2024-game-jam

[small radish]

i think the expectation is that it will just be "demo games" more or less. 72 hours is not a lot of time to make a game, and they take so much longer to make than you'll expect

[void parcel]

no you gotta make the next goty, no exceptions

[mighty solstice]

If Ved feel generous can he add more days?

At least one more

[atomic stream]

lmao i was looking for references to draw neuro and i found this image, i wanna add these different drones to my game now

[atomic stream]

he could but he probably will not

[mighty solstice]

Hey that from my group... That susususus

[mighty solstice]

Whyyyy

[small radish]

what i replaced 150 lines of repeating methods with to assign upgrades

[bright raven]

Neuro style jam is that you have 3 hours and if it's mid she'll shut on you.

[lament ermine]

our fake filesystem is more refined

[atomic stream]

woah thats cool

[misty tree]

man i really cant sleep properly at all even tho i wanna xD

[atomic stream]

you should add a fully compatible vim emulator

[atomic stream]

i feel taht

[severe hornet]

can i get fish or emac there?¿

[rotund rampart]

just do your best

[atomic stream]

might as well add a working package manager too

[hoary cargo]

How's your game going? o/

[atomic stream]

i finally finished most of the combat system

now i just need to do everything else

im drawing the sprites rn

back of bald-sama

[void parcel]

erm

never knew neuro is this flexible

[hoary cargo]

lmao, good luck with it, time's running lower and lower

I'm not panicking, not at all

[atomic stream]

omg she looks so cute i love that

the split of the century

[atomic stream]

yeah good luck to you too!

[old adder]

cd Vedal/downloads
ls
> nekopara

[rotund rampart]

when you run out of time and resort to caveman nested ifs

[void parcel]

hey if it works it works

[atomic stream]

finished the first few sprites of my game finally... 25 hours before the deadline 🥲

[wispy dagger]

im also cooking spaghetti code

[hoary cargo]

Really cute artstyle!

[rotund rampart]

I try to at least keep the inputs and states separated to save sanity for Neuro sdk

[winter aurora]

ridder AI

[atomic stream]

thank you! :3

[lusty falcon]

In Godot, is there a way to get a reference of what created a signal?
Like, if I tie four buttons pressed() signal to the same function, can i get that function to perform actions on the specific button that was pressed? Like passing the button through as an object to the function?

oh yeah it's self

excellent

oh self seems to be the root Control node

This is disapointing

[sour horizon]

You could try using lambdas

Something like child.pressed.connect(func() -> void: _on_baa_runs_code(child))

[old adder]

blehh i got UI left

[nimble dew]

UI in Unity did cost me so much time and sanity that I gave up. Now after a longer pause I'm working on a much smaller game again which will be like a prototype of a demo 🙄 .

We got around 24 hours left factoring in some extra time needed for uploading and such.

[hoary cargo]

Not me bricking my 200 line long interaction system I worked 3 hours on yesterday, only to realize it could be replaced with like... 3 lines...

[void parcel]

when you connect the signal, you can pass values manually. if doing it through script you have to add .bind() (example: button1.connect("pressed", your_function.bind(<node reference>))

the <node reference> could just be the name as a string, "button1". or it could be an absolute nodepath, "/root/your_game/some_scene/button1". or you can pass a direct reference by just putting the button1 variable in .bind()

if connecting the signal through the editor, you have to open the "advanced" tab (first image below) and then you can add your desired values (second image)

[rotund rampart]

gahh I'm around 65% done and I'm falling asleep

[nimble dew]

Not me bricking my 200 line long interaction system I worked 3 hours on yesterday, only to realize it could be replaced with like... 3 lines...
Same. Took me hours to get a scrollable text view working in Unity and now I'm thinking about replacing it with a simple display that doesn't need scrolling.

[hoary cargo]

If there's a chance your current system will break and eat more of your valuable time, I'd say go for it

Otherwise don't fix a running system

[atomic stream]

i had the same thing with my logging function lol

i made a super convoluted function at first that took a really long time

but it was kinda broken

then i realized it could be replaced by 2 single line macros

[hoary cargo]

The universal GameDev experience

[sage sapphire]

Good morning game jammers how's progress?

[hoary cargo]

[void parcel]

non-existent

[old adder]

im making my game in kivy which ive found out is not really meant for games but just applications

[wispy dagger]

as long as its turing complete KEKW

[copper ibex]

[sage sapphire]

dw, my debugger has more gameplay than the actual game

[old adder]

i tried setting a breakpoint and it froze my entire ide

[sage sapphire]

I've never heard of kivy before

[old adder]

so ive been just debugging with the classic print(thisshit)

[old adder]

ya i just googled some python game engines, i prototyped this in pygame like 5 years ago but thought its kinda ancient feeling

but kivy is at least event driven which i like

[sage sapphire]

good old print(whatever_THIS_is)

[wispy dagger]

looks like people make games in it

[sage sapphire]

I see

[old adder]

anyway food break and then back to UI

[sage sapphire]

[old adder]

i also need to figure out what all my items should look like

[void parcel]

im honestly thinking about just coding up everything that needs to be coded and keeping the art half finished i think thats the only way ill have a functioning game

[sage sapphire]

I'm gonna finish breakfast then get to work on game feel basics of the game is completed but I want it to feel fluid

[sage sapphire]

That's what I did

[next hull]

peak bossfight inbound
(among us mod when)

[void parcel]

omg

[sage sapphire]

So I wouldn't have to worry that I don't have a playable game, just really half baked art

[sage sapphire]

truly game of the year

[wispy dagger]

if mechanics are fun, you dont need more

[sage sapphire]

but my scope creep

[void parcel]

ok my boss will just be a white cube 🫡

[wispy dagger]

if you dont have a scope, it cant kreep

[nimble dew]

Running three Unity instances plus a bunch of other needed things go brrr

[next hull]

valid
3 days is short

[sage sapphire]

[void parcel]

funnily enough my boss is actually going to be one of the easier parts. its just going to be tutel ground pounding

[next hull]

https://tenor.com/view/vedal-vedal987-vtuber-neurosama-dies-of-cringe-gif-927750053797012023

[void parcel]

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-falling-building-fall-woodz-gif-24715383

[wispy dagger]

somehow using this, no matter what

[rotund rampart]

why 3

[umbral adder]

You have unlocked new role

[rotund rampart]

I can finally leak wooo

footage from a day ago but I wanted to put this up so bad hahha

[sage sapphire]

[void parcel]

now THIS is some goddamn PEAK gameplay!

[sage sapphire]

What button do I need to press to spin?

[rotund rampart]

space for now, I'll optimize the keys at the end

I have 2 more mini games to code

[sage sapphire]

space is all I need

[nimble dew]

Looking up things in example projects. Like currently I'm trying to port a waterfall effect from a demo that comes with Unity and uses URP to my project that uses the inbuild renderer to be compatible with another demo project...

[atomic stream]

oh my god she spins

100/10

goty

[rotund rampart]

[sage sapphire]

Layers upon layers of spag

[void parcel]

to people who have made a dialog system; im curious, how do you store the text?
obviously just a text file, with some json conversions or something similar makes the most sense. but theres other ways like putting it straight in a script, or as premade text objects, or binary/some other type of encoding. basically an endless number of options and im wondering if one of them is better than just a text file that im completely glossing over

[sage sapphire]

I do it through a Scriptable object in unity

[rotund rampart]

for this? I'm more or less combining the cutscenes and dialogue in the same thing

[small radish]

one switch case

https://tenor.com/view/frisk-undertale-congratulations-confetti-good-job-gif-13726832184032736667

[sage sapphire]

[rotund rampart]

    public static List<Action> Cutscene02 = new List<Action>()
    {
        () => 
        {
            List<DialogueLine> dialogue = new List<DialogueLine>()            
            {
                new DialogueLine(1, 0, "Agh."),
                new DialogueLine(1, 0, "Yipee, I have a body"),
                new DialogueLine(1, 0, "I am going to moon the world! Heart")
            };

            GameManager.Instance.SetDialogue(dialogue, () =>
            {
                GameManager.Instance.CloseDialogue();
                GameManager.Instance.SetState(3);
            });
        }

        
    }; 

something like this

[sage sapphire]

If I had 3 years maybe

[void parcel]

but what if you potentially had thousands of lines of dialog?

[rotund rampart]

I only do this when I have no time

[void parcel]

ah.. not sure we have something like that in godot lol

[sage sapphire]

Then you just edit the code

[rotund rampart]

normally I do it in a csv

or if its a really big project, make my own dialogue editor

[void parcel]

oh interesting 🤔

[sage sapphire]

Damn, I can't help you then

[rotund rampart]

for this one, the two int values in the dialogueline constructor determines which sprite to load on left and right, and the () => on the second half of the constructor is what to do when the dialogue ends.

[sage sapphire]

I made my own dialogue system for unity cuz I wanted to make a visual novel but not with renPy

so I have a basis easily

[rotund rampart]

yea that's the best way to do it imo (with unity)

[white holly]

Guys, I need ideas for RPG items(weapons and armor) that are Neuro/Evil references. The only one I can think of is Evil's harpoon

[void parcel]

melee lava lamp that deals burn damage on hit

[white holly]

ooooo

[void parcel]

if you have an inventory system, you could do a gymbag for an inventory upgrade

[rotund rampart]

Gym Bag

[wary lance]

no time to cook the entire game this weekend only had couple of hours... this is my total output

[void parcel]

a cookie which gives health when consumed

[void parcel]

goty material 👏

[void parcel]

maybe speed too for the sugar rush

[sage sapphire]

Behold, everything you need for unity
For your sentences

[System.Serializable]
public class Dialogue 
{
    public string characterName;
    [TextArea(1,5)]
    public string sentences;
}

For a list of sentences

[CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "DialogueScript", menuName = "DialogueScript", order = 0)]
public class DialogueScript : ScriptableObject 
{
    public Dialogue[] dialogue;
}

A System to handle your Dialogue Script

public class DialogueSystem : MonoBehaviour 
{
    [SerializeField] TextMeshProUGUI _dialogueText;
    [SerializeField] TextMeshProUGUI _characterName;
    private Queue<Dialogue> _dialogue = new();
    public bool isComplete;
    public void DisplayDialogue(DialogueScript dialogueScript)
    {
        _dialogue.Clear();
        foreach(Dialogue script in dialogueScript.dialogue)
        {
            _dialogue.Enqueue(script);
        }
        DisplayNextSentence();
    }
    public void DisplayNextSentence()
    {
        if(_dialogue.Count == 0){ return; }
        if(!isComplete){ return; }
        isComplete = false;

        var script = _dialogue.Dequeue();
        StartCoroutine(TypeWriter(script.sentences, script.characterName));
    }
    IEnumerator TypeWriter(string sentence, string characterName)
    {
        _characterName.text = characterName;
        for(int i = 0; i < sentence.Length + 1; i++)
        {
            _dialogueText.text = sentence.Substring(0, i);
            yield return null;
        }
        isComplete = true;
    }
}

Now it's up to you how you want to load a script, either through a button click or a mouse on click event

[small radish]

Metal pipe

[rotund rampart]

are you handling the character images separately?

[wild condor]

a crazy fucking robot body @white holly

[sage sapphire]

yup

mostly so I have more control on how I want them to appear

[white holly]

oh shit, how did I not think of that, it's perfect lol

[rotund rampart]

looks cool

[foggy hearth]

• Grappling gloves (unless I just hallucinated this, Neuro and Evil had a long talk about ambushing and grappling people once, I think in a cave stream)
• Clackers (lethal weapons used by Cerber and one of the twins, I don't remember which, in the first court stream)
  I had a good one but I can't think of it now. I'll reply again if I remember

[sage sapphire]

I'll have to expand this system someday, like custom text colors and text animations aside from a typewriter

[sage sapphire]

Give them a drone as a weapon

[white holly]

ooooo, a drone remote that summons drones that fight for you, I need an item that createas summons anyway

[sage sapphire]

yes the swarm as your ally

welp that's all the time for chitchat I have, time to be productive

[small radish]

turtle shell, either as a shield or for traversal

[rotund rampart]

magic wand that turns summons ducks

[rotund rampart]

aaa so little time left

[mighty solstice]

How many hour we have lefting

[void parcel]

exactly 24 hours left

[tardy flint]

Well my game can speed up now at least since I got the shooting and reloading right

[torpid bridge]

Our title

[void parcel]

dayum that looks so good

[mighty solstice]

.... 💀

F

[mighty solstice]

Plagiat

[rotund rampart]

we're on the last stretch

[mighty solstice]

Our game name is Memory Link 💀

[void parcel]

there will probably be a fair few games with memory in the name due to the jam theme

i havent even thought about my game's name yet

[royal jewel]

Perfectly fine
We already finished the most time consuming thing

[tame rapids]

THE LAST DAY

[void parcel]

https://tenor.com/view/dawn-majora-finalday-gif-9607331

[hoary cargo]

Haven't even made it out of the starter zone yet level wise

But once everything is set up properly surely I'll be able to slap out more levels

[nimble dew]

Copium 😄 I already gave up on making multiple levels. Just one fight and that's it. No different stages, upgrades, modifiers/equipment and such.

[hoary cargo]

Nah, I've got a solid plan, plus I'm using Tiles to build my levels so I can just Lego around :v

[void parcel]

erm are there any godot ui experts in here

[hoary cargo]

(^ Not me)
Additionally, I refuse to sleep until deadline

[void parcel]

basically i have this dialog popup (first image), but when i enter the game, the scrollbar vanishes (second image) and i cant for the life of me figure out why. ive already made sure to check all the content clipping, its not being resized weirdly, no code is changing it yet

[tardy flint]

Man the main point of my game was to have Hiyori level up into either neuro or evil (letting you pick between defensive or offensive) and i dont think i can even fit THAT in time

[signal monolith]

definetly not me

xdddd

[small radish]

finally got leveling up working in my game
doesn't do anything but we take these

[fleet goblet]

guys what do you think of my animator

[hoary cargo]

Bruh

That's an Alex thing to do

I can tell

[void parcel]

yum spaghetti

[atomic stream]

lmfao each page is an animation

[hoary cargo]

If works, it works

[atomic stream]

incredible

[next hull]

https://tenor.com/view/u-baka-uwu-baka-uwu-you-baka-uwu-nuclear-baka-uwu-fission-baka-gif-23666007

let me tell you that will blow up

[tame rapids]

time to make an attempt at making boss fight

[nimble dew]

What is this? Every time I change this particle system Unity takes super long to recalculate stuff...

[void parcel]

nvm i figured it out. in case anyone else has the same issue; if you create a custom stylebox for the scrollbar, you need to increase the expand margins for left and right. dont ask me why its like this, but it is

[old adder]

its alive

[cerulean jetty]

First playable version (a lot is still missing).

I just caught the most anit-climactic moment.

[civic fractal]

You guys are doing so well!

[cerulean jetty]

I'm still stressing that we don't have an actual artist anymore, the background is refilled with stock assets.

[civic fractal]

I heard about your dropout

Sorry to hear that, I hope they get better at least

[cerulean jetty]

I hope so.

[old adder]

i have big lasers

[civic fractal]

I'm surprised our artist is alive still

[old adder]

anyway 0 textures its all jsut shapes so you are in better shape than me

[cerulean jetty]

You are in a better shape, because that is at least gonna be consistent.

[cerulean jetty]

It was not that sudden, and still tried to make it.

[old adder]

time to spin up a windows vm for the build i guess

[civic fractal]

Best of luck for the build, you'll need it

[old adder]

its not my first time building apps so surely its fine

[tardy flint]

Maybe this needed 24 more hours

[atomic stream]

im not looking forward to that

never built a c project for windows before

and my web build isnt working for some reason

[old adder]

oh good luck

[hoary cargo]

One of the first times I'm glad to be a windows user

[atomic stream]

thanks, good luck to you too :3

[cerulean jetty]

Building C on windows. 🤢

You can't even install build tools normally.

[atomic stream]

hopefully i can just steal the make target from another gamejam i participated in where my teammate made it work for windows

[civic fractal]

Can you even use wsl to comp for windows?

[civic fractal]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38786014/how-to-compile-executable-for-windows-with-gcc-with-linux-subsystem

Hmm, I don't think that windows vm is needed for comp

[old adder]

why is spinning up a w11 vm so hard

[royal jewel]

Try 10 instead, might be easier

[old adder]

yeah dling now

[atomic stream]

does windows use a different format for static libraries than linux?

cuz i know for dynamic libraries it uses dll instead of so

[civic fractal]

Surely there is a way to get it working

[atomic stream]

looks like it can use .a as well

[rotund rampart]

hurts my soul

[atomic stream]

so hopefully i can just change the compiler to mingw gcc and the output to an exe and it might just work

but ill deal with all that tomorrow

[royal jewel]

Well, the Windows bindings are certainly different
I think I've heard of .lib files but no clue if it's Windows or Linux

[atomic stream]

i did see .lib but apparently .a works too

and if i dont have to mess with my engine's makefile besides changing the compiler im happy

oh shit i hope im not using linux system libraries i didnt think of that

i dont think i am though

man what the hell is going on with my web build 😭

for reference its supposed to look like this

[old adder]

kivy requires graphics capabilities to build the app

i guess im booting that slow ass windows install from external again

[void parcel]

ui design isnt my strongsuit but i think this looks okay?

[atomic stream]

that looks nice :3

i love the voxel art neuro

[potent walrus]

MainMenu

[civic fractal]

Man, is looking so nice

[old adder]

this external is somehow i could probably use a cloud ssd and have it be faster

[small radish]

ask someone to mail a usb to you with it on

[old adder]

i think next time i’ll pick an engine where i can build the windows version on Linux too

[atomic stream]

make your own :3

[tacit wasp]

I remember a Game jam guy who got his game messed up by enscripten too
It might not be the greatest choice for a web build

[atomic stream]

its my only choice really right now

but i got it to somewhat work

at least i know where the issue is

[tacit wasp]

Ah nice

[atomic stream]

next year ill have proper web support in my engine without having to use emscripten hopefully and ill never have to deal with this again

[tacit wasp]

Your own engine? In which framework?

[atomic stream]

using raylib for the graphics

but the idea is to be able to switch to a different framework by just rewriting the renderer module of the engine without changing anything in the game

its not quite there yet though still a wip

[civic fractal]

[tacit wasp]

Oh I see. I think it's similar to a uni project I got this year. Same game code but we can switch between Windows Graphics Library and SFML
Good luck, that sounds like a lot of pain incoming

[atomic stream]

indeed

but i prefer the pain of having to figure it all out myself than the pain of having to work around something someone else made so its worth

[civic fractal]

I don't think we ever got raw emscripten working

[atomic stream]

emscripten is a pain in the ass

i despise it

[civic fractal]

Yeah, that's why we searched for other solutions for our case

[atomic stream]

but my engine hard depends on the c standard library rn so dont really have a choice

relatable

[tacit wasp]

I'm not gonna use emscriptem since I'm using LOVE2D but I'm scared that the web builder I found is gonna fail

[old adder]

windows defender killed my build

[atomic stream]

building and packaging is always such a headache

[civic fractal]

Me last year:

I just included two exes and a guide to disable defender

[old adder]

i mean i can’t even build it yet lol

[tacit wasp]

LOVE2D is pretty easy
Merge your game with the executable for Windows, create a love file for the rest (but you have to install LOVE yourself for those platforms)
Problem: web isn't natively supported so I have to rely on 3rd party

[atomic stream]

ah i see

[tardy flint]

Should I...uhhh..feel bad...?

[old adder]

omg you have sounds and all

[tardy flint]

it's pretty easy to find sites that give sounds with licenses that dont even require you giving credit, very handy

[atomic stream]

NOO THE FOXES

neuro would never

[tardy flint]

thats hiyori

[wispy dagger]

i just use nuero for shooting sound

[winged jay]

When the enemy are stacked they both take damage?

[tardy flint]

man, i dont wanna have to animate fox movement...

animal legs suck

[rotund rampart]

aaaa I might have to forego a part of my game to meet the deadline

[tardy flint]

yeah, its a feature not a bug

[atomic stream]

LMAO

[old adder]

give them a hoverboard instead

[atomic stream]

i havent even started thinking about sounds yet

[atomic stream]

TRUE

[old adder]

i just thought about it and decided not to do it

[atomic stream]

im gonna end up with another gamejam game with no sounds at all

theres just more important things to do... like, yknow, the entire game which i dont have much of yet

[calm sandal]

Connecting in pain

[small radish]

why did i not comment any of my code

[old adder]

omg now i have to name this thing

[wispy dagger]

code changes faster than comments, you dont know what code does anyway

[rotund rampart]

looks like that's happening to me

I have 1 vineboom

[atomic stream]

lmao

[rotund rampart]

my only sound

[wispy dagger]

maybe closing this chat and entering mode would help me XD

[atomic stream]

LMFAO

i didnt have headphones on when you sent the other video thats incredible 😭

[rotund rampart]

I hope I have a window to implement sounds, but I'm 1 whole minigame behind on schedule and probably having to cut that into just regular dialogues

[calm sandal]

https://streamable.com/iinssf

I'm moving at a snail's pace... but I'm moving!

[small radish]

opens unity ui guide video
"most ui guide videos will only teach you a quick game jam level of ui, here we will learn a robust and expa-"
closes unity ui guide video

[atomic stream]

IT WORKS

FINALLY

its just tiny

but i think itch.io deals with that

i hope

[lavish escarp]

7 hours of bed later

[atomic stream]

hello!

[rotund rampart]

what is bed

[lavish escarp]

erectile dysfunction

or eating disorder

[rotund rampart]

I been coding for 20 hours I think

[small radish]

executive dysfunction

[lavish escarp]

i have just over 30 hours on the project now i think

[atomic stream]

i lost track of time

[lavish escarp]

steam keeps track of time for me

[atomic stream]

i should launch kakoune through steam

[lavish escarp]

aight enough talk i art now

i need to implement today

• story elements
• game audio

[small radish]

i've felt myself getting a fever for the last couple of hours so it's bed for me and hoping it's better tomorrow. good luck everyone

[lavish escarp]

restart/respawn

[old adder]

oh shit i forgot to change the loot to drop randomly not every time

man surely i dont need to reboot to windows...

[agile nymph]

last day stress starting to hit...slowly growing...

[rotund rampart]

deadge

[cerulean jetty]

imagine having to reboot your computer.

[old adder]

imagine making a game engine that requires opengl drivers to build your game

[agile nymph]

my aseprite just shut down after i saved a 2hr project....damn...thats a first...

[atomic stream]

goodnight, i hope you get better!

[atomic stream]

[cerulean jetty]

Imagine not having a web build.

[atomic stream]

wait right i dont need them to build just to run which is the normal part

i did not make the same mistake 😌

[tardy flint]

Web build...?

[rotund rampart]

rarr I wanna sleep but I'm worried I might over

[hasty drift]

sleep is scary

[tardy flint]

21 hours remain

[hasty drift]

aaa

[rotund rampart]

ikr

[hasty drift]

artist partner is back for the last 12h for the last assets, till then i better have everything ready but the missing bits

[agile nymph]

question...are there any neuro friends related to color pink?(other than camila)

[proud smelt]

When game jam time ends the submissions close instantly or there is a grace period?

[hasty drift]

no grace period unless you beg alex in DMs or something

[agile nymph]

grace period is for things like bug fixing?

[rocky glen]

ngl not even a grace period is going to help me finish this game in time

[hasty drift]

Last year, after the time was over, no more uploads. i think there was only an exception if the uploaded game was entirely not playable. not sure

[placid salmon]

Toma maybe

[agile nymph]

found it....osu..kinda

[proud smelt]

You can do it, get it to the finish line, no need for polish!!! 😄

Any Layna fans?
i know she has 2 dogs, but does she have a rat/mouse?
Saw art of her with one and wanted to know if that was just cause she creepy 😛

[short rover]

❌ 🇵🇱 ❌

[rocky glen]

thx!

i really hope to make it

it's my first game lol

how is yours going?

[old adder]

just need someone to test if my game works on other people's machines too

[hasty drift]

surely that is quickly done

[old adder]

the person who was actually excited to try it doesnt want to run stuff

[void parcel]

wait we werent supposed to start with the polish?

[atomic stream]

that sucks

i could test if you want

[old adder]

https://unmoon.itch.io/ball-survivor-proto if you want to waste time

[atomic stream]

i had to leave immediately after i sent that 😭

ill download when im at home again fjdjdjjsjdjsnd

[old adder]

no worries

i had one guy test... on linux using wine

[mighty solstice]

95 percent

im almost done

just music

and resprite enemy

[tardy flint]

I'm like 35% maybe

[lavish escarp]

im like 70%

[mighty solstice]

u can do it its not like SOMEONE decided it will be TOMORROW

UH

UH

look at his face

LOOK AT IT

t*tel

anyway im going to see how make a bullet hell in godot hope u finish ur project

[sage canyon]

what are the chances of time extension like last year lol

[void parcel]

how long is a good time for music 🤔

[mighty solstice]

dont know im gonna ask him

HUM HUM

@frank jasper can u add more time

[sage canyon]

it really just depends how good the loop is

[void parcel]

i suppose thats true

[lavish escarp]

idk how to do the story elements

[verbal garnet]

guys do we have assets for neuro/evil and vedal pics?

I'm stupid sry

[tardy flint]

well, i did the laziest possible thing for the fox walk animation and just lifted the legs two pixels up

i aint spriting no damn animal walking animation! that takes like 3 hours!

[slow meteor]

Harpoon based Modeling

[pallid siren]

nice

[signal monolith]

my game is done, question mark?

I don't know what do to with myself

[void parcel]

if your game is already good enough to be considered done you can start polishing it

polish never ends

[signal monolith]

I'm polish 🇵🇱 myself, truer words were never spoken, and I'm never done

[misty tree]

anybody got a good reference for the miniwan? i know theyre like squeaky little dogs right?

[mighty solstice]

xd

[hexed forum]

I used this one

[misty tree]

thats a minyan?

[void parcel]

20 million people just died

[lavish escarp]

skill issue honestly

[hexed forum]

you wanted a minyan or a minawan?

[misty tree]

oh its spelled minawan huh, oops

[hexed forum]

those are easy to find on google, just search minawan

the one with horns and demon tail is not a minawan btw

[misty tree]

wait, this ones not? what is this

[hexed forum]

thats cerber, not minawan

[misty tree]

aaaaaaaaa

goshdarnit ur right

so theyre like, blue?

hows this then

[civic fractal]

That is indeed a blue one

[civic fractal]

Normal minawan don't have the demon type ascpects. They come in a few colors

[hexed forum]

its perfect, i recommend making it white if you want to put it in a game, that way you just use modulate to get the color you want

[misty tree]

ah i see what u mean, pick colors for them with code

hmm, but then how to keep their eyes white 🤔

[atomic stream]

well an easy way would me to make the eyes a separate sprite on top

a better way would probably be a shader though

[lavish escarp]

we have 18 hours left

[atomic stream]

[old adder]

[misty tree]

hmmm, yea this works

[atomic stream]

thats so cute ngfdjkgdsffdgs

[rocky glen]

my game is absolutely not done, still need to add some lore, the music and an end ig? gonna sleep first tho lmao

[rocky glen]

oh yeah its nice

[void parcel]

sleep when theres less than 24 hours left?!

[old adder]

i decided to go fancy and add textures

[old adder]

could i yoink this? and if yes lmk if you make one with open mouth for

[misty tree]

sure

most of the assets arent drawn by me so i cant for those but this one is :3

i can handle little blobby guys LOL

[old adder]

currently my mc is a circle

[signal monolith]

question for someone who was in a game jam before, should I create game page on itchio now or right before jam's end? Should I make it public or private?

[old adder]

thank you!

[old adder]

i would suggest making the project beforehand so you get everything filled out with no rush

[atomic stream]

create the page as soon as possible

[civic fractal]

Make it before, upload images for cover, desc etc

[atomic stream]

doesnt really matter if its public or private

[misty tree]

ill throw a copy in public assets too while im at it

[atomic stream]

but you can keep it private until the submission if you want

ofc when you submit it must be public

[signal monolith]

would I need to manually change it to public, will it change by itself or am I going to be unable to submit it until i make it public?

[atomic stream]

uhh i dont remember exactly... im pretty sure if its not public its not gonna show up when you try to submit but let me make sure

[atomic stream]

@signal monolith just checked, the project indeed does not show up to submit if its not public

[signal monolith]

thank you, that was super helpful ❤️

[atomic stream]

[old adder]

[lusty falcon]

Please help contribute if you have time https://discord.com/channels/574720535888396288/1323094836588576878

[lavish escarp]

fucken hell ive made em chavs havent i

[waxen wasp]

our audio team has cooked again

massive W

the team wants to keep everything a suprise so no spoilers

[atomic stream]

cant wait to play :3

[tardy flint]

Unity keeps crashing when I attempt to add a new custom font

I don't have time for this shit...

[atomic stream]

[signal monolith]

Unity moment, godot better(not really)

[misty tree]

what could this game be about 👀

[signal monolith]

I'm going to sleep, good luck everyone on making your games, you're gonna game so hard on this jam

[void parcel]

i love that little detail of changing the text font depending on who is talking!

[atomic stream]

lmfao you moving slightly to the left to reveal the miniwan was so funny to me for some reason

[misty tree]

i love wasting my time on little details that realistically change nothing so im happy to hear people notice em c:

the holograms ate a whole chunk of my dev time tbh

[atomic stream]

they look really good though!

[misty tree]

i even made them flicker a bit in the dialogue screen xD

[atomic stream]

thats so cool gdjsfkngksfjdls

just spent like 30 minutes solving an issue that was caused by changing the order of 2 lines of code i thought didnt matter

😭

[misty tree]

oof

[tardy flint]

17 hours remain

[hoary cargo]

Barely even chatting here anymore cause I'm so focustressed

[cursive oak]

good luck with the final stretch everyone!!

[hoary cargo]

Thanks

gl as well

[cursive oak]

sadly couldnt join anyone this year, but im rooting for everyone!

[tacit wasp]

17 hours left and I finally have the game loop ready
No art or sound in the game yet, the gameplay isn't finished and the menu is nothing
Surely it'll be fine, right?

[void parcel]

where do you guys get fonts? i looked up first coffee on google fonts and there were no results

[tacit wasp]

dafont

[atomic stream]

for pixel art games i get all my fonts from https://fontenddev.com

otherwise dafont

[void parcel]

oh nice ive used that in the past 👍

ive just always found it to be a bit sketchy but if other people use it

[atomic stream]

same lol

[old adder]

i’m tempted to get a wanwan cerber sound and using that for attacks

[atomic stream]

dew it

[tacit wasp]

I feel like all font websites are sketchy and I don't know why lmao

[atomic stream]

ikr 😭

besides fontenddev.com i love fontenddev.com

[old adder]

it might be a bit terrible because attacks are every 100ms or something

[atomic stream]

even better

[old adder]

but then i would have to add a toggle or something and you know

[hoary cargo]

Double espresso, and ice water in my face. I'm SO back

Currently I'm stuck in a constant grind of: Make Environment 3D Model > Make Texture > Import and Place > Repeat....

[sterile raven]

I now just learned game jam exosted.

I do not remember this 😭

[hoary cargo]

I don't even get the satisfaction of seeing a virtual sun, my first level is underground and I'm still not done with it

[sterile raven]

Isn't there like 17h left

Also I somehow feel like I've talked to you at some point a while back. Huh.

[hoary cargo]

possibly

And yes, ~17 hrs

But I can rest when I'm dead (or the deadline is reached), so I'll just rip and tear until it is done

[next hull]

bro ive been searching for this software what is it
i need

[sterile raven]

Funny.
Just got doom eternal 3d ago

[atomic stream]

this is a c moment

[lavish escarp]

aseprite

its paid tho

on steam

$10 or something

[next hull]

"cant handle 14 cases of memory leaks? no matter. this shall do."

[lavish escarp]

very worth.

honestly if it wasnt for aseprite's amazing integration with unity

i would not be almost done in time

[atomic stream]

you can get it for free (legally) if you compile from source

[next hull]

[atomic stream]

theres instructions on its github page iirc

[next hull]

i can also get it for free if i just make my own

im just gonna pay
lets call it supporting the creator

[atomic stream]

when i have the money i will

[old adder]

hey @atomic stream i updated the name so url changed in case you want to try it out still https://unmoon.itch.io/surviwan

[median plume]

frick it 😭 there's too little time and I'm getting 3 hours of sleep a night
I wanna finish this game in my own time where I can actually do more than the bare minimum

[atomic stream]

ah i see, im waiting on being able to use my brother's pc now (because it runs windows) but ill download it soon i swear

[next hull]

hint
you can continue the project after submission as a passion project
no one can stop you

[median plume]

I know, but I don't even think I'll get the bare minimum done in time lmao

I haven't been spending time wisely too much of a perfectionist

[atomic stream]

i think ill just barely be able to squeeze out something that can somewhat be called a game in time

but this has been tough

really fun tho

[next hull]

same

this is my first gammejam and i might have wanted at least 1 extra day

[median plume]

sameee

[cerulean jetty]

WE HAVE ALL THE ENEMY SPRITES!!! >.<

[hoary cargo]

Not including any enemies or combat in my game was the smartest move I've ever made, now I just need to make the exploration and story good enough so it can still be called gameplay...

[atomic stream]

this is the third time i have participated in one alone, the first time i was not even close to having something playable and was not able to submit, the second time i submitted something but it was nowhere near what i had planned and wasnt very fun, this time i think it will be a little better lol

[cerulean jetty]

Apparently we also landed on a thing that never existed, but it makes 100% sense in context.

[atomic stream]

i have participated in many jams with other people tho

[sharp pelican]

https://www.twitch.tv/alexejherodev/clip/AmazingHonorablePrariedogDoubleRainbow--Y-BJ26kaA36wrJx alex's game looks fire

[atomic stream]

time to get distracted again

[sharp pelican]

we do NOT talking about the first 12 hours

[vivid sentinel]

quick question, if you're working in a group for the game jam does only 1 person submit the game, or do you need to make some sort of group first?

[atomic stream]

only one person submits, but you can add the other contributors in the game page so they show up too

let me show

[vivid sentinel]

ohhh

[vivid sentinel]

I see, good to know!

[atomic stream]

[vivid sentinel]

we're getting closer to finishing things up, less than a day left till the deadline

[atomic stream]

btw, when this is done the game is hidden by default in the contributors' itch.io profiles, so if they want the game to show up there they have to manually unhide it (and they have to save after!)

this is something that confused me a few times so i thought i'd mention it too

[atomic stream]

indeed

[vivid sentinel]

oh is this a setting on the contributor's side? So the contributors have options to hide these showing up on thier profile, if I'm getting this right?

[atomic stream]

yes

after they are added as contributors in the admins section of the game page i showed before, the project will still be hidden in their profile if they dont go and unhide it, but the names will still show up on the contributors section under more info in the game page

[hasty drift]

uploaded a prototype of the game as a test to itch, time for a short sleep before doing last edits and fixes and stuff o7

[atomic stream]

good night!

[vivid sentinel]

Thanks for all the information!

[atomic stream]

np!

[vivid sentinel]

swoon

[atomic stream]

:o

[lavish escarp]

hey guys, i need to travel in about 1 hours

my game is 99% done, i just need a game end and respawn scene

if i speedrun that part, and upload it, in case i cant continue,
will i be able to add more stuff before the game jam ends

[old adder]

yes

[civic fractal]

You can upload builds as needed, can't edit after the timer ends but to answer that, yes.

[lavish escarp]

aight im done then shit slaps

[atomic stream]

@old adder i finally played the game, worked perfectly on both windows and linux, took a while to figure out the controls but other than that there were no problems, really cool game :3

[old adder]

great, thank you!

[atomic stream]

now back to struggling with my own game

[old adder]

take my strength

[tardy flint]

So goddamn tired, my arms are like wet noodles rn...15 hours...fuck

[void parcel]

ive wasted a good two hours on this stupid loading screen

i want to

i want to

eat a cookie

[hoary cargo]

I'm wasting precious time recording and editing dialogue, I never voice acted before but I really need it

[old adder]

i literally have no menus, no loading screens, just the game

i even made it just quit the game when you die

[tawdry kite]

Same lmao

[hoary cargo]

Valid

[warped forge]

Definitely not late asking this, but are Neuro's official twitch emotes okay for use in game?

[void parcel]

yeah i wanted to go that route.. but my game is so unoptimised it takes multiple seconds to load a new area so i figured its kinda necessary so players dont think the game just crashes

might be partly because my computer isnt very good but oh well

[pale iron]

I have no idea what I am doing anymore

[atomic stream]

i might just stay awake tonight to finish what i can

i still have nothing actually implemented related to the theme so thats kinda important 😭

[void parcel]

yeah i think im gonna do the same

i might actually be able to get some gameplay going if i pull an all-nighter

[tacit wasp]

I think the art that was made for the game isn't the right size somehow
This does not sound like a good news to get on the last day

[void parcel]

just stretch it lol

make scuffed part of the aesthetic

[atomic stream]

wdym?

[tacit wasp]

I can't get the sprites to be "assembled" right
It feels too zoomed in or you see the sprite cutting out

Maybe it's a me issue

Actually, the zoomed-in version doesn't look that bad, it just feels more zoomed in than what I imagined in my head

[tardy flint]

My game is so barebones...

No chance of finishing in time unfortunately...

[hoary cargo]

Damn, quite a few people are already pretty much done. I ain't even close

But at least I'm certain now that I can finish it in time...

Wish I could playtest, the cover looks cute and I really love pixelart games. But no time, no time at all... :(

[nimble dew]

Game Jam be like: Abandoned original plan B after already having put plan A into the Archive before the jam started 😉

I have some nice effects, most menus are done and there is some kind of gameplay...

[tacit wasp]

It's very late rn (5am), I think I can allow myself to sleep over the morning
There's not that much left to do so I have some hope it'll be fine
Anyway, good night and good luck to those that really won't sleep at all

[hoary cargo]

Same time here, but I can't sleep. Thanks and gl to you tomorrow

[sly flame]

Finished game - Pretty fun and cute overall, short sweet little gameplay experience, I think projectile speeds could be increased a little bit through out the 3 stages as there isn't much of a difficulty curve between the start and end, and a few more variety in the types of attacks in each stage would help a lot especially with the length of each of them. Also the invulnerability frames on hit seems to be a little jank, you can get hit once and lose all your Hp in .2 seconds and get sent all the back to the start which tbf could be a skill issue on my part. If you're willing to do more these are some of my suggestions, if not I still enjoyed it quite a bit and would definitely give it a positive rating!

[sage canyon]

anyone have the sound clip of neuro saying "filtered"

[misty tree]

god i feel so behind schedule xD

[nimble dew]

My gameplay is so not thought out or balanced. I just went with my first idea because I have no idea to really think about it. I think a base idea is recognizable but it's pretty much a "insert better designed gameplay here". I spent like 10 hours on particle effects and took like a 10 hour unnecessary break after giving up but then decided to try to finish with a much smaller scale.

[sly flame]

Okay the start menu was peak. It was quite enjoyable

Glad I read the read me, or I would have been so confused lol.

[atomic stream]

i woke up super late on day 1, missed the theme announcement completely, and spent the rest of the day trying to get web building to work

so i lost a lot of time

im quite worried about what ill be able to finish but i think it will be playable at least

[snow merlin]

Ugh, ended up spending a lot of time of looking today for elusive bugs in the wrong places... Still need to wire some important parts together to have a proper game-play loop... It'll be an all-nighter, but I think I'll end up with something submittable at least. But it leaves precious little time for artwork, sfx and balancing/testing...

[atomic stream]

good luck

a lot of us are on the same boat it seems lol

[potent stirrup]

Game is very cute I also love the intro, and yah, the hitboxes seem to need a little bit of work. Being a bit more generous might be good. Also a browser version would be cool

[void parcel]

i stopped playing after about 10 minutes because i still have a game to work on, but from what i did play my biggest complaint is that its too easy and each level goes on too long. i would assume later levels get much harder which might change my opinion, but for the first 3 levels i played it was a bit of a slog due to the difficulty being so low

i also think there should be an indicator for where projectiles are about to spawn from the sides, because if you end up getting close to a wall from avoiding other projectiles, you could get hit instantly without time to react

and the audio is... well there is audio. the footsteps dont really feel connected to the character's movement, both in terms of speed and sound. the projectiles dont have an audio cue so you rely solely on sight to know when a new set of projectiles spawn. and this is compounded with the spears in the first level being hard to see when they spawn perfectly aligned with the grid on the ground

the dialogue also is just a black box, and the text is very low resolution for some reason. i wont knock it too much considering the time constraints but that stood out to me as the most neglected part of the game for sure

i didnt bother getting out my controller to test, but considering i didnt see controller buttons listed in the README.txt im assuming theres no controller support. this takes roughly 5 seconds to implement with godot so i would love to see that when i go to play through the full game

aside from those points i think its a cool concept, just repetitive gameplay

the main menu reminds me of "There Is No Game" and i thought that was pretty cool

the music is a huge bop

i do like the gameplay of dodging objects, i just have a few issues as i already listed with this implementation in particular

and finally, i think the story is very clever and i cant wait to play through the full game after the jam is over!

[tardy flint]

I'm just documenting every bug that I find and can't fix

[snow merlin]

Ugh... It's getting so hard to find stock-art that isn't AI-generated...

[tardy flint]

leaving it in commented code

[void parcel]

oh... oh god

[civic fractal]

I opted for the downloads page, but bug hunting started after the time was up.

[lavish escarp]

huh??

[hoary cargo]

Did you set it to public?

[atomic stream]

its probably a draft

[lavish escarp]

correct

it was a draft.

[atomic stream]

[next hull]

i can sleep a happy man.

[lavish escarp]

SUMBITTED

aight fair enough keyboard

sumbitched

missed a work deadline

hit a neuro deadline

worth

sending the build to some friends so they can bug test while im travelling

[fringe star]

13 hours and i still have to add the unit stat lists and the buff system, wish me luck

[atomic stream]

good luck!!

[rotund rampart]

13 hours and I still have no audio

[fringe star]

I plan to have no audio on this

[atomic stream]

im destroying my brain thinking how the turn order should work here

who knew making a strategy game without any prior experience in making strategy games would be hard...

[waxen wasp]

oof, i did the same last year and got 119/122

on audio i mean

overal i was around 70 i think

[atomic stream]

so thats why you have the best audio team this time

[waxen wasp]

i honestly dont know how it happened, but i would say we do

iggly, the co-lead, also had no sound last year.

[atomic stream]

lmao

[rotund rampart]

is this a turn based game or?

[atomic stream]

ya

[fringe star]

oh im going solo so the game has no sound

[rotund rampart]

what's your current approach

[lavish escarp]

I posted the game zip to my friend group discord to bug test and they're convinced I'm hacked now

[fringe star]

dang you too

[lavish escarp]

Or at least that it's me and I'm trying to zip bomb everyone

[waxen wasp]

you could download some free sound online, doesnt take long and will have a decent impact on the game experience

[fringe star]

im still working on the mechanincs

[waxen wasp]

honestly same

i have 2/3 done

gonna work till deadline probably

[lavish escarp]

I wish I could

I have a bus to catch in 40 minutes

I'll probably be out of commission until deadline

But I got a build out

So I'm happy

Now to praying everything works

And that my friends help playtest while I'm travelling

[wild condor]

Reminder that Neuro SDK can be added after the deadline

Get your game in a playable state without it

[blissful horizon]

Yea. Game isn't being judged based on neuro integration

[latent arch]

that would've been cool if i had something

[latent arch]

im donezo, ggs

as in, i've got nothing

gonna put it on the backburner and continue to work on stuff

too much to learn, but i'll take my time to learn and build things up and try to figure out this neuro integration business

for now prob gonna just watch the subathon while doing sprite art

[atomic stream]

so for context: in my game you have your row of units, the enemy row, and then the back row showing the upcoming enemies which will move in when the space in front of them is empty. Each unit has a next action, which is what it intends to do on it's turn, and the idea is that you will be able to see the enemy units' intentions (like into the breach) ((if i have time for that :P)).
What im doing each turn now is:

1. go through the player units left to right and perform their actions
2. go through the upcoming enemy units in the back and move them into play, if the space in front of it is empty and it has a next action set
3. go through the enemy units left to right and perform their actions
4. go through the upcoming enemies again, and, if the space in front of it is empty, set that unit's next action (so it will move in next turn at step 2)

Before i just made the upcoming units move in when the unit in front died, but that didnt work anymore since units can move now. i think im pretty happy with this now as it gives you a chance to react to incoming enemies and attack them before they move in (since you will see they intend to move in before they actually do), while still giving a chance for them to attack as soon as they enter the board (which is a behaviour that already happened before that i liked)

me when i respond with an essay to a simple question

[rotund rampart]

like this?

[rotund rampart]

what language are you working in?

[atomic stream]

C

[rotund rampart]

I see

I'd like to help but I'm not very familiar with C and I have no time left haha good luck!

[atomic stream]

thats alright lol, good luck to you too! :3

[latent arch]

your game looks nice

[halcyon flame]

power outage

[hard gyro]

gamemaker is doing some really strange things

i have an object i added recently, but i can't create instances of it with a timeline i'm using for a cutscene because for some reason it says it doesn't exist, but i can create instances manually

[atomic stream]

mine? if so, thanks!!!

[latent arch]

yes you

[atomic stream]

[atomic stream]

oof, i dont really know gamemaker so i cant help but i hope you figure out whats happening

my code is working first try too many times

its only a matter of time before everything falls apart...

i dont know whats worse, writing a bunch of code and getting a screen full of compilation errors, or writing a bunch of code and getting seemingly no errors

[tardy flint]

Damn I need a gremlin sound effect from camila to use for a cimp gettin hurt but she is not popular enough to have that be an easily findable thing on myinstant buttons for example

No way i can scour streams for that. I'll just use some generic sound i suppose

[atomic stream]

dm camila and ask her to make a gremlin noise for your game

[void parcel]

i just fixed two bugs back-to-back that have been plaguing me for the entire day im on such a high after that

[tardy flint]

Oh god ive added like 5 things without even playtesting, i hope nothing breaks

[atomic stream]

very nice!

[atomic stream]

me constantly

[tribal grove]

Nothing feels better than figuring out a bug that’s been a thorn in your side tbf

[tardy flint]

Unity keeps giving me random red messages but they arent from my scripts so im just ignoring them

[atomic stream]

unity tends to do that

usually goes away after a restart

[hoary cargo]

Damn, everyone's so productive. I just wasted an hour recording and editing a voiceline...

[atomic stream]

i couldnt even tell you what i did in the past hour

[hoary cargo]

oof

[atomic stream]

i think i like reworked the turn order and that might be it 😭

tbf that took a lot of thinking it destroyed my brain

i gotta focus

[tribal grove]

I don’t have a working prototype so I’ve accepted just this being a learning experience rather than actually turning in anything

If you count that as productive anyway lol

[hoary cargo]

I'm working on this enviroment for over a day now... But soon... done... Ugh.

[atomic stream]

HOLY

thats cool as hell

[tribal grove]

I retract my previous statement and will now hide in a corner. lol but actually nice work

[atomic stream]

ironically my debug logger might be the most buggy thing in my project

[hoary cargo]

Looks better ingame tho with post processing

[void parcel]

that looks so good

[atomic stream]

that is actually so sick wow

[void parcel]

i cant wait to try out all these games

[atomic stream]

sameee

[hoary cargo]

Thx, I have an abnormal amount of practice making games, just not finishing them. If it goes well this will be my first release in almost 9 years of writing games

[atomic stream]

i feel that

ive been making games for years but only have 1 published game on itch.io that wasnt made in a game jam

hopefully releasing my second soon

[tribal grove]

This is the first time I’m attempting to make one.

[atomic stream]

been working on it for so long im sick of it

[hoary cargo]

Yea I get that xD

I need to print out the evil focus emote and hang it on my wall...

[atomic stream]

LMAO

so true

[hoary cargo]

That'd be perfect

[tribal grove]

lol I thought about doing a “do it for her” type thing

[hoary cargo]

True, but I'm doing this for

[atomic stream]

i should tape it on top of my second monitor where i keep discord open

[hoary cargo]

Cause I actually offered myself a 3d artist when he was brainstorming ideas and asking for some

[tribal grove]

Just go all out and tape it everywhere you look

[hoary cargo]

But he didn't respond, so now I need to flex as much as I can xD

But das rough

[atomic stream]

tape it to my face

constant focus

[tribal grove]

Maximum focus. Don’t need to look just trust the fingers

[hoary cargo]

Not impossible if you got practice typing

[atomic stream]

i have so many debug messages i could play my game from the console

[hoary cargo]

Good practice actually lol

[atomic stream]

yeah this has been saving me i should do this more often

[hoary cargo]

I forgot to add them and it's making stuff so much harder

[atomic stream]

i also did way more sanity checks than usual and that has also helped me notice some annoying bugs

[tribal grove]

Who needs graphics when you can just Oregon tail it

[atomic stream]

im usually like "SURELY this variable will NEVER be smaller than 0 i dont need a check "

[tribal grove]

(Unless I’m dumb and Oregon trail wasn’t originally text based)

[hoary cargo]

And suddenly it breaks and you got no clue why, yepp, sounds familiar

[atomic stream]

i just realized these debugs will be super helpful when doing the neuro integration

i could turn a lot of those into context messages

[tribal grove]

When a unsigned int needs to be an signed int

[hoary cargo]

Super hyped for that, I designed my whole game around it. I wanna see how she responds to a really immersive scenario with good context and integration

First time making a game in Godot. I got to sleep now and my game isn't nearly close to as finished as I want.

[atomic stream]

yeah that will be so fun gnjkfkjdgsf

[tribal grove]

As long as you’ve done what you could. You’ve done your best.

[hoary cargo]

Thanks

[tribal grove]

it took me longer than I’d like to admit to accept those words

[hoary cargo]

While I fully agree myself, I won't accept them. There will be no sleep or rest until the deadline...

I wanna make the best damn game I can, conequences be damned

[tribal grove]

lol I feel ya. I hope to be an actual contender next year.

[hoary cargo]

Practice makes perfect, keep at it bro

[tribal grove]

I have a full year to become a force to be reckoned with

[hoary cargo]

Honestly, if you actually use the time and practice regularly, that's defenitely gonna happen

[tribal grove]

Yea. There’s a few hurdles and something’s I have to overcome but I’ve already put the stones in place to help push forward. I’m really hyped to see what people have come up with

[tardy flint]

12 hours remain!

I wonder if I can go to sleep and still have enough time to finish a playable state...

[void parcel]

im just not sleeping lmao

no way can i get it done if i dont

probably wont get everything done even with pulling an all-nighter, but i can at least make it playable

[placid salmon]

I made a lot of systems so polishing is going to be hell. I'm doing the battle system and it's pretty fun but I'll have to stay up all night.
You can make the children fight in my game now.

[slate mist]

I want show off our precious visual novel title

but Im not going to do that

yee yeai

[lavish escarp]

NGL, I wonder where I'll end up

It's the first time ive built a full game, I've made like scenes and mechanics on their own before but never something that had like an end goal

So I don't expect myself to do well, but I found the game fun to play

Personally

So I have no clue where I might end up even

[rocky glen]

I just woke up, deadline in 12h and the game is pretty much not there

[fringe star]

finally, 1 extremely large mechanic left

[rocky glen]

the challenge here is just making "something" in time

[rocky glen]

I have like 2 mechanics, the final cutscene, the music and a bunch of more things but i don't really like what i got, I wanted to have 3 fights in the game while i only got one, and it's very basic

[fringe star]

goodluck dude

[rocky glen]

you too

[fringe star]

[waxen wasp]

12 hours left

[atomic stream]

i still have no idea what ill be able to finish

this is the craziest game jam ive been in lol

[tardy flint]

erm...did i just code on free aspect thus fucking up my entire UI?

[atomic stream]

god i hate that in unity

[waxen wasp]

imagine using unity

[bright dagger]

imagine participating in the game jam gl bozos

[waxen wasp]

[copper ibex]

for the past 2 days i got 20% of my game done... time to work on the last 80% in the last 12 hours

[atomic stream]

so relatable

i havent finished the combat system still

😭

[waxen wasp]

https://tenor.com/view/kronk-emperor's-new-groove-falling-apart-fail-funny-gif-5247765474627514298

[atomic stream]

[copper ibex]

just the natural game jam cycle

[tribal grove]

I'm in a similar situation, if that make it better? I knew the end goal for my game, but, unfortunately, I'm not skilled enough currently to get it to where I wanted.

[void parcel]

this made me laugh more than it had any right to

[atomic stream]

i didnt remember what he said there it was so unexpected 😭

[void parcel]

i was anticipating "its all coming together" which made it even funnier lol

[atomic stream]

oh wait thats what he actually says i wasnt crazy gnjfjsnkgf

[tribal grove]

lol maybe if I practiced a bit more before the actual jam instead of the Ill figure it out when I get there

[lavish escarp]

My game feels good enough, shorter than I'd like but we have 72 hours

[atomic stream]

me but with setting up my build system

[lavish escarp]

Not likely to write the iliad

[tribal grove]

I've also fallen into the concept of if you can't make it from scratch did you actually do it battle sooooo. lots of things I realize to overcome in this that acutally make it feel better overall.

[lavish escarp]

Simultaneously tho having a working game, as a solo dev

Fuck it that's enough for me

[deft shard]

Same here

[lavish escarp]

I made the mistake of

Creating EVERY asset during game dev time

All assets were created after jam started

There are no premade assets in my game

[void parcel]

i dont think wanting to do everything yourself is necessarily a bad thing, it helps you gain more skills over time which is very valuable. and it helps force you to optimise work flows better because since ur doing more you have less time

[lavish escarp]

I did rip the guts out of an old player controller

BUT IT NEEDED A LOT OF WORK TO WORK WITH MY NEW SYSTEM I SHALL TAKE IT.

[atomic stream]

at the same time its good to know when its not worth it

[deft shard]

I mean, that's fine if you have artists on your team... oh, me? yes, I'm solo and doing the assets, why?

[lavish escarp]

Same, solo'd

Okay that's a lie actually I did get 2 sound assets

[atomic stream]

doing art as solo is always stressful

[deft shard]

Rel

[tribal grove]

Yea it took me a little ||(and a small crisis over)|| to accept it as at least I learned rather than meeting the overly high expectations i set for myself

[deft shard]

I think I will also download some free sounds in the end...

[tribal grove]

But talking about it acutally keeps me motivated to continue to learn despite the challenges.

[atomic stream]

takes a lot of time that could otherwise be spent on actually developing the game

[tribal grove]

so the hype at least lives on

[lavish escarp]

TBF out of the odd hundred visual assets

[hoary cargo]

Double espresso nr 5 consumed, brain: aneurism

[lavish escarp]

2 sound assets ripped from the internet isn't so bad

[tribal grove]

I solo'd because i didn't wan't to disappoint anyone else besides myself :P

[hoary cargo]

Soooo true

[atomic stream]

that is so relatable

[lavish escarp]

I joined kinda spur of the moment kinda thing ngl

I wasn't sure if I was gonna make a game

Even

Fuck did I commit tho

[tardy flint]

The worst part is this is turning out quite good, but I dont have time to finish it

[tribal grove]

that looks so good tbh

[dry yacht]

I solo'd because I'm a control freak who doesn't work well with others. But I also have no skills, so, uhh

[deft shard]

So relatable, I decided to participate like two hours ahead of time, then settled on some unhinged scope two hours after it began

[deft shard]

Damn, looking good indeed

[tribal grove]

I'm kind of the opposite tbh, I don't have the control and Im probably 50% in skills

[lavish escarp]

I did the bare minimum programming tho like there is no UI, everything is a game object

I made one script for scene transitions total

[deft shard]

Some high profile games bragged about being minimalist and having no UI, so, uhhh, yeah

[tribal grove]

Idk I used unity and watched like 2 tutorials and kinda managed from there?
nothing really playable expect figuring out the fundamentals.

[lavish escarp]

No I'm happy I have so little UI and it's playable

[tribal grove]

but still didn't produce a prototype

[lavish escarp]

But like fuck me I have 0 ui lmfao

[deft shard]

I guess all UI I have is dialog boxes

[lavish escarp]

I mean technically I do have a UI but it's part of the game

[misty tree]

speaking of ui, i gotta actually replace these placeholder boxes

does this look ok?

[violet grail]

i finally have time, time to continue working on my game!

[lavish escarp]

I made a lil welcome mat sprite and did the thing Roblox people do with teleporters

[tribal grove]

can't a simple box be a UI I joke as my UI taste might almost be the worst

[atomic stream]

imagine having ui

[deft shard]

That little highlight makes it seem prod-ready

[lavish escarp]

Aight I'm gonna rest, so as to potentially have a LITTLE bit of energy when I get off this bus so I might be able to continue working on the game

[atomic stream]

good luck :3

[dry yacht]

I don't mind sharing my project if it means other people have more confidence in theirs. What I made can barely be called a game.

[misty tree]

hmmm ok guess ill roll with it for now then since i dont really have a better alternative

[tribal grove]

sleep well kick ass tomorrow!

[atomic stream]

i think that looks amazing! I just think maybe the name should use the same font as the dialogue? I know youre using different fonts for different characters though so i imagine its just the same font for all the names, but i think it would look more coherent if the name matched the dialogue

[deft shard]

Sleep well and good luck!

[misty tree]

ill give it a shot and see how that looks

[atomic stream]

[small radish]

11 hours and a slight fever. we got this

[atomic stream]

good luck, and i hope the fever goes away!

[small radish]

i got 200 paracetamol so i'll get through this one way or another

[atomic stream]

[misty tree]

that does make it nice, good call

[atomic stream]

very nice :3

[foggy hearth]

could not be me
I'm just pulling an all-nighter for completely unrelated reaons

[misty tree]

the spaghetti in the background is so grossly placeholder 🤮

[atomic stream]

put the undertale spaghetti

LMFAO

thats a first

oh and it moved by the right amount its just the debug thats broken 😭

[deft shard]

Put the code spaghetti

[atomic stream]

lmao imagine the spaghetti sprite just being a squished screenshot of the entire source code

[deft shard]

Btw, anyone else using Random.Value for opponent AI?

there is no way in hell I can make it play logically

[atomic stream]

my ai will probably be just... if can hit player attack, else move

if i have time to implement ai

[deft shard]

[atomic stream]

otherwise its just always gonna attack

[deft shard]

Peace was never an option

[atomic stream]

if you keep moving back and forth it is

[civic fractal]

Sleep was never an option

[atomic stream]

oh wait you meant if it always attacks

im not thinking right its 5am

[deft shard]

9am here, but that doesn't mean I'm thinking

holy cutscenes were a mistake

[pallid siren]

Not much time left, yeah

[atomic stream]

oh my god im finally done with the combat system i think

this feels like a game now!!!!

finally my game is a game 11 hours before the deadline

you just cant really tell whats happening (if you dont read the debug statements) because the UI is non-existant

so i gotta work on that

[tribal grove]

nice job!

[deft shard]

Congrats!

[covert spindle]

Hey I just submitted my first game XD

[atomic stream]

nice! :3

[small radish]

I THINK I GOT THE UPGRADE UI TO WORK HOLY SHIT

you level up and it opens + pauses the game, you can then unpause it and it resumes

can't upgrade anything but hey

[atomic stream]

[small radish]

whyyyy

[civic fractal]

We love 4 of us overnighting to get this thing done.

[void parcel]

only 10 hours left

[lavish escarp]

Yk, developing a game feels a lot less daunting now

[void parcel]

lol

[lavish escarp]

Like outside game jam

[pale iron]

Making a game without a deadline means infinite procrastination

[lavish escarp]

Yeah that's what happened to the other games I've tried to make

This is the first one I've finished (as simple as it is)

[small radish]

usually end up abandoning it when i realize i did some really stupid decision at the start and it's now almost impossible to expand

[lavish escarp]

I think that's when you add an end scene and make a sequel

[pale iron]

My game doesn’t really have an end scene. It just quits the game

[lavish escarp]

I just put a Gregg's sprite on the title screen and have a sprite saying "You won! UwU"

[pale iron]

Nice

[lavish escarp]

That's the end scene

God I wonder what other people are gonna come up with in their games tho

[pale iron]

I already uploaded mine but I can’t make any changes cuz I am leaving my house for a while

[lavish escarp]

Same

Well, I programmed the whole thing away from home

Im travelling home today

So I'm currently on the road

So I can't work on it

[pale iron]

I see

[lavish escarp]

So I'm talking cuz now's one of the only chances to do so

I sent the build to some friends to see if they'd playtest it tho

[pale iron]

Did you make your game solo?

[lavish escarp]

Most thought I got hacked

Yeah

[pale iron]

Is this your first game jam?