2024-game-jam

[tardy flint]

How much time do we have left?

Perhaps I was too ambitious

[small radish]

basically half

[void parcel]

[small radish]

so hope everyone is halfway done. i sure aint

[signal monolith]

I think I am tbh

[nimble dew]

Yeah I pretty much just scrapped my idea that was my backup idea after my first one already seemed too complex. Scrapped the first one day before the jam. Now I'm trying to come up with something much simpler that maybe can still be done.

[hoary cargo]

Half the time is up and I only now realized I'm basically building an XCOM clone without enemies

[small radish]

why tf does everyone have sick visuals. i just got paint

[hoary cargo]

I've been trying to make games for years now, learned 3d design, texturing, ui design, blah blah blah but never got my ass up to actually make something

There are about 12 unifinished games on my drive, and here I'm starting my 13th

[void parcel]

i think thats at least better than forcing yourself to continue with a project and ending up ruining the hobby for yourself

ive only ever finished one game and it was very simple

[hoary cargo]

Pretty much, just sucks when you try to get a foot into the industry

[hoary cargo]

Getting just one done is a huge step many don't make

I am now using: Blender, Photoshop, Unity 6, Audacity, Substance Painter 3d, Jetbrains Rider all at the same time. My pc is dying help

[proud smelt]

A spinning evil to cheer you all
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1230179624043020450/1230179624353529906/evilspin.gif

[civic fractal]

to your pc

[nimble dew]

Same here minus Substance Painter, plus Gimp.

[hoary cargo]

So Gimp and Photoshop at the same time? o_O

[nimble dew]

Oh, minus Photoshop as well 😄

[hoary cargo]

Ah

I think starting tomorrow I'm gonna no-life this without sleep until the deadline

No chance I finish it otherwise

[void parcel]

damn good luck

[hoary cargo]

thx ^^

[void parcel]

im fairly certain theres no way in hell im getting this done in time but im sticking with it just in case, and i want to finish it regardless of the jam deadline anyway

[hoary cargo]

Good luck, I basically got the same attitude, though I'm just gonna submit whatever I got ready at the deadline

[balmy thunder]

Same

[small radish]

good night and good luck everyone

[wary abyss]

Forced into a family dinner party. Just 2 allnighters, I can finish. I'm fine.

I'm not fine

[fringe star]

i havent slept since the jam started, i am perfectly fine

[hazy totem]

you people should sleep now so you can work the next half of the gamejam without sleep

[tardy flint]

Damn my plan was for the character to evolve from Hiyori into either neuro or evil upon defeating the first boss and then they can play with fun new mechanics, but it looks like I will only be able to code up to the first boss at best

[hazy totem]

make it the best first boss

[hollow compass]

Been working on a vampire survivors type game and I wanted Evil to be playable as well but sadly I think she will be forgotten again. I get how you feel :(

[fringe star]

i think i made a somewhat dumb decision, I made a Neuro-wars (Advance wars with neuro stuff), i think i have a good chunk of the neuro family along with the swarm, units also gain buffs from other units, aka if evil is alone with only the swarm, she gains bonus stats, stuff like that

[hollow compass]

Sounds pretty fun and thought out

[hoary cargo]

I'm doing it for

[placid salmon]

I finished the marriage and breeding system of my game, the females are pretty but the males are bald, old and ugly

[tardy flint]

as it should be

[wary lance]

[misty tree]

i have a feeling people may pick this weapon over the other options

[waxen wasp]

bro what?

[tardy flint]

Make the enemies play vedal's moaning audio when he gets shocked

[misty tree]

LOL

[void parcel]

excuse me?!??!?!!!?!?!?????

[civic fractal]

For the second time HUH

[void parcel]

i cant wait to see the finished game lmaooo

[atomic stream]

im glad i know the context

[tardy flint]

[civic fractal]

I just pinged the context on another server

[atomic stream]

day 2 ending and my game is still squares in a white background 🥲

i gotta lock in before going to sleep

[lavish escarp]

core player mechanics are up, now for enemies, and level design, then i can move onto non core player mechanics

[atomic stream]

very nice!

[void parcel]

theres still about 37 hours left, the second day isnt over yet!

[lavish escarp]

not too shabby for a first game i think

[atomic stream]

well i mean like it started yesterday and now its almost 11pm in my timezone

[tardy flint]

So far I got:
Hiyori movement
Shooting
A single instance of Tuffee that walks towards the center of the map
An object with a health int that doesn't interact with anything

Yeah...now I just need to add...flips notes enemy mechanics, boss fights, traps, spawners, evolution system, a story, UI, reload system...flips to new page...uhm...

save and load system, menu, shop system...

[void parcel]

oh fuck i need a save and load system

shouldnt be too hard.... i dont think

[wild condor]

Sounds like some people will not be sleeping

Unfortunately I didn’t participate in this game jam. Maybe the next one

[hoary cargo]

oh jesus of fuck

I totally forgot about that

...just gonna make level based saves. that'll be easier

[tacit wasp]

Good thing the only thing I'd need to save is the score and maybe the config and the collection is I'm ever able to make it in time

[lavish escarp]

should have neuro quotes as save state codes like old school games

[atomic stream]

yall will have saves?

[hoary cargo]

Whole chicken nugget copypasta to finish the game

[atomic stream]

i still need to finish the basic mechanics

[hoary cargo]

Don't have a choice, my levels are getting too long. No Save System is gonna give every player an aneurism

[atomic stream]

ah that makes sense

[lavish escarp]

corners ricochet (?)

i cant tell if im a genius or stupid

wrong video.

its the latter.

im stupid

[hoary cargo]

[lavish escarp]

lmfao

[void parcel]

[hoary cargo]

I'm surprised I'm still able to write functioning code, been up way too long already

But fuck it, we ball

[atomic stream]

i never made a strategy game before and im doing this in my wip engine in C so im struggling 😭

[atomic stream]

im always surprised when my code works

[hoary cargo]

That's rough, buddy. But for real, that's actually pretty cool

[atomic stream]

lmao that would be so good

[lavish escarp]

the enemy turret is killing itself.

why is the enemy turret killing itself.

[atomic stream]

it gained consciousness and instantly despised its existance

[median plume]

mood

[lavish escarp]

thats a fun idea but realistically i have to unfuck the collider layers to make sure it cant shoot itself

BUT I WANT THEM TO BE ABLE TO SHOOT EACH OTHER LIKE DODGING THEIR SHOTS INTO THE ENEMY SO THEY CAN SHOOT EACH OTHER AND YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH IT

miffed

[void parcel]

ok im finally starting to get somewhere

[lavish escarp]

could use a layermask actually imma fw that

we shall see

[void parcel]

(music is not in the game, i just forgot to mute it before recording)

[atomic stream]

you could store which turret created a projectile when its created and when it collides it checks if its the same turret that created it

the easy way

[tardy flint]

Why did evil cross the street?

[hoary cargo]

Pausing development to listen to Vedal's bedtime story

[atomic stream]

thats so cool!!!!

[atomic stream]

same

[hoary cargo]

nvm it was two sentences

[atomic stream]

wait i didnt even hear it and its over 😭

[hoary cargo]

lmao

[tardy flint]

can't you just instantiate the bullets in front of the collider so they dont instantly collide with the one who shot them?

[void parcel]

erm.. for a cookie?

[median plume]

Making a 2D scrolling platformer

Completed:

• Player movement
• Player sprite
• 4 party member sprites
• Platforms for a few levels
• Some enemy mechanics
• Some items
• Music (literally just chose some royalty free 8 bit music)
• Story

To do:

• Rest of the levels
• Enemies
• Boss fight
• Party member abilities
• Sound effects
• Dialogue
• Instructions
• Automatic save system

I'm cooked

[hoary cargo]

4 more GB of ram after closing twitch, very optmizied

[lavish escarp]

yes but it needs to be able to shoot in every direction

[tardy flint]

gameobject.transform.position + 2?

[lavish escarp]

wouldnt it just kill itself when shooting -x

[tacit wasp]

In a way, I hate how most bugs I encounter are just because of me being stupid

"Hmm... I wonder why the Memories's onMousePressed() function doesn't get call?
Oh yeah, maybe it'd work a lot better if the parent class call its children's functions as well"

[royal jewel]

Why does it say you have 24GB on the system? That's a slightly odd amount

[lavish escarp]

24 isnt so bad

[hoary cargo]

two 8gb two 4gb

[lavish escarp]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1316090318726234122/1322509675387818035/image.png?ex=6771cb5d&is=677079dd&hm=3288d940c8f27f24525724b130a6c76cd72b4f4cbcd7a90f502b92fe79841969&

[tardy flint]

is it a sidescroller or a top down or what?

[lavish escarp]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1318579094798995467/1322515664568586260/image.png?ex=6771d0f1&is=67707f71&hm=7ffd8fb45bb1d25166fa23cf81ec44b3a4a16e7004baf5349ffe540d4d3cc948&

[hoary cargo]

still DDR3 tho so slow af

[lavish escarp]

top down

[royal jewel]

That is not a very optimal RAM configuration
Your memory controller might be having a bad time

[lavish escarp]

hes on DDR3

he has bigger worries than optimal ram configuration

calm down lmfao

live and let live

[hoary cargo]

Nah, it's fine actually. Been testing it rigourously back when I installed it

[royal jewel]

DDR3...
That's really not that good

[tacit wasp]

Did you respond to the wrong person?

[lavish escarp]

no shit

[lavish escarp]

nope

thats my bug of the year

this project

[hoary cargo]

You don't say

[tacit wasp]

Fair enough

[tardy flint]

never really messed with topdowns but usually youd write a logic check to check the position of the spot from where you want to instantiate the bullet from, and if it is negative (aka less than the gameobject x value) then you make it -2 instead of +2

[lavish escarp]

i spent 2 hours trying to fix a bug that turned out to be me just fatfingering RUn instead of Run

[tacit wasp]

Oh god, I hate those types of bugs lmao

[tardy flint]

or rather usually that's what id do

[lavish escarp]

broke multiple things in the process

i am done with that now tho

[atomic stream]

earlier today my discord was using 10gb of ram 😭

[lavish escarp]

onto enemy controllers

[atomic stream]

but im on canary so it might be that

[lavish escarp]

canary got replaced by PTB sadge

[hoary cargo]

wow, that's memory leak level

[tacit wasp]

I got a similar one at the start where the new classes didn't extend from the Object class because I wrote __include instead of __includes

[royal jewel]

Modern web-based applications be like

[atomic stream]

so true

[violet surge]

[somber slate]

that's concerning since my (current) laptop has 8gb of ram max...

[lavish escarp]

now my player character is shooting itself

[void parcel]

does unity not have an option like excluding the parent?

[whole oxide]

Neuro Buckshot Roulette Simulator

[tardy flint]

1 day and 15 hours

[void parcel]

[tardy flint]

if i go to sleep now ill only have 24 hours

[void parcel]

you sleep for 15 hours?!

[tardy flint]

i mean

why not

[void parcel]

i mean

fair

but

[fringe star]

You didn't sleep yesterday huh?

[void parcel]

i got a cool 6 hours of sleep last night

[cyan roost]

Really wanted to make a game for this jam but I'm just gonna cancel it. I feel like I'm barely 5% in with only half the time left, even with the shortcuts of using free assets. Just don't feel like spending every waking hour under stress like last year. I envy everyone who manages to produce such amazing games in a short period of time, especially solo. Looking forward to seeing everyone's cool stuff

[tardy flint]

I'm like 20% done tops

[void parcel]

for the game jam im probably like 10% done, but for a full game im not even 1% of the way lol

even if you dont think you can make the deadline you can still have fun with it, otherwise why participate if its not fun

[tardy flint]

I'm mostly stuck on refining the base mechanics like making sure the shooting feels fun.

various issues with sprites mostly leading to me having to do complicated changes

like locking it so the player can only shoot towards the direction they are facing because i couldn't fix the various issues with the player shooting behind them

[cyan roost]

Hardcode FOMO. And I used to "make" games before but not anymore. I keep hoping that the game jams would motivate me but I guess not really

[tardy flint]

i just got fired so im having a lot of free time and i need to occupy my mind to not go crazy, this was just in time

[void parcel]

3 stages, a coherent story, AND cutscenes?!

it hasnt even been 48 hours yet

even still, thats impressive 👍

[arctic wasp]

I've decided that I'm still going to make something in line with the theme, even if it's after the jam ends. Takes a lot of the pressure off and means I'll hopefully still make something...

Turns out a game jam is just a scheduling nightmare for me rather than an incentive to do game dev.

[cyan roost]

I'd love to take more time on the game as well but if I don't have any deadlines, I feel like I now have no excuse not to make it perfect and that's demotivating in itself.

[tardy flint]

Looks like there are going to be tons of shooters

including mine

[void parcel]

i know of at least 3 for sure

[waxen wasp]

outOfBounds987

[void parcel]

lots of drones as well

[tardy flint]

I abandoned the drones in favor of using the mascots of the neuro family as enemies

[rotund rampart]

wah so little time left

[void parcel]

still technically more than half the jam time

[latent arch]

i thought it was over tomorrow i was about to give up

i might still be cooked tho

[void parcel]

everyone is cooked

[lavish escarp]

how much time left?

[void parcel]

39 hours

[hoary cargo]

If I manage my sleep right, I feel like I could realistically pull it off. So still cooked, but just medium rare lol

[lavish escarp]

39 seems about right actually

should be alright

im

[hoary cargo]

Yepp, about right

[royal jewel]

We're not
We're progressing really fast
Our highlight feature is going into the final stages of production

[lavish escarp]

23 hours in

in terms of time ive spent on it

[waxen wasp]

just need to make sure the surrounding code for that works, which is my job

[lavish escarp]

i may also have made the game potentially too difficult

[hasty drift]

Are you winning fellow jammers

[waxen wasp]

yes

[void parcel]

my biggest issue so far has just been spending way too much time trying to make good models literally wasted about 8 hours on 9 models and still need to make more

[waxen wasp]

3D models?

[void parcel]

yeah

voxel art

[waxen wasp]

i posted some of tutel in public assets assets

[hoary cargo]

So happy my specialty lies in low poly 3d

[waxen wasp]

oh, not voxel

[hasty drift]

First time not working alone and I am so happy I do not have to think about any sprites. All the sprites I get to implement make me kneel

[hoary cargo]

Otehrwise it'd be joever

[hasty drift]

the extra dimension sure takes some extra time

[void parcel]

i started off with 3d so its more comfortable for me, but the models are a pain

[waxen wasp]

you could remesh it to voxels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQvWqIKcGt8

[lavish escarp]

goddamn its HARD

I MADE THE GAME TOO HARD

maybe im just skill issue'd

[waxen wasp]

why not both

[lavish escarp]

i keep getting the fucking

I CANT EVEN GET TO THE SECOND ROOM OF THE FIRST LEVEL IVE MADE IT TOO HARD

[hoary cargo]

Logo sells it tho

[lavish escarp]

this is what i get for procrastinating on the player's own health and shit

[hasty drift]

remnants of the past trademark

[royal jewel]

Very name

[hasty drift]

my game is called... "Neuro Game Jam 2" right now

[royal jewel]

Yeah, names can come later I guess

[waxen wasp]

our game is currently called "main.py"

pygame + zenGL + pygbag

no its not

[waxen wasp]

the problem is making these interface correctly

cuz pygame is just our screen output and audio player

the graphics is handled by zenGL

we have to trust the process of idea #7

[hasty drift]

every ten minutes i go through the its so over and we are so back cycle

"i got good progress, we are so back"
"oh i forgot this feature, it is so over"

[waxen wasp]

im on my break rn so im just enjoying the rest of the teams work

[tardy flint]

I keep digging myself deeper and deeper into an issue, amkes me want to scrap the mechanic and start over, but I know that'd just lead me to be stuck on it for several hours again

[bright dagger]

[hasty drift]

the non complex parts of the game are the complex parts for me. Implementing 3 new features in few minutes, no sweat. Finding good audio clips, 1/6th game jam

[atomic stream]

oh god

[fringe star]

Same, difference is you didn't give up on the sound department, but I did cuz for some reason I can't make the right sounds

[atomic stream]

i need to speed the hell up

[atomic stream]

ifkr

depending on the game using sfxr works tho

[atomic stream]

exactly 😭

[hasty drift]

i could try to find sfx for every shot and every enemy defeated. but if u got 100 of those things the same time, feels way too dank man

aaaaaaaaa z fighting

its so over

[hoary cargo]

I'm getting to the point where my breathing is becoming a bit laboured from too little sleep, I think I'm gonna hit the hay soon...

Though it's only 5:27 AM here

[atomic stream]

sleep!!!

[hoary cargo]

Soon >->

[hasty drift]

5:27 here too

[atomic stream]

now!!

[hoary cargo]

GameDev life is rough

[hasty drift]

i set my alarm clock yesterday for 7h sleep but i worke up after only 5h

[hoary cargo]

I set it for 9 woke up after 12

[hoary cargo]

Alright alright, you're probably right, no point in programming when brain no work xD

I'll see you guys later, GN and Good Luck

[waxen wasp]

[atomic stream]

goodnight

[hasty drift]

night night

[fringe star]

Gnights

[tardy flint]

fuck it i deleted it all imma remake it i can do this

[void parcel]

your entire game or just one mechanic?!

[tardy flint]

Just a mechanic. Essentially the whole logic behind the shooting

[cyan roost]

Good night 💜

[civic fractal]

Good night and good luck everyone

[atomic stream]

ouch, good luck with that!

better than losing everything at least

[atomic stream]

night!

[tardy flint]

I kept adding bandaid fix on top of each other again and again until my code was just a mess, so it's better to start over from scratch on that mechanic now knowing what I want

[atomic stream]

i gotta have the basic things down today at least i hope i can do this before its like 4am 😭

[atomic stream]

i feel that

[hasty drift]

just staring at my monitors, not knowing what to implement next

[civic fractal]

impl your credits

[hasty drift]

thats for the game jam description page. if you win the game, you will be softlocked

[tardy flint]

My credits for finishing the game is gonna have to be a pop up of you win followed by "neuro died on her way to her home planet" and then the game closes

I don't even know if I'll get to implement a goddamn title screen

[hasty drift]

i have a full options menue

its just a volume slider

[tardy flint]

[atomic stream]

menus

menus and sound are the bane of my existance

[tardy flint]

a mute button and a pause button is all i can offer, and only because unity has a one lide of code way of doing those

[atomic stream]

thank god my game is turn based so i dont really need a pause

[lavish escarp]

well thats not good

[atomic stream]

i literally cant pause in my game engine i havent implemented disabling nodes yet

[hasty drift]

mine is sort of turn based, after jam i want to implement nuru SDK

[atomic stream]

let me guess... camera is a child of the player and you delete the player when you die?

[atomic stream]

same

[tardy flint]

Lemme guess, you attached the camera to player and the player script destroys the player if they die, thus destroying the-

yup

[atomic stream]

but idk if ill be able to finish it tbh

[hasty drift]

the game or the sdk implementation?

[atomic stream]

same brain XD

[atomic stream]

the game

[tardy flint]

here's a tip, add a 2D cinemachine camera

[atomic stream]

i have no idea about the sdk implementation

[lavish escarp]

nope

[tardy flint]

it's like a second camera that follows the player

[atomic stream]

might be really hard, might be pretty easy

[tardy flint]

quite smoothly in fact

[atomic stream]

ah damn

[atomic stream]

cinemachine has haunted me

i implement my own cameras now

[lavish escarp]

im trying to implement something that stops me from being able to see through walls

[hasty drift]

depends on coding experience, but once one understands how it works, not too hard

[tardy flint]

why...?

[lavish escarp]

im trying to implement something like this

i have no fucking clue how tho

its my first time programming a 2d game

[atomic stream]

as with anything i take from someone else, if something doesnt work the way i want i have to just live with it... cinemachine is pretty nice by default but when you want to configure it to work better for your game its quite a pain in the ass (for me at least)

[tardy flint]

Ah, well, for a gamejam sidescroller 2d platformer i dont think ill have any issues with cameras

[hasty drift]

oh no who gave neuro a gun

[atomic stream]

yeah

[lavish escarp]

neuro reload

[atomic stream]

dangerous neuro

god i dont hvae a single sprite yet

[lavish escarp]

ive said it before btw but neuro having one leg with a sock and one bare is a fucking godsend for animators

[atomic stream]

tomorrow ill have to do some miracles

[atomic stream]

true

[void parcel]

i recommend taking a look at sebastian lague's series on this exact thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQG9aUWarwE

he has a lot of really great walkthroughs, and hes great at explaining the concept behind why things are the way they are, instead of just giving the code straight so that you can actually learn from it

it is an older video for sure, but math stays the same so most of the concepts should still broadly apply

[lavish escarp]

i cant believe ive made it this far to begin with

[lavish escarp]

awesomesauce

[atomic stream]

we love sebastian lague

[wary abyss]

I have come back with extreme amounts of wine, beer, champagne, pisco and soju. I have drank a full can of monster and my undiagnosed, unofficial, very subjective neurodivergents traits are overclocked

[tardy flint]

feels on topic that Alex was just rambling on stream a few moments ago that gamers dont need energy drinks or gfuel and whatever since all they do is sit in front of a pc all day

[hasty drift]

just like, be energized

[tardy flint]

Exactly

[lavish escarp]

day before game jam started i went bouldering and my arms have been dead the whole game jam long

[fringe star]

Good luck on your overdrive :

[fringe star]

This made me remember a meme

[hasty drift]

memes are nice

[tardy flint]

it takes so long to get image perms...

[atomic stream]

i didnt even notice i dont have them

i was about to send a picture lmao

guess i wont

its it a level system?

[tardy flint]

yeah you gotta get lvl 1

and sometimes you gotta fight the grinch too i think

[waxen wasp]

chat, our audio team has cooked.

[atomic stream]

i see

[hasty drift]

[atomic stream]

lmao

[atomic stream]

:o

[tardy flint]

aw...no cookies?

[waxen wasp]

lmao

[atomic stream]

they should bake next time instead

[waxen wasp]

@royal jewel , you got any cookies?

[civic fractal]

Can confirm, we very much cooked

[tardy flint]

it's a good thing i know some good sites for free audio. im still unsure about using neuro covers for music because of copyright and what not

[royal jewel]

Cookies?

[waxen wasp]

just read the backlog

[hasty drift]

Surely Vedal will play desktop games with audio this time

[waxen wasp]

thats the thing, its web

[royal jewel]

I don't think I've got any cookies

[civic fractal]

I'd murder him personally if we were muted

[waxen wasp]

id take the train to the UK, go to his house, and unmute it

[atomic stream]

so much to do

[wary abyss]

"You know what, whatever, its not like audio matters that much, right chat?"

[hasty drift]

I wrote in an info box about a feature that I just remembered that I did not even implement yet. back to "its so over"

[void parcel]

imagine fighting an elden ring boss in complete silence

[tardy flint]

"noo, we don't need audio, right chat? " <--

[civic fractal]

[waxen wasp]

it works on web so we're safe

calm down

we have absolutly nothing to worry about

[civic fractal]

Yeah, I'm just joking around

[waxen wasp]

[royal jewel]

We're focusing so much on audio the audio better end up being on stream

[waxen wasp]

ye i was also joking

5/8ths of our team is audio?

[civic fractal]

mhm

[hasty drift]

Use Chinatown Blues as background audio so that vedal has to listen to his own voice during the whole game

[civic fractal]

Nah, don't want to discredit the audio team

[royal jewel]

And that's kinda unoriginal

[civic fractal]

Life is also in that category thanks to it being open

[waxen wasp]

ye, lets not do that

[void parcel]

do you guys think it would be ok to put the osu logo in game 🤔

[hasty drift]

better unoriginal than no audio at all small team represent

[void parcel]

i dont see why not but im also no expert

[royal jewel]

Yeah, solo devs and smaller teams will probably be better off using existing audio

[atomic stream]

gah damn big team

[tardy flint]

A lot of people are gonna be using variations of Life

[royal jewel]

It is
Mainly because of how big we're going on the audio

[atomic stream]

thats a great way to make vedal mute all the games from then on

[waxen wasp]

if we win vedal has to give 8 codes away
RIP 600 pounds

[royal jewel]

We're certainly standing out with us not even touching LIFE

[atomic stream]

wait there are rewards??

[hasty drift]

Ill staaaaaay

[waxen wasp]

winner gets at least one lavalamp

[atomic stream]

thats crazy i didnt see that

[waxen wasp]

we dont know what will hapen with the teams yet

we're hoping one per person

[lavish escarp]

i think ive met my match

[atomic stream]

does it say anything about that on the itch.io or was it just mentioned on stream

[lavish escarp]

i dont understand shaders for shit

unrelated but i hope to fuck i get to watch my game get played, streams happen at night for me and im like pretty sure im gonna be passed out or busy when they stream the game jam games

[hasty drift]

he mentioned it on stream with no clear wording on what happens if a bigger team wins

[void parcel]

he did say he hopes the winning team isnt very large, so i would assume that means he wants to give everyone on the team a lava lamp

[atomic stream]

ah i see

[civic fractal]

[atomic stream]

im finally getting somewhere

[placid salmon]

Last game jam there were 122 entries and he only played 25 on stream I think, this time I expect at least double the submitted entries

[atomic stream]

i somehow still didnt leak memory

[royal jewel]

I wonder how big the biggest team is
Is ours the biggest team?

[lavish escarp]

thats fair

[civic fractal]

Yeah, the only other large is 7

[hasty drift]

I already ordered the lavalamp, id just raffle it away or something

[atomic stream]

i hope so otherwise we have no chance /j

[royal jewel]

Interesting
And most of the biggest team is just on audio

[wary abyss]

Is there a chance a code might give you refund perhaps?

[hasty drift]

doubt it a lot

[atomic stream]

i would love to order one but i dont got the money

[royal jewel]

At least we're almost at the end of the horrendous dependency chain already

[atomic stream]

would it even ship to brazil?

[hasty drift]

price was okay for the lamp.... then tax and shipping got added... ouch

china ships everywhere

[atomic stream]

let me see how much the shipping would cost lmao

[royal jewel]

Just a couple final jumps around steps and then to the final step

[civic fractal]

I'd consider raffling as well, wanted to buy one to support

[hasty drift]

over 80% funded. for what is a bad idea

[royal jewel]

We'll see what happens
Only one game will be winning and we don't know which one it will be

[civic fractal]

If you want to post the thing in the rvc channel, I don't think that'd do any harm

[royal jewel]

Makes sense to me

[civic fractal]

unless you want to mega spoiler, oop

[royal jewel]

Nah, I'm not spoiling what we're doing
They'll find out when they play the game

[atomic stream]

oh the shipping isnt even that bad, just $10 more
when converting the total to BRL though... R$465 😭

[hasty drift]

i paid like 100 bucks +, well i also needed the adapter

[lament ermine]

A

Or B?

[atomic stream]

:o

wait whats the difference

oh i see now

i think B

[wary abyss]

In my personal, unsolicited opinion, I prefer A. The distribution of density of information is more spread out

[atomic stream]

hm yeah that does make sense

[hasty drift]

I prefer B because I like my information all in one space

[atomic stream]

thats what i was thinking

[wary abyss]

Makes sense

[atomic stream]

i think both work well in the end but i personally prefer B

[civic fractal]

I'm with B due to one place to look for info

[lament ermine]

3(+2 from my team) for B, 1(+1 from me) for A

that settles it

[tardy flint]

Never considered that ved might not even play my game even if i finish it, but well, more stuff for the portfolio at least

maybe he will prioritize games that have the API

[wary abyss]

Last gamejam I participated on, the platform I uploaded it on literally got deleted so... at least it stays up on itch.io?

*stares at funko

[atomic stream]

always good to release on multiple places to be sure

[misty tree]

after a decent amount of math, i think im happy with my baseball bat weapon

[atomic stream]

ooo nice

[hasty drift]

she chooses violence

[atomic stream]

[lavish escarp]

having tweaked the difficulty

my game... may or may not actually be fun

i

i feel like i may miss the game jam deadline getting caught up in actually just playing the game

[atomic stream]

thats always a great sign haha

[misty tree]

ill be honest ive prob spent an hour or two just pressing the play button over and over and not making progress xD

my brain is mush

[atomic stream]

i hope i can have a game to play before its over

[lavish escarp]

it is ABSOLUTELY FUCKING DIFFICULT THo

can i stream this?

i feel like this is mildly worth streaming

[misty tree]

im unproductive enough already without watching a stream too xD

[atomic stream]

you send this as im distracting myself with alex's stream

[misty tree]

i just opened up his stream

what the heck are we competing against

[atomic stream]

ifkr

[misty tree]

that looks insanely cute

[atomic stream]

its adorable

[lavish escarp]

lemme see

[atomic stream]

i love the book opening animation

[wary abyss]

gonna check rn

[tardy flint]

i was being cocky when i saw alex stuck on a bookshelf for like 3 hours but the game actually was a lot more polished than expected

still, they are behind schedule so he says

[lavish escarp]

i just checked but my laptop doesnt like me having too many things opened

AIGHT TIME TO GET MY SHIT TOGETHER

[atomic stream]

i should do the same

[lavish escarp]

goes back to playing the game im meant to be devving

[atomic stream]

i completely forgot what i was doing before opening alex's stream ngl

oh yeah i remember

[tardy flint]

I'm stuck in a hellloop of changing the same values over and over, compiling, hitting play, saying "yup, still wrong", then doing it again

[atomic stream]

its the worst part but its one of the most important parts

[void parcel]

i usually setup a way to change the values from in the game and then just copy them into the editor so i dont have to deal with this

[hasty drift]

my game has the issue that idk how to balance it, it will be either too hard or too easy

[waxen wasp]

i think on stream, not sure tho. havent checked itch in a bit and might have forgotten

[civic fractal]

I checked earlier, no prize is mentioned

[tardy flint]

I guess I can make the values a public variable for debugging, but wouldn't work for normal functioning. We'll see if this makes it any better

[atomic stream]

why wouldn't it work for normal functioning?

[tardy flint]

it uses the same variable for two separate if statements, so i cant hardcode it. it depends on thecurrent situation

aka if the player is facing right, the minangle and maxangle are one thing, if they are facing left, its another

but both use the same variables, it just gets set depending on the player's direction

[atomic stream]

ah i see

things are finally working out in my game

i took a really long time to implement the basic systems but things are flowing better now

[tardy flint]

[atomic stream]

that emote looks creepy

[tardy flint]

It's my current emotional state, except prettier

Maybe I should say fuck it on the sprite working properly when facing left, because whew lad ive been doing this for hours

[atomic stream]

probably good to work on something else so you dont get tunnel visioned

[tardy flint]

fuck i keep saving the script while running the game

[bright dagger]

recompile pain

[wary abyss]

You know, I thought "Am one guy, and I am bad at scope. So let's plan for like 25% of what I think I could do." I believe my ego is grossly underfitted

[hasty drift]

happens to me all the time

[sage sapphire]

after 12 hours of debugging I got a working entity AI

copilot couldn't fathom the spaghetti I made it legit give me comments that my code is severely unoptimized

[atomic stream]

lmfao

[hasty drift]

copilot spaghettis all over sometimes if it gets confused

it is good at pretending knowing what to do

[sage sapphire]

yea, but I do find it funny cuz it's trying to give me suggestions but I'm ignoring it due to the rules of the game jam

[hasty drift]

using bit of copilot is fine or what do you mean

[lavish escarp]

wait are we not allowed to use copilot?

cuz im not using copilot but i 100% have been using AI to debug

[sage sapphire]

You're good

AI-generated content is allowed, but it should be kept to a minimum. Do not use excessive amounts of AI-generated assets or code. When submitting, you are required to disclose if your game contains any AI-generated content.

[sage sapphire]

it like, autocompletes an entire function for me based on what it sees

[atomic stream]

i hate that on visual studio

almost always does random stuff that doesnt make sense

like just let me type 😭

[sage sapphire]

tho from what I noticed the functions it tried to give me were pretty bad considering I had to debug them myself anyways along with teaching my game AI what the current state of the game is

[atomic stream]

i was gonna go to sleep but now im getting a heap-use-after-free so i have to hunt for that first

[tardy flint]

Ok ive spent too much time trying to figure out this dynamic aiming stuff, imma just allow the player to shoot only left and right and then make the enemy hitboxes taller so they can be hit

[lavish escarp]

confusion

[atomic stream]

hm?

[hasty drift]

what the hell its 8am

[atomic stream]

turns out its an obscure bug in my engine so im glad i caught that

[atomic stream]

time passed so fast 😭

[tardy flint]

Less than 36 hours remain

Over the halfway point, fellas

surely we are all 50% done

[hasty drift]

its so over

Blinking green 👍

[atomic stream]

yeaaaahh about that

[atomic stream]

we love debug messages

[tribal grove]

Probably wont be able to complete, but we are learning a ton so

[atomic stream]

exactly :3

[hasty drift]

just be flexible with your definition of done. if u get a "you win" screen at some point, it basically is playable

[tribal grove]

Get to take notes, find out what I need to improve and come back to kick ass next year

[atomic stream]

hopefully my engine will be more robust next year

will have a lot of time to squash bugs

[hasty drift]

last year i used godot, did not like it, this time i try unity, i like it more

[atomic stream]

i like godot but i dont like gdscript

but godot 4 mono doesnt have web build support

and its an upstream issue so no clue when that will be fixed

also has a few annoying bugs still but its in a very good spot nowadays

[lavish escarp]

behold a game

[civic fractal]

That's a good mindset to have

[hasty drift]

Thinking about it, by my definition, cookie clicker wouldnt be a game.. think it has no win screen

[lavish escarp]

its an experience

[hasty drift]

A subathon ending experience

[civic fractal]

I still have to get my last game jam game ported to my new engine revision.

[atomic stream]

to be clear im using my own engine and its still very wip idk if that was clear lol

so im finding a lot of bugs with the engine as i make the game

[atomic stream]

nah it would be a game, it just wouldnt be done

[civic fractal]

I feel you, make sure you take some extra time to deal with packaging bugs

[atomic stream]

spent the whole first day dealing with that 😅

and i have a feeling ill spend the last day on that too lol

shouldve set things up better before the jam started but oh well

[civic fractal]

Yeah, I spent my last day in it's entirely with packaging bugs.

At least this year it was handled before we started.

[atomic stream]

it gets a little easier each time

[civic fractal]

Sure it took two entire weeks to get a web build, but we ended up pulling it off this year

[atomic stream]

web builds

[civic fractal]

Stupid python not wanting to exist on web

[atomic stream]

just seeing the word emcc gives me ptsd

and the alternative is no c standard library

[civic fractal]

I remember someone saying they were using pygame. Does that happen to be you?

[atomic stream]

nah, im making the game in C lol

[civic fractal]

[atomic stream]

the graphical framework im using is raylib

[civic fractal]

We ended up doing zengl as our graphics backend

[atomic stream]

i looked it up and i see hatsune miku in the website so i already know its based

[rotund rampart]

so excited to complete this

[atomic stream]

same

i dont know if ill be able to finish in time for the jam but ill continue working on it anyway this has been very fun to develop

[civic fractal]

I admit it is nice being on a team, wish I was doing more.

That'll probably happen on day 3 tho

[atomic stream]

being on a team is nice but also stressful for me lol

oh god its 4:30am i need to get this working again fast and go to bed

at least i figured out the issue already

[civic fractal]

Best of luck!

[atomic stream]

thanks! :3

[ornate belfry]

Hey guys quick question, for music, does it HAVE to be original music?

[umbral adder]

You have unlocked new role

[atomic stream]

as per the itch.io page:

• Feel free to utilize pre-made, publicly available, or purchased assets, as long as you have a license for them and proper credit is given as necessary.
  so i think as long as you have the proper license it should be fine

[ornate belfry]

ah gotcha, didn't notice that, ty

[atomic stream]

[tardy flint]

Somehow Iborked my unity, every time I try to look at the animation states in the animator, it just shows blank and the console spams errors

[waxen wasp]

man,
i
love
fixing bugs

[tardy flint]

Alright, a quick unity restart fixes

[fringe star]

Aight slept for about 2 hours, time to get back to it

[atomic stream]

i did it it no longer crashes

[sage sapphire]

I'm off for today, I finally got my game a win and lose state now all that's left is refining it

[sage sapphire]

let's go, you and I fixed things at the same time

[atomic stream]

i gotta rush tomorrow

[umbral adder]

You have unlocked new role

[atomic stream]

i have hope now though things have been speeding up

[lavish escarp]

CNC machine

[sage sapphire]

fr, I was fighting the debugger alot

[bright dagger]

You have unlocked new role

[sage sapphire]

it had more gameplay than my actual game

[atomic stream]

so true

[atomic stream]

LMAO

i should make a game where you get an address sanitizer error and have to debug it

[sage sapphire]

I need to get mine soon

[sage sapphire]

a true psychological horror game

[atomic stream]

the remnants of the past are you trying to cling to the remnants of the sanity you once had

[sage sapphire]

[tardy flint]

Alex team is crunching hard

[atomic stream]

oh no i cant compile for web now

[tardy flint]

constantly micromanaging so there's always someone awake

[atomic stream]

:o that looks nice

[lavish escarp]

i ate cereal for breakfast

[atomic stream]

cant figure out why the web build isnt working but i need to sleep now

[lavish escarp]

the bowl of milk is still next to me

[atomic stream]

ill figure it out tomorrow

[lavish escarp]

its 5 pm

[civic fractal]

[atomic stream]

goodnight yall, and good luck with your projects!

[rotund rampart]

how do you guys upload images on the channel?

[hoary cargo]

You need embed perms, you get it after sending a lot of messages :^)

[civic fractal]

You can check via t!rank in the #bot-channel

[tardy flint]

Ugh...i was hoping i could get image perms before going to sleep so i could document my progress, but it is already 6am

[rotund rampart]

ah

oh well, no image sharing from me then ahaha

[civic fractal]

I'm sure you'll get them in no time

[lavish escarp]

im dying on the tutorial level

i am HEADASS dying on the tutorial level

[rotund rampart]

was thinking of dropping a little sneak peek on my game

[tardy flint]

Don't make it too hard, think of poor lil ol ved

[civic fractal]

I would, but I think Sam already did our leak

[lavish escarp]

game journalist difficulty slider

[tardy flint]

a difficulty slider is definetely out of scope for a gamejam imo

totally not me being lazy nuh uh

[small radish]

adding a difficulty slider but it's 100% placebo

[tardy flint]

Sounds like my jam, add a bunch of customization that does nothing

the illusion of choice

will also make your game seem to have more content

[small radish]

if you wan't to change mouse sensitivity in my game that's on you

[tardy flint]

changing keybinds? what do you think I am? some triple a studio?

[small radish]

that i probably could do relatively easy, got the unity input system 1.7 working perfectly, even mouse controls are adapted to directly translate to gamepad so that's something i could flex with

[tardy flint]

[small radish]

i lock the mouse to the middle and then move around a gameobject by just adding the mouse delta every frame, so never taking mouse pos even if that's what prob would have been much easier

[tardy flint]

6am...

cmon. i can finish this UI feature

[rotund rampart]

any idea if the geoguessr trophy has a visual we've seen? from the neuro vs dougdoug one

[tardy flint]

[umbral adder]

You have unlocked new role

[tardy flint]

finally...

[lavish escarp]

i realise now

i probably shouldve used an assetpack or sm

6 hours programming without having aseprite open

takes my total to about 26 hours

less than i thought

i thought i was just about to hit 30

jesus fuck i should shower

i last showered on FRIDAY

[small radish]

doug was going to order one (2?) and send it vedal so it will be a physical thing as far as i've understood. but i think it accidentally got sent to kyoto so it might take a while for it to arrive

[lavish escarp]

ill shower later i still need to get my scenes sorted

[rotund rampart]

guess I'll fly to kyoto before game jam ends hha

[tardy flint]

[lavish escarp]

well that didnt take too long

i got the scene transition thing working

wow

i wasnt expecting to shower

i guess i will.

[small radish]

did the enemy bullet start spinning when it hit one of yours?

[lavish escarp]

i dont believe it did, they bug out when they hit corners, i made sure bullets didnt collide cuz it made the game to unpredictable

[rotund rampart]

does this work?

oh wait

that just turns it into a download link sadge

[small radish]

ah, makes sense

[lavish escarp]

its hard enough as is tho ngl

fucking

i die on the tutorial level :D

consistently

i need to make the game easier

i recognise its a bullethell

[small radish]

might have to add some sort of raycast from the turret to see if they can see the player and then give a slight delay before they start firing when they see you

also, bullet hells usually have slower bullets than you expect. with fast bullets you're not really dodging the bullets themselves, but rather the way your predict the enemy will shoot

[lavish escarp]

i get that but ive made the player character faster than the bullets

interestingly enough

game did not get much easier

[lavish escarp]

also i did, it caused a bug, decided yk what, they can shoot the walls theyve earned it

im not gonna spend 3 more hours debugging

[wispy dagger]

unlimited ammo

[lavish escarp]

for the player no for the turrets yes

[small radish]

human brain isn't very fast so even if the player is really fast you can't always use it to your advantage

unless you're at maximum giga neuro effect of course

[lavish escarp]

i am kinda vibing with it ngl, im weaving through the bullets

the thing is, there is no spread, so YOU control the aim of the enemies

you can 100% predict where the rounds will go, it is entirely deterministic

[small radish]

achieved maximum giga neuro effect

[lavish escarp]

so the best way to play the game, is to roll everywhere, hit max neuro effect, and shoot the turrets while changing direction

its ended up becoming an aggressively fun gameplay loop

for me at least

[tardy flint]

Coolzies (warning gunshots are loud)

[small radish]

ngl, sound pretty fun. now i want to add a roll to my game as well

[rotund rampart]

https://youtu.be/aAjYFGV0Ofg
trying to show something without embed perm

[small radish]

be careful with the gun around the fox geez

[lavish escarp]

SPIN

[tardy flint]

enough progress for me to go to sleep

[tardy flint]

you know, im still debating whether i make the neuro family mascots the enemies in this game...idk if there are better options since i plan on having anny and etc be bosses

[small radish]

that decides it, adding a barrel roll with the vine boom sound effect

[rotund rampart]

ayyy

[lavish escarp]

i literally have not finished the game tho

in one life

[small radish]

i'm making the swarm the enemies and vedal the player. makes sense since vedal hates us

[tardy flint]

my game's plot is as such:

Start as Hiyori, Vedal is cooking you a new body
Destroy enemies for (???)
Defeat Anny, the first boss to evolve into either Neuro or Evil
Final boss is Vedal trying to stop you from getting the perfect body

[lavish escarp]

i got the corner to continually deflect rounds the wrong way

cleared the game in 1 life

[small radish]

vedal takes the perfect body and that's why he's the final boss

[lavish escarp]

okay it only took me a few hours of practice

time to make scene 3 and the story elements

oh no more animation

im gonna shower first

[tardy flint]

That's why I might make the first few wave enemies variations of tuffee, like tuffee in a tank, tuffee suicide bomber rushing the cloning pod, etc. Then once anny is defeated, the next boss would be another vtuber such as camilla, and for the final waves, vedal turns the swarm against you. Needless to say all incredibly out of scope. I'll be lucky if i get to code anny at all

[lavish escarp]

im gonna have an aneurysm

[tardy flint]

gonna have to marinate on it...

[small radish]

showers will do that to ya

[lavish escarp]

i started shooting the random destructible props after clearing the enemies out

was my last mag

dude i have over difficulted the game.

im gonna put a difficulty slider in the main menu

im just wondering if i make this the hardest difficulty or average

[misty tree]

tfw i finally get to the point i need to actualy make dialogue and realize i suck at making dialogue lmao

[rotund rampart]

took me hours to try to get the cadence in dialogue right

and even then it sucks HAHA

[small radish]

we speak with our fists around these parts

[rotund rampart]

Punch Keyboard
Code Works
???
Profit

[signal monolith]

it's starting to look very nice

[misty tree]

yum, moms spaghetti c:

[small radish]

quick question, also posted this in programming chat but this seems to be more active rn.
does anyone know if there's any real difference between ex 1 and ex2 here? they seem to do the same when i test them (both work)

"mainCDCoroutine" is IEnumerator

[misty tree]

what language is this?

[signal monolith]

c#?

[small radish]

C#, sorry, should have mentioned that

specifically in Unity

[misty tree]

wouldnt the difference just be that in ex 1 you now have a variable that stores that information?

[small radish]

i guess. and since i'm not doing anything except using it to wait to flip a bool i assume i can just ignore the variable then

this also seems to work the same, but here mainCDCoroutine2 is of type "Coroutine". but the same of just storing the return as a variable then probably

[rotund rampart]

if you put the coroutine as a variable, you can reference it, in this case you won't have a duplicate coroutine running

[signal monolith]

I think it will be easier to stop that one if you store it as variable

[rotund rampart]

IE if you use EX2, you have a chance to duplicate

cause you're starting a new instance of the IEnumerator StartMainCD()

[small radish]

the coroutine flips "fireReady" to true. so in the example of a duplicate it could end up as
duplicate running -> first finishes -> fire weapon -> second finishes -> immediately fire weapon again
if i understood it correctly?

[rotund rampart]

for ex1

you'd normally go

        if (mainCDCoroutine == null)
        {
            mainCDCoroutine = StartCoroutine(StartMainCD());
        }

this way if mainCDCoroutine is running, you won't be able to duplicate

[small radish]

is it supposed to be StartCoroutine(StartMainCD()) in your example there or do i use the variable to start the coroutine as well assigning it to the variable?

[rotund rampart]

yes

this way you have a reference to it and you can stop it easily as well

[small radish]

thank you, that makes a lot of sense. will be doing that then to avoid any duplicates

[rotund rampart]

make sure when you stop the coroutine, you make it null as well

[small radish]

so at the end of StartMainCD() i set mainCDCoroutine = null ?

[rotund rampart]

oh wait, I think Unity cleans it up

so it probably just ends up null after you stop the coroutine

lemme do a quick test

[signal monolith]

I'm coming back to making my game, wish me luck 🙂

[rotund rampart]

yea you need to set it as null

whenever you stop the coroutine

as long as the steps are correct you will never be able to duplicate it

[lavish escarp]

i have showered

[small radish]

clean up? in my C#? what is this, C++?

[verbal garnet]

bruh

[small radish]

thank you so much for the help, didn't understood why i saw people set the coroutine to a variable before so this has really helped explain some things

[lavish escarp]

im die

time to go back to programming

well

[rotund rampart]

np

[lavish escarp]

actually programming for the most part done ngl i need more ASSETS

[verbal garnet]

programming meh slap keyboard unga bonga until it works

[small radish]

lmao, immediately forgot to set the variable to null at the end of my coroutine

[wispy dagger]

i feel my brain turn to mush without an LSP

[lethal egret]

I... I'm sorry, but I'm giving up the game jam. Was fun, but i'm way too slow for this and I need to touch grass. Good luck to everyone.

• (I'll explore my game idea more and try to make it an actual game in the future) *

[lavish escarp]

IA

[rugged escarp]

i have finished my game,but after i play it .the only words i can imagine to describe it is"shit"

[snow merlin]

Congratulations on finishing!

[lavish escarp]

thats what she said

[rugged escarp]

oh thank you !

[lavish escarp]

automod doesnt want me to say what i think this looks like

but its mildly amusing to me that that of all things is automodded

[rotund rampart]

did you submit already?

[median plume]

hey guys, need some help
Layna is the first party member you get (literally on level 2) and because of this I wanted her to be a healer, but I also decided to give her attack abilities
She deals damage which she converts to healing, which in turn further converts to attack if the person healed is already at max hp... which, if she does on herself, causes her to deal MORE damage...
did I make her too OP? if so how should I nerf her lmao

[small radish]

impossible to say without knowing what the rest of the balancing is like. but i guess you could make it so the passive only applies to Layna's healing instead of all healing

[signal monolith]

that's great cause I LOVE SHIT

[rotund rampart]

Just remove the “this is in effect even if layna isn’t the healer”

[wispy dagger]

as long as there is 1 interesting feature the rest doesnt matter

[copper ibex]

always depends on the rest of the abilities and ways damage works. but seems very strong of a character especially if you get them early on

[rotund rampart]

Also probably change it to a buff type that expires after x number of attacks or seconds, and limit number of stacks

[slow meteor]

Most Important Game Jam Graphic

[rotund rampart]

Bibidibabidiboo?

[rotund rampart]

Also

https://youtu.be/aAjYFGV0Ofg

Most important game jam feature (no embed perm sadly)

[slow meteor]

Perfection.

my Setup RN lel

[rugged escarp]

yes

[frosty terrace]

Goodluck, Guys, and Girls, and others.
I can't work on the game now because I have other personal projects to deal with lol
edit : not that I know enough about game dev anyway lol

[wispy dagger]

my nuero looks like a psycho

[cerulean jetty]

The bowels of the forbidden gregs.

[frosty terrace]

" look like a psycho"
water found in ocean

[lavish escarp]

30 hours in

im gonna have to travel tonight

shit

hopefully i can rest fully on the journey and end up well rested in the morning to work on this shit

[small radish]

finally my first basic AI is working! Roam with a preference to go towards the player, start chasing if player detected, stop and shoot if player close.
now i just need to make the game as well

[lavish escarp]

eh fuck it ill travel tomorrow

[winter aurora]

oups

[shell arch]

bruh I thought it ended today for some reason

[earnest wind]

Ok this might be a bit last minute asking for some help, but anyone good at writing romcom/fanfic slop?

[wispy dagger]

who are we shipping? XD

[hoary cargo]

Woke up to see there's exactly 30 hours left, time to put in the work, good luck

[earnest wind]

The premise is just your typical tropey/cliched dating sim set in the 90s staring Neuro and some Neuroverse character, during the story some Anachronism pops up with Neuro mistakenly refering stuff from present time (2024) while it's supposed to happen during the 90s (1997 to be more precise) then as it goes one the "simulation" starts to break appart.

[hoary cargo]

Actually unique premise!

[earnest wind]

Oh and the game is programmed on gameboy, already finished the engine and made some assets but I dont think I'll make it in time with the story

[lament monolith]

I most definitely won't finish in time, but this is pretty nice to see work, at least.

[wispy dagger]

i see eliv i harpoon

[rotund rampart]

Eliv harpoon

[tame rapids]

finally finished most of the mechanics, now it's time for game map, yipee

[signal monolith]

@fleet goblet I'm sorry for the ping but it's time sensitive and there's no reply on the forum or modmail.
Are gamejam participants allowed to use neuro/evil covers or neuro's original "life" in their games?
What's the copyright on that?
Who should we ask for permisson?
Asking here to let other people know.

[lavish escarp]

Put in 15ish hours today

I return to the eep

Night folk

[potent walrus]

Dystopian land where the swarm took over everything - WIP
Working livestream integration

[small rampart]

currently building my game for testing

[wispy dagger]

go to public assets. life is good to use.
other neuro covers are copyrighted by original creator, but for a game jam game its fine to use them

[signal monolith]

where are the public assets exactly?

[wispy dagger]

at the top click on threads

[signal monolith]

ok, thx ❤️

[vivid sentinel]

made for the gamejam, one of many~~

[wispy dagger]

also instead of @ aley you could have used the search function in discord to find out the info fyi

[signal monolith]

I couldnt find any info about using neuro's songs

I've asked on forum and people also didnt know

[wispy dagger]

just search "neuro cover" and it popped up immediatly

[snow merlin]

Ah, the joy of getting stuck spending time refactoring the junk code I wrote at the start of the jam... only less than 29 hours left of the jam, and while I think I'll get something game-like up and running, I still have no idea how I'll have time to look at art, sound and game-balance
I really should look into committing teaming up with some non-programmer for my next jam... The biggest reason I end up not being able to finish jams, is having to split my focus so much...

[lament monolith]

You know, this is my first jam, and I gotta say...
Thinking and doing one thing, one singular task for 40+ hours is possibly one of the most mentally degrading things out there
I want to think about literally anything else but that'd essentially be "wasting time" and it makes me sick to my stomach

[signal monolith]

ok, mb, I couldn't find it so I asked

[pallid siren]

hmm any idea why i can't post images here?

[tacit wasp]

You get the perm after posting enough messages here iirc

[pallid siren]

hmm i see

[wispy dagger]

good idea to take breaks sometimes, maybe get some fresh air

[potent walrus]

or just sub on twitch

[pallid siren]

well, no gigavedal sprite for now then i guess

[rocky glen]

sorry to interrupt, anyone got an app for making a simple music for my game?

[snow merlin]

Yeah, just doing one thing can be draining. It's nice to break it up. But at least for me, it gets really distracting having to bounce between so many things. Or I end up spending to much time on one difficult part, I end up neglecting others...

Also, since I'm not as experienced in other fields as I'm in coding, I spend much longer doing those things than someone more familiar with them, which feels frustrating when time is tight.

[lament monolith]

I actually know exactly how much work I have left to do. I'd planned it out really well, so it's not even about scope creep.
It's just that I now know with 100% certainty that even if I worked every hour until deadline, I wouldn't make it. And that's just kind of depressing

[uncut delta]

if you want good quality stuff, look for copyright free music online, there's loads

[rocky glen]

fair enough, thank you

[snow merlin]

It felt easier to balance in one or two weeks jams I've done before, because I've got more time to allocate; "Today I do code, and tomorrow I look at art and gfx."

[snow merlin]

I had really no plan going in, came up with an idea on the spot, and just started working. 😆 I'm no pro at gamejams by any means, but I am a webdeveloper, and I've done a few jams now, so know it's important to just focus on getting something working first and then iterate. It's really hard not to over-scope, even if you try to be realistic, so you really have to focus on the most important parts, and consider everything else a "nice-to-have".

[royal jewel]

Meanwhile our team doing a lot more than just music

[mighty solstice]

https://youtu.be/88VGiaazgMo

yo

here where we got so far

[signal monolith]

looks cool, title blends with the background a bit

[mighty solstice]

GODOT BROOOOOTHERe

[snow merlin]

Godot Represent!

[wispy dagger]

any1 else going no engine?

[mighty solstice]

i just need to add easter eggs, shaders, apple watch port and its over

[rotund rampart]

omg I'm panicking

[royal jewel]

I think we're going custom engine

[atomic stream]

the upside down revolver lmao

vedal does not know how to use a gun

[mighty solstice]

are u sure

he is british

[cerulean jetty]

Our artist got sick, and we're not ready >.<

[atomic stream]

maybe im the one that doesnt know... maybe its meant to be upside down

[tacit wasp]

I use LOVE2D, that's more of a framework than a game engine so does that count?

[lusty falcon]

I'm in love with Godot's UI design tools, now it's all I want to do

[mighty solstice]

u are my friend now

[small radish]

speaking of sick artist, or rather sick art
does these make sense as "increase recharge rate" and "increase max capacity"

[mighty solstice]

first one noo

[cerulean jetty]

And the only thing we need (aka irreplaceable) is like at least 2 sprites with one walk cycle (we can kitbash the rest) and a few icons. >.<

[mighty solstice]

secone one tes

yes

[small radish]

struggled with that one. maybe a plus? just one arrow? since both are batteries i'm struggling to differentiate recharge rate vs capacity

[mighty solstice]

keep the lightning

and add a up arrow

[small radish]

makes sense ngl, i'll try that

[atomic stream]

i think both are clear

ngl if it didnt have the arrows i wouldnt understand it was recharge rate

but ig im the only one who thinks that lol

[void parcel]

it honestly doesnt matter a ton, as long as the icons are easily distinguishable from one another. because youll have to explain in text what they do regardless, since everyone interprets images differently

[small radish]

i'm sure these will be clear enough. everyone knows swords are the same as guns anyways

[hoary cargo]

Lemme guess from top left: Increase Damage, No Clue, Better Arrow Penetration(?), Increase Attack Speed, and the two you talked about.

[void parcel]

is the top left dual wielding?

top right*

[hoary cargo]

Split projectiles in two?

[small radish]

more or less got em. It's all for a gun type weapon, but i thought swords made the most sense for dmg.
it's
+damage, +more bullets, +more pierce, +attack speed

[wispy dagger]

once you see them in action it'll be clear enough. LGTM

[hoary cargo]

Yepp it's solid design imo

[wispy dagger]

iits not like there are 100s of them

[small radish]

nice, i'll keep these as programmer art and make improving them a low prio if i get time over

[small radish]

https://tenor.com/view/mgr-sam-mgr-mgrr-jetstream-sam-metal-gear-rising-gif-25775540

same energy

[copper ibex]

wasted 3 hours today just tweaking this pile collapse logic... surely i got enough time for the rest of the game

[mighty solstice]

im ded 💀

[rotund rampart]

deadge

[void parcel]

NOT THE JIGGLE PHYSICS

[cerulean jetty]

Is that path intended to be cursed?

[mighty solstice]

Do someone want join my team

[lament ermine]

I created a Vedal folder then I realized what I had to do

[mighty solstice]

And do this person use godot

WTF

Why people are making banger 😭

[cerulean jetty]

Did you find anyone?

[mighty solstice]

I found people they are good but i need a coder

Just one godot coder

PLS GOD I NEED THIS 😭

[cerulean jetty]

We only have godot coders at this point >.<

[hoary cargo]

now kiss

[cerulean jetty]

And a finished design (neur integration is being tested as well) that does not have enough art. >.<

[hoary cargo]

Seeing how many people need designers really makes me wanna offer help, but I'm just so damn tight on time I can't afford to :(

And a backlog of ~30 Models + Textures i still gotta make

[mighty solstice]

What neuro intégration ?

[cerulean jetty]

Neuro can play it.

[hoary cargo]

You can read about it on the bottom of the Game Jam page

[mighty solstice]

.... How

Where

[hoary cargo]

https://itch.io/jam/neuro

All the way down

Not even touching that tho until after the deadline, just designing the game with Neuro in mind

[cerulean jetty]

We had one coder who just wanted to do that part.

[mighty solstice]

....

Bruh

[hoary cargo]

thats fair

[mighty solstice]

My fingers hurt

I need someone pls

[rotund rampart]

Neuro integration can be done after the jam

[atomic stream]

this made me physically cringe, please keep going

[rotund rampart]

you just have to refactor all your inputs and game states (if you didn't already plan them well enough), and the intergration shouldn't be too hard

[small radish]

y'know when you decide to not look up a better way to do something because you're just throwing together something quick and you don't need it to be good but then it turns out to take much more time than if you'd have just looked up the proper way to do things

[rotund rampart]

what'd you wanna do

[atomic stream]

very relatable

[cerulean jetty]

normal jam things

[ornate belfry]

will do

[cerulean jetty]

Vedal needs to play that one. >.<

Just to watch his reaction

[severe hornet]

TIC TAC

[atomic stream]

he will regret ever hosting this jam

[small radish]

i'm making a menu to allow the player to pick aspects of their ship (player character) to upgrade. I haven't really done any menues in unity before but i ended up throwing together a script with one method and variable for each possible button. then i plan to just assign each button to the methods and have clicking them increase the "upgrade lvl" or whatever of it. problem is there's 25 buttons and i have to assign each manually

not even sure if this is going to work lmao

also, right when i was writing down what i was doing i realized i didn't have to add the values of the upgrades to each method, i can just have "upgrade levels" and have the power increase with each upgrade level why did i do this to myself

[mighty solstice]

I have a question can the mods add one day if almost nobody is ready cuz the 30...

[rotund rampart]

what 30

I highly doubt there'd be another day to this

[mighty solstice]

It end the 30

[rotund rampart]

sound complex, good luck ahaha

[mighty solstice]

The jam

[atomic stream]

i need to draw neuro now

but i suck at drawing humanoid figures i can only draw cats

[rotund rampart]

neurocat

[mighty solstice]

Ok i have a question uuuh so i make a demo game?

Can i?

[small radish]

sorry only AA or up