game-jam-chat

[vapid thistle]

That is exactly what I've been listening to. 😄

[copper carbon]

😃

[maiden loom]

seemed to work when I did it earlier

check the timestamp on the Uploads section

[marsh oxide]

if we submit a project we can keep updating it until deadline right ?

[sudden totem]

game jam entry where you have to sing to able to play the game?

[oblique cairn]

@maiden loom Thanks for suggestion. looks like it failed - retrying

@marsh oxide yes, I am doing that now

[marsh oxide]

nice

[oblique cairn]

(or at least trying to, techincial issues. Looking forward to faster internet)

[onyx moon]

I hate autodesk for making such a trash weight painting solution and never updating it

Shouldn't have ot lock the toe joint to make sure rogue weights don't get sent to it from the damn neck

[oblique cairn]

in which program?

[onyx moon]

maya

[oblique cairn]

I've only really used blender... so can't compare

[onyx moon]

at work I have a tool that makes it 50 times better but I dont have it on here and theres only 3 hours left -_-

[oblique cairn]

Main thing that annoys me with blender+ue4 is they handle skeletal meshes differently (suspect it is due to FBX being a kinda suckey format though)

[onyx moon]

like group/joint?

thats an issue with max too

they don't really have joints

[oblique cairn]

like all the bones are rotated 90degrees and upon first import into blender it adds an extra parent that must be removed before sending back to UE4

[minor hemlock]

tried importing a synty character? 😛

[oblique cairn]

not even tried doing animation or other complex things, just making a basic mesh to fit on epic skeleton and weight painting it (which eventually worked OK)

synty?

[minor hemlock]

the polygon asset pack

they're all built in maya and export to blender horrifically

[oblique cairn]

one day soon we will move from FBX, to a format that is not a hoirrible black box

[round valley]

Menu screen from our submission 😎

& music

[glass fossil]

when will the voting for games be?

[minor hemlock]

@round valley 2d game?

but your LOD skills 😦

[marsh oxide]

note to self, don't build multiplayer games ... alone 😄

[round valley]

Might seem like a 2D game at first 😉

@minor hemlock & I teamed up with a 3D-guy this time lol!!

[minor hemlock]

lol reminds me of the behind the scenes gungeon image

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDz7jp9WEAEMcpw.png

[round valley]

@copper carbon Hey, is it ok if I advertise, for example, an EP release from a friend in my game?

would that go against the advertising-rule?

[glass fossil]

We’re almost submitted phew

Been a long jam

[maiden loom]

there's an advertising rule?

[minor hemlock]

we're still working hard.. but have a few solid builds submitted 😃

[copper carbon]

@round valley - Are you just using them/giving them a shout out or is it like an ad enveloped in your game?

[round valley]

@copper carbon It is a shout-out on a poster in the background 😋

[copper carbon]

oh, totally fine

[round valley]

aight, thanks!

[copper carbon]

😃

[onyx moon]

I seem to be the only one on my team left awake and we're not done...

[minor hemlock]

@copper carbon what if it's a game enveloped in an ad 🤔 DRINK OVALTINE

[maiden loom]

what if it's literally just an ad?

EAT SMITHS CRISPS

[copper carbon]

O.O

you have to complete the maze on teh back of the cereal box in the commerical

[oblique cairn]

Phew! update worked on second try!
if anyone is up for trying out my game and giving some last-moment feedback, its here: https://chozabu.itch.io/unscher

[copper carbon]

huzzah!

[vapid thistle]

And my game is live!

[minor hemlock]

@copper carbon to double check, if we had a team members girlfriend do voice acting that doesn't count against the team limit right? just credits?

[oblique cairn]

@minor hemlock Death sentence! 😛

[glass fossil]

we're submitted!

https://itch.io/jam/2018-epic-megajam/rate/330738 kind of a rough draft version

[zinc relic]

its a competition

so lets hope its your best tryy

[oblique cairn]

I think this time I have a chance of winning something

but there are so many other good submissions!

[maiden loom]

I doubt I have a chance xD

[vapid thistle]

@oblique cairn I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but when I try to play your game all I get is a black screen. I can hear the audio, but the screen stays black, I even let it run for a few minutes

[zinc relic]

with 1000 people on the jam,...

yee

theres only a tiny chance to win against the 4 or 5 head teams

like 1 to 997

[maiden loom]

70 entries

so it's not that bad yet

probably end with around 200-250 at this rate though xD

[zinc relic]

70 so far.

[oblique cairn]

@vapid thistle Augh! Thanks for the info, what spec is your computer?

[zinc relic]

as foreseen 200 - 300

if you hadnt finalized your idea on day 1 you are going nowhere

i see forward to this :3

[oblique cairn]

@zinc relic I missed day 1 😦

perhaps that's why my game is a black screen 😄

[vapid thistle]

Sorry for being the bearer of bad news! But better now that later. I have a predator helios 300, so it is pretty decent

[zinc relic]

I see some really bad awkward abomination games and some really creative ones

[maiden loom]

just like every jam

also loads that don't seem to have anything to do with the theme

[zinc relic]

i think ima make a list and play them :3

[maiden loom]

surprisingly few that do so far, weirdly

I thought it a pretty easy theme this year

[zinc relic]

ah yee

the theme youre right

uff

when is jam ending?

3 hours

[vapid thistle]

3-ish hours

[oblique cairn]

3hrs and 3 mins: https://itch.io/jam/2018-epic-megajam

@vapid thistle Well, thanks for info I'll try it on a second machine here, and downloaded from itch! Hope it is OK for judges

[zinc relic]

there are games that have no image O.o

well those are going right into trash

[vapid thistle]

I hope it was just my computer!

[oblique cairn]

@vapid thistle hmmmm actually - it may be because I testewd it on my local machine first, and it is trying to launch in 4k, but your laptop does not do 4k?

if so, thats an easy fix, and your info will have been amazingly valuable!

[zinc relic]

theres a new zealand game 😄

[oblique cairn]

@zinc relic yes, made over 1 month, completly before the game jam...

[zinc relic]

is that so

[oblique cairn]

@zinc relic it says in its desc/submission

[zinc relic]

why is that game there?!

[oblique cairn]

ascii shrug

as someone said here 5 days ago - at least they are being honest!

[vapid thistle]

It doesn't! I'm glad that was all the problem was!

[zinc relic]

Punching bag simulater?!?!

[oblique cairn]

I don't yet know thats the nprobelm, but hope so!

[zinc relic]

i take it back XD

you do have a larger chance to win

wow

i feel like i am in the wrong jam list

[oblique cairn]

wrong jam list?

[zinc relic]

nah

its sadly the right one XD

[maiden loom]

haha, the new zealand thing that was submitted something like 1 hour after the jam started

"I made this and it took a month"

https://giphy.com/gifs/wtf-obama-wth-pPhyAv5t9V8djyRFJH

[oblique cairn]

what is a good way to be notified of upcoming jams?

[maiden loom]

just pay attention to here, hehe

people usually talk about them as soon as they're announced

otherwise this channel is quiet

[zinc relic]

and as said the game with higher heads... are in heavy advantages

https://markalis.itch.io/stella

[oblique cairn]

my discord is noisy, I have dozens of people sending me random DMs about crypto get-rich-quick schemes(or rather scams)

[zinc relic]

thats why one gets idiot protection 😛

so you cant get dmed by non friends

[oblique cairn]

I do want some random DMs, I have people asking me questions, offering work, or just saying hi sometimes - idiot protection would be good though

Stella looks fantastic!

[maiden loom]

headcount is taken into account when judging, so it's not necessarily going to mean those games will win

[hidden flicker]

does it really mean FROM

or where we LIVE

[maiden loom]

I would assume the country you're resident in

it's a bit funky

Epic have always had problems understanding international concepts

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[hidden flicker]

lol

[dry jetty]

Is anyone streaming the games like Allar did last jam?

[zinc relic]

i am thinking about it D:

but its like sleeping time for me in 3 hours

how does that work D:

[dry jetty]

It's a lot of games, best to pace through it slowly anyways lol. I am fighting to stay awake myself

[trail trellis]

If i've already submitted a game to the jam, do I just need to update the itch.io download if I want to make changes?

[zinc relic]

yes

but you only have 3 hours left.

[trail trellis]

Yep, that's fine! Thanks

[oblique cairn]

@vapid thistle hmm, my game runs OK on my 1080p laptop after downloading from itch.... no idea why it does not work on your machine

I may re-upload a clean build anyway to be safe, perhaps after trying to wedge in a save system

[random parcel]

@oblique cairn Upcoming UE4 jams are most likely shared via #unreal-news. And if not, then simply follow UnrealEngine on Twitter.

[craggy zodiac]

@oblique cairn here's a website that gives you a literal timeline of Game Jams you can join
https://itch.io/jams

[oblique cairn]

@random parcel @craggy zodiac OK! Thanks, I'll see if either of those can do me email notifications or something too 😃 (or perhaps start using other mediums of comms more)

[minor hemlock]

@craggy zodiac any luck getting your game packaged?

[craggy zodiac]

well it packages but the portals I have that are suppose to create their own texture and scene captures dont work. They work in the editor but not in a package

And at this point I've told my team that we wont have it done

[minor hemlock]

🤢 those bugs are the worst

[maiden loom]

@craggy zodiac - how are you creating render textures?

I used RTTs and mine work fine in packaged

[craggy zodiac]

in the constructor

WAIT

do I have to put it in the begin play?

[minor hemlock]

yes

yesyesyes

[craggy zodiac]

and not in the constructor

[minor hemlock]

yes

yes

[craggy zodiac]

OH FOR F... SAKES

[minor hemlock]

FINISH IT

https://www.gbtc.org/data/photos/melrose99/melrose99-03.jpg <-- this channel right now

[craggy zodiac]

I'm still new to UE4 so I thought that a "constructor" ran whenever the object was CONSTRUCTED in game and out

[copper carbon]

yaaaaaas

[minor hemlock]

if you place items with constructors in the persistent level, then I'm 99% sure constructor is only called in editor and not at runtime

I want to play your game so bad I'm willing to help you debug it lol

[oblique cairn]

@minor hemlock I think that is correct, @craggy zodiac easy mistake to make!

I missed the access to quixel megascans this jam (again!)
Applied to quixel, but had not pressed the "Join Jam" button

@craggy zodiac Just read up! That is the EXACT error I made a few days ago

I didn't actuall fix it, figured I only have 1 portal visible at a time, so they all share data

with this mess here to check which is visible (along with some careful level design)

weird how it works in PIE, and in "Launch" - but not packaged

[glass fossil]

I’m super proud of the code on my game

I wonder how many people used that portal tutorial, I followed it as well

[marsh oxide]

1h 30min left , i'm done with the multiplayer scoreboards and all that, now is time for some art 😄

[wintry orchid]

Good luck y'all... This was my first Jam... Learned some important things about planning ahead, cutting scope and where to improve. I'm sure I'll make it to the finish line next year. See you all soon !

[minor hemlock]

@glass fossil same! I tried to make it good code and it definitely helped when it came to fixing bugs frantically

[glass fossil]

Yeah our game had a ton of intractable objects and if they all had of had separate blueprints I wouldn’t have finished on time

[oblique cairn]

augh, upload failed again

1hr left, I'm done making changes, will just get it uploaded!

[glass fossil]

2 hours

isnt it?

nvm

[oblique cairn]

1hr 10 mins?

[glass fossil]

if it started at 10pm i figured that it would end at 10pm

[oblique cairn]

based on PC local clock, so it can be incorrect

[glass fossil]

but no, at 9pm

[oblique cairn]

(my laptop has incorrect time when in windows, it says there are 2hrs left...)

[glass fossil]

you have 1 hour 7 minutes

[proper adder]

@copper carbon Where do we send the team details?

[waxen trout]

Does every member need to submit or just one?

[copper carbon]

Just one person - team details are part of the submission form

you have to submit your game to the jam page in addition to uploading it on Itch

[zinc relic]

So have the team listed in the game info?

[glass fossil]

43 mins left boiiis

[zinc relic]

bois edit your descriptions!!!!

you weirdos

[glass fossil]

well i already submitted mine yesterday but im not everyone

[oblique cairn]

@zinc relic team must be listed in the submission - no harm on listing them in game page too

[tulip viper]

any suggested changes for this?

[glass fossil]

WOW

thats so good

[oblique cairn]

@tulip viper Please make it less good to give us all a better chance of winning 😛

[tulip viper]

lol... art != gameplay

trust me.... i know 100% this all too well

[zinc relic]

i downloaded the first game.

[oblique cairn]

still, looks amazing!

[rigid fog]

Ah wells

[quasi girder]

@copper carbon - declaration of assets: "character from contentexample, model Foo and Bar from marketplace" - is enough or how much details do you want?

[rigid fog]

https://giphy.com/gifs/asian-jeremy-lin-asianmen-3o7TKIVhjUEcYbJCUg

[tulip viper]

thanks

[oblique cairn]

@rigid fog did you get your problems sorted?

[rigid fog]

Yeah, but I don't like the controls

[tulip viper]

my favorite is the cityscape

so pretty

[rigid fog]

They are so shit

I like this concept though

Just need to do more research

rofl. yeah, now the goblinettes are all turned around lol

@tulip viper looks good

[tulip viper]

lol thanks guys

@dull basin was mostly the art

i was just simple art direction, she is the real hamSTAR 😃

@robust basalt also coded his butt off

so we will see

[astral quail]

Hey guys, I have a question regarding the ue4jam assembly. What is it for ?

[rigid fog]

I'm not disappointed. Learned so much from this jam.

https://gyazo.com/5a3fba829ca1b3f30712f17cf3256113

[zinc relic]

dis looks good

why flying trees tho 😮

[oblique cairn]

I also learned with itch I should probably use butler... particularly with my slow connection (last failed upload removed my file from itch! it should finish uploading again before time runs out though)

[rigid fog]

omfg

I should have just made this into a wave shooter lol

[round valley]

Anyone???

[zinc relic]

jeez

[rigid fog]

@zinc relic meh, I didn't have time to do any level design

[oblique cairn]

@rigid fog I like the flying trees, and... flying ice cream?

[zinc relic]

OMG

[rigid fog]

https://gyazo.com/b7cf0d65b57df93214383626aa725e4f

Watch this one

[zinc relic]

placing trees is not level design

[rigid fog]

So much wasted talent

[zinc relic]

🤦

my poor nerves

[maiden loom]

150ish entries

[oblique cairn]

@round valley Perhaps your anim BP cannot access your pawn?

or cannot access controller

[rigid fog]

https://gyazo.com/d9a58ea2097116fa9d032fac59f0cb79

[oblique cairn]

@round valley looks like you call setrotation, perhaps on a controller, but the target is not found?

[tulip viper]

https://jakayaki.itch.io/hamsters-are-often-inaccurate

[round valley]

@oblique cairn it resolved itself when i tried building again lol

[tulip viper]

and there we go

[round valley]

GOD im happy!!

[oblique cairn]

@rigid fog game link?

@round valley Good good 😄

[rigid fog]

There's no game link

No submission

Not worth

https://gyazo.com/4c349c555424685f6a87ab86fd588a66

Ah wells, need to get ready to stream everyone else's awesome games

[oblique cairn]

@rigid fog aww - win or not, it'd be good to submit - looks like a real game!

[tulip viper]

@rigid fog looks cool though

i love the wizard

[oblique cairn]

I just grabbed the domain for my game http://unscher.com

If i get some kinda prize, will do some more work polishing it up and add a few more levels

[cerulean geode]

So I've submitted the game before. After updating the project with a new executable, do I have to do anything? Submit again? or is the latest version used?

[oblique cairn]

@cerulean geode AFAIK that is all you need to do (assuming you replaced previous zip) - but make sure you have both put your game on itch AND submitted it from main jam page

[maiden loom]

submission details seem to have disappeared from the submissions, so you can't see things like team size or filter by categories entered? 😦

[cerulean geode]

So the main jam page doesn't allow me to submit any games anymore. Says I don't have any viable games. Sounds like my game is still considered "in"

[safe island]

9 minutes

[minor hemlock]

WHY AM I STILL WORKING ON THIS

[oblique cairn]

@minor hemlock in 7 mins you wont be...

(well, you can still, but jam finishes then)

[safe island]

pays attention

[marsh oxide]

moment of truth, if the multiplayer works or not 😄

[glass fossil]

very close to the end!

[proper adder]

6 minutes left
Filling a form has never been so epic 🤞

[glass fossil]

@marsh oxide LOL!

[maiden loom]

lol, so many last minute entries

[tulip viper]

lol

if you aint last your first

[maiden loom]

"Realty is Often Innacurate"

fantastic

[cerulean geode]

last minute updates

[glass fossil]

before last day submission 😝

today i rested

[minor hemlock]

me right now

https://66.media.tumblr.com/5f57e7b47845256151cecc7032bc57a7/tumblr_inline_mny772tk0U1qz4rgp.gif

[glass fossil]

oof

[wise apex]

Hey, but what about that bug you thought nobody would notice? It's actually obvious... 👺

[maiden loom]

I uploaded a day and a half ago xD

[minor hemlock]

last minute requests, NEVER again lol

[glass fossil]

imagine internet crashing rn XD

while you upload

[wise apex]

imagine having an american ISP and still not having started the upload.

[marsh oxide]

yay, multiplayer works 😄 i have a game

[glass fossil]

imagine not having a fast enough internet to upload in time. Post was made by ethernet gang

[tulip viper]

@glass fossil that was me 😛

is me

freaking rural internet... shakes fists

[maiden loom]

Quantic Run looks nice, not sure how it fits the theme tho

[glass fossil]

lol

3 mins!

[marsh oxide]

now i notice my game name is a bit different from the project name 😄 i hope is no problem

[robust basalt]

gg ladies and gents, gg

[glass fossil]

my project and exe name is "JamGame" @marsh oxide XD

i just made a shortcut and renamed it

[maiden loom]

"Punching Bag Simulator"??

[zinc relic]

right

its as bad as it sounds

its unreal bad

[glass fossil]

[zinc relic]

nono

the other

its so bad its

unreal

[glass fossil]

un real?

[wise apex]

my team (we bailed) had way worse ideas than that.

[safe island]

~1 minute

[glass fossil]

un-un-

[minor hemlock]

my heart can't take this

[wise apex]

@north arrow Go on. Tell em your ideas.

[glass fossil]

GG my D O O T S !

[safe island]

GG all

[zinc relic]

the upload time is the time the upload starts.

[round valley]

WHAT

[safe island]

Thanks for participating in the 2018 Mega Jam!

[zinc relic]

not finishes

[rigid fog]

https://giphy.com/gifs/party-the-office-hard-l0MYt5jPR6QX5pnqM

[glass fossil]

DAB

[violet kestrel]

That was the single most stressful thing to balance with a full time job

[glass fossil]

Congratulations everyone!!!

im confident i will win 😏

[round valley]

PLEASE

[violet kestrel]

I can sleep for a week

[glass fossil]

Oh man that’s rough

[cerulean geode]

Refreshing the itch page during the last minute was hilarious. Every second a new entry got added. 206 in the end!

[quasi girder]

fork on itch.io ... 30kib/s upload damn it ! anyone else having problem with the butler speed?

[rigid fog]

https://twitter.com/VictorBurgosG3/status/1063143973013909504

Victor Burgos (@VictorBurgosG3)

Days ago I knew I was out of scope, but I didn't want to stop learning about Gameplay Abilities in #ue4 and I am glad that I kept at it during #ue4jam. While I won't be submitting, here are a few clips of the four classes I created over the past week. #gamedev #indiedev - ...

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What could have been, wasn't. Hohoho

[safe island]

We have a lot of games to play!

[dry jetty]

Sooooooooo I submitted, but my last level didn't have lighting built (it took so long in production quality ugh!) and was in dev mode, if I upload to itch with the proper copy will it void my entry to the gamejam?

[vapid thistle]

Good luck all!

[cedar spindle]

Holy hell just about had a heart attack.

[zinc relic]

you denied a potential winner victor...

[minor hemlock]

@round valley nooooooo, to the forums, see if you can get it in

[proper adder]

Oh my 😂

[round valley]

I had 5 sec left lol

it was loading

[rigid fog]

@zinc relic Heh

[round valley]

and the submission glitched 5 min earlier

so i had to do it twice LOL

[maiden loom]

the portal effect in RIFT14 is nice

[cedar spindle]

Had build issues with VS17 all morning finally got it working, uploaded, wrote my submission and then because when i saved my changes to the edit to my page where I had been uploading, it set it back to draft. When I submitted it selected an older project instead automatically.

[dull rain]

This was fun, can't wait to get a good nights sleep 😂

[cedar spindle]

Discovered that at T-1 minute

[glass fossil]

i will get 5 for art 😏 👌 😂 😂 😏

[craggy zodiac]

by the skin of our teath we were able to fix and upload something that can be used

[glass fossil]

🅱

[violet kestrel]

I wonder if anyone uploaded their game with a price on it haha

[tulip viper]

@violet kestrel i thought to

lol

[cedar spindle]

Presenting: The Museum of Interactive art: https://freshlemonade.itch.io/museum-of-interactive-art

[tulip viper]

1$

[glass fossil]

lmao

[fiery topaz]

who else accidently clicked "create new game button" instead of "submit information" and then got fucked over?

[zinc relic]

submitting 10 minutes for final... is your own fault XD

its really bald

[minor hemlock]

granted, we had a submission in from last night, but wanted to get a few last builds pushed

with credits 😃

[maiden loom]

206 games

[cedar spindle]

My heart. https://i.gyazo.com/2992b0e27d9b6db48bf65d1b5ed64206.png 36 seconds...

[robust basalt]

so where are the playthrough streams at?

[maiden loom]

80 of which submitted in the last 20-30 minutes 😂

[rigid fog]

I'll be starting shortly

[minor hemlock]

@rigid fog but but but I'm busy watching the unreal stream 😦

[rigid fog]

Ah yeah

Hmm

[glass fossil]

wheres the winner!?! 😂

[cedar spindle]

Anyone want to voice chat and hang out post-jam for a bit?

[minor hemlock]

IMO start it shortly before the stream ends and see if you can get a shout out?

up for it, @cedar spindle I just need to setup my headphones

[robust basalt]

clever pun

https://moz306.itch.io/forknife

[craggy zodiac]

I cant believe I made it.
https://edwin-baranov.itch.io/quantum-lock
It unfortunately is not what I envisioned as an end product but it works (sort of)
and I kid you not I was about to give up.
so right now it only has the mechanics we wanted to use, and you have to manually activate them with k, and you get an error whenever you boot it

so as a first time gamejamer, is this normal?

[dry jetty]

Yes

[maiden loom]

Forkknife is a commonly used play on the name

it's everywhere

[violet kestrel]

Quick question, how do you know if you submitted to the GameJam thing

I clicked the button to Submit

[dry jetty]

My game was barely functional, you rode a physics train and at one point it went straight up and you fall off

[violet kestrel]

but is there anywhere that just clarify's that

[maiden loom]

submissions page only shows a small selection instead of the whole list 😦

[dry jetty]

needless to say it didnt perform well

[gaunt copper]

oof

submiteted 30 sec before deadline

thru project has a lot of issues

[glass fossil]

@violet kestrel maybe see your game page?

[gaunt copper]

if we had one more day >.<

[glass fossil]

It should say that it's a submission to gamejam

On the top right

[craggy zodiac]

@dry jetty I have a bunch of portals that for some reason took me forever to figure out how to disable them with rendering, when I tested in the fps template it worked flawlessly, but then when making my own room in a fresh level they would be rendering through the walls, even though I couldnt see it. I had to set the LOD of the plane mesh used for the portal to disappear at around 1000 units

[gaunt copper]

yes on prohject page

[violet kestrel]

fuck

[glass fossil]

Oof

[violet kestrel]

It's not saying it's submitted to it

[maiden loom]

D:

[glass fossil]

O O F

Really sad

-game

[oblique cairn]

@craggy zodiac I also had a while figuring out extras with portals, making them into self contained actors, disabling scene capture when it cannot be seen, setting up clip plane, etc

[dry jetty]

@craggy zodiac Ahh yeah I had to do that with my portal too

[gaunt copper]

JHulse95 you only hope it tlak to amanda

[craggy zodiac]

the biggest killer of games, OPTIMIZATION

[violet kestrel]

@copper carbon

https://jamiehulse.itch.io/alteration

[glass fossil]

@craggy zodiac mine is very good optimized

[violet kestrel]

D:

[oblique cairn]

(and of course the same issue as you, discovering creating the render target in the constructor fails)

[gaunt copper]

no she is on stream right now

[violet kestrel]

oh

[gaunt copper]

https://www.twitch.tv/unrealengine

[violet kestrel]

Will message there and see

thanks

[gaunt copper]

send her PM

and odnt update project

so date confirm that oyu did before deadline

[craggy zodiac]

@oblique cairn @dry jetty so many portals

[maiden loom]

Time for everyone to share links:
https://ananonymousmoose.itch.io/objective-unreality

[oblique cairn]

I'll share mine again 😄 http://unscher.com (chuffed to have stumbled on a 6 letter domain)

[gaunt copper]

https://shadowriverue4.itch.io/ai-spew-tech

here ours ^^'

[oblique cairn]

also, what stream are you guys watching? the one on twitch nabout materials?

[gaunt copper]

I be streaming all entries tommorow

i need to rest for a day

probably gonna play for a week with 200 entires on ;p

[hollow horizon]

I was just about to ask if you really plan on playing 200 entries in one day

[gaunt copper]

yes

[maiden loom]

it'll take a couple of days

[gaunt copper]

its just 50 enties extra xd

i played summer jam for 3 days

ofcorse + sleep

[maiden loom]

avg 5 mins per game * 200 = 1000 minutes (16.6 non stop hours xD)

[gaunt copper]

but i need to rest and strees out first and also do some preparations, so gonnan start tommorow

[dry jetty]

@gaunt copper whats your twitch?

[gaunt copper]

https://www.twitch.tv/shadowriver

as always i be playing in submission order

[dull rain]

@gaunt copper Just followed you on twitch, whats your time zone?

[compact cedar]

@robust basalt your games are always top notch

[dull rain]

dont want to miss the stream

[gaunt copper]

CET, but i kind of awake in PST time

[round valley]

Got my submission accepted!! PHEW

[compact cedar]

@robust basalt not the iPhone top notch...you know

[robust basalt]

lol

thanks, I guess

it's 90% art, though

10% screenshake

[dull rain]

@gaunt copper I'll have to keep an eye out for you, im gmt...

[ancient delta]

gg everybody

xD

[iron musk]

I am SO tired. 🇿 🇿 🇿

[minor hemlock]

is it a huge issue if our zip file isn't correctly formatted >.o

[iron musk]

Like, you didn't rename the "Windows No Editor" folder?

[minor hemlock]

no, the actual zip file name is just AnomalyLatest.zip

[iron musk]

Oh, the name/team name file format.

[copper carbon]

No, it's not a deal breaker - it just helps us organize the files and saves time.

[iron musk]

I am tired.

I remember almost accidentally breaking the game while doing level layout.

[minor hemlock]

aren't you supposed to be busy streaming 🤔

[copper carbon]

I am 😉

[cerulean geode]

Lol, the zip file of our game is called test-windows.zip. Sorry Amanda. I thought itch would update the name of the zip. It shows as TeamName_ProjectName on the downloads page. Can I rename the zip somehow?

[wise apex]

who's the guest?

[cedar spindle]

Thanks for organizing the jam @copper carbon @safe island ! Looks like lots of great games to try out. 😃

[fallow lion]

sharing our submission before I sleep due brain damage 😄 https://mazar.itch.io/quantic-run

[copper carbon]

@cerulean geode - We'll sort it. No biggie 😃

Chris Murphy is on the stream today

[gaunt copper]

i always afte eadline i feel like train is still going

[copper carbon]

@cedar spindle aww of course

the jams are so great - it's really a pleasure to see all the games you all make 😃

[iron musk]

I actually feel more confident (and exhausted). I didn't realize I was capable of this.

[minor hemlock]

that's why you jam @iron musk ! 🔌 🎸 🥁 🤘

[dull rain]

@iron musk Thats the best part of a jam. once you've submitted and you can take a stress free look at your work. diamonds are made under pressure and all that 😉

[copper carbon]

awww

love to hear that

❤

[iron musk]

Yeah, I worked alone this time (because I didn't want to drag anybody down). I might actually try a team next jam.

[minor hemlock]

I think I benefited from going solo for my first jam in the summer, gave me an idea of what parts I would contribute best to a team

[cedar spindle]

I feel like it was almost a miracle that everything came together at the end there for me. I was close to not having enough gameplay and not being able to submit. 😬

[iron musk]

Heh, were you the one that ran across the compiling bug at the last minute?

[glass fossil]

Man I need a nap, I loved this theme though

https://itch.io/jam/2018-epic-megajam/rate/330738 here’s our game, I’m super proud of the work that our team did

[oblique cairn]

I feel I should have had less sleep and done more work... currently well rested and cheerful. 😄

[glass fossil]

Also the trailer doesn’t really do it justice since I made it at 6 am and I tried to avoid spoilers

[iron musk]

I woke up from a 2 hour one. That makes 5 hours of sleep in the last 2 days. Worst part is that I have to go drive downtown in about 30 minutes.

[oblique cairn]

spent too much time running around with the dog I am looking after IRL (well, no regrets really!)

[glass fossil]

What type of dog?

[oblique cairn]

@glass fossil big friendly black one? dunno breed

[glass fossil]

Ah man I was hoping it was a corgi, they’re the best

[iron musk]

Oh, man, I should get ready to go. Good luck to you all. I hope everybody wins! 🖖🏼 😅 🖖🏼

[minor hemlock]

oh.. I let my dog out while I was doing last minute changes

I wonder if I let her back in.....

[oblique cairn]

(looking guilty after doing something bad)

[hidden flicker]

Good luck guys

[safe island]

Now the hard work begins

(For Amanda and I)

[minor hemlock]

are you two the only judges?

I thought maybe there was a company lottery to choose an unfortunate group of judges 😛

[oblique cairn]

hard work? Of judging and testing for you guys, right?

[minor hemlock]

watching @rigid fog maybe the hard work is just downloading all the games in the first place 🤔

[compact cedar]

credits in game

[minor hemlock]

can you pick them up and throw them with physics? 😄

[compact cedar]

@minor hemlock books?

[minor hemlock]

I'll record our credits screen real quick, pretty proud of it

yeah the books

[compact cedar]

@minor hemlock yeah....this game is physics bases

[dry jetty]

Gonna be honest, I started making blueprint spaghetti sculptures the last 2 days, just too much to implement, never heard of events either only tick

[minor hemlock]

I only caved in to that temptation in the last 30 minutes 😛

[zinc relic]

victor you almost won!!!!

[rigid fog]

@safe island @copper carbon I'm live streaming playthroughs: https://www.twitch.tv/victorburgosgames, if you get a chance, please announce on Stream. Will actually start playing games right after

[dry jetty]

I used way to many get all actors of class, get array elem 0 to get references to actors the past 18 hours

[hidden flicker]

I think anxiety set in on day 5, and my producitivity just went all downhill

Also like

Lack of sleep

Im also out of coffee can we have that as a prize

Just for participation

Epic java

[dusky vessel]

"how to get a job" is also my life story

/name jfaw

Aww, you guys disabled name changing

[wise apex]

Hrm

[minor hemlock]

glitch life. just found an amazing bug where starting with no save files gives you a continue game button that spawns you at 0,0,0

\o/ 0,0,0 not even in our map bounds -_-

[hidden flicker]

that was intentional feature

so you can get to that hidden level

that we didnt finish

or even started working on

[minor hemlock]

@rigid fog finally finished downloading all our games to play on stream \o/ https://www.twitch.tv/victorburgosgames

[hidden flicker]

um

i think we have a problem

i submitted the entry

but i dont think that it updated the submission page when i uploaded the itch.io files

[minor hemlock]

it had to have, because I see the online leaderboard button

[hidden flicker]

oh

it did

[minor hemlock]

and that's where I got it from

[hidden flicker]

i just didnt refresh the page

lol

208 entries

thats pretty low

oh

and im not on the team discord

sorry

wrong channel

[gaunt copper]

that high

[hidden flicker]

werent ther elike 1000 teams

[gaunt copper]

i think -30 then last year

60 entries more then last jam

[hidden flicker]

oh, this my first epic mega jam

[gaunt copper]

all team mebers probably hit join ;p

so that number of people

some what

[hidden flicker]

ahhh

makes sense

[gaunt copper]

sicne not all did that

[hidden flicker]

2x 5 = 10

[gaunt copper]

only i and S-ed did join

so it not that accurate

as we also had 3 extra members

the names you submit in the field counts

[onyx moon]

We couldn't get it migrated and working... feels bad man

[gaunt copper]

migrated?

[onyx moon]

ya, our dev couldn't get his stuff working in our level the artists made

[gaunt copper]

you oculd upload it as it is

we also got some... incomplishons :p

[onyx moon]

ya, wish we did upload the "dev version" of it

but worked on getting it working up till the end

[gaunt copper]

i start pacheing 10 minutes before

[robust basalt]

reading migrating, my crashed perforce server comes to mind. We were pretty late on the assembla thing, so I hosted a server on my local machine.
Smart me also ran a very unstable overclock and I bluescreened during the jam, completely fucking the repo....

[onyx moon]

nice

[gaunt copper]

ans submitted like 30sec

before deadline

[robust basalt]

we had a a couple of backup packages from 2hour before the deadline, but we also submitted the last version 10min before

30sec is hard though

need some brass balls for that 😄

[gaunt copper]

i got pretty good upload so i can submit last minutes wihtout issue ;p

[north arrow]

why am i tagged dam it

[minor hemlock]

doh, wrong rei

😃

hey all, I'm trying to consolidate all of the various streamers playthroughs of our games

if you want to help, the spreadsheet is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OuYRBRw8XyNRzRxZdxCat8ApogzklCK8Nw4SmpufJvg/edit

[onyx moon]

lmfao took you 10 minutes to see new game button

[minor hemlock]

hey @craggy zodiac I didn't see, did you end up getting your game fixed and submitted?

[compact cedar]

https://itch.io/jam/2018-epic-megajam/rate/282313

^ who will notice a catch?

[minor hemlock]

well I tried playing but it's literally backend examples

I thought it was a legit game because of the controls in the description 😛

[oblique cairn]

O.o

[craggy zodiac]

@minor hemlock sort of, all the key mechanics are working but we don't have any game play so what we uploaded was a single-level that you walk around in and then you can force activate the mechanics by pressing a button on the keyboard. Other than that yes everything else works, I learned that a constructor is only for the editor and not for runtime

[minor hemlock]

what's the name?

[craggy zodiac]

Quantum lock

[compact cedar]

@minor hemlock it's...Unity...

[minor hemlock]

there have been playable games made in unity before 🤔

I can think of one.. or two

[compact cedar]

@minor hemlock yeah...but this is unplayable + in unity =)))

[onyx moon]

Ori!

[minor hemlock]

yeah I was just kidding 😃 lot of my favorites are unity (they just don't have the splash :P)

[minor hemlock]

https://itch.io/jam/2018-epic-megajam 211 entries, but only 210 games listed?

[small fern]

sounds normal

[maiden loom]

There were 207 when the deadline closed 🤔

[minor hemlock]

epic staff being good guys and adding fashionably late entries probably 😛

[maiden loom]

Someone tag me if someone streams Objective Unreality (hopefully it'll be tomorrow, 'cos it's midnight and I'm gonna sleep!)

[robust basalt]

btw this guy has a timemachine

he has gamerplay footage from 3 months ago

https://itch.io/jam/2018-epic-megajam/rate/302297

[minor hemlock]

You read his description right?

List any content that was created before the jam that was included in the final submission.
The entire game was made before the jam's time period, and took about 1 month from start to finish.

[robust basalt]

so what you are saying is that he doesn't have a time machine? Damn, he almost got me there.

smart feller

[gaunt copper]

it was one of first submissions

because 2 days ago there was just 2 entries wit this included

[somber hazel]

who is the dev from Glitchphobia? pretty silent dude, but the game is cool

[robust basalt]

I was actually wondering the same

for solo dev that thing is solid

also no other submissions on itch or anything

[glass fossil]

Oh my goodness I took a nap for two hours and I feel amazing

The bags under my eyes were starting to get really bad

[tulip viper]

😛

[worldly night]

@minor hemlock Whats your game called

[glass fossil]

Can you guys link me what your favorite games of the jam are and the games that you guys made? I want to check out some of them 😄

[tulip viper]

https://twitter.com/Riuthamus/status/1063142160256520194

Sean Forbes (@Riuthamus)

Finally, we are done with this. Hope you all enjoy it and let us know what you think! https://t.co/6j3aqLosSm #UE4Jam #gamedev #gameart #screenshotsaturday #twitchgame #twitch #streamelements @UnrealEngine

Twitter

[trail trellis]

https://nocturnalarts.itch.io/department-of-truth-correction Feedback appreciated! 😃

[round valley]

https://doktor-plekter.itch.io/feverdream-back-to-reality

[near cairn]

https://itch.io/jam/2018-epic-megajam/rate/330610

[worldly night]

soma is real scary

[quasi girder]

@trail trellis your link to gameplay footage http://nocturnalarts.nz/departmentoftruthcorrection does not work

[trail trellis]

There currently isn't any, link is placeholder sorry. 😃

[round valley]

who is streaming playtroughs of the submissions this time around? 🎮

[worldly night]

if someone sends me the top 50 best looking games ill stream them

[oblique cairn]

I have debugging symbols installed now... and cant make ue4 crash. had 24 crashes during jam

[maiden loom]

hah

karma

[trail trellis]

@oblique cairn were you on 4.21?

[oblique cairn]

@trail trellis no, 4.20

(I suspect it is my own fault somehow....)

[trail trellis]

Damn. Well I opted to stay away from the new release for exactly that reason. 4.20 has been super good to me. 😃

[oblique cairn]

but I was getting crashes when moving items in my menu level, which hand nothing fancy/weird in it at all

4.20 has been great to me until this jam!

upgraded 2 other games I am working on to 4.20 and done loads of work on them with way less issues

[minor hemlock]

@worldly night Anomaly

[worldly night]

downloading now 😛

[zinc relic]

your worst work yet @oblique cairn

it was a competition afterall :/

[worldly night]

Feelsbad

[zinc relic]

and you shouldnt make ue4 faulty for this

[minor hemlock]

@round valley I decided I'll be streaming a few requests and titles I really wanted to try today

~4h from now. Feverdream is definitely on the list

[oblique cairn]

Funnily enough, I think the video I posted after 1 day of work on this project was my most popular post ever on the ue4 subred (and I'd spent a long time on a few other things...)
Think the saying "1% inspiration 99% persperation" is wrong, more like 50/50, or 30/70

[minor hemlock]

Not when it comes to photos and cat pics on Reddit :p

[oblique cairn]

@zinc relic it may well be my worst work, if it wont run on anyones machine except mine!

[zinc relic]

Did you not had any errors when packaging?

not enough valid coding?

whats the reason

[oblique cairn]

no idea, 100% BP, poking around in editor right now to try and make it crash with debugging symbols so I can actually get a clue!

[zinc relic]

and did people tell you where it crashed?

[oblique cairn]

looked at the regular logs for existing crashes, but not very imformative

[worldly night]

What’s it called @oblique cairn

[oblique cairn]

for me, it has crashed in the editor

@worldly night http://unscher.com should redirect to itch page

[zinc relic]

crashing in the editor isnt a very valid thing

the editor crashes for much more reasons then just coding

[oblique cairn]

@zinc relic of the two people who have tried, one mentioned it did not launch, has a black screen, but can hear the sound. Other person said mysterious fatal error on launch

I am still ready to kick myself when I found out what I have done wrong 😄

[zinc relic]

these two

Advanced space shader from marketplace (for skybox)
Voxelplugin (not used much yet)

take look at these.

and yes...

you didnt packaged your game.

i can see all your assets

yes

i also get a fatal crash.

bc of this

[oblique cairn]

I turned off .pak (mostly so people can see the assets used)

[zinc relic]

bad move.

[worldly night]

@oblique cairn your main menu is gonna give me a seizure

[oblique cairn]

Will have a closer look at both of those systems (space shader and voxelplugin)

@worldly night it runs? sweet! is it broken or, just from the design?

[worldly night]

is it meant to flash white every couple seconds?

[zinc relic]

what assets from this game are bought?

[oblique cairn]

Not an original design on my part

No, it is not meant to flash

[zinc relic]

dont mind me opening your project

[worldly night]

Oh well it does

[oblique cairn]

@zinc relic I think the only paid assets are the skybox and the spline generator for the ivy/flags/glowingvines

[zinc relic]

you should make a proper package

with everything

[oblique cairn]

you mean turn .pak back on? does it make much of a difference?

[zinc relic]

you have vulkan errors

[trail trellis]

The game runs for me, although that menu is so confusing! I also see the content in the sub folders which is basically a copy of your project files fyi.

[zinc relic]

vulkan is not supposed to create these errors on normal system XD

[oblique cairn]

really? I thought I was only targetting directx

[zinc relic]

you broke something very bad

and it has something todo with you not packaging the game correctly

select a platform

do 64

shipping build

default settings

[oblique cairn]

nope, I do have vulkan ticked too

AFAIK the only setting I changed was disabling .PAK

(and setting to a shipping build instead of devel)

I did try a build with OGL4/5 a while ago, but switched back

[zinc relic]

that you are even on that train

tells me that you did not get how packaging works yet

[oblique cairn]

@trail trellis the menu is confusing? the level buttons are not very obvious?

[oblique cairn]

@zinc relic for another game I use UAT directly, I've written a script that will package and upload to steam... but I must admit there are sure bits I don't fully understand

think I didn't use .PAK there either so steams differential uploader can compare the data better and send less info up my slow internet line

[trail trellis]

@oblique cairn Yea it's a bit bright that's all. Also, it's nice of you to want to be transparent, but the fact you have paid marketplace assets in there is not ideal for their authors. Redistributing outside of your team is against the marketplace license I believe.

[oblique cairn]

@worldly night glad you could get in game!

@trail trellis but .PAKs can be unzipped? and are the assets not still altered somehow, making them harder to reuse?

(I will avoid distrib without .PAK from now on if needed)

[zinc relic]

paks are the encrypted form of the base encryptions

its not only lighter on data, but its also better protected.

every encryption ofc can be broke

and what you did in your game is very easy to break

[trail trellis]

Yea the .pak is not fool-proof but it's better practice since it's not common knowledge or easy.

[zinc relic]

yee

and if people already know what the inside files are called...

thats like telling them how the inside of the lock looks...

you are on thin ice

[oblique cairn]

googling to read more about advantages of .pak, first result is this: https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/104719/57195 saying how to unpack? (not actually tested it)

[zinc relic]

yee you can unpak

but its much harder

and with the system we have now its special for each game.

you cannot protect game content 100%

but not using pak in the first place is bald

it has so many advantages

[lilac fox]

hold on a sec, i thought .pak was android file format.
We had an issue with our build not producing a .exe before the submission. Is there something im not aware of?

[oblique cairn]

apk is android format

[zinc relic]

apk yee

[amber latch]

.pak is what games have been compiled in since quake engine days

[lilac fox]

fml lol

ok thats fair

[zinc relic]

pak also went through alot of changes

epics pak is very unique by now

[lilac fox]

how does one run the pak?

[zinc relic]

you are able to encrypt crysis paks with 7zip...

pak is just the content data 😄

you run the exe ofc

[oblique cairn]

I think epics pak does not have the same roots as IDs pak - just same extension, could be wrong though

[amber latch]

owl beat me to it

[lilac fox]

when we packaged our game, we litralyl did not have a .exe. only pak

[amber latch]

i think its based of ID pak

[oblique cairn]

oooh @zinc relic is owl?

[zinc relic]

no

i am spooder

🕷

[amber latch]

you sure?

😂

[zinc relic]

yes

i am fake

[amber latch]

looks like an owl to me

[lilac fox]

heh, imma just google my questions. apprecaite the help bois

[oblique cairn]

I just had no idea how to pronounce ╲⎝ OvO ⎠╱

[zinc relic]

spooder

[oblique cairn]

Gotcha, Owl 😉

still, I shall go have a bit more of a detailed read about .pak in ue4

Sͥͤ̉p̆̌́o̿ͧͧ҉͚̺ͅōͭͮdͬ̿̄ę́ͣr͎͂̏?͑͋̀

Ah! got my first editor crash with debuggin symbols (just from alt-tabbing back to editor)

[worldly night]

rip

[oblique cairn]

nono, I'm happy about it 😄

[worldly night]

oohhhh right hahah 😛

[oblique cairn]

if nothing else, it means the report I send epic may be more meaningful/useful

[worldly night]

re install everything?

why are the store assests so gosh dang much??? im a poor kid let me use ya shit for less then $80

[oblique cairn]

I think it is related to the project rather than the engine, either my BP, or spaceshader, or voxelplugin

@worldly night in some ways it is expensive - but many of the assets there are 500x less than what it would cost to pay someone to make it

[worldly night]

yeah but some are so expensive yet so bad

[oblique cairn]

Also, there is loads of free ue4 stuff - check the free section on the marketplace, also the "learn" tab of the launcher, and the templates+starters with the engine

@worldly night indeed, some assets don't look good to me. On the marketplace you can also now sort by price, and find the lowest cost good thing that matches your query

[worldly night]

90% of the free stuff is paragon which is cool but i dont need it XD

oh tho they did give away like 8 million worth of assets

[oblique cairn]

there is also the infinity blade stuff, and some new "monthly free" stuff, along with some other nice bits

There are also lots of places that hand out free models/textures that are easy to import into UE4

@worldly night what kind of assets are you after? what kind of game are you working on?

[worldly night]

Space survival game, yeah i know i use maya and import stuff just takes a while

but kinda not XD

im bad at making games just trying to make it work

[oblique cairn]

Still, we are lucky today. Not so long ago there was no online marketplace, or free stuff, you had to model things by basically moving around individual verticies and write your own engine ;)
Looking forwards to see how gamedev will be in 50 years

I've not really used Maya (since about 10 years ago), gotten quite familar with blender though

[worldly night]

fair enough

im gonna try and make a forest landscape soon see how i do

[oblique cairn]

@worldly night there are quite a few free(and cheap) trees if you don't want to make your own. Think there is a photorealistic pack from epic, soul cave has a tree or two, so does infinity blade grasslands

[worldly night]

Yeah i just need 4 tree's then re-use and turn and stuff

[oblique cairn]

@worldly night seen the foliage tool?

[worldly night]

nope

[oblique cairn]

You can "paint" hundreds of meshes onto a landscape (or anything else) in seconds

[worldly night]

the only things i have trouble with is: Making good textures, and drawing textures on stuff

[oblique cairn]

with loads of configurable settings

[worldly night]

oh cool ill def check that out

[oblique cairn]

its built into ue4!

[worldly night]

oh great

whenever i try to draw on textures it never works

[oblique cairn]

draw on textures?

[worldly night]

like draw a path texture into a green texture

[oblique cairn]

Ah, you probably want to make a landscape material, so you can paint its layers with landscape paint tool, or to make a vertex-colour-blending material, so you can paint its layers with vertex colours (if not using a landscape)

there are a bunch of nice tutorials for both these options

you can also find free examples of both methods (particularly landscape painting)

grab the infinity blade grasslands pack, and have a look around its demo level - think it has some painted landscapes, you can try repainting it, and have a look at how its material works

@zinc relic @trail trellis Hmm, looking around some more I don't get the impression not using .pak should induce any errors, but I do see Tim Hobson (epic staff) backing up your comments on using it for protection
I really don't want to "protect" my own stuff, but even more I don't want to run afowl of the marketplace terms (or upset the creators who use it)
The patching method looks a little lame, and may result in lots of dupe data if a change assets willy-nilly? protection also sounds a little flimsy...
Still, I will leave .PAK turned on for future projects unless I get a direct OK from Epic saying it is not needed (which seems unlikely given Tim Hobsons reply)
What I'd really like is a way to encrypt only select files/folders (such as non-free marketplace content)

right, enough typing so many lines alone! I'll go do something productive

[worldly night]

have fun with that 😛 !

[oblique cairn]

@worldly night you too! Sounds like you still have lots of fun things to discover in UE4 😉 (TBH I do too!)

[worldly night]

yeah i'm still a baby with it

2 things 1, i have no clue what im doing or if im doing it right 2, how do i make it go down

[glass fossil]

i think on sculpt SHIFT+LMB

if i remember correctly

[worldly night]

yea thanks

so, i know im meant to look up the anwsers to my problem but i cant figure this out for the life of me, ive followed like 6 videos and none work How do i paint on this?

That’s the same picture apparently oh well still shows it

[oblique cairn]

@worldly night IMO one of the better ways to lean this stuff is to pull apart the free assetpacks (like infinity blades grasslands, which has a painted landscape material)

@worldly night the official docs are good too: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Landscape/QuickStart/5

@worldly night epic make lots of nice videos as well (though I prefer their written docs and examples) https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unreal+engine+4+live+training+landscape

@worldly night some unofficial video tuts may be good too https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+paint+landscape+unreal+engine+4
Though I do strongly recommend checking out the example asset packs and offical docs first!

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Landscape/QuickStart/1 <-- is probably a good place to start

[worldly night]

To the left im meant to have layers right? im reading the doc and following it, i just dont have those like the doc

And yes i know im stupid 😛

[compact cedar]

@worldly night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAJhppttJgI

^ this is probably the best tutorial series on that topic

it explains everything step by step

[oblique cairn]

I still prefer the docs - but often people do prefer video.
Worth noting, the first link I pasted was https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Landscape/QuickStart/5 - which is wrong, it is part 5, you should start at part 1: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Landscape/QuickStart/1 (which I pasted last)

Video is also a good method - particularly if you have it on a second screen/device and can easily pause/play or rewind

[minor hemlock]

I have a second screen, but that's for dumb internet stuff 😛

[oblique cairn]

@minor hemlock dumb internet stuff? like cat videos? or a dumb SSH terminal? or ?

[minor hemlock]

random twitch streams ,etc

[oblique cairn]

I usted to watch films, etc on my second screen quite a bit, but often found I missed the film from coding too hard, or got lost in the film and stopped coding

Actually, I now have my second screen attached to my laptop, which is normally in linux - but use Synergy to share my desktops KB+mouse with it

works really well actually, as I have a 4k monitor for desktop, and 2 1080p screens stacked on the side

v. happy with this setup - still use the laptop KB/mouse directly if I am running a fullscreen game/app on desktop that locks input

(dunno why I am typing so much and taking photos these past couple of days, perhaps the game jam got me in a sociable mood)

Oh, I am also waiting for debugging symbols to install in 4.21, so cant use UE4 😄

at least half the time laptop is closed and second screen is on standby to focus on desktop. Also with a 4k monitor tiling 2, 3 or 4 windows onto the screen is viable and works well, so extra screens are less needed

Anyone else care to share what their setup/rig/workstation/battlestation looks like?

[minor hemlock]

😬

from a few weeks ago, but it reminds me I still have some of that junk mail on my desk XD

[glass fossil]

owo blue snowball

i plan on getting one this week, do you recommend?

[dusky vessel]

@minor hemlock 🖐 for a fellow left handed person

[minor hemlock]

wait what, did I leave some left handed scissors in the picture?

@glass fossil yeah, it's a great starter mic. get a stand for it though to isolate vibrations travelling from keyboard through desk, mine is attached to the bookcase next to the desk

and also to get it up nice and close to your mouth, otherwise you're gonna pick up a lot of noise

[glass fossil]

i already ordered a neewer NB35 arm with a pop filter a week ago

gonna arrive in a week approxemately

[minor hemlock]

@dusky vessel mouse is clearly on the right o.O

[glass fossil]

there is no amazon prime for me XD

[dusky vessel]

@minor hemlock your pens and notebook are on the left

[glass fossil]

i have all paper on my left too

because my mouse is on right and i just cant physically put paper there and use the mouse at the same time

[minor hemlock]

I'm a righty, that's just the only empty spot on my desk 😛

[glass fossil]

same ^

[dusky vessel]

:/ then I take back my 🖐

[glass fossil]

btw thats a right hand emoji

[oblique cairn]

@minor hemlock looks nice! I must admit I actually moved a bit of junk off my desk before snapping a shot 😊

[glass fossil]

just wipe it from the desk so it walls to the ground

who even cares about clean floors lol

[oblique cairn]

I try to keep things tidy, slowly getting better at it as I age....

[maiden loom]

anyone streaming yet?

[minor hemlock]

in an hour or so I'll be doing requests and interesting games

[oblique cairn]

Would like to see my game streamed - not too sure if it is actually interesting to play ( or if it will run)

[maiden loom]

haha, that's the curse of jam games

I recall years back we made a multiplayer game

then when Allar streamed it, it became immediately obvious we didn't restrict the number of players connecting

so instead of 2 player coop we had unexpected MMO madness

[oblique cairn]

Sounds good!

Saw something like that when forzen was streaming a game of mine

[zinc relic]

unexpected mmo madness?

oooof

but did it work?

[minor hemlock]

@maiden loom what's your game?

[maiden loom]

https://ananonymousmoose.itch.io/objective-unreality

it kinda worked

I mean, despite having umpteen bajillion players and the framerate tanking, code-wise it was fine

whether it was playable was another question entirely 😄

[zinc relic]

so

your next clearly is mmo arpg survival zombie

thats clear now.

[minor hemlock]

streaming requests shortly: https://twitch.tv/partlyatomic

[maiden loom]

neat

let me know if you do mine ^^

[zinc relic]

you can request it.

DID YOU NOT READDDD

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

[minor hemlock]

yeah, hop on and request it 😛

[maiden loom]

I'm working

but I can take a break when it comes to it :p

[minor hemlock]

alright 😉

[zinc relic]

To busy to request your own game????

[rigid fog]

That nap lasted a lot longer than I thought

Will resume the stream at 2:30PM EST for a full playthrough

[oblique cairn]

@rigid fog what timezone are you in?

currently @minor hemlock is streaming here: https://www.twitch.tv/partlyatomic

it occured to me - I cant stream with my netspeed anyway

(UK time here FWIW, it is currently 4:12pm)

[rigid fog]

@oblique cairn EST

[oblique cairn]

@rigid fog ?

[dry jetty]

@oblique cairn forsen streamed your game? I'm guessing something on steam? What game is that?

[craggy zodiac]

@copper carbon I'm noticing a pattern every time I try out one of these games. They launched my Steam VR even though they have nothing to do with VR

[rigid fog]

That's because SteamVR is enabled by default in projects

And since they are new

They don't know any better to disable when they open their new projects up to begin dev

[craggy zodiac]

Maybe it would be a good idea to have the Unreal Engine have steamvr disabled by default for everyone

[rigid fog]

😃

Some genius has already asked this

https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/feedback-for-epic/1355927-disable-all-vr-plugins-by-default

[craggy zodiac]

I've already gone into my steamvr plugin in the c drive and edited with note pad to disable it by default

[oblique cairn]

@dry jetty wheelz2 - months ago

[rigid fog]

Looks like a "fix" is on the way... not sure why it took over a year to just disable the damn things by default...but w/e

[craggy zodiac]

You can go and manually have it disabled by default but you have to edit it with a text editor

I just find it weird that they would make it enabled by default

[rigid fog]

That's not the point though

Right

[gaunt copper]

Starting UE4 MegaJam 2018 Playthrough Marathon playing 212 entries of #ue4jam MegaJam 2018, hop in to see them all ^^ https://www.twitch.tv/shadowriver

[rigid fog]

Cool

[glass fossil]

@gaunt copper are you one of the judges?

[glass fossil]

Mission successful

PartlyAtomic liked my game

Well, somewhat

Lol

[minor hemlock]

disappear my feedback and give you a taste of your own medicine XD

[glass fossil]

Yes

Inaccurate malevichs square btw

Gn

[minor hemlock]

thanks I was going to look that up

[fallow lion]

Thanks for playing our game QuanticRun @minor hemlock I was not in chat but got some messages saying you played it. Will look at VOD later see how it goes.

[minor hemlock]

\o/ I hope you guys get a finalist spot

[fallow lion]

Ty man rly appreciated, glad you guys like it, was fun to build.

[minor hemlock]

the warping level was shaders?

[fallow lion]

all materials, yes

didn't, had time to populate the last section better, I had some different distortions planned, but in Game jams we always run against the clock, so the last section is bit simple, with a long wall jumping corridor.

[minor hemlock]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OuYRBRw8XyNRzRxZdxCat8ApogzklCK8Nw4SmpufJvg/edit#gid=871136041 a lot of devs were present in my playthrough stream earlier, but here are links if anyone wants to share with those that didn't see their game streamed

@fallow lion ^

[fallow lion]

@minor hemlock thx very much 👍

[minor hemlock]

particular highlight in the stream from @glass fossil 's gem lol https://www.twitch.tv/videos/336775084

[glass fossil]

it's a very meaningful poster

[minor hemlock]

I indeed learned a lot from it

[glass fossil]

I'll play that off as a secret code you need to crack

[rigid fog]

So many playthroughs of the jam! My services are no longer required. Going to relax after that sweet week of jamming.

[minor hemlock]

I only did a handful of requests and interesting games 😛 not nutty enough to attempt all 200

even then I only got through 19 games in 5 hours 😐

[worldly night]

crap really? @minor hemlock

[gaunt copper]

i did 20 so far in 7 hours

[minor hemlock]

So many are puzzle games too. Amateur puzzle games. Them hard.

[oblique cairn]

I think if anything, mine is too easy

nn all!

[gaunt copper]

Resuming my playthru marathon of MegaJam 2018 ^^ 20 games played so far, hop in to see more #UE4 #UE4jam #gamedev https://www.twitch.tv/shadowriver

[worldly night]

i think mine was to dead considering i didn't finish

[mental elk]

Hey guys, I forgot to put the link to my game i made for the jam : https://itch.io/jam/2018-epic-megajam/rate/330930 I only did 2 level cause I didnt had time for more but the concept is here 😃

and some gameplay vid : https://youtu.be/0G9OeY8MSFw

[worldly night]

the video looks pretty cool

[pallid socket]

i dig it

[mental elk]

ahah yeah but the video is already almost half of the game, I wanted to do so much levels with this concept, but y'eah, deadlines

[worldly night]

Keep working on it ay

[mental elk]

I did record the whole making process, maybe I will do a timelaps 😃

[hidden flicker]

@oblique cairn

Shadow is playing your game

[worldly night]

Can you use blue prints and code in the same game?

[minor hemlock]

Yes

[worldly night]

oh cool gotta start making my game

[dry jetty]

@minor hemlock are you still streaming any or are you done?

[minor hemlock]

I ended a while ago :p

Did you have a game?

[dry jetty]

Yeah, Reality Janitor, I left earlier and meant to come back but life happened ya know

It's definitely not a winner, was just hunting for feedback

[minor hemlock]

With the death character?

[dry jetty]

Yeah

[minor hemlock]

Shadowriver played it in his first stream segment! I don't know the exact timestamp though

[dry jetty]

I did see that yeah! Hurts a bit to watch when people don't know exactly what to do but just gotta make it more intuitive ahh

He missed the final boss lol

[minor hemlock]

Yeah .. watched a few people play Anomaly that immediately missed what they were supposed to do

I like how you had essentially the same take on the theme as we did but a wildly different implementation