2023-game-jam

[graceful vigil]

Only a hour left so if anyone didn't played our game. We 2 short from a median.
https://blue-gym-bag-of-doom.itch.io/neuroshock

[soft totem]

E

no more e

[proper palm]

does anyone have a recorded playthrough of Finding Neuro?

i got softlocked at the well

[soft totem]

appue has one

[proper palm]

I READ THE INSTRUCTIONS I JUST PRESSED SPACE WITHOUT THINKING

[proper palm]

link?

[soft totem]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2023461300

starts at about 2:29

[bright dome]

classic well

[soft totem]

welll well well

oh unity actually baked it

[wraith matrix]

bruh I literally pinged you 20min ago not to do that wtf

[proper palm]

I READ THE INSTRUCTIONS I JUST PRESSED SPACE WITHOUT THINKING

[frosty mantle]

Phew... I have post-jam update ready to push.

[wraith matrix]

w e l p

[soft totem]

gj

[wraith matrix]

I REALLY hope Vedal plays v1.0.1 on stream (the bug fix patch) so this same doesn't happen to him

[short lion]

I hope Vedal plays it too, it's a great game and the vtubers are well written

[soft totem]

btw @short lion have more lava

[short lion]

I'm not jumping

anymore

[soft totem]

no

now r exists

and you can literraly save yourself from death

[short lion]

Forgetting to press r be like

[soft totem]

as i didnt care to add a ground check

finally

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

i still need to rebake the tut

[past path]

any one else not able to open any games and getting "there was an error with your request"?

[frosty mantle]

itch died

[vagrant berry]

yep same here'

[soft totem]

really

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[short lion]

Mfw itch dies at the final hour of the jam rating process

[proper palm]

ITCH IS DEAD

[short lion]

Well at least it didn't die at the final hour of the jam

[proper palm]

I HAVE 10 MORE GAMES TO RATE

[frosty mantle]

[wraith matrix]

classic itch, dying 1h before a jam ends

[vagrant berry]

khmmm.....
is it a motive to extend timer

[proper palm]

1H EXTENSION

[frosty mantle]

I gave up on voting, procrastination took over

[proper palm]

i voted with my team

[wraith matrix]

surely itch will come back online within the next hour

[soft totem]

ALEXXXXXXXXXXX

[proper palm]

WHAT I CANNOT RATE THE GAMES

[frosty mantle]

Don't you dare

[bright dome]

voting was extended by 4days, you can survive one more hour

[past path]

[soft totem]

YEAH BUT WE WANT TO UPLOAD NEW BUILDS

[proper palm]

me too, i also want to do that.

[soft totem]

the why you want to extend https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1118962775432101929.webp?size=48&name=cry_about_it_c&quality=lossless

[past path]

we can upload a new build once the timer is done right, or do we have to wait for winners to be announced first?

[bright dome]

i won't mind one more review

[proper palm]

you can upload in 40 minutes once the rating period is over

also results will be published immediately once the rating period is over

[proper palm]

assuming fucking itch works

[past path]

[soft totem]

i still have the gamejam overvie cached

[proper palm]

@wary flame look at this 👆

[soft totem]

my people

we may have ddosed itch

due to sheer people comming to it

to review the last few games

even main page borked

[short lion]

Big doubt, we're less than 1K people and itch handles a lot of traffic each day

They're not saying anything on their twitter though which is concerning

[grim fjord]

[soft totem]

uh oh

they have barred the gates

USE THE BATTERING RAM

[placid vessel]

Alex stream the countdown to the end of ratings

[proper palm]

THERE IS NO COUNTDOWN

ONLY ERROR

[placid vessel]

[placid vessel]

We took it down

[proper palm]

inspect element? or unrefreshed page?

[soft totem]

get cho asses into the toll free amongus vc to see countdown

[soft totem]

unrefreshed

[bright dome]

alex purposely crashed itch.io to have more time to rate games

[proper palm]

this is less time

[vagrant berry]

this is a potentinal motive for extension

[brazen marlin]

Evil Alex purposefully crashed itch.io so Alex would have less time to rate games

[bright dome]

didn't someone archive all those games?

[proper palm]

WAIT THIS IS BAD

[past path]

nothing is loading now, not even the timer

[proper palm]

WHEN ITCH IS BACK UP PLEASE SPAM PING ME

[dense reef]

surely the timer is on an API unnafected by the outage

[proper palm]

no that's just a client-side countdown, entirety of itch is down

[dense reef]

yes

[placid vessel]

RAISE THE TIMER RAISE THE TIMER RAISE THE TIMER RAISE THE TIMER

[soft totem]

here you guys get the page

[placid vessel]

oh sorry, reflex

[dense reef]

but the timestamp for the timer is already set on a DB

[grim fjord]

"Alex, could you not extend voting period.. for five minutes?"

[dense reef]

if they dont fix the outage in 30m its not good

[soft totem]

btw i think the timer is just an unix timestamp @proper palm

[dense reef]

otherwise it just gets the end timestamp

yeah

its not actually counting down

that would be incredibly dumb

[proper palm]

if the website isnt back within the next 15 minutes i think im gonna cry

[soft totem]

but if it is a unix timestamp

then it is still "counting down"

[dense reef]

its counting up

the seconds are increasing until we reach the timestamp

smh

[soft totem]

true

[placid vessel]

I need to acurrately check when Itch.io comes back up, so I've been sending 500,000 requests every second from 200 distributed computers, then I average the returned response time for my master timer, shame the site has gone down hope they fix it soon, whatever it is that broke

[bright dome]

itch.io has fallen, billion must cry

[dense reef]

erm

[soft totem]

distributed denial of service

[proper palm]

the server is returning 500, probably not a ddos

[soft totem]

yea

[dense reef]

oh

[soft totem]

someone kill @placid vessel just to be sure of it

[placid vessel]

Alex stream anyway

[proper palm]

what am i supposed to stream

me hitting refresh on the page every 2 seconds

[placid vessel]

Cookie Cliker?

[grim fjord]

You can stream Windows clock

[placid vessel]

Auto-refresh extension on a browser window in the corner, cookie clicker in the rest of the window

[soft totem]

no way

[proper palm]

I repeat, please mass ping me as soon as the website is up

[soft totem]

time for you guys to panic

[brazen marlin]

Joke's on you, we're already panicking!

[soft totem]

here page

[grim fjord]

Bullet is loaded. Waiting for signal.

[soft totem]

ok ima play hitman rn

[short lion]

Erm guys I refreshed it and it shows this? looks like someone gave a free code for ratings which must've crashed the site

[soft totem]

/j cant

[soft totem]

what

[soft totem]

VEDAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL

@glossy scroll

[sweet sierra]

Please someone tell Vedal there is a problem with my request.

[bright dome]

💀

[placid vessel]

oh Itch.io have an official discord imma go see what's up

[soft totem]

guys VEDAL IS IN SNACKER HQ I REPEAT VEDAL IS IN SNACKER HQ

EVERYONE EVACUATE

[short lion]

I'm there already, people are panicking / know nothing there too

[proper palm]

why did you ping vedal 💀

he's on break

[soft totem]

:3

[soft totem]

exactly

[bright dome]

he has ban wish i suppose

[grim fjord]

[placid vessel]

Imagine, itchio suffer a huge hack, all data rolled back two weeks, all ratings and submissions lost

[bright dome]

GAME JAM 2 LETS GOOO

[hidden herald]

itch said no and left

[brazen marlin]

I'm so ready

[sullen wind]

[grim fjord]

Ah yes, the sensitive data with game jam ratings.. hackers could be rich

[glossy scroll]

tf am I supposed to do

[wraith matrix]

btw @proper palm , do you know if Vedal will strictly play the final pre-rating submission, or is there a way that I can get him to play a patched version that fixes a few minor bugs, including the softlock? Cuz having him potentially softlock on stream doesn't sound like a fun time for anyone

[short lion]

Rest on your break

[brazen marlin]

All of the ratings I made strung together is my social security number

[young solar]

The final step of Alex plan, he can no longer extend the timer, but if the website doesn't work the timer will never run out!

[brazen marlin]

How was I supposed to know it'd get hacked

[bright dome]

you can go back to sleep

[placid vessel]

https://tenor.com/view/fix-futurama-help-fry-fixit-gif-4525230

[grim fjord]

That's the neat part.. you didn't!

[short lion]

Next neuro game jam theme: training pre-cognitive abilities and divination powers

[proper palm]

he will play the game jam version, allegedly

the best you can do is add the info in the description

[wraith matrix]

alright, I'll make sure to add that info

[grim fjord]

Or just "security breakage". That would actually be interesting theme.

[quartz hatch]

errrm

[placid vessel]

[hidden herald]

playing versions made after the game jam defeats its purpose. but some streamers do play fanmade games. so maybe a thing to consider if he likes to do that

[grim fjord]

Don't worry. In proper moment entire chat will just spam to interact with well before Anny. You are safe.

[frosty mantle]

I mean, if it was for a purpose of actual rating, then yes. But it will be up already at that time.

[hidden herald]

if vedal does not rate or wants to see the status of the game jam version, yea

[short lion]

On the other hand post-jam versions are probably going to be more bug-free and polished (and therefore more streamable)

[dense reef]

cloudflare :3

[proper palm]

5 minutes left THERE'S NO SHOT 7 PM WILL HIT WITH ITCH DEAD

[dense reef]

discord is next

[young solar]

Yeah but the point of the jam is to finish it before the deadline, if you polish it more after it's not exactly a fair playing field

[frosty mantle]

I think that's it

[placid vessel]

What's that emoji that Camilla's people always use

[frosty mantle]

om

or

[quartz hatch]

megalule

[hidden herald]

[proper palm]

[placid vessel]

DDOSd the site to prevent time extensions

[young solar]

https://tenor.com/view/thexddappears-gif-26812148

[wraith matrix]

[quartz hatch]

saaaame

[short lion]

I just mean that for streaming maybe but agree otherwise

[young solar]

But if he wants to rate the gamejam version he'd have to play both

Otherwise if he won't rate them I guess it's all game

[hidden herald]

clown emote

[grim fjord]

It's going down 👀

[hidden herald]

just less reports

[ivory canyon]

1 minute, it's over

[placid vessel]

IT's Neurover

[short lion]

It was an honor

[placid vessel]

It'a Alexover

[somber stone]

It's literally a game over

[proper palm]

yeah cuz ppl stopped reporting it

[brazen marlin]

[grim fjord]

Yeah but that could indicate they restarted things and now it's slowly returning to working state.

[placid vessel]

It's jamover

[hidden herald]

it could also not

[grim fjord]

[placid vessel]

It's itchover (tell me when to stop)

[quartz hatch]

o7

[placid vessel]

o7

[sweet sierra]

o7

[cursive dawn]

You have unlocked new role

[bright dome]

[quartz hatch]

You have unlocked new role

[bright dome]

You have unlocked new role

[grim fjord]

You have unlocked new role

[hushed sage]

o7

[short lion]

You have unlocked new role

[young solar]

Yooo Catt0s I just realised

[proper palm]

ok well since its 7 pm

WHEN THE WEBSITE IS BACK UP PLEASE DONT IMMEDIATELY UPLOAD A NEW VERSION OF YOUR GAME

[young solar]

We have your page as backup

[placid vessel]

Folks and friends, it's been an honour.
Goodbye

What's tha aniamted xdx whe it moves from side to side

[proper palm]

xdding

[young solar]

https://tenor.com/view/xdding-gif-26519990

[quartz hatch]

true https://jam23.catt0s.win

[placid vessel]

Oh I don't have that one, someone add me to a cool server

[analog sierra]

How long do we have to make updated versions?

[young solar]

Just according to plan, make sure no other games are available

[proper palm]

what do you mean

[grim fjord]

Welp..

[quartz hatch]

tomfoolery small ammount of

[analog sierra]

Nvm it was a dumb question

[placid vessel]

BUY BUY BUY

[proper palm]

i will be in #1067400152698077194 refreshing the jam page every 2 seconds for the next 1-3 hours

[frosty mantle]

Our post-jam update public changelog:

• Updated dialog across the game
• Ability to skip cutscenes (Space)
• Ability to go fullscreen (Alt+Enter, for Windows build)
• Credits scene
• Additional sound effects and music
• Additional clue for the Safe puzzle
• Various fixes for puzzles
• Various fixes for graphics

There is no new content other than a Credits scene, which we failed to push for the jam.

[wraith matrix]

the moment the site's back up, I'm uploading my patch as well. No more well shenanigans

[frosty mantle]

Please no

Alex asked to wait

[wraith matrix]

wait why?

[quartz hatch]

Our post-jam update changelog:

• none, the game is perfect
• fix background of a sprite

[frosty mantle]

He needs jam versions downloaded first

[wraith matrix]

can't we upload multiple versions and leave multiple download links?

[frosty mantle]

Just wait, it shouldn't take that long

[quartz hatch]

@proper palm my jam is a browser game, should i wait to update? the source code is at https://github.com/mm12/Neuro-gamejam-subathon-2023/

[grim fjord]

Additional clue for the Safe puzzle
I don't think you need more clues for that puzzle. You could solve this issue using some basic level design principles.
The problem with original version is that the note is next to the safe and this makes that people are trying to already solve the puzzle because they got something to work with.
Example solution would be to just show safe in the first room and move note into the one of the small rooms. That way people will see stuff in this order: safe -> paintings -> note, which will create very different image in mind for players.

[analog sierra]

(Upcoming) Changelog for my game:

• Invincibility on respawn
• Tutorial to teach Tutel people that don't know how to play the game
• Longer level with better difficulty curve
• Less hard final boss with more waves

[bright dome]

guys, itch dying aside, does anybody know why in Godot AudioStreamPlayer won't play sounds? I have three of those as children of node and they behave weird. In first picture they are supposed to play when evil is chasing you, but they don't. But when i move those lines to idle state when they are not supposed to play then everything work as intended

[frosty mantle]

Well, the clue just tells them to play with the order, nothing concrete. It is not even aware of your progress.

[frosty mantle]

Do you have those assets looped on import?

[bright dome]

yep

[frosty mantle]

Do you have "Chasing" printed in the console?

[bright dome]

yep

[high prawn]

Why though?

[frosty mantle]

Ask Alex

[high prawn]

https://tenor.com/view/understandable-have-nice-day-have-a-great-day-have-a-good-day-nice-gif-20850110

[frosty mantle]

Does it fire once or repeatedly?

[bright dome]

repeatedly if in idle state

[frosty mantle]

It just starts over and over then

[grim fjord]

Level design is very crucial for puzzles in games.
In this case it's all about order of things:

1. safe - player's goal
2. paintings with numbers - something to work with
3. note - instructions

If you show players instructions then goal and then paintings at the end, people can get confused that the room with the paintings is another puzzle for later (because it's in different room than everything else).

[frosty mantle]

It will require a refactor, so I won't bother for now.

[grim fjord]

Sure thing!
I'm just sharing knowledge.. not saying you should fix it or anything like that.

[frosty mantle]

To be fair, having the safe in the hallway instead of the bedroom would solve the issue. But it doesn't make sense in a story.

[grim fjord]

Do you have this code public?

[wraith matrix]

The usual itch downtime is 40min, this time it's been more than an hour now, oof

[bright dome]

nope

[vagrant berry]

if the safe would be solo in the bedroom would be a bit better, the player will see a code input, no clue -> and start searching for clues

[hidden herald]

have the safe in the room but the note in the hallway? so one sees the numbers of the note same time one sees the paintings

[grim fjord]

Without details it's hard to say what could be issue. Maybe you are calling play() in each frame so it restarts every frame instead playing continuously?

[bright dome]

hmm

that may be it

[frosty mantle]

[vagrant berry]

currently player sees phrase about the order and just asumme that it's about the numbers on this same paper

[bright dome]

ohh

you meant it that way

then yeah

[frosty mantle]

if not player.is_playing():
  player.play()

Easiest fix

[bright dome]

thanks

[grim fjord]

Won't work if player is used for different sounds.

Also won't work if state will change too fast: idle -> chase -> idle

[frosty mantle]

Of course I meant that you'd apply this code to your codebase, not just copy-paste.

I'd use some kind of sound manager and just fire signals for different states

[bright dome]

yep, it worked

[grim fjord]

But this will loop. Do you want it to be looped?

[bright dome]

those are steps so they should

[dense reef]

website dead?

[hidden herald]

yes

[soft totem]

yep

[bright dome]

now it works properly again

[frosty mantle]

[hidden herald]

most normal abber demon sounds

[inner imp]

murder

[soft totem]

most normal evil neuro sound

[young solar]

The way she just slaps you

[bright dome]

those claws are not for show

(hands are so big to hug you better c;)

but yeah, since i kind of had time limit, i didn't have time for better swiping animation

[wraith matrix]

it's been 1h35min

[frosty mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/let-me-in-eric-andre-wanna-come-in-gif-13730108

No official communication from itch.io... They are dead.

[bright dome]

our games were too strong

itch never had a chance

[graceful vigil]

Incident 7th of january all itch staff and servers gone

[soft totem]

ah

still dead

ok

i will upload a new build to Google Drive later

as itch is still dead

[soft totem]

ah

[uneven bison]

So itch.io is dead?

[short lion]

Yes

It's neurover

(Until they revive it)

[cobalt inlet]

[frosty mantle]

Let it go, chat. The incident was not your mistake.

[proper palm]

how can you be so sure

[short lion]

Unless...?

[cobalt inlet]

[soft totem]

then itch comes out

[frosty mantle]

[soft totem]

"we had a significant increase in requests thus we had to temporarily terminate all of our server clusters"

[uneven bison]

Gee I wonder who did that?

[cobalt inlet]

the swarm already taking over

[soft totem]

yea

itch has been REALLLL quiet after we firebombed their servers

oooo

btw you can now see this chonk on the menu too

[placid vessel]

Guys when will Vedal fix itch.io?? It's been down for like an hour :(

[half raft]

nice timing itch.io...what a funny joke....

[soft totem]

oof

[bright dome]

it's just classic scuff

[soft totem]

i just found a leetle tiny bug

After you do the epilouge your mouse dont unlock

so you are stuck

in themenu

then it comes out that the datacentre caught fire

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yh8L0atXF-9KXB_7InobL94K-Q-QJcJa/view?usp=sharing here you guys go

build to play

[frosty mantle]

I wanted to upload the update and go sleep... wtf itch

[hidden herald]

fixed sleep schedule pog?

[frosty mantle]

Mission impossible

[hidden herald]

network requests have at least changed recently

[frosty mantle]

Nope, they are the same 500 as before

[hidden herald]

yea but they at least for me do not instantly fail like the did before

[frosty mantle]

They do for me

[hidden herald]

dang

[frosty mantle]

Main page works without login, but it is likely cached on edge

[bright dome]

it works

[strong raptor]

yeah

[frosty mantle]

@proper palm

[proper palm]

I KNOW

[cobalt inlet]

YOOO

[hushed sage]

yipeee

[frosty mantle]

I DON'T CARE

[grim fjord]

Voting ends in 51 minutes 👀

[frosty mantle]

[proper palm]

Extension to 10 PM GMT to get back the 40 minutes that we lost

and also so i can download the winning games

[dense reef]

[hidden herald]

you say it like its already back up

[stable onyx]

the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end

[half raft]

the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end

[wild forge]

I meant to do a linux build, after all I made it on linux. Too much jank.

[calm nymph]

I wasn't lurking in here but wow, looks like I missed some hilarious drama

[austere bridge]

All according to plan

[calm nymph]

did vedal ever like, decide on a prize btw?

[dense reef]

nope

[young solar]

From the sound of it the winners will be mainly decided by Vedal, regardless of what the community vote says?

[calm nymph]

can I sponser the next game jam? winner can get lifetime supply of light novels

[frosty mantle]

I can provide dank memes

[hidden herald]

Wicked

[calm nymph]

Actually having a sponser for the game jam would be good. It's low effort corpa for vedal and doesn't directly affect anything brand-wise

assuming he ever does something like this again but, I mean, I think it was a big success so why wouldn't he?

[dense reef]

500000 dollars

[ember horizon]

all of his debt

[calm nymph]

That's only like, 15 kidneys.

[dense reef]

half of what he gathered!

such a good streamer...

[crystal mason]

[analog sierra]

[proper palm]

We did our part

[placid vessel]

[short lion]

[placid vessel]

[wild forge]

[analog sierra]

1 game

[proper palm]

that's ours

[proper palm]

[cobalt inlet]

what are we for

[analog sierra]

122 games, only 120 rated

smh get on it alex

[proper palm]

one game is disqualified

[analog sierra]

https://tenor.com/view/neurosama-ip-grabber-gif-12703438747976747309

[ember horizon]

alex deleted one of the entries because he was jealous it was too well made and guaranteed to win

[calm nymph]

I played a bunch of the games but I didn't participate so I can't vote.

The one I spent most time playing was a goddam precision platformer with tutels on strings

[young solar]

Oh I remember that one, the guy that removed things on a model he shouldn't have right?

[half raft]

we participated....sent the names late....so we could not vote...

[hidden herald]

Alex will ban godot at some point

[calm nymph]

Google slides is the best game engine.

[half raft]

was there any with rpgmaker?

[bright dome]

yep

3?

not sure

[calm nymph]

@proper palm , do you have like, a pie chart with the game engines used?

[half raft]

now that.....that is a good engine...

[frosty mantle]

itch does not automatically select the engine for you, the game dev has to add the metadata manually

[calm nymph]

Sure, I know it takes some manual work. But would be very interesting to know with 100+ groups

[young solar]

Yes and Alex didn't complete it because it would have taken ages

[ember horizon]

sometimes i wonder if anyone else uses GameMaker, ive like seen one or two games ever that use it

[hidden herald]

at least 2 rpg maker games

[proper palm]

PLEASE HELP ME FIX

11 MINUTES

[analog sierra]

Maybe we can setup a google forms where people can answer questions like:

• Which engine
• How many people

[wild forge]

Other is required

[short lion]

Yeah!

[bright dome]

to be honest i have no idea

[hidden herald]

people surely would not spread missinformation

[young solar]

Sorry Alex I literally don't know what that means

[placid vessel]

Yeah you're gonna need a text field for that guy who built a 3D engine on top of PyGame

[stable onyx]

👍🏿

[half raft]

9min

[wild forge]

I'm adding the No game engine catagory

[unique pawn]

looks like a gzip issue. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9622998/how-to-use-content-encoding-gzip-with-python-simplehttpserver

https://forum.unity.com/threads/unable-to-parse-build-html5-framework-js-gz-need-help.1083602/

[wraith matrix]

I have a mixed feeling between both wanting and not wanting to know the results

[placid vessel]

8 minutes

[placid vessel]

same

[wraith matrix]

I think my game has potential to be high, but I don't want to have expectations in case I get heartbroken

[bright dome]

i'm happy regardless of my score

i got a lot of positive feedback

[unique pawn]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57261619/how-to-make-http-request-using-brotli-compression-python

brotli compression here

[calm nymph]

even though voting was limited to the participants, do we think there will still be a bias towards games vedal played on stream?

[wraith matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/kitten-scared-afraid-gif-17069695293861682794

[young solar]

Same, hearing "I don't usually like this kind of game but this was fun" is better than any score

[unique pawn]

nodders, if you can download it and running is the problem, then it's just a header return issue (probably )

[half raft]

6min

[unique pawn]

i can help

[wraith matrix]

that's something I did think. I've been wondering how many meme games might be at the top purely because they're memey

[calm nymph]

For me, I saw a lot of games with 1 good idea that I feel could be part of a full-fledged game.

which is the best you should expect from a 72 hour game jam anyway

[wraith matrix]

according to Alex, the Google Slides game has the highest score in terms of innovation

[bright dome]

they might have more ratings, but not necessarily better

[wraith matrix]

which is funny, but I hope it isn't top 10 as a result

[placid vessel]

RAISE THE TIMER RAISE THE TIMER RAISE THE TIMER RAISE THE TIMER

[half raft]

deserved....

4min

[hidden herald]

so where do we donate to Alex to raise the timer

[frosty mantle]

LOWER THE TIMER

[young solar]

Innovating in the way they used the engine for sure

||Gameplay, well...||

[calm nymph]

restrictions/challenges breed innovation, it's true.

[wild forge]

Pick your fighter:

• Unreal
• Unity
• Godot
• Custom character
  (not not blocked)

[half raft]

3min

[calm nymph]

I thought the gameplay was fine! It was as good as dos games from the 90s.

[analog sierra]

scratch

[half raft]

godot for game jam is the best....i think...

[young solar]

Yeah it's fine, just nothing groundbreaking I meant :P

[hidden herald]

copilot, take the wheel

[half raft]

2min

[bright dome]

alex raises timer last minute

[half raft]

1min

[grim fjord]

[placid vessel]

[cobalt inlet]

[sweet sierra]

[bright dome]

[wild forge]

[analog sierra]

[covert badger]

[hushed sage]

[brazen marlin]

[long hinge]

[frosty mantle]

Everything goes dark. And you die

[past path]

[placid vessel]

<t:1704664800:R>

[analog sierra]

10 seconds

[half raft]

10

9

8

[grim fjord]

6

[half raft]

7

6

5

4

[grim fjord]

3

[half raft]

3

[hushed sage]

3

[half raft]

2

[analog sierra]

🎂 SHIRO

[grim fjord]

1

[half raft]

1

[broken terrace]

[analog sierra]

🎂 SHIRO

[grim fjord]

[frosty mantle]

[proper palm]

https://itch.io/jam/neurosama-birthday-game-jam/results

[cobalt inlet]

cold boot

[wild forge]

[placid vessel]

We did it chat

[cobalt inlet]

wait holy shit, 4th?

[half raft]

7....lucky number

[broken terrace]

congrats alex

[frosty mantle]

[calm nymph]

yay, my favorite got 5th!

2D Neuro wants 3D Cookies!

[analog sierra]

[hidden herald]

🧎 thanks everyone

[sullen wind]

Yaaaay congratulations on the game jam!!

[tiny laurel]

IODACHI YOU ALMOST MADE IT TO TOP 10

[frosty mantle]

1st in Visuals holy

[hidden herald]

im #2 in Fun, weird

[frosty mantle]

Congrats to the winners, it was a pleasure

[cobalt inlet]

[analog sierra]

I am extremely proud of myself making my first full game ever and in only 3 days and getting to 51st

[dense reef]

hehehe #1 visuals

[calm nymph]

the score imbalance is amazing.

[wild forge]

101th lets GOOOO

[dense reef]

congrats to everyone

[young solar]

You had Paccha, that's a cheatcode to #1 visuals

[sweet sierra]

lmao fr

[analog sierra]

the #1 in audio is the rhythm game that just took neuro's songs

[ember horizon]

aaaa as expected xD

[wild forge]

I expected this tbh

[tiny laurel]

who came up with the story idea for Abber Deamon's Forest?

[brazen marlin]

I think our game might be the most balanced across all categories, and I'll take that as a win 😁

[young solar]

I'll take a #9 on fun to be honest

[quartz hatch]

remember that ved's game doesn't count guys

[analog sierra]

I'm surprised my game isn't below 90th

[frosty mantle]

I don't want to discredit anyone, so that's a win of @half raft, @rare shuttle and @kind junco

[wild forge]

Expected

[hidden herald]

artists 🧎

[young solar]

@quartz hatch I'm VERY surprised we managed to get #9 on fun considering what a very basic game we had

[frosty mantle]

Waiting for Alex 's greenlight to push a Post-Jam Update

[wild forge]

Thanks!

[quartz hatch]

how did truckers FM get #37 in audio tho

[young solar]

For real, I feel like we scored way higher than we should have

[analog sierra]

also 26th in fun is really good

[calm nymph]

looks like "2D Neuro wants 3D Cookies!" is the only game with an animated gif for the thumbnail

[candid mason]

The Google Slides game won innovation, don't think i can argue that!

[stable onyx]

clipping through the ceiling is pretty fun confirmed

[frosty mantle]

Alex, notice me!!!

[wraith matrix]

Was hoping to be slightly higher, but this ain't too bad either. I hope Vedal plays it regardless

[proper palm]

ayes

YES

[calm nymph]

I liked your game enough to get the true ending!

[proper palm]

YOU CAN PUSH UPDATES

[sullen wind]

If anything, at least my game got placed next to the one I played the first and it feels special in a way

[proper palm]

i already downloaded the top games

[wraith matrix]

already am

[cobalt inlet]

so that vedal will have the games when they were on release?

[past path]

thank you for the game jam, ty for playing this was a fun experience, i hope we do more in the future

[proper palm]

yeah

[calm nymph]

Vedal should do another stream playing the other top winners he didn't already play

[young solar]

What number qualifies as top games?

[hidden herald]

the tower defense will always be vedals #1

and made the community happy with baiting him saying it back

[proper palm]

10, 15, or 20. still undecided. this is subject to change and picking top 1 from each other category as well is also an interesting idea

[half raft]

top 10...i think....idk

[young solar]

Sad 22 noises

[hidden herald]

id be in the top 20 but i bet top10 will be the pick

[calm nymph]

I say top 10 overall + any other game that's top 5 in any one category that wasn't already in top 10 overall

[hidden herald]

Thanks for the hard work, Alex

[wraith matrix]

maybe top 3 from each category could be cool

[ember horizon]

thanks for running this alex!

[cobalt inlet]

thanks alex

[wraith matrix]

definitely not saying that cuz I got #3 rating by theme or anything

[half raft]

that...is a great idea

[brazen marlin]

I desperately hope it's more than top 10, because my game is 11th (not including Vedal's game), and it's there based on consistency across all criteria rather than standing out in any one

[fiery merlin]

I think he ended up already playing a bunch of the category top 1s as well

[analog sierra]

you guys are all chefs

[young solar]

I'm just salty because he skipped ours when playing browser games and now we barely make top cut

[tiny laurel]

good job to everyone I helped

[vagrant berry]

69 i see it as a win)

[half raft]

i'm salty cus i could not vote....(not really)..thats all.

[proper palm]

@glossy gazelle @indigo sundial I request that you do not upload any new versions of your game to itch.io!
I am in the process of figuring out how to launch your games locally but in case that doesn't work, I will need the versions of your game on itch.io to be the same as they were when the game jam ended..

[frosty mantle]

Our Post-Jam Update is LIVE!
Changelog: https://cjmaxik.itch.io/lost-her-mind/devlog/662080/post-jam-update-is-live

Thank you so much for your warm reception. It was so incredibly entertaining to be here will all of you.

https://cjmaxik.itch.io/lost-her-mind

[tacit coral]

Was an honor jamming with you all many thanks for 13th!

[karmic imp]

tysm jammers!

[bright dome]

i got quite high despite being solo and people liked my visuals so that's nice

congrats to all

[crystal mason]

Gj to all who contributed in any way

[quartz hatch]

0.61 people gave us 1 star. how? idk

[austere bridge]

6th hooooly lets goooo

[cobalt inlet]

I can go to sleep peacefully

[quartz hatch]

@proper palm turn on https://itch.io/jam/neurosama-birthday-game-jam/results/top-marks

[short lion]

Thank you to all the jammers who absolutely cooked and the organizers

[sweet sierra]

gn

[proper palm]

huh

what is that supposed to be

[tacit coral]

Congrats on 3rd btw

[quartz hatch]

oh wait

[quartz hatch]

nm im dumb

[soft totem]

people sure didnt like my game XD

[young solar]

From the looks of it you were pretty ambitious

I don't think it's that people didn't like it, more so that it can be a lot more with time

[soft totem]

yeah

i added some stuff

[quartz hatch]

@proper palm are you sure the score function is right? all of the entries seem to have the same score and raw score...

[soft totem]

you guys can play the new build now

[young solar]

You sure? All submissions have different scores to me

[proper palm]

only games below the median vote amount (apparently 25?) will have raw score != score

[tiny laurel]

great game btw

[quartz hatch]

ooooooh

[soft totem]

play the new build

[tiny laurel]

okok

[soft totem]

only 4 download

[young solar]

Having to download games were a barrier for sure

[soft totem]

yeah

idc about the webgl ver anymore

[quartz hatch]

yep

[quartz hatch]

also webGL was not working at all for me on my computer so

[soft totem]

yeah

it sucks

[young solar]

Though I'm not sure if the number of ratings matters at all

[frosty mantle]

And now I can go in peace. Good night, everyone!

[young solar]

Could you in theory get #1 in every category with 1 rating?

[soft totem]

gn

[sweet sierra]

gn

[young solar]

I'm not going to say if they should matter or not because I'm biased

[short lion]

Good night!

[young solar]

Just curious

[wraith matrix]

I can finally rest, all the different versions have been released

[short lion]

But is it really the same game without the well bug? (no it's better it's a good fix fr)

[soft totem]

no

haha

yes tho

as fixes and stuff are always better

[quartz hatch]

F to pay respects to:

• Innovation: The Ultimate Relic (Overall)
• Fun: Shittiest game of the year 5/5
• Visuals: NeurOS GlaD playground
• Audio: Harrison Temple's Treasure Labyrinth
• Theme: Fluffy Factory

[soft totem]

worst rated?

[quartz hatch]

yea, #121 in each

[wraith matrix]

I made a specific patch (v1.0.1) for those who want the same experience as the initial jam version, but without any scuff that might ruin the whole experience. If Vedal plays this, he better choose this version

[soft totem]

you heard this alex?

send it to vedal so if he stream he plays the slightly updated build

[wraith matrix]

Alex got fluffed by the softlock himself, so he can speak from experience what it feels like

[soft totem]

yea XD

[proper palm]

Fun fact/stats: we had 9 gigachads rate over 100 entries

[soft totem]

one of them is you

actually strike that

10*

if you count appue

since he played every game

[hidden herald]

commitment

[proper palm]

yes of course i include myself

[hidden herald]

i kinda stopped after half, felt bit sluggish

[soft totem]

i rated like 10 games after itch got fixed

[tiny laurel]

i couldnt rate the games, but played like 80 of them

[uneven bison]

Not bad for our first ever Game Jam game

[soft totem]

:O

better than mine

but ofc

you hade more people than one

[grim fjord]

Top #10 innovation!

[uneven bison]

We had 3 which isn't a whole lot either lol

[soft totem]

yeah

[hidden herald]

idk why my game got less theme than innovation. neuro LOST ram and FINDS cards

[somber stone]

Yay, results are here!

[dense reef]

innoviation is creativity

[hidden herald]

surely thats the perfect theme

[dense reef]

not theme

[sweet sierra]

actually I think small team like 3-4 people is the best, because everyone kinda has their own things to do and nothing less/more (our had 4 people)

[soft totem]

single person in team

[brazen marlin]

I don't really count, since our 111 ratings was a combined effort

[sweet sierra]

i am the team

[young solar]

I still need someone to explain why we got #37 on audio when we only have default noises and truckers FM

[somber stone]

Nah. Big teams are super. I want a team of 20 people next time

[proper palm]

so were ours. voting with your team makes it easier, but it's still just as significant

[soft totem]

i could join it if you make it in unity :P

next time

[bright dome]

so technically we can all(or rather most of us) raise our scores by one since vedals game doesn't count?

[grim fjord]

Our idea for the "theme" was that Neuro is slowly losing it and you have to find out what's the source and fix it. So it was more like losing and finding in the cycle. I think people didn't spot it and that's why we got low score for the theme : /

[hidden herald]

if your game is lower than his at least

[somber stone]

Can't say what the future will be, maybe we choose google slides or scratch

[proper palm]

let's put it this way, i said top 10/15/20 earlier, i meant top 11/16/21

[short lion]

Trucker's FM should've propelled you to 1# in audio

[wraith matrix]

I'm slightly surprised I scored #28 in both visuals and audio, especially considering how out of my way I went to visualize my world with detail and enhance the experience with sound, I guess I overrated myself on that a bit

[sweet sierra]

I wouldn't want to be in a such big team

[frosty mantle]

November 16th, 2021

[dense reef]

clue?

[ember horizon]

now im just more worried than ever that vedal wont play my game :c

[young solar]

It did propell us way higher than it had any right to

[half raft]

clue:church

[quartz hatch]

SUMMARY: Top 3 in each category:
Overall

1. Tutel Quest*
2. Cold Boot*
3. Neuro's Lost And Found Kingdom*
   Fun
4. Neuro's Lost And Found Kingdom*
5. Neuro's RAM Rescue
6. Connection lost*
   Visuals
7. Lost Her Mind*
8. I will ruin my sister's whole career*
9. Tutel Quest*
   Audio
10. Rhythmic Recovery
11. Tutel Quest*
12. Cold Boot*
    Innovation
13. The Search For Vedal*
14. Wreckage Recovery Training*
15. Sweet Memories
    Theme
16. Cold Boot*
17. Where is tutel ?*
18. Finding Neuro
    Note: * indicates that vedal played this game on stream

[young solar]

EVEN SADER #22 NOISES

[somber stone]

How do you think, when the next game jam will happen?

[bright dome]

i mean, if it's overall then it still doesn't apply to me, i was just curious

[sweet sierra]

could make it a top 4

[short lion]

A lot of these games were really good I know Vedal is on break but he should totally play a lot of them on stream sometime (please)

[quartz hatch]

message would prob get too long

[proper palm]

don't pin this cj (i know you want to)

[young solar]

Pin this CJ (I know you want to)

[rocky fern]

someone gave >1 star in Audio despite my game having literally no audio lol
quite content with Fun&Innovation ratings, but still regret not having got people to playtest it before submitting tbh

[quartz hatch]

CJ pin Alex's message

[sweet sierra]

oh right

[frosty mantle]

who is cj (i don't know)

[young solar]

Playtesting does help a ton, really made us fix some issues related to motionsickness and all

[proper palm]

There's not much that I can say about the ratings (what happened, happened), but I want to say that I really enjoyed playing your game and I think you did a great job with the visuals and storytelling.

[tiny laurel]

Max i think they mean you

[quartz hatch]

CJ is me ofc

[frosty mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/wrong-kiddo-guns-gif-19570543

[bright dome]

identity theft

[hidden herald]

that one is a classic

[proper palm]

@quartz hatch it was 40 minutes before outage but actually it was 50 minutes added after

[hidden herald]

quick, edit it

[half raft]

now that is comedy

[sweet sierra]

the longest 40 50 minutes of the gamejam

[short lion]

I still can't believe Itch.io went down today right before the jam was supposed to end the perfect storm

[brazen marlin]

What a wild and wonderful time

[proper palm]

@turbid vault @short lion @south swallow @earnest arch
Congratulations on top 5, I really enjoyed playing all of your games and I think you deserve it!

[grim fjord]

@proper palm Question: Which score matters more? "score" or "raw score"?
We didn't hit 25 ratings so itch used mean to fill the gaps (or median? I'm not sure) and that lowered our score by a lot

[wraith matrix]

as long as people enjoy the experience I brought forward, then I am a happy lad. I hope everyone who went through the adventure, whether by playing or watching someone else play, had a great time

[bright dome]

i think score counts

because it includes lower amount of ratings

[wraith matrix]

"score" is the end score. "raw score" is without the adjustment (for not having enough votes)

[grim fjord]

I think it's backwards, raw score - just from people, and score is with adjustments.. but I might be wrong.

[rocky fern]

Some games ended up with < 1 Score* in Audio (maybe other categories too, I didn't check) thanks to the adjustment

[wraith matrix]

oh yeah backwards sry

you got the idea tho xd

[tacit coral]

The adjustment was pretty brutal, got debuffed 0.16 points for being one rating short

[uneven bison]

So who won btw

[young solar]

We got a score of 3.616 and that's #22, so a higher than that would be a very high score

[bright dome]

well, now that gamejam ended for good, it's time to come back to our sad reality

[wraith matrix]

aka you got the sqrt(22/26)=92% adjustment, so you lost 8% of your final score

[grim fjord]

You think it was brutal? Look at ours
innovation -0.36
visuals -0.34

[sweet sierra]

Alex's game's first

[tiny laurel]

Shard solo sweeped

[quartz hatch]

Fun fact: of the 25 games vedal played on stream, there are 30 instances of total top-10 scores (across 11 games). The only category he did not play the #1 game in was Audio.

[wraith matrix]

I hope vedal plays as many of the top rated ones as possible, to give everyone near the top their chance to shine and to make sure my 15th place game gets played

[grim fjord]

I might be wrong but generally a lot of games on the top seems to be the ones Vedal played.

[tiny laurel]

vedal did play a part in it, but i think its because the games dont require downloads

[young solar]

If he had played ours on stream it would have been top 20

[short lion]

Tbh I hope Vedal plays a whole lot of the gamejam games on stream. I played like 62 of those games and a lot of them ended up being great experiences. Would be wasted content otherwise also I really want to see his reaction to some of these

[somber stone]

https://itch.io/jam/neurosama-birthday-game-jam/rate/2446452 We updated our UE5 game, now there are graphics settings, so it can be less laggy now Also updated somethings. It's just a quick fix of somethings, and we will add more later

[wraith matrix]

8 of the top 10 were played on stream

[wraith matrix]

I wanna see both his and chat's reaction to the story+experience I cooked xdd

[young solar]

Thanks for the review btw, was awesome to see

[tiny laurel]

i want to download your game into my calculator

so i can play during class

[young solar]

It's HTML5 based so might be possible?

[tiny laurel]

on ti 84?

[short lion]

Thanks for the game, it was awesome to play!!! extremely well made.

[young solar]

I won't pretend like I know anything about it

[wraith matrix]

10 madlads downloaded my game on the final day

[young solar]

Alex 10 times

[wraith matrix]

I think most rated as well, which is what got me out of the below median range

I started the day with like 24, I ended with 30 by the end

[placid vessel]

YOOOOOO
I'M IN THE TOP 90 LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO

[sullen wind]

Released a post-jam patch. Also the game is now playable on the page
https://dreamycecil.itch.io/neuro-wants-a-cookie/devlog/662160/011-patch

[quartz hatch]

Games in top 4 rankings that vedal has not yet played:
#1 Audio: Rhythmic Recovery
#2 Fun: Neuro's RAM Rescue
#3 Theme: Finding Neuro
#3 Innovation: Sweet Memories
#4 Fun: Neuro-sama and the filtered memories
He played the rest of the top-4 rankings already.
(Reason for 4: Vedal's highest rank is #5 and I dont wanna do math)

[vagrant berry]

added a web version surely on time...
https://declyo.itch.io/neurosama-lost-and-found-agency

[glossy gazelle]

ok! sounds good

[novel rampart]

Holy

[half raft]

congrats

[short lion]

I gotta say, I loved your game's visuals they reminded me of old school flash games in the best way possible

[young solar]

Just from having the a quick look, the highest score of each category was:

Visuals: 4.889 [Lost Her Mind]
Fun: 4.452 [Neuro's Lost And Found Kingdom]
Innovation: 4.429 [The Search For Vedal]
Theme: 4.412 [Cold Boot]
Audio: 4.370 [Rhythmic Recovery]

Seems like visuals was focused on the most, and audio the least

[brazen marlin]

A lot of absolutely insane artists in this discord

[half raft]

no....paccha on our team was cracked...she was our mvp...

we were so lucky to have her.

[young solar]

On the contrary, we got #42 on visuals and all we had was 5x5 pixel sprites

[tiny laurel]

I like the pixel style

[hidden herald]

wish i knew some artists for future game jam or so, would boost the fun levels

[young solar]

I'm always open to trying more art in any future jams (if there are any)

I want to make more stuff with sprites like these

[proper palm]

Things to consider for next game jam organisation:

• enable voting queue
• make voting time longer from start
• add team member limit

[tiny laurel]

Should’ve had a 200 people team

[hidden herald]

cd project red joins the jam

[proper palm]

Bigger team doesn't mean better ratings

[young solar]

Not have Vedal showcase a few submissions on stream before the voting is over

[half raft]

still loses

[proper palm]

I tried my best

[tiny laurel]

I meant the entire Gamejam people being one team

[hidden herald]

Alex doing his best but burned out tutel is burned out

[young solar]

[hardy fiber]

Next game jam the swarm will put all triple A companies to shame (wait they are already doing it themselves)

[proper palm]

Question, if I were to make a feedback form, how many of you would actually submit it?

[tiny laurel]

Me

[hidden herald]

if you want us to submit, ofc

[half raft]

that is such a headache with managing that...

[young solar]

Hard to say without knowing what it would look like

[hidden herald]

if you can still send emails to jam participants, maybe send the form that way

[tiny laurel]

You can’t lose if there is only one game

[half raft]

about game jam?

[wraith matrix]

Things to consider for my next jam participation:

• Make it accessible in web
• Make it look like it was made in MS PowerPoint
• Essay super hard with funny references
• Add atmospheric music

[austere bridge]

Web was a big one

[quartz hatch]

Vedal should play all the games that beat his score in a category (maximum possible of 88 games, 15 of which he played already, and most of which will be duplicates)

[tiny laurel]

Force Vedal to play your game

[cobalt nest]

yeah, epic music is helpful

[wraith matrix]

some good music always makes an experience much better

[young solar]

Add atmospheric music Add Truckers.FM

Even though a lot of people muted it when they played our game

But don't let others know that

[wraith matrix]

More things to add:

• [Turn on TruckersFM music] button, for the memes

[short lion]

I both muted it and thought it was amazing you managed to implement it and gave you a higher audio score thanks to it

lmao

[young solar]

I don't know if it was hard for @quartz hatch to add it or not

[novel rampart]

It took me 2 days to draw them, which resulted in me not having time to add tutorials in the end . Maybe next time I won’t try to develop alone

[quartz hatch]

the hard part was making the volume not be maxxed out when it played lol

[hidden herald]

I had to laugh out loud at when a game had to use browser text notification boxes for the lore

[wraith matrix]

I'm a bit surprised the game "Found You" made it so high, but also I did enjoy the atmosphere, so I see how it got there

[young solar]

It was still pretty loud

[short lion]

Wow, that's incredible I mainly spent 1 day on art (and sound effects) but I used a lot of pre-made assets

[wraith matrix]

I may have figured out how to infinitely wall climb in that game

[placid vessel]

I have also updated my game, thanks everyone who played it, rated it, or gave feedback
https://baa.itch.io/neuros-farm/devlog/662167/post-gamejam-update-v02-now-available

[grizzled hazel]

It's really cool to see you guys continue developing on your games after the game jam, really motivate me to do so as well

[grim fjord]

IIRC I made art for our game in ~6 hours in the last day.. wish I had little more time for that but I'm really happy with the final result.

[unique pawn]

Not sure how many here played my arguably bad game, but I had fun making it!

Thanks to those in the comments who encouraged me even though it was a really rough game. You guys are the nicest people I know.

On the flip side, I loved playing through everyone's games, and they reminded me of how talented everyone was .

I'll try to participate again next jam, hopefully to make something closer to an actual game!

[short lion]

I thought you had a really unique, consistent visual style. I'm shocked to hear you did all the art assets in 6 hours

Would expect it to take way longer

[soft totem]

i spent like about 10 minutse on art

excluding the logo

also

what you guys think of the new build?

[grizzled hazel]

felt that, felt kinda bad but I had to DM some artists in the art channel to use their art lol

[grizzled hazel]

haven't gotten a chance to see it yet, you got a link?

[soft totem]

https://lightmaxi.itch.io/vedals-twitch-misshap

only windows build for now

the one that is LostnFound.zip

[grizzled hazel]

oh nice, you got html5 build working? I keep running into the build error for it so I ended up just building Windows normally for my submission

[soft totem]

the html5 build is still not updated

[grim fjord]

I used a lot of cheap tricks to achieve that.
For example here is a trick I used to create title text.. there was no time to import font to aseprite 😂

[soft totem]

as if i update it i will beat my shit together as unity webgl is a pain in the ass

[short lion]

Genius. This is the kind of thinking that goes a long way in jams

[soft totem]

huh

[grim fjord]

I learnt a lot of neat tricks like that to achive fast workflow during game jams.

[soft totem]

i love aseprites buisnessmodel

[cobalt nest]

Thanks to this game jam, I rediscovered the joy of making games, even though my attempt this time was not great.
I'm looking forward to the next game jam, hoping to collaborate with artists or other members next time.

[soft totem]

what was your game ?

[cobalt nest]

Where's Emotes

[soft totem]

ah

i hope we have another neuro gamejam this year

[cobalt nest]

Making it with pixi.js and matter.js was my biggest mistake

[soft totem]

yea

it is in the name

[grim fjord]

btw. If you like my art style feel free to check out my twitter account.. some time ago I was posting there regularly.

[soft totem]

JAVAscript

[cobalt nest]

It took me 2.5 days to figure it out and get them to sync

Actually I use typescript although the library is javascript

typescript is way more better

[wild forge]

The template

[soft totem]

yes

[quartz hatch]

Of the 48 games that beat vedal's score in at least one category, 16 of them have already been played, and 22 of them beat him in multiple categories (15 excluding those he already played)

List of games that beat vedal in a category, including which categories: https://itch.io/c/3952208/beat-veds-scores

ps: make sure to scroll before searching it, the whole page doesn't load until you do

[frosty mantle]

Vedal is like the ultimate boss?

[quartz hatch]

yes

like 8 of the games incorperate that

[mighty cliff]

Good enough

Audio was expected cuz i just didnt have any

[grim fjord]

Raw score is much more important for self improvement. This tells you how people really rated your game. If you won't reach the median ratings (in this case 25) itch adds median scores to fill the gap. In reality you got 3.722 for visuals from people what could place you in the 37th place. This is very good score!

[mighty cliff]

Ah cool

I had 19 ratings

Autocorrect lmao

[grim fjord]

In our case we got #10 place in innovation category but if the raw score could count we would have #3 place (with google slide game and brainfuck game on the #1 and #2 place). I'm not sad or anything but for me this is much more important indicator than artificially adjusted number.

We just got 22 ratings what means 3 ratings were fake ones (taken from median of all games)

[mighty cliff]

I made a 3D game in python, which didnt leave me enough time to make fun puzzles, game mechanics and things like that

And the performance kinda sucks

So i didnt expect that much from the game

Atleast people like the visuals, eventhough the game doesnt have textures xd

The only png is for the UI -_-

[grim fjord]

Art direction is much more important than "pretty graphics"

[mighty cliff]

You're right

[grim fjord]

And "Baba is You" is one of my favourite examples of that.

[mighty cliff]

Winter break ended and i have school in 6 hours, so bye

[quartz hatch]

doing actual normalization would be good

[earnest mortar]

Are these all the games vedal will play?

[quartz hatch]

no idea but i think he should

[south swallow]

for me the biggest lesson is to make sure to not let the player not understand the mechanics,
don't expect them to pay attention unless they are faced with a problem.
(and maybe not show critical information during a voiceover)

it's crazy how I thought "we mentioned it in the intro, and there was an option to use this mechanic in one of the first levels, surely the player will know this mechanic at that point"
and then I ask people about the game, and they're like "oh, I didn't notice that mechanic"

[wraith matrix]

I may have just released a gigantic essay containing the whole development process of my game lmao
https://lordvaza.itch.io/findingneuro/devlog/662217/developer-thoughts-for-v10

And by essay, I mean 2,108 words (or 11,393 characters)

why? idk

[fleet sun]

Finally the game is fixed!

https://ivchill.itch.io/detective-neuro-sama-and-the-lost-vedal/devlog/662281/detective-neuro-sama-postjam-update

[sullen sphinx]

W

[short lion]

Followed!

[wooden coral]

oh welp

im gonna replay it again i guess

[wooden coral]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIOjYZcNe7A

gg

[indigo sundial]

If you're interested, I've updated my game with new levels and endings.
https://florian-castel.itch.io/connection-loss/devlog/660962/post-jam-update

Thank you for the game jam and thank you so much to everyone who played my game and gave me feedback.

[wild forge]

I know this is off topic from the jam, but this is where this originated so it is only fair. I'll be checking for whatever this is. If someone posts this in general then please let me know.

[wooden coral]

i played that game before

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

sure

[wooden coral]

this puzzle hurts my brain

[indigo sundial]

My full playthrough of the game
https://youtu.be/0Gg5Xmo__Pk

[wooden coral]

ill figure it out myself though

thanks btw

[wooden coral]

NAHHHHH

[frosty mantle]

How are you doing, game dev legends?

[soft totem]

death

turmoil

[frosty mantle]

Understandable

[wraith matrix]

patiently waiting for Tutel's decisions

[tiny laurel]

Is tutel going to be on vacation for a week?

[wraith matrix]

god flippin' knows

[tiny laurel]

Will the swarm replace Vedal again when he is on vacation

[mystic kindle]

Time to make a second community project

[tiny laurel]

SAME THOUGHTS

[soft totem]

yea

lets all make one beeg game :p

[tiny laurel]

Have CJ handle this project too

[soft totem]

yea!

[tiny laurel]

The game should be about Vedal losing himself because he is trying to please all Neuro fans and he goes through all the past memories and then finds a new direction he wants to take

[frosty mantle]

[soft totem]

yea

[tiny laurel]

CJ should just manage everything

[soft totem]

and in unity as alex will rage if we use godot

[tiny laurel]

I mean each memory can be made by different people so each memory is unique and fun

[soft totem]

yea

now

a beeg question

** who wants to make the git repo**

[frosty mantle]

CEASE

[tiny laurel]

[soft totem]

no

[tiny laurel]

Stop running away from responsibilities

[soft totem]

cj

we are forcing you

you have no say in the matter

my github picture lloooooks CURSED

downscaling bad

geethub

https://github.com/Lightmaxifrvr/Neuro-proj

[soft totem]

each memory diffrent playstyle

[tiny laurel]

We just need someone who writes good story tbh

Again it’s only if everyone wants to do this

[soft totem]

yea

[frosty mantle]

Psychonauts 2 very much?

[soft totem]

lies

psychonauts 2 is about a little tiny gremlin

not about a tutel

[tiny laurel]

WH

[soft totem]

http://xboxahoy.com/images/four-byte-burger.png

[tiny laurel]

idk

[placid vessel]

yay pixel burger

[soft totem]

four byte burger

btw github repo existy

[placid vessel]

Me planning to open-source my game before I made it
Me post-gamejam

[soft totem]

haha

WAYYYYYYYYYYYY ahead of ya

https://github.com/Lightmaxifrvr/LostnFound

also if more people want to make a community project

https://github.com/Lightmaxifrvr/Neuro-proj

exists already

@placid vessel

[placid vessel]

yaaay nice

[wraith matrix]

Wiggle already wanting to make another game?

[soft totem]

both

me and wiggle

[wraith matrix]

tbh I wouldn't mind being a part of another project myself, however I've effectively never used Unity before

[soft totem]

map design

[wraith matrix]

I have seen a thousand games before, so I'm pretty knowledgeable in terms of all the other stuff tho

I honestly wonder how many games total I've actually seen, I was practically born in the midst of them

[soft totem]

lel

i have at MINIMUM seen more than 100 Games

on steam only

[wraith matrix]

I was watching game demos since I was 2 years old on THIS

[soft totem]

dayummm

macintosh compatible

[wraith matrix]

(not my pic, I googled that, but it gets the point across)

[soft totem]

yea

wait