2023-game-jam

[soft totem]

@rigid stag ask the mods to put the game up for review

this is not how people will find it

[wraith matrix]

reminds me of some search terms that people used to find my Lethal Company gameplay compilations. Stuff like "ASMR mind control", "cat stabbed by fake knife", "honda rebel 1100" etc. How df they found me through that, I have no clue

[soft totem]

XD

car

[quartz hatch]

RIP not StartPage

[soft totem]

time to add to my page

[quartz hatch]

StartPage is DuckDuckGo but better

https://www.startpage.com/

[soft totem]

happy now?

[quartz hatch]

nice

[mighty cliff]

we can use this for view inflation XD

[soft totem]

incognito tab

[mighty cliff]

aight, i should eat something

[soft totem]

ok

[wraith matrix]

yeah, don't pull a vedal

[hidden herald]

time for another wave of rating games. it feels bad that harrison temlpe construction has low ratings bc its a multiplayer game

[soft totem]

rip

my game still has low reviews

[hidden herald]

mine has 20

[soft totem]

16 or somethin

[hidden herald]

think in browser games get reviews faster bc there is less overhead to play em

[wraith matrix]

meanwhile my game has 9 ratings

[soft totem]

haha

i have web ver

[wraith matrix]

literally around bottom 3rd in terms of review count, but I think they should all be positive from what I've read from the comments

especially this guy

[soft totem]

haha

[hidden herald]

going through that right now but lowest 2 i literally cannot play

[mighty cliff]

i have 9 ratings

i have a comment about needing to put your input in english

eventhough i made the controls remapable

[wild forge]

8 ratings here now, probs because of being here on discord.

[covert badger]

Our little game is at 11 ratings... we'd really appreciate it if more people checked it out
https://itch.io/jam/neurosama-birthday-game-jam/rate/2444842
Be sure to read the description on the game's page

[dense reef]

this is the bad part of gamejams

most games with potential are left behind

and i cant even rate

[covert badger]

Yeah, I get that

I wasn't the one who submitted our entry and I can't rate other games unfortunately, I wish I could.

[mighty cliff]

i opened an apple with my hands and it lauched at my monitor xd

not broken tho

[fallen iron]

My team made a spreadsheet so we can vote on ratings together and try to split up the work

[wild forge]

Great idea tbh, I took a breather yesterday so now back to rating

[fallen iron]

Also if you're looking for games to vote on, check here to see which ones need votes https://itch.io/jam/neurosama-birthday-game-jam/unrated

[wild forge]

I was on the no zero ratings squad, might still continue as I can play the hype games later.

[mighty cliff]

anyone wanne play the multiplayer one?

[wild forge]

I'll probs grab some food first but after that I'm down.

[mighty cliff]

ok

its hard to rate something you cant play so im asking here

https://itch.io/jam/neurosama-birthday-game-jam/rate/2449266

you need to download it btw

[wild forge]

Gotchu

[mighty cliff]

il be waiting in the lobby

we need 4 players tho

anyone else down?

[wraith matrix]

sure why not

[wild forge]

I'll join lobby while waiting on #4

[wraith matrix]

quite daring to make a multiplayer experience

[rigid stag]

how does the lobby work?

[mighty cliff]

idk

[rigid stag]

i opened the game to check but its just find game

[mighty cliff]

i mjust downloaded it and pressed find game

[wild forge]

1/4 lol

Oh 2

[rigid stag]

i think i joined

[wild forge]

3

[mighty cliff]

il restart

[rigid stag]

[wraith matrix]

why does it feel like I'm about to get into a neuro-themed pubg match

[mighty cliff]

are the lobbys regional?

[rigid stag]

ill do that thx

[wild forge]

I got no idea

[rigid stag]

maybe its global, they using unity netcode

[mighty cliff]

i keep getting 1/4

[rigid stag]

damn im NA

[wild forge]

Imma try reload rq

[wraith matrix]

I'm EU

[rigid stag]

are u eu?

[mighty cliff]

im in EU

[wild forge]

US

So that answeres that

[rigid stag]

but vaza is Eu and i think vaza joined

[mighty cliff]

maybe evryone join at the same timne?

[rigid stag]

its 2/4 now

[wild forge]

Just left

[wraith matrix]

I'm certainly waiting somewhere, that's for sure

[rigid stag]

ok ill leave and join again

[wraith matrix]

it's 2/4 now for me too

now it's 1/4

[wild forge]

I don't have text lol

[rigid stag]

yea i left

[mighty cliff]

everyone leave and then we can count down till join?

[wild forge]

got it

[rigid stag]

ok maybe like 30 seconds

[mighty cliff]

3

2

1

ye didnt work

[rigid stag]

its 2/4

[wild forge]

Still bugged

[mighty cliff]

can we get in contact with the dev?

[wraith matrix]

perhaps it's not a global server then

[rigid stag]

its 3/4 for me

did u guys join?

[wraith matrix]

yes

[wild forge]

My dumbass forgot to click join

[mighty cliff]

i didnt

[rigid stag]

who is h3lp?

[mighty cliff]

2/4 rn

i got in somewhere

[rigid stag]

we are in different games

[wild forge]

Noooo

[mighty cliff]

xd

[rigid stag]

i think sam is only in a diff game

[wraith matrix]

I have no idea how the game works

[rigid stag]

same

i think u gotta go to the bricks then go in the middle

[wild forge]

Maybe?

[wraith matrix]

I appeart to die for some reason every now and then but I can't quite put my finger on why

[rigid stag]

i died?

[high prawn]

Oh hi

I'm the dev

[wild forge]

One of us seems to be evil

[rigid stag]

we're playing with the dev

[mighty cliff]

hi dev

[rigid stag]

[high prawn]

So the 3 of you are builders, and I spawned as hunters

[wild forge]

[rigid stag]

thats why he is so good he is clapping us all

[high prawn]

When I touch you you're tp'd back to spawn

[rigid stag]

OKKKK

i get the concept now its cool

[high prawn]

Also when it's dark for you it's clear for me, and the other way around

[wraith matrix]

and the game just closed

[high prawn]

That's a bug with gameover screen, it crashes the game 😦

[wraith matrix]

oh, so it's a 3v1

[rigid stag]

ohhhhh

[wild forge]

Perfect

[rigid stag]

thats why u got me right there

[wraith matrix]

that makes more sense

[high prawn]

So someone got 30 points and won, but we can't tell cause game crashed

[wraith matrix]

I get the idea now, 3 people bust collect brix, and 1 must stop them

[rigid stag]

in the day we collect bricks in night deposit

[wraith matrix]

not sure what the win conditions are exactly

[high prawn]

The win condition is to get 30 points

[wraith matrix]

I think I did get 30

[high prawn]

Yep, that's why it crashed, the game tried to load game over screen

[mighty cliff]

oh im in the loby now

[wraith matrix]

it crashed the moment I deposited the final bricks

kekw

[wild forge]

Same here

[rigid stag]

OH i think u won

[high prawn]

Yep, sorry, I swear it worked when I was testing it

[rigid stag]

i was close i got 28

[rigid stag]

classic

[mighty cliff]

the game being 720p is handy for discord in the background

[wild forge]

Classic indeed

[rigid stag]

some exception prolly happened on win event which crashed the server

[wraith matrix]

Alt+Enter for full screen

[wild forge]

30 exactly here

[high prawn]

Y'all want to go another round? I want to play as a builder

[wild forge]

I'll sit this round out

[wraith matrix]

I'm waiting in lobby for a while already

[high prawn]

3/4

[rigid stag]

sam u can join

[mighty cliff]

im in th elobby i think

3/4

[rigid stag]

ok ill go in

wait'

its 1/4

[wild forge]

What?

[mighty cliff]

xd

rejoin?

[high prawn]

:aintnoway: there is a bug with server manager

[wild forge]

Same as before lol

[rigid stag]

is there only one room?

[wild forge]

We had 2 seprate ones trying to cordnate

[rigid stag]

maybe its cuz my client was turned off so the connections are made when u open the game?

[high prawn]

Restart and join now

[rigid stag]

its 3/4 now

[high prawn]

It starts more rooms when there's a demand, but for some reason it chose to create a new one when existing was at 3/4

[wild forge]

Whos still in waiting to join?

[mighty cliff]

im in

3/4

[wild forge]

Imagine not having a manual override

[wraith matrix]

idk how you even playtested the multiplayer compatibility

[rigid stag]

what happens if someone joins then leaves, does the server know its lesser after someone leaves?

[high prawn]

Yes, that it does

[wild forge]

Someone booted up 4 clients

[rigid stag]

are u hunter again?

[high prawn]

yes

It's not rigged I swear

[rigid stag]

is it the 1st one joined = hunter?

[wild forge]

So why is the last person in the list a hunter then?

[mighty cliff]

are yall in a game already?

[wild forge]

Wait no, first yeah

[mighty cliff]

?

[high prawn]

It's random, I joined 3rd

[wild forge]

Imma quickly test

1/4 what?

[high prawn]

We're playing rn, 4/4

[mighty cliff]

im not???

[wraith matrix]

i win again xd

[wild forge]

4/4 3/4

[rigid stag]

are u not sakuya?

[mighty cliff]

im on 3/4

[high prawn]

Sakuya's the artist who worked with me

[mighty cliff]

but im alone apparantly

[rigid stag]

💀

[wild forge]

Imma kill mine

[high prawn]

Did you restart the game, sam?

[mighty cliff]

ye

il do it again

ok im now on 1/4

[rigid stag]

NO I HAD 15 briik

[high prawn]

GG

[mighty cliff]

the background art for the lobby screen is sick tho

[high prawn]

It's AI generated, found it on pixiv

All the other art is not AI though

[mighty cliff]

ye i could tell but its still cool

[rigid stag]

did u make it?

the game pixel art?

[high prawn]

Art is by @runic viper

[zealous oxide]

where there any multiplayer games submitted to this jam?

[rigid stag]

Oh THAT's the 4th player

[zealous oxide]

usually there is least 1 or 2

[mighty cliff]

ye this one

[wild forge]

We are in a group rn for one

[high prawn]

3/4 in a queue rn

[high prawn]

https://itch.io/jam/neurosama-birthday-game-jam/rate/2449266

[mighty cliff]

(maybe an fps cap, im on 50% GPU with 2243fps)

[rigid stag]

its a good game for 3 days once u understand it, it lacks polish but multiplayer is hard in a game jam

[high prawn]

It's my first multiplayer game too

[wild forge]

Impressive!

[rigid stag]

damn thats amazing then

[zealous oxide]

says 2/4 for me

[mighty cliff]

me too

[zealous oxide]

but you guys where 3/4?

[rigid stag]

yea two diff lobbies

[mighty cliff]

they started a game

[rigid stag]

we are in queue

[high prawn]

Same

[mighty cliff]

were with 6 people rn?

[high prawn]

Should I restart the servers again?

[mighty cliff]

probably

[wild forge]

Not in atm

[high prawn]

ok, done

everyone restart the clients

[rigid stag]

this game could be good for more than 4 players

[mighty cliff]

ok im on 1/4

2/4

3/4

ow lesgoo

[wild forge]

Lets GOOO

[zealous oxide]

was this made using Riptide or Mirror

[rigid stag]

netcode i believe

[high prawn]

Initial plan was to make if for 7 players, but I figured there's no way 7 people can queue up at the same time

[rigid stag]

I saw the dlls

[high prawn]

Netcode for gameobjects

[wild forge]

Good luck~

[zealous oxide]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1112181274296197241.webp?size=64&name=gator&quality=lossless

[wild forge]

Why is it dark?

[rigid stag]

get out sam

[high prawn]

Evil hacks your drone and disables the vision module

[wild forge]

I is evil

[high prawn]

Then it's Neuro

[wild forge]

Makes sense

[rigid stag]

when its dark for u its light for us and vice versa i thnk

[wild forge]

Maybe?

[high prawn]

that's right

[rigid stag]

no

i died

just camp a building and ull find drons lol

[wild forge]

We lost one?

Nvm

[mighty cliff]

this is sick

[high prawn]

Also builders can hide near torches, the hunter can't go into light

[rigid stag]

gg its over

NO ITS DAY

[wild forge]

Can confirm

[rigid stag]

im in top left kill me before i win

there is no endgame screen right?

[wild forge]

Crash

[high prawn]

There should be, but the game crashes instead

btw, I can boot up a server that doesn't end the game at 30 points if you want

[rigid stag]

yea i got 30 bricks, u need to get 30 to win

[mighty cliff]

i won

[rigid stag]

idk i think this small cycle is good cuz its like a party game feeling

like quick rounds u know

[wild forge]

Yes

[mighty cliff]

i didnt?

[high prawn]

It would be good if the gameover screen worked, I agree

[high prawn]

mna crashed first, so he won technically

[mighty cliff]

oh

i didnt see his point go up

[rigid stag]

the win condition is getting 30 points, u can see on the right

[wild forge]

Well I'd wish rather for one where people rotate in tbh

Alt+F4ing time

[high prawn]

Started a server that doesn't trigger gameover screen, restart clients

[wild forge]

Ah

[rigid stag]

this game is prolly my fav to play till now

[wild forge]

I just had complete black

[mighty cliff]

i like multiplayers ye

[high prawn]

3/4

[mighty cliff]

a shame you need friends

[high prawn]

The game won't end, but we can agree to restart once someone gets to 30

[mighty cliff]

3/4 ye

[wild forge]

1/4 lol

[brazen marlin]

Are you guys playing the multiplayer one?

[mighty cliff]

ye

[wild forge]

Yes join us

[rigid stag]

programmer solution lol

[wild forge]

Agreed

[wild forge]

Quited

[mighty cliff]

so were om 7 now?

[brazen marlin]

Can someone link it? I can't remember which it was

[mighty cliff]

https://itch.io/jam/neurosama-birthday-game-jam/rate/2449266

[rigid stag]

h3lp is it possible to easily increase player limit or no?

[high prawn]

Oh I see the bug now, for some reason it doesn't always tell the manager that someone disconnected

Not without updating the client code, unfortunately

[rigid stag]

[mighty cliff]

i dont mind downloading an updated version

[wild forge]

@high prawn from 1 to 💀 how scrwed are the servers if vedal plays it on stream?

[mighty cliff]

if vedal plays on stream we can be the loby people

[high prawn]

Unironically it should work better, since all the room slots will be filled and manager doesn't have to think where to put people

[mighty cliff]

im evil

[wild forge]

Good luck in your match

[rigid stag]

go to red temples to deposit bricks @brazen marlin

[brazen marlin]

Yeah I'm figuring it out, just took me a second 👍

[mighty cliff]

you probably need some spawnkill protection

[wild forge]

Yeah, I just decided not to

[high prawn]

There's a protection around spawn point, I think

I had 10 bricks noooo

[rigid stag]

sam won

[mighty cliff]

i think i can just wait around the protexctions

[high prawn]

sam won

[wild forge]

Ggs

[brazen marlin]

gg lol

[high prawn]

gg

[mighty cliff]

restart or?

[rigid stag]

yea u were farming us lol

[brazen marlin]

I'll do better now I know how to play

How do we restart?

[rigid stag]

i think close and open

[brazen marlin]

kk

[wild forge]

Alt+F4

[mighty cliff]

i jusst quit and joined new server

[wild forge]

2/4

[brazen marlin]

1/4

[mighty cliff]

2/4 for me

[rigid stag]

2/4 for me aswell

[mighty cliff]

il restart

2/4

[wild forge]

2->1

[high prawn]

3/4

[mighty cliff]

3/4

[brazen marlin]

2/4

[wild forge]

Killing instance here

[mighty cliff]

oh im in

[high prawn]

in game

[rigid stag]

@wild forge

[wild forge]

Returned to 1/4 lol

Imma just chill lol

[rigid stag]

ill sit next one out

[wild forge]

I'll hop on one of the vcs if anyone feels like joining

[mighty cliff]

mic no work

il try after the game

[wild forge]

Makes sense

[brazen marlin]

gg

[high prawn]

gg

[rigid stag]

gg

[mighty cliff]

gg

[rigid stag]

Bro I WAS getting spawncamped

he smoked me 4 times in a row

[high prawn]

I couldn't find anyone else lol

[wild forge]

What can I say it happens

[brazen marlin]

It was really easy to drop the bricks off then just hide in a lamp for the rest of the night

[rigid stag]

yea

[cobalt inlet]

playing harrison temple construction?

[brazen marlin]

Thanks for letting me play, was a very cool game!

[rigid stag]

ur screwed tho if u get caught with the bricks

[high prawn]

Yep, that's how you're supposed to play as a builder

I think I know how to fix the bug with server manager, so I'll go and do that

[rigid stag]

yea man im curious about the code and how u built it

[high prawn]

lmk if server needs a restart again

[mighty cliff]

im using google for discord, il try installing discord instead

[high prawn]

I'll keep the broken version up in the meantime

[wild forge]

Feel free to join in the vc if you feel like it

[mighty cliff]

windows is the probel, it doesnt recognize my headphoners as a mic

[wild forge]

Why of course

[rigid stag]

@high prawn how are u handling the server side? how have u deployed it since i never deployed a unity netcode game?

[high prawn]

So there's a python flask server that serves as a manager, a client game build and a linux dedicated server game build. What happens is:

1. Game client makes a request to the flask server asking for an ip and port
2. The flask server starts a subprocess with the game server and returns the ip and port for that
3. When someone disconnects, the game server makes a request to the flask server to update the number of connected clients

[rigid stag]

OOH the linux dedicated server build u mean when u select build settings in unity u can select a server platform ooooh

[soft totem]

yea

[rigid stag]

i never knew this, I was confused why write server sided code in the same project

[soft totem]

haha

[waxen loom]

Since the game jam is over, will this channel go away, or stay as a general game-dev channel?

[soft totem]

stay hopefully

[austere bridge]

The game jam isn't over yet

[high prawn]

The voting phase is not over yet

[soft totem]

after

its done

[mighty cliff]

mic shows as not plugged in

[wild forge]

RIP

[rigid stag]

so there is 2 seperate builds one client and one server build from the same project... i finally understand.

[soft totem]

gj

[wild forge]

Gj indeed for that

[rigid stag]

@high prawn u can also allow people to join specific lobbies by asking them for code or something right?

but that's dangerious cuz people can make new rooms and eat up ur resources

[wild forge]

Probs need a client side thing to prompt

[rigid stag]

yea imagine someone makes a bot that opens new clients and makes new rooms -$100

[high prawn]

That's how it usually works, yes
I went with the matchmaking-type multiplayers since it's more fitting for the game jam

[rigid stag]

oh so that people can quickly just join in

gotcha

bro this game has potential tbh, maybe procedurally generated maps, hunter powerups etc. great job i really like it unfortunately i cant rate

cuz i didnt submit

[high prawn]

My laptop will crash way before someone manages to open enough rooms for a $100 electricity bill

[rigid stag]

wait ur running servers on ur laptop?

[high prawn]

yep

[wild forge]

Its a computer after all

[rigid stag]

thats kinda scary tho

[high prawn]

y?

[soft totem]

uhh

check your laptop

i filled it with tons of dust bunnies

the cooling will stop any minute now

[rigid stag]

like in terms of security cuz in 3 days u cant make a robust system. ofc no one will do anything but its just a thought

idk much in detail bout cybersec so im just yappin

[mighty cliff]

going into device manager...

[high prawn]

It's a 2013 celeron, max it goes up to is 50 celcius, I'm not worried

[rigid stag]

hacking the mainframe NOW

[soft totem]

haha

your cooling is now stuffed

have fun

i will now begin trying to overclock it

[wild forge]

2/4

[hybrid onyx]

Lmao was this planned? Or is another route?

[soft totem]

nope afaik not

[hybrid onyx]

The water and the another fire are both basically unecessary in this level

[wild forge]

3/4

[mighty cliff]

yall stoped playing?

[wild forge]

Who else is in the lobby?

[high prawn]

The server thinks there's 4 in the lobby

[mighty cliff]

il rejoin

[wild forge]

Haha

Same

[dull ore]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHHtrGxvdrM I have issues

[mighty cliff]

1/4

[wild forge]

2

[mighty cliff]

3

[rigid stag]

actual gamer

[wild forge]

Gl ERM

[mighty cliff]

is erm here?

[vestal owl]

I won!

[wild forge]

ggs

[mighty cliff]

gg

[vestal owl]

Was kinda confused at some points

[mighty cliff]

win condition is 30 points, erm lost

is erm here?

[vestal owl]

The bricks seem to not disappear sometimes when people take them so there are bricks sites that look full but you can't pick up from

[rigid stag]

yea if u see a brick spawing that means its 1 brick

[wild forge]

We were keeping track of the glitched piles here

4 4 and 2? For this round

[mighty cliff]

someting like that

[high prawn]

I might have a fix for the lobby issue

[wild forge]

Good!

[high prawn]

Restarting now

Seems to work, it just handled a disconnect in a way I intended

How many are playing rn?

[wild forge]

Reasons to use grayjay for twitch

Still get ads tho

[mighty cliff]

2/4 rn

3/4

[wild forge]

Still trying to windows

[mighty cliff]

who is in loby rn?

[high prawn]

me

3/4

Someone can open a dummy client btw

[mighty cliff]

il do it

i have a 3060ti

erm won

[high prawn]

gg

[mighty cliff]

but who is erm?

[high prawn]

and how is he better than me in a game that I created

[soft totem]

install arch

[mighty cliff]

2/4

3/4

[wild forge]

I already have nixos

[soft totem]

alias nix="sudo rm -rf /*"

[wild forge]

Forgot --no-preseve-root

[soft totem]

• does that already

the *

does that slready

[wild forge]

Ah I wouldn't know

[wild forge]

#voice-text message

[soft totem]

FRAMEWOOOOORK!!!!!

[wild forge]

LETS GOOO!!!

[soft totem]

did you just buy the mobo and ram?

and ssd

[wild forge]

nah this is second thing

[soft totem]

ah

3d print case

NOW!

[wild forge]

I'll need 3 of them

[tiny laurel]

CON

wins again

[wild forge]

ERM Spotted

[mighty cliff]

arew you erm?

[tiny laurel]

nope

[soft totem]

ermcon has best music frfr

[wild forge]

Agreed

[soft totem]

also makes my sound sound like im using the worst headphones on highest vol wit deep fried music

[tiny laurel]

It’s was my@first time playing so idk the rules

[dense reef]

#general-network #programming ?

[wild forge]

Idfk tbh

[mighty cliff]

the hunter tries to kill you while you collect bricks

if you get 30 you win

i think il stop

[wild forge]

I'll stop as well

[high prawn]

GG

[tiny laurel]

Yeah the game was kinda ez

[high prawn]

Thanks for playing my game

[mighty cliff]

if vedal wants to play on stream im down

[tiny laurel]

Are you suppose to grab 10 bricks at once?

[high prawn]

You're supposed to deliver them as soon as possible

[mighty cliff]

you can choose how many you grab

[tiny laurel]

[mighty cliff]

if you die you lose the bricks

[tiny laurel]

I thought I was breaking a unspoken rule by grabbing a ton

Anyways good game, easy to pick up and play

Erm always wins

[mighty cliff]

il rate it

https://itch.io/jam/neurosama-birthday-game-jam/rate/2449266

[tiny laurel]

How does it feel to be beaten by a newbie

[rigid stag]

[soft totem]

haha

[soft totem]

haha

[tiny laurel]

why the skeleton staring at veddy like that

[wild forge]

Now we are getting somewhere

[wraith matrix]

I was imagining that vedal would set up a VM for today and play downloadable games, but he still hasn't appeared on stream yet

perhaps he's still not ready with that yet, or his sleep schedule is inexistent, or both

[tiny laurel]

let ved cook

[quartz hatch]

ved burns water when he tries to make ramen so no i dont think i will

[wild forge]

8 more till 2k ratings!!!

[mighty cliff]

maybe vedal has irl stuff to do

[soft totem]

bruh

11 am vedal time

12*

[quartz hatch]

6

[mighty cliff]

idk about you guys but it has been new years and here in europe family events can last till 2am

[soft totem]

haha

[tiny laurel]

vedal doesnt spend time with family

[soft totem]

my sleep schedule is FUCKED UP!

1:37 am

i normally sleep at 11pm

this year im goin insane prob

[mighty cliff]

its school vacation so i am nocturnal

[soft totem]

haha

yea

no

[mighty cliff]

although im supposedd to go to the movies tomorow at 5pm

[soft totem]

dude

[mighty cliff]

i should set an alarm

[soft totem]

uhh what time is it for you?

[mighty cliff]

1am

[mighty cliff]

today actualy

[soft totem]

ah so GMT +1

yeah

[mighty cliff]

belgium

[soft totem]

smart ass

1am

it is 2day

[mighty cliff]

yep

[soft totem]

i wanna sleep so hard

but i dunno

[mighty cliff]

im not tired at all

[soft totem]

the game jam did soemthing to me

[quartz hatch]

its at 2k

[soft totem]

even tho my game sucks more than any other game

not even dialouge fade

or text entrance

likw the dialouge is just like multiple objects

my game sucks

litteraly

its too hard even

jumps are too floaty

and some people think jumps are PIXEL PERFECT

[quartz hatch]

don't worry vedal's has a non-progression bug so

[soft totem]

but it atleas has good graphics XD

and has cutscenes :p

[rigid stag]

the minecrafty aesthetics in the level after tutorial looked cool i didnt pass the level tho

[soft totem]

haha

[rigid stag]

did u playtest it/ beat it

[soft totem]

they were mad in liek 5 secs

yes

[rigid stag]

damn

[soft totem]

tutorial to epilouge

[rigid stag]

my w key cover is broken, its hard to press so i had to play with a and d so thats my cope

[soft totem]

haha

source strafing

woeks i think

as it adds vel

[rigid stag]

the maker is used to the controls so its 100 times easier, plus most people wont get used to controls and quit

balancing is difficult

[soft totem]

haha

not just that

im also a "PRO GAMER"

so it is extra hard

[rigid stag]

u should try and add gravity alot to make the jumps less floaty, 3D is hard to nail down but in my game i am squaring the gravity so the player exponentially goes down

[soft totem]

no

[soft totem]

linear > exponential

[mighty cliff]

what id do is i have a vertical modifier, and every jump frame i do vmod += gravity

[soft totem]

my man

[mighty cliff]

and then i do gravity -= 20

[soft totem]

** i still havent moved the inputs to the new system and you expect me to already add gravity?**

[mighty cliff]

gravity is just a variable

[soft totem]

life is a bool

[mighty cliff]

false

[soft totem]

see

[soft totem]

fun fact

rigidbody

[rigid stag]

yea just add rb.velocity -= gravity * gravity * Time.deltaTime, the jump becomes snappier, u can tell when its going to lannd

[soft totem]

say thet tomorrow

i want to sleeeeep

but these henya clips

dey callin ma name

[quartz hatch]

FYI guys, sorting by most karma supposably puts the games of people who rate more games at the top. This is how we know vedal hasn't rated any

[bright dome]

i'm done for today, tomorrow i'm gonna rate rest of them, now i'm tired

[quartz hatch]

tmrw is the last day dont forget

i think anyway

[bright dome]

i know

[mighty cliff]

im sudendly getting a lot of comments

they are all positive though

the crunch to fix everything in time for the game jam made me a bit burnt out but il start programming again in a day or 2

sorting by popular rn is prety acurate for what games deserve to be on top, i would put vedals game lower tho.

vedals game has good art but is a bit too buggy to be 1st

[brazen marlin]

Oof, as someone whose game is 111th this hurts 😝

[mighty cliff]

sorry

[brazen marlin]

Haven't gotten anything negative in any of the comments though, so I'm not sure what the Popularity ranking is based on

[mighty cliff]

i meant the top

downloads/web plays i thknk

[brazen marlin]

Yeah probably

I was thinking some ratio between views and downloads/plays but that's more likely

[vestal owl]

Your game is super solid, you were like highest karma too for most of the jam, nice cover art I think like maybe people just didn't click bc neuro related. That's honestly all I can think of

and maybe no webgl

[brazen marlin]

The potential virus pop-up definitely dissuaded people too I'm sure

[mighty cliff]

it has sound effects and everyting

[brazen marlin]

But I'm really glad that everyone who's played it seems to like it

Honestly I'm not bothered by it all, I knew this was going to occur when I programmed from scratch instead of a game engine, and I wouldn't change my choice for anything

I had an absolute blast coding it

[mighty cliff]

i do have a problem wher 15$ disapears but none of the stalls sell for 15

[brazen marlin]

Huh really?

I'll have to pay attention to that

[mighty cliff]

nevermind im just stupid

[brazen marlin]

Fair enough, I appreciate the attempted bug report!

If that were a bug it would be one that definitely needed fixing

[mighty cliff]

i didnt see the stall cuz it was at the veryend

[brazen marlin]

The prices can also be covered by flowers sometimes, I decided to call it added difficulty and work on other things, but probably not the most user friendly feature

[mighty cliff]

its fine

you just need to wait till they spend some money and then you can see what room they are in

then you just need to look at whos spending money at the time money dissapears out of your bank account

[fallen iron]

I uploaded the music I wrote for my team's game (Memory Leak) on to Youtube if anyone wants to listen to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfpaT8XE_ZQ

[brazen marlin]

To whoever created Lost Mind, I'm assuming this was not the intended way to go

[tame lynx]

which games was yours? Imma play it

[candid mason]

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[mighty cliff]

https://itch.io/jam/neurosama-birthday-game-jam/rate/2449357

[tame lynx]

thanks!

[mighty cliff]

this is his/her game

[tame lynx]

oh i played that one, great artwork!

[candid mason]

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[placid vessel]

Good news friends, I fixed the vibrating chickens

[ember horizon]

did it go down by one?

[mighty cliff]

yep

used to be 123

here

[sullen wind]

They were funnier when they vibrated. I thought it was intentional

[candid mason]

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[mighty cliff]

screenshot from a day or 2 ago

[brazen marlin]

Yeah I can't get enough of @gaunt lichen's art, they did such a good job and I was glad they were willing to do the graphics for my game

[wild forge]

Working on solving A Mild Migraine atm

[tame lynx]

yep it turned into a great collab apparently

[candid mason]

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[mighty cliff]

i first started programming in TI-basic, i had a beautifull 0.5fps

[mighty cliff]

oh nice

then i can just downloaf your google drive

[candid mason]

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[mighty cliff]

mo wory

if you dont do it in time il just do it myself

[candid mason]

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[mighty cliff]

idk either

i think most of them have a download option though

[candid mason]

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[placid vessel]

Guess who's game si starting to look like an actual submission

I even added an indicator so you know when you've got all the chickens

[neon night]

anyone wanna play the (undisputable) best visual novel of the entire jam?

it only has 13 reviews

https://itch.io/jam/neurosama-birthday-game-jam/rate/2448293#post-9131441

about a 30 min game

story heavy, but trust me its worth it

[mighty cliff]

not rn

after stream maybe

[candid mason]

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[neon night]

give me a comment

[grim fjord]

#2023-game-jam message

But even if you cannot rate.. the comments are much more valuable than rating. Devs love to read comments and feedback about their jam games.

[neon night]

I am very excited to see how my game fares against the others,

not to toot my own horn or anything but I think my game is incredibly solid compared to most entries

ah yes that's very true , I love comments

just downloads already boost the morale

[wraith matrix]

I was ready to stay up all night if needed if he was gonna do more jam games today, but I think I'm safe to go to sleep

[neon night]

yeah, and apparently my game doesn't work on vms

today the co-host and some mods played my tame

they loved it

[mighty cliff]

same

[neon night]

I am very glad they enjoyed it

[grim fjord]

+1

[mighty cliff]

+1?

[grim fjord]

I mean.. it was exact the same for me today

[glossy gazelle]

so true, especially because in most cases, game jam games are developed in a rush without a ton of testing so the feedback can also serve as finding out what players actually care about/want

[placid vessel]

New feature, Neuro now glues the chickens to herself when she grabs them

This done using a very sane and normal method
$AnimatedSprite2D.add_child(area.get_node("AnimatedSprite2D").duplicate(0))

[rocky shoal]

i wanna play ur games so bad, maybe tomorrow

[tiny laurel]

Maybe the day after that?

[ember horizon]

time to see what this super expensive button does

[dark oriole]

S23U running Mobox emulator

[wild forge]

You know what, Idle game, round 2

[wild forge]

Debt paid off round 2

[wooden coral]

is this channel gonna be archived soon? cus i havent played every game yet

[novel rampart]

victory button

[glossy gazelle]

the pixel art is so frickin cute

[mystic kindle]

holy shit

can't believe

gonna beat this guy

damn that water skip

juicy

[quartz hatch]

I need someone to list BROWSER games that do NOT USE WebGL please

[marsh flame]

You guys think I can speedrun rating 45 games in 4 hours

[wooden coral]

aight im back

im gonna play games now

[lavish compass]

Hex

#0000FF

RGB

0, 0, 255

[glossy gazelle]

I'm gonna throw out one more self promo before the end but for anyone who hasn't played it yet (or had the bug where the dialogue wouldn't show up), check out
https://itch.io/jam/neurosama-birthday-game-jam/rate/2449511 !! it's a dual character cute mini puzzle game where you can play as both tutel and neuro ! there's a bit of story between neuro, vedal, and evil neuro that's super wholesome we even added a mini cinematic at the end
just remember to play in full-screen!! or else there might be some UI bugs :(

unfortunately ours uses webgl

[glossy gazelle]

so it doesn't work for this

[lavish compass]

Hex

#002e56

RGB

0, 46, 86

Hex

#9ec017

RGB

158, 192, 23

[quartz hatch]

002e56, 00549d, febe2f, ffffff

oooooh

[hidden herald]

am i tripping or are the entrees getting less? could swear it were 123

[quartz hatch]

initially there were 115, some got added and removed by admins i think

[hidden herald]

only 12h to rate games left

[quartz hatch]

right

[vestal owl]

Some were missing downloads perhaps?

[candid mason]

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[hidden herald]

think someone had deleted their game or removed it from the participation. I mean if they did that, maybe one should accept their decision or so idk

[candid mason]

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[hidden herald]

is more of a philosophy question at that point if one should allow a creator to remove their creation or let users have the right to access it regardless of others wishes

[candid mason]

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[hidden herald]

I am not condoning these action, was just wondering why someone would delete/remove it

[candid mason]

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[hidden herald]

Yea, and they want it to be forgotten too maybe

[candid mason]

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[hidden herald]

many good games yea

[candid mason]

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[hidden herald]

sure shows dedication of the community

was fun being part of the jam for me

[bright dome]

time to rate rest of the games i guess

[slender mantle]

@void horizon I uploaded the gamejam song I did to youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JePEa_YVZpc

[haughty thunder]

[soft totem]

oh yea

[young solar]

Do we have any idea if Vedal will play more of the games?

[soft totem]

idunno

[mighty cliff]

i hope so

[soft totem]

wait brb i need to install arch tq

[mighty cliff]

he said he might use a virtual machine for the download games

[ember horizon]

i think last time he said he would, but im sure if the subathon does end soon he might wanna take a break for a bit so we will have to see

feel like doing a couple last minute ratings before i turn in for the night, anybody still need em?

heres mine
https://itch.io/jam/neurosama-birthday-game-jam/rate/2449189

[soft totem]

i dunno

[short lion]

Just played it, the endings are so good lmao

[ember horizon]

:3 saw your comment just now

[soft totem]

my game is still in the "low reviews" pile

[ember horizon]

oh yea i guess i havent played it yet

also thanks for the random free promotion i saw u post my game from time to time lol

ooh thats some low mouse sensitivity for me lol

i aint got one of them fps player sized mousepads

[soft totem]

haha

i make my mose low sens cuz i like to see my mouse

[ember horizon]

erm, why am i struggling to jump onto the first block

am i missing something LOL

[short lion]

Tip: Try to press crouch after you jump

[soft totem]

check the dialouge

[ember horizon]

jesus christ this is janky

[soft totem]

haha

yea i have the worst gamw inthis jam

[ember horizon]

all this couldve been solved with slightly more jump height :c

[soft totem]

floaty

[ember horizon]

i uh....... cant make it onto the third platform

[short lion]

That third platform ain't no joke I was stuck there for a good while

[soft totem]

haha

[ember horizon]

the crouching would be bad enough if u didnt also have like

infinite momentum lol

[soft totem]

haha

[short lion]

Yeah, I was considering suggesting something like more friction to surfaces when I struggled with your game initially @soft totem but then I sorta got used to it

[soft totem]

haha

nope

[ember horizon]

he only played browser games the other day

i do really hope he plays it tho i think it would be really funny to see him react to how much i make fun of him

[short lion]

Yeah, he said he wanted to set up a VM before playing the downloadable ones 😔 which is understandable

[soft totem]

i got em to 50

yep

they start at something like 4

DAMM YOU NVIDIA

WHY CANT YOU BE LIKE INTEL OR AMD

[manic pond]

F

[soft totem]

of course

nvidia needs like 200 packages to install the drivers

meanwhile every single other driver

is in the kernel

[ember horizon]

yea i set the time to go up over time

[soft totem]

playtesting pays off

:p

[void horizon]

[placid vessel]

I've added an adorable new feature

[short lion]

Only 6 more hours to rate going to rate a few more cool games!!

[analog sierra]

I've already said this a few times, but i am so proud of this community. Every single one of us has created something beautiful together

Lets hope that this year will be just as good, if not better!

[short lion]

Can we agree that it'd be awesome if there'd be another Neuro-jam next year / subathon, if and whenever that happens? because I'd be so up for it

[frosty mantle]

Next birthday subathon then?

[grim fjord]

Because voting ends soon here is a small shameless promotion 😁

In our game you play as a Neuro's brain cell. Your goal is to adjust her behaviour based on the chat reactions. My favourite mechanic is bell.. if chat spams "Bedge" you have to hit the bell multiple times to wake her up (yes, we have sound effects, a lot of them).
https://metriko.itch.io/dont-do-this-to-me-neuro

[hollow sequoia]

Finally finish rating every game, this takes me 3 days

[void horizon]

March 25th, Evil birthday subathon

[frosty mantle]

There won't be any

[short lion]

Yeah! Hopefully

[void horizon]

What are you, a tomfoolery police?

[bright dome]

first 100 downloads YIPEEE

[placid vessel]

Does anyone know how to vertically allign a rich text-box in Godot? Online people say to put it inside a BVoxContainer and set the Alignment to Centre but that doesn't seem to affect my text box :(

Also petition to keep this channel after the gamejam and rename it to game-dev??

[frosty mantle]

RichTextBox cannot be vertically aligned by itself, try to wrap it in the CenterContainer + use bbcode [center] for horizontal alignment.

Or use Label for simple text

[short lion]

I got stuck on door geometry heeelp

[wooden coral]

https://c3rl.itch.io/harrisons-enigma

game has no checkpoints

[wooden coral]

oh i played it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uey6pkgzpJU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5INnhU_PXeI

[short lion]

Your game is so impressive though, Evil chasing is genuinely scary and the maze had me shitting myself that she might be around a turn and then I'd get stuck on a dead end

[ember horizon]

it's been super cool seeing how many people played something we made, glad I joined this jam

[tacit coral]

holy shit that's huge

[brazen marlin]

Wow, impressive!

[ember horizon]

gotta thank my artist for that, good art really draws the clicks I suppose

[frosty mantle]

[dense reef]

downloads...?

[frosty mantle]

[tacit coral]

barely hit 60 downloads but people left such nice reviews, i'm content

[young solar]

Honestly dude I got no clue

[turbid vault]

Apparently the itch.io desktop client can download and play browser games offline

[grim fjord]

69 downloads!
I call it a total win

[frosty mantle]

Nice

[young solar]

I wonder if they can download our game and use it as a truckers FM radio

[grim fjord]

I'm just little disapointed we couldn't make a HTML build. I always do a web builds for game jams because they generate much better impressions.. but this time it was impossible due to attachment of external physics engine for the best experience with physics-fueled elements : /

[ember horizon]

Best part of our game tbh

[tacit coral]

nahhhh i sat through collecting all those subs and now you gave it away to the masses

[ember horizon]

I wonder how many people even recognized the onlyTutels icon

[sullen wind]

Played and rated a total of 89 games, I think that's gonna be it for me. So many cool games, this has been an absolute blast
And I've made a collection of my favorite ones: https://itch.io/c/3928544/favorites-from-neuros-birthday-jam

[sullen wind]

I liked how creative it is. Looks like a tutel and spells "OF".

[bright dome]

yeah, I added cottage and cave like 3 hours before deadline and didn't have time for bug testing, the issue is with colliders where there is terrain and objects(cave and cottage), sadly at this point the only solution is going back to mainmenu and starting over, sorry about that

[ember horizon]

I literally sent the artist the OF icon and had him make it look like a tutel

[short lion]

Understandable, I still want to retry it and see the other areas I missed sometime

Also shoutout to my boy tutelcube

[ember horizon]

Collabs significantly increase the sub rate while they're happening btw

[bright dome]

tutel model is the only asset that i didn't make during gamejam

rest of my game was made entirely during gamejam

[short lion]

That's really impressive

[bright dome]

in the ice next to it is hiyori

[soft totem]

the vedal femboy ending is still hillarious

[short lion]

I was spamming collabs by the end trying to get to the fourth ending

[ember horizon]

a man(?)s gotta do what a man(?)s gotta do to pay off that debt

[soft totem]

tutel on ice

[short lion]

You heard of tutelsoup now get ready for tutle on the rocks

[soft totem]

a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do to pay off that debt

tbh he'd probably enjoy it

[ember horizon]

Now I wish I had a way to gather the data on how much time everyone spent with neuro vs evil

[soft totem]

ip grabber

[ember horizon]

I bet itd be hilariously favored toward neuro

[soft totem]

i spent more than 900

secs

[soft totem]

the weird people in chat rn

[hidden herald]

weird people using light mode? I agree

[bright dome]

In those two places you have to jump to avoid getting stuck

[wooden coral]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW1ghv1sHJg

gotta change the thumbnail

[analog sierra]

Shameless plug because rating ends in 4 hours! https://itch.io/jam/neurosama-birthday-game-jam/rate/2449419 Please rate the games you haven't yet!

[wooden coral]

what the actual fuck, they removed the neurultrakill speedrun along with my entire channel

(the speedrunning one)

[brazen marlin]

Thanks Youtube

Doing a great job out there

[tacit coral]

probably automatically flagged for the amount of videos... hope the appeal goes through

classic youtube

[short lion]

Man wtf youtube

[wooden coral]

i only posted ONE video on the speedrun channel and it got terminated!?

[tacit coral]

oh sorry thought you made a bunch the past few days

that's even worse on youtube's end

[bright dome]

wtf

atleast ExoUniversal still stands

[wooden coral]

the channel is still up thankfully

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

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

[fleet sun]

https://itch.io/jam/neurosama-birthday-game-jam/rate/2447511

¿¿Can we get to 30 ratings?? PauseChamp

[tacit coral]

pull me over 20 pretty please
https://itch.io/jam/neurosama-birthday-game-jam/rate/2448965

[short lion]

(Heartily recommending this one )

[bright dome]

yep, that one was good

[fleet sun]

Okay

[vestal owl]

Whattttt??????

Youtube couldn't handle the speed

[ember horizon]

@short lion oh yea one random detail of why clicker/upgrades was awkward was u dont make money, you only reduce how negative your money is. So you could never buy any upgrades like a traditional idle game

If I made exception then the bankruptcy cost joke wouldn't work

[short lion]

Ohhhhh that makes a lot of sense actually

[fleet sun]

The game did not disappoint, that was pretty good

[tacit coral]

Thanks for the rating!

[short lion]

A way you could've solved that was if the debt collectors collect a certain amount of debt periodically, so you have to match a certain ever-increasing quota

But yeah that would've ruined the joke so maybe not worth it

[ember horizon]

Fun fact if by some godly hacks you did reach positive money, the bankruptcy button text changes

[bright dome]

in NeuroQuest what are you supposed to do after you get chess piece?

[ember horizon]

It will instead say something along the lines of error: you arent bankrupt

[bright dome]

does anyone know

[ember horizon]

So it's still a useless button

[ember horizon]

I briefly brainstormed having him code improvements to neuro, that was the original purpose of the coding window

But i had no time for that sorta system after I put together all the windows so I just went with the 4 stats

[short lion]

Yeah that's totally understandable. Great work regardless

[ember horizon]

And an idle game takes too long for jam reviewers anyway

To play*

The ultimate goal is still for vedal to play it

He might not if it takes lots of idle grind

[short lion]

I was thinking about making an idle game related to the Vedal code incident too before the jam, and after it started. (though with the latter I had the idea that you're digging in Vedal's backyard for the lost makeship code which will give you infinite plushies and riches when found) so that's part of part of why I'm passionate about the idea of an idle game

[ember horizon]

If I had to make a neuro idle game, I'd want a theme that can keep scaling up, instead of hitting a limit like this debt

So maybe I'd have it be like a drone factory

And u build up power to take over the world

[short lion]

True, but there's also something very alluring about a precise numerical goal like 150m dollars

[wooden coral]

@frosty mantle

[short lion]

Ideas for next jam

[ember horizon]

If it fits theme

Frankly this ones a huge stretch already for mine

He uh ... lost a buncha money y-yea

I just made this anyway cuz I figured it was the best time to do it even if it didnt quite fit, the joke wont land as well if it's not fresh in everyone's minds

Since theres so many specific references to the whole hour worth of content that resulted

[short lion]

We don't need a theme! Just give us an excuse to make neuro themed games!

To be honest I felt really lost when the theme was announced but after prototyping a few ideas I found one I really liked so you could say it worked out

[ember horizon]

when I was making my game I lost track of what the theme was and then I found out my game doesnt fit..... 😎

[frosty mantle]

Theme loosely couples everything together

[somber stone]

@frosty mantle Will it count as self promote, if i post animation from our game in #1095941852068331560 ? Just want to be sure

[frosty mantle]

If it is art, it is art

[somber stone]

Thanks

[ember horizon]

frankly in all honesty, while my game seems to be near the top of the play count and I do believe the reception was quite positive, I feel that it will likely suffer quite hard ratings wise

I'm practically screwed on 2 of the 5 categories, as I did not even add audio, and I kinda just scrapped the theme

[short lion]

I'm half joking, the theme was actually kind of helpful and fun (also standard jam practice). But also I feel like the creative people in the discord were so ready to make neuro games that even without a theme there would've been undoubtedly some cool stuff getting posted

[soft totem]

hahah

lies

[tacit coral]

theme gets points for being neuro-related too imo

[short lion]

People enjoyed it and that's what counts!! it doesn't need to have a perfect score on every category but if people had fun and enjoyed the jokes, and if you had fun making it then that's what the jam is about

[grim fjord]

Jams are also about gaining experience and feedback. They are great way to test wierd ideas for mechanics to see if people will like it or not.

[brazen marlin]

Well crap, my score is gonna tank for following Neuro's theme then 😅

[ember horizon]

Yea, I'm just happy to see my game near the top when I sort by popular 😄

[soft totem]

i am the best gamedev

source : pulled out of my ass

[brazen marlin]

This person is the best gamedev

[soft totem]

lies

[tacit coral]

everyone probably has their own sensibilities when it comes to rating

[short lion]

I'll be real, I was really unsure how I'd do in the jam because I did really poorly when solo-ing jams before and I hadn't done a jam in many years now, but my confidence was totally restored by making something cool this time

[soft totem]

anyone have a chinese phone number so i can play p5x?

[grim fjord]

How is this #2023-game-jam?

[soft totem]

it is not

[dense reef]

correct

#general-network