Unreal Monthly Free Assets Challenge

[wicked pawn]

This is a monthly challenge to use the Free for the Month assets on the marketplace and learn something and practice your skills.

I've been doing this for awhile and am still trying to figure out how to get some sort of group organized around this. You can check out my latest.... thing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMDhWlK0DMk

Would love to see and learn from other people's creations!

[sour sigil]

sory i haven't time for the challenge. Sory

[strange terrace]

Just an Idea for you. Why not just open a monthly Jam on Itch IO for that and link it here?

[wicked pawn]

I have tried that, but haven't managed to get anyone to actually submit anything after joining. 🥹

[sacred siren]

I lvoe the ultimate puzzle kit. reminds me of saga frontier

[ashen star]

@mossy inlet ping. Check this out when youre ready!

[mossy inlet]

@ashen star 👍

[wicked pawn]

Here's my results from April:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGbzBRniA1E

[warm crag]

Is someone hosting these monthly challenges? Or…

[wicked pawn]

I've been trying to get people interested, but so far it's just me. 😅

[warm crag]

Id be interested...

[wicked pawn]

I used to create itch.io game jams to as a place to collect the challenges. But otherwise I just post youtube videos with that hashtag

I also have a discord (linked in the video description) that some people have joined to comment on stuff
there's also a place for everyone to share their projects there

[wicked pawn]

Not to spam but, just to let people know I'm still going:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZbYZDnyWU

[wicked pawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6NkhW3Ovw0

[keen oracle]

i hate the fact that they closed the jam channel. like really? Jams made me ! bring the jams thread back Lol. anyway im down to jam anytime any place hit me on discord ( info in bio)

[vast yarrow]

oh this is a fun idea

[wicked pawn]

Thanks! Still looking for people to join in and make this a bigger thing for the community to learn from.

[weak ruin]

A little late to the party, but yeah, the loss of the jams channel is a big blow because to be frank, forums in Discord fucking suck and don't really get used because there's no visibility on new messages etc, making it impossible for conversations to exist

hence how I missed that comment three weeks ago

(and also how I'm still able to reply to it, since nobody is saying much in here, swings and roundabouts)

It's doubly shite since Epic Megajam is coming up again in a few weeks and there's nowhere to talk about it

[wicked pawn]

Yeah, I tend to forget this thread exists for multiple weeks at a time. And when I do remember I'm always surprised at the lack of activity in #1054844996571910257 as a whole.

Hopefully, there will at least be a thread here and a cross post in announcements when the Megajam stuff starts?

(I'm still chugging away though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOiGt-4zwp8
waiting for someone who is actually talented to get in on this and learn from)

[burnt oyster]

Do you know if there's been any official information in it, or are we just hoping that it'll happen around the same time as last year?

[weak ruin]

there's nothing publicly official yet

[burnt oyster]

And I agree about the channel issues, it really really stifles the conversation

[weak ruin]

just know Soon™️

[burnt oyster]

Aight, better than nothing 😄

[weak ruin]

I would not be surprised if the start date is September 7th

though it could also be August 31st

[burnt oyster]

I was hoping to take at least some days off during it, but we're swamped in work so really would have needed some preparation time to grease the wheels so that I'm allowed to 😄

[burnt oyster]

Sorry for derailing your thread again @wicked pawn
I'll grab this months assets and see if I can do something fun 😄

[wicked pawn]

No apologies necessary 😆

[wicked pawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwVmiA77quE

Looks like somebody who is actually good at gamedev finally stumbled across the same idea

[weak ruin]

I actually made a game a while back using only the assets that were in the editor 😂

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

needless to say, it had limitations

(it's also a bit buggy, being a gamejam game made whilst I was working crunch time, but c'est la vie)

[vast yarrow]

ayy nice

[lavish schooner]

So is this still a thing? I want to get involved in some game jams. I've never done one and I want to buckle down on this indie dev stuff

[wicked pawn]

Definitely still going, I only post about once a month.

[lethal hedge]

Is this even a challenge? My default mode is to make games with free assets

[weak ruin]

then I guess you should be good at it :p

[wicked pawn]

the "challenge" is being "limited" to incorporating what is available that month

[wicked pawn]

Speaking of "is this still a thing", here is this month's result

[wicked pawn]

https://youtu.be/MzIkBZ0JVWU

[slender oyster]

I keep forgetting this exist