk

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[worldly night]

makes sense

[glass fossil]

ikr

[worldly night]

like 32 hours down right

something like that

[uneven basin]

I gotta give up on the theme

[flat roost]

I've started 3 games and I'm going to finish none 😝

[glass fossil]

lol

so i need to make :
Options
Counter
Ending
Some more variation in meshes
A little bit of foliage
Audio

and then game is done

[flat roost]

forget the options, no one makes options for a jam, do they?

[glass fossil]

well i mean at least sensitivity

[flat roost]

oh yeah

that's sensible

[glass fossil]

ffs XD

what a pun

im eating chicken dinner

[flat roost]

bon appettit

[glass fossil]

but im not a winner

not a winner not a winner chicken dinner

😛

[flat roost]

haha

[glass fossil]

dam bell peppers are so nice

i just realized that my keyboard is now in chicken fat

cuz im typing with it

and why am i still typing lol

[worldly night]

I'm such an person ay

Sorry

forgive me

[glass fossil]

epic ending done

only audio, more work on level and some options left

feels good

[worldly night]

Good Job! @glass fossil

[glass fossil]

T H A N K S

[worldly night]

** Y O U R ' R E W E L C O M E**

@glass fossil when you finish let me play ill give feed back

[glass fossil]

o k t h a n k s

[worldly night]

@glass fossil Pick 1, 2 or 4

there is no 3 in my universe!

[glass fossil]

3

[worldly night]

Humanity.exe has stopped working

[glass fossil]

ok 3+1

[worldly night]

5?

[glass fossil]

Brain.exe has stopped working

[worldly night]

BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH HERE JUST SAYING HI!!!

what do you think of my screw driver

[flint ember]

Hey if anyone could help that would be great, so i imported an animation from mixamo for a model i made in fuse and for some reason it locks that character in place instead of allowing to move, however if i retarget the anim to the ue4 mannequin it works fine, im really confused

[glass fossil]

@worldly night do you participate in this jam btw?

[worldly night]

yeet

[glass fossil]

i would like you to play test the gamein its very early stage

but then it would waste your time

🤔

[worldly night]

I'm just drawing my enemy right now anyway

hard to explain this is his concept stage XDXDXDXD

dont look up scary mouth and red eyes on google okay! i drew them all myself i swear XD

[glass fossil]

ok i will package a version now

[worldly night]

alright

want me to give you my email?

[glass fossil]

i can send it in dm

google drive

[worldly night]

okay let me know if its too big

google drive works too

** @glass fossil Will you want feedback or critisism?**

[glass fossil]

both?

well its almost the same thing

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[worldly night]

yeah but one of them imma be a dick on purpose to be cool XD

[waxen trout]

Just to confirm: we are allowed to use free assets as long as we give credit in the end? The consequence being we might not get full credit in the end?

[worldly night]

Pretty much

[flint ember]

i think you can use pretty much anything as long as you give credit at the end

[waxen trout]

we're short an artist so we might not get to all our assets 😄

[worldly night]

you dont really give credit you just have to say "we didnt make these" in the submit form

[waxen trout]

Fair enough

[glass fossil]

"we didnt make this game"

[worldly night]

"i got this off CoolMathGames"

does everyone have that in they're countrys

[flint ember]

yep

or at least i do

[worldly night]

what continent?

[flint ember]

NA lol

[worldly night]

hahha

[waxen trout]

Those are some cool math games

[worldly night]

feels bad when no one responds

[glass fossil]

This is the jam page for the UE4 Mega Jam right?

[dry jetty]

Well it's the chat but yeah

Sign up is on itch

[worldly night]

Community made chat to help with the game jam actually XDXD

[dry jetty]

The unofficial official community selected chat

[worldly night]

ah shit you win

[dry jetty]

Thanks, I would like to thank the community

[worldly night]

and your mum

don't forget here

her*

[dry jetty]

Of course

And leo decaprio's mum while I'm at it for bringing us great movies

[worldly night]

xD

why is everyone making games so cool

i haven't met one dick on here apart from @glass fossil ❤ XDXDXDXDXDXD

[glass fossil]

pls go commit liven't

[worldly night]

Why you bullt me

bully

[glass fossil]

i dont

[worldly night]

Go commit uninstall of life

[glass fossil]

oh shit

[worldly night]

ezpz

[worldly night]

Majik.exe has ending

[glass fossil]

rekt

[worldly night]

OH CRAP

you're coming with me

[glass fossil]

oh man winning is so nice

[worldly night]

I love how new members might be joining coming here for advice and they see a uno game XD

[glass fossil]

lmao

[lilac fox]

ever get that feeling where u wanna just scream? insert rick and morty breakdown gif lol

[glass fossil]

lol

[worldly night]

I'm just looking at this image im pretty sure the dude on the right got the one on the left pregnant right ther

gosh im super bored what am i doing with my life

[wise apex]

go work on your entry

[minor hemlock]

🤔 what has this channel become?

[wise apex]

tf wrong w/ you

[worldly night]

to many things tbh

[wise apex]

same

[worldly night]

xD

this is my new friend group making chat

@civic dock add me on discord

[civic dock]

Guys, a fun conversation is obviously fine here and there. Just don't let it stray too far off topic for too long.

[worldly night]

Sorry mostly my bad i get bored often

[civic dock]

#lounge is the place to be when you're bored and don't want to be constrained by topic.

That's the off-topic chat, so anything goes as long as it still follows the rules. 🙂

[worldly night]

Nah i've picked this as my dedicated text channel i go nowhere else ill just keep it on topic

[civic dock]

Thanks. 👍

And don't forget to post WIP shots of your jam entry when you can! 😃

[worldly night]

WIP?

[glass fossil]

work in progress

[worldly night]

ahh

[glass fossil]

ok i am optimistic about my game

it will work out good

[worldly night]

Heres my whole game

[glass fossil]

lol nice

[civic dock]

So you're working on art assets?

[worldly night]

Not anymore, i got a new 3d modeler i aint doing it anymore

[glass fossil]

i find it very hard to make a game for game jam in a team when you either dont have the same time zones or dont know them irl

[worldly night]

Was using that as a reference to portal 2

Yeah i have my mate from school, an old friend i played games with 2 years ago and a cool 30 year old from turkey

[civic dock]

@glass fossil What tools are you guys using to communicate and manage the project?

[glass fossil]

none

[minor hemlock]

@glass fossil working out well for me.. the level designer does tons of work while I'm asleep and I do tons of work while he's asleep 😛

[glass fossil]

i dont have friends to work with too

[worldly night]

thats disapointing

[civic dock]

Ah, sorry. You were posing a hypothetical, not what you're doing right now. So @glass fossil you're working solo then?

[glass fossil]

if i would have a team i would use discord group chat

[civic dock]

@minor hemlock Nice! Sounds like the time zones matched up well so you can take shifts.

[glass fossil]

or a dedicated server for that

so, 1 day in i have made almost everything huh, im tired xd

[civic dock]

Cool. I'd probably do the same. For a small project like this, I'd definitely say group chat since you get video/text combo.

[worldly night]

me team uses discord to communicate and google drive for assets

[minor hemlock]

perforce is more vital than I realized compared to git

[glass fossil]

oh right sending assets

i would use drive too

and discord if its under 5mb (asset)

[civic dock]

Perforce is good at what it does. I just wish it was easier to use and understand, and had a GitHub-like option.

I use GitHub for game jams. Git is good enough for small projects.

[worldly night]

Schools gonna chip away so much time ):

[glass fossil]

idk what to put behind this door 🤔

its like, the end of the game

[worldly night]

A clown

[minor hemlock]

just blackness

unlit blackness

[glass fossil]

just makes another maze because why not lmao

[minor hemlock]

and stars

[civic dock]

@glass fossil Ooooh. If it's the end of the game, make the player want to know what's behind it.

And go on a journey to figure out how to open it.

[minor hemlock]

@civic dock for sure, assembla is $$$$$ compared to github if I want to host in the cloud

[worldly night]

and make it a sign saying ":You're a disapointment -Mum"

[glass fossil]

they be like "hey i finally did it!!!", opens door, another maze

[civic dock]

Make it a mirror world on the other side.

Mirror image layout of this side of the door.

[glass fossil]

too much work

[minor hemlock]

^ make a mirror

reveal something about the player character (it's first person?)

[glass fossil]

btw it also opens

first person

[minor hemlock]

the twist is that you're a ghost!?!?? ahhhhh

[worldly night]

Casper the ghost

[glass fossil]

just add a media player with rusty cage knife game

OH I KNOW

a black room with an old tv in it

by old i mean those wooden tv's, fortnite also has those

[worldly night]

fortnites for children and try hards

thats a lie but

its bad now i can say that much for sure

[glass fossil]

i try it sometimes and get killed by some sweaty STREAMER BTW

[worldly night]

I sold my fortnite account for $95 couple days ago

[glass fossil]

lol mine is worth like, $5 maybe

[civic dock]

@glass fossil Black room with a TV sounds good. Something that feels mysterious.

[glass fossil]

and then that game turns into 'RING'

[minor hemlock]

make the tv display a camera view of the room

"Someone's watching?"

[glass fossil]

oh

but wait

then i have to make the character

[civic dock]

Omg. Static on the TV when you walk in. The door closes behind you. The static starts to melt out of the TV and take over the whole room.

Then the sound gets louder, louder, then stops and the screen goes black. Game over, thanks for playing.

[glass fossil]

oh woooooow

but idk how to make static spill out

[worldly night]

Cutscene

[civic dock]

Fake it. You're in a black room, all you can see is the emissive shader on the TV of the static.

So make a shader on the room that "pans" from black to static, outward from behind the TV.

[worldly night]

@civic dock Do you make games? what do you do? code ect?

[glass fossil]

but that means a lot of uv mapping

i will try

[civic dock]

Design, Blueprint scripting, and audio.

[glass fossil]

but thats just a genius idea

thanks for potentially winning me a jam 😄

[civic dock]

I hope it fits your game's premise. 😄

[worldly night]

Majik hmu if you do it send me a copy

[civic dock]

It's cool aesthetically on its own, but if it's making a powerful statement related to the theme, even better.

[worldly night]

His game is a maze anything fits it

[glass fossil]

btw how much would you give me on graphics on a scale of 0-5?

[worldly night]

5 but 9 for the game style

[civic dock]

A maze game could be great for this theme. Lots of opportunities to confound the player and make them question their perception.

[glass fossil]

yeah

and its always changing

like maze runner (?) maybe

[worldly night]

Doctor who, Weaping angle style

[civic dock]

Nice. I liked that movie.

[glass fossil]

i dont remember if there the maze changed

[worldly night]

every night

[glass fossil]

in first part of maze runner

[worldly night]

or week

[glass fossil]

oh right

every night

but here it changes as youre in it

[worldly night]

like doctor who

[glass fossil]

i love doctor who

[worldly night]

look away and it changes but in doctor who look away ya get sent back in time

[glass fossil]

yes

i know weeping angels

[civic dock]

Here's another idea for you: your maze changes as the player makes their way through it right?

[worldly night]

i wasn't explaining them XD i'm talking to myself

[glass fossil]

yes

[civic dock]

So I'm guessing you have a mechanic they use to figure out the real path and escape?

[glass fossil]

no

you just go mindlessly

xd

[civic dock]

Otherwise they'll just get stuck and frustrated. Something needs to guide them to the end.

[worldly night]

walk around for 10 minutes

WAIT MAJIK

ever see a movie called like cube or something they make they're way through a death maze of cubes each door has a weird code, later in the movie someone that made the cube goes in and can tell if the next room is dangerous or not by the code on the door @glass fossil

[civic dock]

Here's a fun idea: when the maze changes, it only changes visually. The original path still works: it just doesn't look that way.

[minor hemlock]

is allar going to stream all of these again? sounds like an Allar torture simulator

[worldly night]

@civic dock wanna help me think of cool things for my game

we have most things down but some fresh eyes would help

[civic dock]

That's basically what I'm doing in here. I have stuff to do, but from time to time I like to pop in here and help people get their creative juices flowing. 😃

[worldly night]

okay cool

hehe juices

[glass fossil]

hey

i dont need a cutscene

i can just force player camera to look at the tv

disable input and rinterp it to look at the tv

[civic dock]

You could yeah. But it could still be just as compelling if you lock them in there and let them move around freely.

[glass fossil]

or i could make it so it magnetizes to tv

but you can still look around

and try not looking at it

best material XDDD

[civic dock]

Yeah, that could be fun too if it's nice and slow.

lol

Amazing shader. I don't know how you did it.

😆

[glass fossil]

idk how to transition the ground

like, i have the ground and the inside ground has to be black

maybe i could just modify the frame of the door

to have a step

[civic dock]

What's that black square in the top half of the doorway?

[worldly night]

I think i have a pretty good idea with a pretty great story if this doesn't turn out good imma right a book XD

[glass fossil]

its the insides

now its pitch black in there

ffs fog makes it bad

[civic dock]

Ah yeah the fog is giving the door a glow.

[glass fossil]

not the door

the edges of the room

look at the wall near the door

its brighter than the floor and ceiling

[civic dock]

Yeah I see it.

[glass fossil]

i could make another pp volume

inside

and have its priority up

[civic dock]

Yeah.

Have you considered covering the door with black from the inside so once the door closes behind them the room is pitch black except for the TV?

[glass fossil]

nah

i'll let it be there

[civic dock]

OK. Just a thought. 🙂

[glass fossil]

wait shit

pp volume doesnt change fog

[worldly night]

heheheheh pp

[glass fossil]

xd

ok i set fog start distance to 500 units

and room is 400 units long

so its ok

wait no i need 550

just to be sure

ok now i go to sleep

byee

👋

[civic dock]

G'night! o/

[worldly night]

Night Majik!

[worldly night]

- Test

ah does work

cool

[civic dock]

@worldly night You can set code blocks to C++ synthax, too.

Handy for this server. 😄

[worldly night]

no idea what that means XD

[glass fossil]

[is this blue]

BTW I'm sleepinh

[tired raven]

When I go to the Houdini license page, it says they are no longer accepting responses. I thought this would be available for the whole Jam, did I misunderstand this ?

[maiden loom]

you need to apply beforehand, because licenses need to be arranged

[tired raven]

Ok, you mean, apply before the Jam ?

[maiden loom]

yup

[tired raven]

Alright, thanks for the clarification. I'll know for the next jam.

[maiden loom]

last time I applied for it they gave me a 1 month license, so try to apply as early as possible if you want to get learning time with it

[mighty dragon]

if anyone still needs a coder/designer, feel free to DM me

[iron musk]

Decided to take a break from programming to do something artsy, like block out the title screen.

[minor hemlock]

Has anyone that applied for Quixel access received it?

[rigid fog]

So much for staying within scope

@mighty dragon if you haven't found a team yet, you should try to do something small solo

[onyx moon]

so Logitech Gaming SDK doesn't work for 4.21?

[minor hemlock]

looks like you'd have to compile it yourself, that's all

[onyx moon]

alright, I'll try that unless someone knows it's not going to work

[glass fossil]

It should work since it's just CPP files

If I remember correctly

[onyx moon]

building it now

looks like it worked

[onyx moon]

everytime I load the uproject it tells me the plugin is for 4.20...

ohh... can I just edit the LogitechG.uplugin file and change the EngineVersion to 4.21?

[minor hemlock]

yep 😉

[onyx moon]

nice

[worldly night]

Sup

[lethal fable]

hi all!

[rigid fog]

Where does all the time go

[worldly night]

sleeping

Theory: Sleeping was made by unreal engine to take time for the game jam!!!!!

[tulip viper]

0 sleep, but so sexy 😛

[worldly night]

Holy shit @tulip viper thats good as

[tulip viper]

needs loads of texturs 😛 but the CIC is coming out great 😃

thanks @worldly night

[worldly night]

better then my game

[tulip viper]

this is just the menu 😛

nobody said the game was there 😛 LMAO

[worldly night]

well your menu is better then my whole game 😛

[tulip viper]

lol dont be so harsh on yourself ❤

[worldly night]

i don't have a game yet dw

we've written like 2 pages worth of story XD this theme sucks

- Making a 3d model of a locker it's turning out shit so far

[tulip viper]

lol

sorry man 😦

lol... maybe some of these buggers will cheer you up 😉

[worldly night]

what's your game about

[tulip viper]

rockets

and hamsters

LMAO

[worldly night]

XD fair enough sounds fun

Hmu when you got your prototype ill test it for ya give some feedback

[tulip viper]

😉 sure thanks

[glass fossil]

So today I was working on a really weird bug, then my pc turned off randomly and when it turned back on I lost my progress but it was fixed

[tulip viper]

oh lawdy

[worldly night]

dang

[glass fossil]

Good morning!

[worldly night]

good afternoon

6:30pm for me hbu

[tulip viper]

https://youtu.be/6C2cBAdmn7I

[worldly night]

hahaha thats cool as, love the music

[tulip viper]

not mine

sprouting tomatoes from "them artian"

[worldly night]

whats with the weird glow around the hamsters

[tulip viper]

rimglighting

rim** lighting

[worldly night]

ahh rightio

[rigid fog]

@tulip viper your art always sexy

[tulip viper]

hehe thanks

[worldly night]

as sexy as me 😛

[worldly night]

What's scarier Movies or Games, asking for my gam

[carmine kindle]

games, you never know when a sudden bug or crash will erase all of your progress 👻

[worldly night]

hahhaha fair enough

[dusky vessel]

@tulip viper It looks good but I think you need to add more bounces to your shadows because the shade of black in the unlit areas is too dark. If you do that, it'll look much nicer because your character will be more visible

[tulip viper]

nods 0 lighting update yet 😛

that made no sense, lol sleep deprived

i am not done with lighting yet, but very much appreciate the suggestion.

busy trying to get the different guys in, with the different animations

[vast root]

oh yes

[carmine zenith]

that looks awesome

[tulip viper]

hehe thanks

[vast root]

agreed

[zenith gust]

lookin' good as always!

are you streaming anything this time @tulip viper ?

[tulip viper]

i have not, my bulb busted and i dont have my greenscreen, 😦

i mean i could... i guess

[zenith gust]

ah, could go anyway but no pressure ^^

[tulip viper]

certainly, ill think about doing it, once my wife gets home and is asleep 😃

i can tell you these animations look sick, thanks to the super cute model lmao

[glass fossil]

now theres a step

to blend the level and dark place

[tulip viper]

woot

[glass fossil]

from the inside now

[carmine zenith]

This is what we did so far, but the weekend is over so I don't think we'll go further 😦 it was fun though

[worldly night]

green headlights i love it!

[carmine zenith]

thanks hehe

[tulip viper]

oh that is super cool looking

[worldly night]

and pretty spooky

[carmine zenith]

the idea was to drive in a confusing environment with the devil as co driver giving bad indications

[zenith gust]

brilliant 😄

[hollow horizon]

I wish I could start on making assets too, but our team just couldnt really decide on a setting for our game and its really hard to pull things out of my ass just like that

[tulip viper]

yeah

i feel the same 😛

[hollow horizon]

you have hamsters in a spaceship though

[zenith gust]

I scrapped my first ideas, had to IRL most of yesterday (darn other people depending on you), so today has to be pretty darn effective ^^

[carmine zenith]

yeah gg

[zenith gust]

yeah, hamsters in space can't go wrong

[tulip viper]

😛

glad to hear that

[glass fossil]

i feel like working on the witness lmao

just tell me this doesnt look like the witness

[tulip viper]

indeed, well done 😛

[worldly night]

I've never played it but i've seen it 😛

[wintry orchid]

Anyone here using butler ?

[glass fossil]

nop

so i have 240mb game when packaged 😛

does that <100mb about zipped folder or unzipped?

113mb

[worldly night]

i'll probably have to use butler eventually

might not tho

[wintry orchid]

I just like the incremental Package updates

I rather do the upload now then to wait till thursday

[glass fossil]

REEEEEE

[wintry orchid]

But maybe it'll be earlier than that

[zenith gust]

@glass fossil there's no <100mb category this time

[glass fossil]

wait what

ooooooh

well im dumb

but still, i will have like 120-130mb at the end, thats good too

[wintry orchid]

at least you already have a game...

I'm starting white boxing / gery boxing

just starting

[glass fossil]

Well the ending isn't done

But gameplay and visuals, yeah

[worldly night]

@wintry orchid sameeee

[glass fossil]

made it a 9x9 grid

[tulip viper]

strapped up and ready to go boys

[worldly night]

cute

[glass fossil]

tv

[worldly night]

check out the tv i sent you majik 😛

never mind its a maya model ya using blender

[hollow horizon]

you can import fbx in blender

[glass fossil]

the knobs look like a robot xd

[worldly night]

robot frog

make it have a tounge XD

@zinc relic come here please

[zinc relic]

declines

[worldly night]

ah shit

Can you add me on discord so i can dm you

[zinc relic]

no

[worldly night]

please ❤

[zinc relic]

only very special people are allowed to ^^

[worldly night]

I'm special if you know what i mean

I'd appreciate it

[worldly night]

lookin good

[worldly night]

well time to sleep cya everyone

[glass fossil]

Today I get to think of a bunch of fake cover names for books and I’m super excited for that

So far I’ve got “Fantastic Easter Eggs and Where to Hide them” and “Bongo Cat: The Untold Truth”

[worldly night]

@glass fossil " NotReady Player2" XD i love ready player one sorry XD

[glass fossil]

Oh man that’s definitely going in there if you want it to

wip on the static flood

I can’t wait until I learn how materials modeling and shaders work

I spent this whole year getting blueprints and C++ down which is really cool, but I’d love to be able to do that as well

[worldly night]

hahah yeah that would be cool

i do want it to XD

what are you making these books for @glass fossil

[hollow horizon]

maybe its just me, but I found ue4 materials to be extremely unintuitive compared to blenders 😦

[glass fossil]

So the game we’re making is really story driven so I don’t want to say much about it yet so that none of the surprise is ruined

[worldly night]

ah alright

[glass fossil]

I was going to live stream the development process of this game like I did for the summer jam but I really like the idea we’ve got so I’m hoping to be able to share that vision in a cool way

[worldly night]

what type of game? 3d, puzzle, shooter ect?

[glass fossil]

First Person puzzle, similar to something like life is strange but with no time warping

[worldly night]

oh cool

[glass fossil]

I’ve actually never gotten to make a game with a deep story before so it’s fun

I’d say one of the hardest parts about it is communicating the plot to the player without revealing too much

[worldly night]

Mind if i dm you something?

[glass fossil]

Sure thing

how to make a material that is aligned by screen space

or mapped to screen

ok found out

[worldly night]

😛

[glass fossil]

@civic dock

[worldly night]

hurts my eyes XD

Whats the best way to put a dev team together? any good websites or anything

[glass fossil]

added pebbles

@worldly night crowdforge

[worldly night]

Hhahhahahah wrong website XD

[glass fossil]

lol

[worldly night]

Heat, Beat Repeat

How do i use CrowdForge?

[glass fossil]

idk

[worldly night]

@glass fossil Maybe you could add a picture in a frame on the walls without doors

[glass fossil]

ok

good idea

[worldly night]

😛

[glass fossil]

but it will not be a mark for like, i was here, ok

[worldly night]

I dont think crowdforge is what im looking for

yeah just a random astetic

[glass fossil]

dam this game changes quickly

first is this nice awesome looking beautiful place where you try to find puzzle pieces

but then theres that black room with a tv and static

[worldly night]

Always remember the humble begining ! ORBS

[glass fossil]

should i add a wall type with window?

[worldly night]

hm

nah

[glass fossil]

that you cant go through but potentially can see a puzzle piece

[worldly night]

i guess so yeah why not wouldn't be too bad

@glass fossil Make the windows like this

So its show that they're escape is so close yet so far away

[worldly night]

oh yeah that works to hahah

[glass fossil]

so my game is basically done, ready to package and submit lol

time for POLISH

[worldly night]

send me it

[glass fossil]

k

112mb 😛

sad there is no <100mb special category

[maiden loom]

< 100mb was the best category

[glass fossil]

Yeah, how am I even supposed to make a vr game when I don't have a headset to test anything :d

[zinc relic]

is <= 100 even possible?

unreal ships so much already

[glass fossil]

I got to Lowest of 111mb with all assets that I have in this game

[zinc relic]

😐

thats bad then

i think unreals engine code already is over 50 mb

[glass fossil]

But I didn't do some other settings that I will do soon

That should probably lower it to <100mb

When special category is <100mb and you have 101mb

[zenith gust]

@zinc relic Last time I managed to get an empty scene without static lighting and without slate down to 35 mb after package

could proably shave off a bit more by poking around

but yeah to get really small sizes you'd need to build your own engine version and exclude things you will not use

there are a few lists of things to do/check floating around that help a lot

[wintry orchid]

With Starter content and no code it's 455MB zipped

[zenith gust]

Yeah obviously no starter content, and also blacklisted most of the engine content etc

[glass fossil]

@zinc relic it really depends on your packaging settings, the game that i worked on for the spring jam was like 77 MB and for the summer jam was like 122 i think

[random parcel]

(Old GameJam Entry) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHzzeA4JIr8

That was 92.4MB iirc.

So you can put quite some stuff in there before it goes > 100MB

[wintry orchid]

I tried to use this butler tool.... but I couldn't at first try create the file they wanted

The format that is...

Because Itch substitute the "_" with "-"

[amber latch]

i hope you won with that cedtic

[glass fossil]

It's not very hard to do <100mb game

[maiden loom]

sadly we did not win with that

#biasedjudgeswheresmyprizedamnit

can't remember what did win the 100mb category?

[amber latch]

don't worry amber none of mine win either 😂

[random parcel]

@maiden loom Yeah, was fun doing it though.

[maiden loom]

I was working full time, then doing 8 hours in the evening on that, I barely slept for a week 😂

[random parcel]

That's how GameJams work :D

[amber latch]

xD

[random parcel]

You gotta regret joining it near the end of hte week, but then be happy you finished it

[maiden loom]

don't forget the mad panic towards submission deadline when there's still a lot to do, but everyone is too fried to do anything at a meaningful pace

[glass fossil]

I should go into marketing

lol

[glass fossil]

i will be disappointed if i get less than 5/5 on visual aesthetic

[vapid thistle]

Is anyone else having trouble with Soundly? I was using it yesterday and it was fine, but today I can't drag out any sounds. Any ideas?

[glass fossil]

thats why you use youtube to wav converters

now some rooms are bigger 😛

[vapid thistle]

An interesting idea, but I found a work around. If anyone is having a similar issue, just drag the audio file into your file explore.

[glass fossil]

I kind of love making fake book covers

[minor hemlock]

heh

[glass fossil]

wtf

heres a picture i will have in a picture frame

they will be randomly scattered around the map

[amber latch]

skills

[glass fossil]

ikr

[amber latch]

just for fun or part of the gameplay

[glass fossil]

for fun

found one!

theyre pretty rare tbh

[minor hemlock]

your guys entries are incredible btw! I enjoy seeing them all

[glass fossil]

mine also?!? owo

[minor hemlock]

yeah 😄

are you doing a procgen maze?

I've done that in the past but not for a jam game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0rMm6VMaGA some speedrun gameplay of our game

[glass fossil]

yeah proc maze

[minor hemlock]

here's roughly what mine looked like before I abandoned it 😛 maybe it'll give you some ideas? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBbIPzS0omg

favorite feature was support for custom sized prefab rooms that slot right into the maze as it generated

[glass fossil]

@minor hemlock that's a nice maze

But I didn't get any ideas from it because mine is a lot of rooms with doors :P

What would be settings I could put into the options for the game

Sensitivity, overall quality, and that's it? Lol

[glass fossil]

3 days left bois

Well for me at least with how the timezone is

[glass fossil]

Why no one talk 😕

[zenith gust]

busy trying to get shit done ^^

[glass fossil]

Ah

Good that I can have free time 😄

Because my game is almost ready

[minor hemlock]

lol what's his badge say?

[tulip viper]

R.E.A.L.I.T.Y.

and then you got HAMSTAR force

[iron musk]

Man, I haven't even gotten to modeling yet. Today is debugging the core loop. I'd be lucky if I could make models even half as good as the stuff I've seen posted here so far.

[iron musk]

I've always thought Unreal Blueprints often looked like the images you'd see in clouds. It often looked like spaghetti at first. This one reminds me of an angler fish.

[minor hemlock]

pf

you think that is a fish?

https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/image/172642913056

from the equally terrifying tumblr https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/

[iron musk]

I've merely scratched the surface of underground blueprint art! I can dig this scene. 🖖🏼

[iron musk]

Was just checking the logic of one of my functions and this made me think of a horse head.

[robust basalt]

when in doubt, make a game with explosions

https://gyazo.com/4d8935d1a0774f2b6054efdb269bbd4e

[uneven basin]

^true

[uneven basin]

well, there would have been a good inspiration for jam game this time around

pick one invader zim episode, turn it into game

[rigid fog]

@robust basalt Screenshake Senpai, teach me

[robust basalt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu-Qe66AvtY

has like 5min of good screenshake shit

are you jamming, btw? @rigid fog

[rigid fog]

Yeah....slowly...

I might see if there's even a reason why I need a shake.

I guess there's always a reason...hmm

[tulip viper]

shake isnt too bad, just create the thingy

make sure you do the epicenter

walla... (it took me 2 days to figure out btw) 😛

[rigid fog]

It's not hard to implement. But can be hard to implement it nicely 😃

I'm not even close to that polish stage anyway

Still working around GamplayAbilities, which is actually really nice once you start to understand it

[worldly night]

School sucks I just want to make my game

[iron musk]

It's not easy to do with school. I could imagine it difficult for working folks too.

I'm basically moving all my homework around so I can focus on the jam and still get the homework done.

[worldly night]

At least school gives me a chance to think

[tulip viper]

rocket time?

[rigid fog]

t-minus 3 days 18 hours til liftoff

[iron musk]

Heh heh. Remember that Thursday is a half-day. You need the submission in by noon-ish.

[worldly night]

Sumbmission ends 7am Friday

[iron musk]

Eh?

[worldly night]

Oh fuck me

[rigid fog]

nty

[worldly night]

Dang

[iron musk]

Seems different than the one on the official itch page.

[worldly night]

I’m in class I’m typing without looking

[iron musk]

https://itch.io/jam/2018-epic-megajam says 11 am Thurs.

[rigid fog]

@iron musk where do you live?

I bet it's TimeZone auto

[iron musk]

Oh, duh.

[rigid fog]

You are prob West Coast

[iron musk]

Yeah, totally.

Didn't think about that.

I've been in my own little world for the past few days. 😅

[worldly night]

Ayyy

[rigid fog]

@worldly night Aussie?

[worldly night]

Yeah

What’s the time for you guys

12:10pm

[rigid fog]

jeez 8pm already

[worldly night]

Hahahah

History class is boring as fuck

[worldly night]

Nice

How do I factor 32xy-3x xD

I’m lazy and don’t wanna do history math is easier

Yo I’m looking for a team after the game jam please dm me if you’re looking for a project after the jam

[worldly night]

How’s everyone doing today?

[iron musk]

Brain has been feeling fried for a couple days.

[worldly night]

Ayy same

Currently watching forest gump in class so idek what’s life

@iron musk what type of game are you making

[brave sapphire]

Are there any game jams in the Charlotte area?

[worldly night]

No clue

[glass fossil]

I thought I could impliment something easily and man that was a mistake

So I thought writing out my ideas on a whiteboard would help and it actually did

I got it working and I’m hyped

[worldly night]

@glass fossil I don’t own a whiteboard xD darn can I borrow it

[glass fossil]

I bought it on amazon for like $15 before the jam and I tried it out today

I didn't realize I didn't own any markers so it's kinda just been sitting there

[worldly night]

Hahaha fair enough I had a budget of $0.05

See 😄

@glass fossil paint.net is my white board

[glass fossil]

Goal for next year is to learn about vector math because I have no idea what I'm doing but hey it worked!

[worldly night]

Hahaha good job!

Alright I should do some school work before I get told off

Guys I made my evil character

[tulip viper]

pretty sure you are not suppose to put penis on this chat

[worldly night]

**ExcuseMeSirWTF.exe has stopped running **

Fortnite ads are everywhere

@tulip viper pretty sure it’s “in this chat”

XD

[minor hemlock]

@glass fossil haha did you just reimplement LookAtRotation?

[glass fossil]

Lets pretend I knew that existed and I was doing all this extra work and pain for a normal reason

Gosh diggity darnit

[worldly night]

That’s sad

[waxen trout]

your evil character is swole

[robust basalt]

cool guys don't look at explosions... https://gyazo.com/40eece5e51dee04771310c5c737aa97d

[worldly night]

My discord server has 3 people and one of theme is the Rythem bot 😂 lolol

Sad life

[minor hemlock]

@robust basalt you sure? I could stare at that all day long

are you guys doing something like the penguin flying game ? 😄

https://www.kongregate.com/games/light_bringer777/learn-to-fly-2

[worldly night]

That’s a great game @minor hemlock

[robust basalt]

maybe

[minor hemlock]

@glass fossil that's life 😦 I always end up spending a couple of hours doing hairy vector math and it turns out all I needed was a handful of nodes that already existed

[robust basalt]

never heard of that game

[minor hemlock]

basically.. launch the penguin to get $$, further is more $$

[worldly night]

😛

[minor hemlock]

upgrade your penguin with wings and rockets and stuff to go further

and on and on

[worldly night]

Turns out partlyatomic is a learn to fly professional

[robust basalt]

we are about hitting targets

[minor hemlock]

I have learned to fly a couple of times 😮

[robust basalt]

but kinda seems like it, ya

[worldly night]

👌

Is anyone here better then me in photoshop and can make me a better logo? I just want what I have but made better and more complex and cooler

So not what I have 😂

Hit me up in the dm’s if your cool and can do it

I’ll send you 5cents on PayPal

[minor hemlock]

don't break the bank 😮

[worldly night]

It’s fine I only have 5cents we good

Never want to be 5cents short ay Boyd

Boys*

[glass fossil]

anyone know of a quick way to tell if a line trace leaves an object?

[worldly night]

Nope I’m retarded

[minor hemlock]

"leaves"?

like if it goes out the back side?

[glass fossil]

Like lets say ive got a line trace on event tick and when its on an object i want that object to do something

but when it moves off of the object i want it to stop

[minor hemlock]

oh gotcha 😃 I have that set up in our interaction component

I basically just keep track of the current object the trace hit

and if it ever changes, I notify that highlighted object changed

[glass fossil]

Ah that's smart

my code is very bad on this project but thats alright

[worldly night]

Finally home

Does anyone know how i can add a scary type fog to my level @minor hemlock @glass fossil @robust basalt

[glass fossil]

what style are you going for?

[worldly night]

Kind of spooky fog hard to see through

[glass fossil]

I haven't implimented one except for a mars type on but google "UE4 Thick Fog Post Processor" and see what comes up

[robust basalt]

just use volumetric fog

there was a fantastic talk

gimme sec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd7-rTzfmCo

[worldly night]

Thanks!

Space stations are scarier with fog 😛

fog in space eh, shhh

**Yo guys in an hour or so imma send some pictures tell me if you like them **

@PeopleThatCare

Does this look like a tunnel on a space station/Astaroid base

Apart from the textures

aha im a shit map designer dw @iron musk

[worldly night]

@robust basalt reckon this is too big for a corridor?

@tall isle Whats the rules against @ Everyone?

Not gonna do it but im curious

[tall isle]

You dont have perms to use it at all.

Dont group message unless absolutely necessary.

If people want to see your content they will look for it.

@worldly night

[worldly night]

RogerRoger

[minor hemlock]

playing around with making a hologram..

https://imgur.com/a/dQKoBX8

I bet if the source texture was a bit bigger than 16x16 it'd look kind of slick 😛

[glass fossil]

Hello!

I mean, good morning!

[worldly night]

Afternoon!

In unreal how do i made 5 things one thing?

make*

[glass fossil]

Do you live in west Virginia

Or California

[minor hemlock]

static meshes? easy, select all and Merge 😃

[worldly night]

Australia 😛

[glass fossil]

Oooh

Other way ok

[worldly night]

How do i merge?

[glass fossil]

Find lazarbeam

[worldly night]

and get stream sniped

[glass fossil]

Snipe him on a stream

[worldly night]

Him stream on a snipe

on a stream him snipe

[glass fossil]

It would've been so sick if you lived in west Virginia tho

[worldly night]

why

i know nothing about it XD

[glass fossil]

Because it's "almost heaven"

[worldly night]

@minor hemlock I'm a noob how do i merge 😛

ah alright