2024-game-jam

[native chasm]

He's 3rd

[signal monolith]

I missed a plugging session: https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3211560

[rotund rampart]

same vote count so it probably just displays it differently for people

[rotund rampart]

play this, its cute

and fun

[native chasm]

I meant analytics

[signal monolith]

I should play what?

[rotund rampart]

people should play your game

[native chasm]

Like here's Vadul's

[rotund rampart]

its just delayed

he has 54 now

[native chasm]

Oh

[tacit wasp]

Hi, I haven't plugged a lot today
https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3211795

[torpid bridge]

Me neither https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3212555

[tacit wasp]

Damn I got counter-plugged

[native chasm]

Dang it, my karma is under 2

[sour horizon]

Gasp! I forgot to plug this the whole day: https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213260

[tacit wasp]

I have played a few games today, I'm glad
But I heavily doubt I'll be able to play every game for the end of the week

[native chasm]

30:07:00 approximately

[tacit wasp]

Oh hey, I just finished playing this one

[sour horizon]

And I was just about to start yours!

[tacit wasp]

[lavish escarp]

someone said plug? https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3211830

[civic fractal]

Classic

[native chasm]

Omfg this is gold

[tacit wasp]

Mine is too

I forgot what the karma does

[misty tree]

i think karmas just about how many games u rate

and theres a sort by karma option in the various sort options

[pale iron]

Does anyone else have negative karma besides me?

[native chasm]

It's basically if u rate more than you get rated then u get high karma

[native chasm]

Vadul probably got like -3 now

[pale iron]

True

[misty tree]

realistically it doesnt matter much, its just a way to get people to potentially give some incentive to get evryone to rate more

[tacit wasp]

I see

[misty tree]

but also, theres no special reason why more ratings = your ratings get better

[civic fractal]

If anything, it just balances out your own effect on the greater scene.

[native chasm]

-2.49

[pale iron]

I have -1.4

[native chasm]

I'm 23rd if u sort by karma :O

[rotund rampart]

you want some karma? rate my game so I can get back to 2nd place, then the gods will give you good karma irl, no cap ( I am clearly kidding)

[pale iron]

I can’t play any games

I will give you 5 stars though once I get back

[rotund rampart]

chill, rate honestly

[pale iron]

What if the 5 stars is honest?

[rotund rampart]

then you may

[native chasm]

I honestly think it deserves 5 for fun

(only gave 5★ for fun to 3 games out of 30 I rated)

[unreal plinth]

Does anyone know who this is?
Would love to hear what feedback they wanted to give, but they never followed up.

[rotund rampart]

@proud smelt < this guy

[native chasm]

I feel like I saw that message

[unreal plinth]

They left similar messages on a couple of games

[native chasm]

Which was your game?

[unreal plinth]

thank you

[unreal plinth]

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3210589

[rotund rampart]

this is the THIRD time I forgot to play this

I'm playing it now

[unreal plinth]

[native chasm]

Oh, haven't yet played

[unreal plinth]

I see I definitely haven't plugged enough then

[native chasm]

Plugging is never enough

Speaking of which, here's mine
https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213344

[unreal plinth]

I finally have my VM set up, so will play

[frail wharf]

did u play mine

[rotund rampart]

which one

[frail wharf]

neuro 2024 simulator

[rotund rampart]

nah you did

[old adder]

alright alright plug plug https://unmoon.itch.io/surviwan

[rotund rampart]

I missed it so many times I have this

[placid salmon]

Thank you!

[native chasm]

I might get top 100 at this rate

[rotund rampart]

AND still managed to forget

[rotund rampart]

don't think so

btw, if you guys leave a rating just drop a simple comment so I can keep track of who I played

I have 54 rates but only 30+ comments

[native chasm]

Oh wait I'm 91th

[rotund rampart]

so there's probably like 20 guys whose games I should be playing

[frail wharf]

.

[unreal plinth]

oops...

[rotund rampart]

I'll play after turtle

[rotund rampart]

anyway I have some feedback

well rather than feedback maybe some advice?

[unreal plinth]

sure, all's appreciated

[rotund rampart]

I think I'll dm you

[unreal plinth]

ok

[rotund rampart]

pretty lengthy convo

[hasty drift]

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3211655 my plug for lurkers who like tower defense games 👍

[sour horizon]

Going through my open jam game tabs, and would you look at that
surely I've seen this image somewhere

[hasty drift]

hmm

[rotund rampart]

its everywhere

[fringe star]

my plug for those into tactics games
https://ishinada.itch.io/neuro-wars

[lavish escarp]

Its from this (plug) game https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3211830

[hasty drift]

LULE Alex already plugged rolling girl 2

[lavish escarp]

Huh?

[hasty drift]

its a stream meme right now

[lavish escarp]

Wdym

[hasty drift]

stream watchers know

[lavish escarp]

I'm IN CLASS

Damnit

[tacit wasp]

Been playing Evil In Time unsponsored for the last 30 minutes
Love the concept but damn it's hard to get an ending

Oh also, I just saw this, we reached 3,000 votes!

[lament ermine]

That's game over, basically

[native chasm]

[waxen trail]

Fair enough. It was still fun

[lavish escarp]

@lament ermine is that the only ending

[native chasm]

Why can't all runs start this way

[lament ermine]

There is a bad ending where you fail to capture both of them

[waxen trail]

Tbh 3 evil has better scaling I guess

[lavish escarp]

So that's the good ending?

[waxen trail]

Since she scales everyone

[lament ermine]

Yeah

[lavish escarp]

Ah ic

[lament ermine]

We wanted to do a True ending as well but no time

[lavish escarp]

I only got that one so I had no clue there was a bad ending

[tacit wasp]

Same

[lavish escarp]

The bad art for anny unironically scared me tho

[lament ermine]

I wonder how many people realized you can call Anny after you captured her

[lavish escarp]

Oh I did

I wish there was more text from calling vedal after captures tho

Must harass tutel

[lament ermine]

No time, we were supposed to get hints of what's going after each capture

Because the corrupted characters had information from being on the bad side

[tacit wasp]

Oh yeah, I did it too!
I also tried to capture Mini first so I could call her and found out she was sleeping

[lavish escarp]

Ah

Eepy mini

[lament ermine]

No time to add her dialogue

[native chasm]

U can't have 3 evils I think?

[tacit wasp]

Figured as much lmao

[native chasm]

I haven't ever gotten any evils with evil as captain

[waxen trail]

Oh true

[native chasm]

Oh wait but I probably can get it with others?

[waxen trail]

You're right my bad

Yeah you can get it with others

[native chasm]

Oh

Hmm

[lavish escarp]

Triple vedal post

[waxen trail]

Average Triple Vedal player

[native chasm]

Nah, 2 evils is worse than eliv + 2 cumilq

[waxen trail]

True

I forgot I canceled captain spawning

[lavish escarp]

How triple tutel then

[hardy dagger]

Hello

[waxen trail]

Maybe coldfish becoming tutel in the campfire event

[waxen trail]

[lavish escarp]

Oh shit til that can happen

Why the fuck is ur game in depth you had 3 days

[native chasm]

Dang there is stuff like that?

[waxen trail]

My artist suggested it as an idea and it sounded really cool

And I felt guilty about not implemnting the new digging sprites they sent me

[lavish escarp]

Your artist fucks btw

[waxen trail]

But it is really cool too fr and I implemented them for the post-jam version

[lavish escarp]

You both cooked hard

Majorly cute shit

[rotund rampart]

I can't tell what this means

[waxen trail]

Thank you so much, I'll pass this along to them

[rotund rampart]

back in my days

[waxen trail]

They mean it in a good way

Based on context

[rotund rampart]

fucks is a bad thing HAHA

[lavish escarp]

Boomer

[waxen trail]

Argh... friendly fire...

[rotund rampart]

get off my lawn

[lavish escarp]

How old r u folk

[rotund rampart]

its a new year and I'm turning 30, I'm basically a fossil now

[lavish escarp]

My condolences

[rotund rampart]

this is me

[sour horizon]

Nah, you're just a Category B viewer. Wasn't that like half the people according to a poll?

[placid salmon]

MegaMan star force is the best game of all times

[rotund rampart]

I saw a grid based real time combat game in the game jam that if you squint hard enough has the same principle

[lavish escarp]

Isn't MegaMan old asf

[rotund rampart]

it is

[placid salmon]

I'm suffering with low rated games so I didn't see that, but that system is a little bit popular with developers I would say

[rotund rampart]

It is

[placid salmon]

Old is gold, some videogames age like wine

[lavish escarp]

Is it what you grew up with

[rotund rampart]

excuse me, I grew up with Pokemon like a regular normie thank you

[lavish escarp]

Imma be real I feel young as fuck here cuz the games I grew up with are still getting updates

[rotund rampart]

hahaha

[native chasm]

I read it as "sucks" and was so confused lmao

[rotund rampart]

nah I understood it based on context, I'm just yapping

[placid salmon]

I grew up with crash bandicoot, Spyro, sonic the hedgehog, MegaMan, etc

[lavish escarp]

DayZ, Minecraft, unturned, I got into gaming during the survival game era

[rotund rampart]

I grew up with Freddi Fish

on windows 98

[placid salmon]

I bought and played a game on steam called one step from Eden that is kind like star force but also roguelike, it was fun

[native chasm]

Getting 150+ atk is actually hard

[rotund rampart]

I prefer the grid presentation in MMBN over MMSF tbh

[waxen trail]

I'm beyond my mid twenties so on the bridge between you and zoomers lol
But there's a lot of other Neuro fans in their 30s and beyond (in the discord and elsewhere), you'd be surprised

[native chasm]

100+ is easy

150+ is rare

[rotund rampart]

oh I don't doubt it

I highly doubt a bunch of early 20 to late 20s can afford 140k subs

[lavish escarp]

There's a lot to offer in the neuro community tbf

[native chasm]

200+ is like insane, I'm not sure if I can beat my pb

[placid salmon]

Yeah, that's fair, one step from Eden it's actually more like mmbn now that I think about it

[rotund rampart]

if the community is ONLY young, we wouldn't have gotten 83k subs in a day

[waxen trail]

80 year old rich CEOs dropping 140K subs

But tbh, who knows

[waxen trail]

200+ is actually insane for real

[native chasm]

Valorant paid for like 25k

[rotund rampart]

it was like 15k I think?

[lament ermine]

My age is 21, and correct I do have the ability to gift subs

[lavish escarp]

Evil and Neuro on top of just being extremely funny kinda represent the edge of an AI with a subjective experience, it's hard to find that anywhere else at all, and it presents so many extremely interesting questions

[native chasm]

Yeah but it's not even half of theoretical limit

[lavish escarp]

It makes sense for older folk to be interested

Much as I love the shitposting I'm also an engineering guy in robotics and firmware

[rotund rampart]

nah you're thinking too deep on this, people in their 30s are just people in their 20s but 10 years older

[lavish escarp]

This shit is hyper interesting to me

[rotund rampart]

the 30 y/os and the 20 y/os watch for the same reason

[lavish escarp]

Nah I'm just saying it's extremely interesting

[native chasm]

19349 this week rn

[lavish escarp]

Not just typical haha funny shitposting just really cool stuff

[native chasm]

Plus it was like 5k previous week iirc

[lament ermine]

Neuro and Evil are genuinely funny

[waxen trail]

Yeah they have their own kind of creativity and uniqueness. Other AI just really lack personality compared to Neuro who's an actually compelling character

[lavish escarp]

Yeah they are

I have a full folder of reaction images using evil and Neuro saying shit

[rotund rampart]

I think Vedal carries harder than people give credit for

[native chasm]

Based

[lavish escarp]

Absolutely

Yeah

[lament ermine]

And also, Vedal is just like me fr (game dev + into AI)

[waxen trail]

Oh no doubt, if it was another dev on Neuro things could've easily went very different

[lament ermine]

But actually successful

[lavish escarp]

The content goes mad fun when it's vedal interacting with the twins especially

They play off each other really well

[lament ermine]

I love dev streams

They're my favourite

[lavish escarp]

The unfiltered twin dev stream is a favourite

That and evil talking about her AI vision

[waxen trail]

I remember watching AIs talk way before, google dots or something trying to make a conversation. It was fun but not half as fun as Neuro & Evil

[lament ermine]

It always devolved into 'deep' conversations

[native chasm]

Yeah tbh his work is kinda unappreciated, probably due to Neuro's attitude

[lavish escarp]

I disagree that it's underappreciated tho, maybe I'm biased cuz I'm surrounded by folk who realise how impressive it is but like everywhere I go people acknowledge vedal being cracked

[lament ermine]

Casual viewer doesn't know maybe?

[lavish escarp]

And acknowledging he's a funny dude with a good Personality for streaming

[lament ermine]

Are there casual viewers in the neuroverse?

[lavish escarp]

Yeah,

[rotund rampart]

I mean look at the articles going around for breaking the sub record

[waxen trail]

I kinda feel like people love to meme on Vedal for the memes but know how good he is for Neuro deep down

[rotund rampart]

there's 0 mentions of Vedal

[lavish escarp]

I plug Neuro harder than I plug rolling girl lmfao I've definitely created some casual viewers

[native chasm]

Idk, I feel like most people would be bias towards nuro rather than vadul

[lament ermine]

That's because they only give a shit about getting those clicks/impressions and they know that an AI would make better headlines

[lavish escarp]

Maybe to an outside observer ig

But vedal I feel is very loved within the community at the very least

[rotund rampart]

yea

[waxen trail]

Imagine preferring to write about an AI breaking the sub record instead of a sentient turtle that knows how to code. L!

[rotund rampart]

supposedly there's a part of the community who wants Vedal gone or something

its weird

I dont think its on discord

but they exist

[native chasm]

"Evil in Time" literally has Evil and Neuro escape from Vedal as main part of the plot

[lavish escarp]

Neuro?

That might be reading too much into it

[rotund rampart]

nah I remember seeing infighting

on twitter and reddit

[lavish escarp]

O damn

[lament ermine]

They are idiots, that would not work out well

[rotund rampart]

YES its twitter and reddit

[native chasm]

Also he died there

[rotund rampart]

but there are neuroverse fans outside of here haha

[waxen trail]

Tbh yeah every fanbase that grows big enough has people with ideas we'd find weird

[lavish escarp]

TBF people find us weird

[native chasm]

Aren't we?

[lament ermine]

I mean, I know I'm weird

[waxen trail]

True. But we're based

[lavish escarp]

Echo chamber moment lmfa

[lament ermine]

[lavish escarp]

But nah people def have gotten on my ass for being as big of a fan as I am

It's mildly comedic

[lament ermine]

At least here there aren't propoganda machines spewing constant deluge

[rotund rampart]

Neurosama is the best AI

how's that for propaganda

[lament ermine]

Based

[lavish escarp]

Speaking of constant spew, here is a plug https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3211830

[native chasm]

Ig I'll plug too then
https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213344

[lament ermine]

https://voidbois.itch.io/troubleshooting

[native chasm]

Wait why isn't that game in my table

[rotund rampart]

troubleshooting?

you're gonna love it

or rolling neuro

[native chasm]

Yeah I don't see that one on my list

[native chasm]

Got it in my plans for tmr

[lavish escarp]

Owo

[native chasm]

Nvm it's cuz "T" was lowercase

On phone it matters ig, cuz on laptop everything was fine even without that lol

[tacit wasp]

You played it?
Did you manage to get an ending beside the Game Over one?

[native chasm]

Yea I got 2/5 endings

1 bad where filter gets me

[tacit wasp]

Yeah I got that one too but it's just the basic Game Over ending

[native chasm]

1 kinda good ig where everything is fine

[tacit wasp]

All I managed to do is ||bring back Vedal to life|| for now

[native chasm]

Oh yea I had that one

After that I ||defeated filter|| and got ending where ||neuro and evil live at anny's pc in peace||

[waxen wasp]

the song from our game got an official release!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzt8oxS-4ow

(https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213324)

[civic fractal]

the name debate took forever lul

[waxen wasp]

true

[royal jewel]

Swarm and choosing names is just not really compatible

[waxen wasp]

took longer than making the song

[civic fractal]

2 days song, 5 day name debate

[royal jewel]

The song is definitely really good, especially for being made in the time of the game jam (the voice models are obviously not specifically built for the game jam, that would have taken way too much)

[rotund rampart]

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213059
Just plugging

[tacit wasp]

If there was a rank for least safe-looking game, you guys would get 5 stars

[waxen wasp]

we have a web-release
and i have a fixed version ready for when the voting ends, im not allowed to plug that one tho

[royal jewel]

It's truly a great song
And the Neuro voices sound great since we used the best Neuro RVC pipeline me and Wispers use for our covers too

We really utilized the RVC models to their fullest

Including Evil's insane range

[tacit wasp]

I know, the web version is just too large for my screen so I tried the local release

[waxen wasp]

oh

they're all 1080p

idk how to fix that

doesnt the webgl version have a fullscreen button?

[tacit wasp]

Ah maybe?

Oh yeah it does

[rotund rampart]

You’ll have to export a scaled down version, but if the UI isn’t anchored properly, it gets really messy

Normally as long as development is done with 16:9 as a reference, most engines should be able to scale down

[waxen wasp]

i already updated the code so icant really give them a "gamejam version"

so idk

[rotund rampart]

Actually, there’s no rules against just dm-ing your updated build to anyone who has already voted

[waxen wasp]

the UI pos is based on screenwidth / x
so it should work

[rotund rampart]

The link rule is just to avoid people making a mistake in voting

[rotund rampart]

Yea

[waxen wasp]

is 720p fine?

[lavish escarp]

you need to enable it

[rotund rampart]

Pretty sure that project has full screen enabled

[rotund rampart]

Running at 2k fps would probably break in some browsers for webgl

[waxen wasp]

ye, thats why the exporter normally does vsync

[rotund rampart]

The audio in their game is insane, they had like 7~ish audio technicians on their team

[waxen wasp]

i was sure i softcapped it to 60 tho.

oh wait, the menu isnt

[royal jewel]

Yeah, most of the team was on audio

Indeed, Neuro RVC V11 and Evil RVC V7 are extremely close to the real things

[civic fractal]

They'll never know what happened to get the voicelines for neuro/evil

[royal jewel]

Some of the songs I like to show off for Neuro RVC and Evil RVC by the way

Just to give you even more of an idea of how good they are

Truly incredible tech

[waxen wasp]

it is enabled

i made 720p version anyways

[royal jewel]

Display scaling from Windows' side might also be messing with it

I've found loads of things that beak with larger display scaling

[civic fractal]

Can confirm that

This is a public chat

[royal jewel]

Just look at what happens with the Neurolings on non-100% scaling

(those lines and artifacts are not screenshot errors)

[civic fractal]

Suprisingly wayland scaling working fine with the neurolings

[waxen wasp]

uhhh, should probably delete that

[civic fractal]

They just lorge

[frail wharf]

oh wait are neuro covers just traditional vocaloid with voice morph

that makes me a bit sad

[royal jewel]

I'm not actually sure what the actual Neuros use, but our RVC models are really good at replicating it with the help of SynthV for base voices

[frail wharf]

yeah this totally makes sense just magic is broken for me now, i didn’t know how it worked formerly lol

[royal jewel]

Of course there is some sort of AI model behind it
It could be something similar to SynthV on an unrelated voice bank and RVC, or it could be a custom system that directly creates Neuro and Evil's voices

We have no idea really

Whatever the actual Neuros are. it's really high quality

[rotund rampart]

They are the future of humanity obviously

[royal jewel]

True

And also really good singers

It's really cool to even unofficially be able to use their voices for all kinds of cool things

I even managed to make Finnish Neuro exist

[frail wharf]

i was really interested in applications for non singing. though some systematized intonation plus voice bank plus transform might actually be a totally reasonable approach for doing that with current technology

i can tell you the actual neuro voice btw if you like

[royal jewel]

I know what the actual Neuro TTS is

The singing voice is what I was going for with these RVC models though

[frail wharf]

ah, gotcha

[royal jewel]

Does reasonably with converting speech though

[frail wharf]

but you didn’t use the actual neuro tts in your game

[royal jewel]

Yeah, didn't have time to figure out how to use it during the jam so we just used some high quality thing Shadow had

[civic fractal]

Evil was the more interesting one IMO

[royal jewel]

Neuro voice lines use Shadow's Neuro TTS and Evil uses another TTS Shadow had + Evil RVC V7

Singing is Neuro RVC V11 and Evil RVC V7 with the Solaria SsynthV voice bank as a base

[civic fractal]

I think the evil one was made on the spot

could be wrong tho

[royal jewel]

I'm not sure
But it was converted with Evil RVC V7 for accuracy

[tacit wasp]

Well there's a singer credited in LIFE besides Neuro so I'm thinking it's a RVC

[royal jewel]

Could be, or that singer could just be for testing

It could be sang by a real singer or by a SynthV-like program and use RVC, who knows

[frail wharf]

did u play btw

[charred hamlet]

Vedal showed the early draft of the MV and leaked the singer's version. It's very common when having a song composed to have the initial draft with temp/cover vocals over the top until the actual vocal recordings are done proper, so that the client can see what it'll sound like before signing off on it

[frail wharf]

well in this sense the .exe is safer, at least it is more honest

[royal jewel]

Well, technically the .bat can just call a .exe

[frail wharf]

the correct play is to host a remote server and beam the game over into the browser

[royal jewel]

In the case of our game though run.bat just calls java.exe that is included and then gives it a jar file that hosts the game locally

Code for the jar file

I haven't checked, but it might be signed

[frail wharf]

java programs can do anything if it’s not sandboxed (browser or otherwise) it can’t be trusted

[royal jewel]

True

[royal jewel]

In this case this is all the JVM code does though

(made with Kotlin/JVM)

Yeah, it's an actual JVM

A stripped down JVM, but still a JVM

Yeah, they can always just use a JVM they download themselves

They just need to change the run PATH or run the Java command manually with their own Java 21 runtime

True

700+ MB is usually a red flag, especially if it's unsigned

Either way, I like this little local web hoster thing I made, it's very simple to use and has a cool feature specifically for Neuro integration

(it can read environment variables to web so that the game can get the WS address)

[misty tree]

ok, decorated the intro area of my game a bit, but i think it could use just a bit more 👀 any other random things you guys can think of I could add in?

[lament ermine]

Floor tiles would be an easy one

Imo you should reduce the size of the room, too much empty space (unless you plan on adding more things)

[misty tree]

oh, yea for sure about the floor tiles. im just making placeholder stuff tho since i cant really draw for real, ill have to figure out somebody to make it all properly, i was more just asking about other funny things i could leave around the rooms

i love shoving references everywhere

[lament ermine]

Pet xenomorph

[misty tree]

oh yea good call. do u remember what its name apparently was

oh it seems to just be Xeno

[lament ermine]

Monkey named George

[misty tree]

from the trade!

[lament ermine]

Pipes

The stuff they got from Amazon + Toma

[misty tree]

a mountain of hats

[lament ermine]

Yeah XD

[misty tree]

shame i couldnt fit any random living characters in my game

i really wanted a toma character to pass by with like 50 bodyguards in tow

[lament ermine]

Lmao

There was one game that did that

[fringe star]

jk, sorry

[slate mist]

did neuro played jam game today?

[royal jewel]

No, no game jam games today

[torpid bridge]

Ooh our popularity is climbing up!

[fleet goblet]

@royal jewel does your web bundler serve the entire file system?

[royal jewel]

Not easily
It's all relative paths and would be very hard to get anything useful out of

Like, at that point just make a proper malicious exe

[fleet goblet]

Why not put a limit so you can't escape the folder that the app was ran in

[royal jewel]

It was a quick solution to a problem, implementing such check would take a bit more to make sure it doesn't break anything

And anyone could easily just remove it if they wanted to say they use the thing

If someone wants to progam a complex security handler, sure, go right ahead, but at the time I was making the thing, figuring out that was kinda out of scope for the thing that I was making to run web games on localhost that was designed to never be exposed to the public internet (anyone that exposes something like this to the public internet could be considered slightly intellectually problematic (something like that, I don't know))

[tardy flint]

Alright, time to get back to work on my gamejam submission

[misty tree]

wait whats going on? XD

[tardy flint]

[civic fractal]

Some people, Just move on plz

[proud smelt]

Ahh sorry ill post a follow up 😄
Had to do some work stuff and didnt have time to check

[tardy flint]

Oi, are you implying people are meant to abandon their projects just because the jam is over?

[civic fractal]

I'd never recommend that, surely. Not like my last game jam project still not getting an update.

[lament ermine]

Games are hard, can't blame someone for not deciding to spend dozens of hours on a fan game that's not guaranteed to even be successful

Which just makes the occasions when someone does make a full fledged fan game all the more special

[south hazel]

i have time to play game jams again!!!

time to play some

@torpid bridge How do u get more memory cores

Nvm

[sage sapphire]

damn and here I am still planning on updates for it

[south hazel]

@torpid bridge Ngl you made camila too op

mb i should be talking to @sleek reef ab it

[sleek reef]

hi i made the balance for the game, and yeah, this version is the backup version (the main version had a bug i couldnt fix in time) before i made some balance changes so its really hard to get through the first part without luck

[south hazel]

[lavish escarp]

what game is it

[south hazel]

AHAHAHFBWHBFH

[sleek reef]

Memory Lanes

[sage sapphire]

wait, you can get 3 neuros?!? I thought I just had 1 must have not gotten that far into it

[sleek reef]

no you cant, its probably a bug where the game doesnt reset properly after game over 😭

[lavish escarp]

good game

[sage sapphire]

oh

[lavish escarp]

i played it on day 1 of voting

[sage sapphire]

yea it's a pretty good game

tho on my first play I was very unlucky

[south hazel]

I lost to cerber and camila because my attacks miss

😭

[sage sapphire]

2 misses on my attacks REEE

[sleek reef]

thanks! planning to put out a major update with balances and QoLs after voting period, already 80% done

[south hazel]

Im ab to rage

This so unbalanced i swear 😭

[sleek reef]

it was either this unbalanced mess or game freezes when entering shop im so sorry

[south hazel]

man i give up 😭

i got vedal but hes so fucking weak

[fleet goblet]

where did you get this image from?

[civic fractal]

https://itchanalytics.vercel.app

[small radish]

rip alex, not cool

[turbid saddle]

did Vedal play any game jam games in the last hours, before goimg to sleep?

[open furnace]

nope

btw where do i find the games ?

[turbid saddle]

I see thank ya, hope he gets to them since there's a good bunch of time left in the subathon

[turbid saddle]

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/entries

[lavish escarp]

Start here, then go to submissions, https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3211830

(plug)

[civic fractal]

He can't keep getting away with this

[south hazel]

Finished playing the game, good job!

It was really good

[lament ermine]

https://voidbois.itch.io/troubleshooting if I may

[fringe star]

Pardon me
https://ishinada.itch.io/neuro-wars

[rotund rampart]

Ayyy thanks, also prove that there’s still a reason to plug in this chat haha

[rotund rampart]

Do you have a game?

[south hazel]

was planning to submit one but my procastinating ass got to me

[south hazel]

i fucking jumped when i typed capture anny

[austere island]

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3208404 also linking mine so people can rate it if they want

[south hazel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBwAKYlvavU?si=2

[tribal tartan]

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3212851 A little plug

[signal monolith]

I woke up today and my game jumped up by about 10 places in both rating count and popularity, very nice
https://itchanalytics.vercel.app/jam/neuro/3211560

[south hazel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwKqjS2HBIA

[misty tree]

yooooo

ive been updating a bunch of quality of life stuff, cant wait to be able to release it

like ive noticed everyone gets confused by the weapon disabling, which was very bad xD

(the reason it disables was it was just faster to implement than to make it so u cant attack swarm while its non-hostile)

also as a rare gun user the drone also had a garbage hitbox since they draw themselves higher than they actually are

which was why ud miss while shooting at em horizontally

[south hazel]

i see

[lament ermine]

You had to do "cd ../" to go back a directory btw, "cd.." is interpreted as a command

For more art, try: calling Anny after you capture her

[south hazel]

😭 mb im a hardcore cmd user

[south hazel]

oh what 😭 i never knew

[lament ermine]

Fail to capture both Anny and Mini for bad ending

Lastly, call Cerby for Easter egg

[south hazel]

one sec

[lament ermine]

Sorry about that, didn't realise you could do that (am amateur cmd user)

Also sorry about the long ass unskippable intro, I added a skip button but wasn't able to build in time

||Call vedal for an Easter egg||

[lavish escarp]

lmfao

[south hazel]

its fine, great game tho xd

[rotund rampart]

I had to go a couple times before finishing and had to restart a few times, the intro was definitely annoying haha, but great game though

[south hazel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Pgsqs2ews

new vid with bad END and secrets

[signal monolith]

you making those videos?

[lavish escarp]

yeah

[hasty drift]

alex played my game on stream he did not like it though and quit it in the middle

[waxen trail]

The tracks in this game are so peak

[waxen trail]

Damn you Alex >:C

[south hazel]

yea

[lavish escarp]

lmfao

wait is that what you were referring to earlier?

[south hazel]

549fps

[signal monolith]

cool, they remind of videos of manlybadasshero(style of naming and thumbnails)

[south hazel]

thanks

[waxen trail]

Yeah the thumbnails are really good

[signal monolith]

I hope you'll eventually play my game, but I'm not so shameless as to plug it

[south hazel]

plug it rn

[signal monolith]

bruh, ok
https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3211560

[south hazel]

thanks

[waxen trail]

It's gud I hope gymbag enjoys it

[signal monolith]

maybe finally someone will get the bad ending

[lavish escarp]

(spite plug) https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3211830

[signal monolith]

I WILL DEFEAT YOU

I CANT LOSE

(popular ranking)

[waxen trail]

Legendary rivalry

Both gud games

[sour horizon]

good morning
I see I just joined Alex's stream at the perfect moment

[signal monolith]

He's playing some games?

[sour horizon]

yup yup

[hasty drift]

he playing tutel rancher bc someone gifted subs

[signal monolith]

Can I get a link to the stream?

[hasty drift]

https://www.twitch.tv/alexejherodev

[signal monolith]

is he playing them in a specific order? Or just one that catch his eye?

[hasty drift]

played some games mentioned on stream and some games from people that left comments on his game

[rotund rampart]

There is a bad end?

[signal monolith]

yeah, you have a choice right before the credits

after the boss

[rotund rampart]

Lemme speedrun that again real quick later

I think your game is the best among all the 3d entries I’ve played

[signal monolith]

there weren't many 3d games tbf, I'm glad you think that way

[rotund rampart]

The here were quite a few

For whatever reason, I like brick the chatters alot haha

That’s technically 3d

[signal monolith]

from 3d games I liked this one a lot: https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213163

[rotund rampart]

is this the pirate ship 1

[signal monolith]

yeah

[rotund rampart]

Who gets to create threads in this server? Just the mods?

Would be great if we could have a moderated thread where each game contributor must plug a game that’s not their own and have no repeats

[quick badger]

wth happened tonight, went from 153rd popularity to 83rd

I'm so confused it's been falling for days now and suddenly it switches

[rotund rampart]

Did I play your game yet?

[quick badger]

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3212492 I'm not sure, its this one

[rotund rampart]

oh yes

the one where metal pipe is op

[south hazel]

@signal monolith i speedran so much that i did a rare glitch

[quick badger]

yeah xD

[signal monolith]

you died and completed the level at the same time, I see, what happens then?

[south hazel]

game crash

[signal monolith]

classic

[quick badger]

but honestly it kinda messes up with my understanding of how popularity is calculated, nothing changed in my analytics

if anything everything is going down

appart from downloads

but like it's not a huge spike

[rotund rampart]

its a proportion of impressions and views/plays

[fringe star]

incase you might need this

[rotund rampart]

in the 120~ish position the competition isn't super huge, so a minor change in the proportions is sufficient to rise up in a huge number of rank

[fringe star]

how do you get dark mode?

[signal monolith]

itch app

[rotund rampart]

sweet numbers

but yea, its a pretty slow day for game jam

most entries have a significant drop in impression and viewership

[signal monolith]

numbers numbers numbers

[rotund rampart]

the data trend is the same for everyone, so there's just not much going on with the game jam today

[quick badger]

you can also do it in browser: open top right burger menu -> settings -> profile, scroll a bit -> use dark theme where available

[rotund rampart]

nobody really pushing people to want to play the games

[quick badger]

probably also that the most active people already tried a lot of the games

[signal monolith]

@lavish escarp you're the most shameless plugger and trend setter, go plug in general and get banned

[fringe star]

wa happen?

[signal monolith]

nah, it's just a suggestion 🙂

🙂

[rotund rampart]

pretty sure I'm more shameless HAHA

got 2 more plug fanart post planned for tomorrow and day after

[lavish escarp]

#general-network message

[rotund rampart]

damn

you win

[signal monolith]

isn't self promotion banned on that subreddit?

[signal monolith]

BRUH

[rotund rampart]

I tagged it under fanart HAHA

[signal monolith]

How can I win if my enemies are so cunning?

[lavish escarp]

(shameless plug) https://www.reddit.com/r/NeuroSama/comments/1hsjom9/eliv_when_story/

[rotund rampart]

in any case its reddit so I probably dont mind getting banned

[lament ermine]

Anyone know what games Alex has played so far

[rotund rampart]

https://kerneliron.itch.io/neuros-christmas-dream

plugging someone else's game

this is super cute

[lament ermine]

aww

[hasty drift]

yes

[lament ermine]

that's nice of you neuroSoCute

[rotund rampart]

play ittt

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213251

this game turns your computer into a game world

[tame rapids]

i've just seen alex play neurosoda game i'm dying from laughter

[rotund rampart]

very interesting concept

[torpid bridge]

Wait how did you add both text and image

[rotund rampart]

what

its not my game

[torpid bridge]

Oh

But how do people do that

Like it only allows just images or text for me

[lavish escarp]

i dont understand how you mfs who made the visual novels draw so fast for the game jam

[rotund rampart]

use FileExplorer, the images are tied to what the datatype is

[rotund rampart]

art school

[lavish escarp]

unironically?

[rotund rampart]

so imagine you get a file from a path, if it has a txt extension, show image of text file

[rotund rampart]

my team = people who went to art school with me so yea

HAHA

[lavish escarp]

weird question but in your experience did art school actually help

and was it worth it

(seperate answer)

[rotund rampart]

the value of school is directly proportional to the dilligence of the student

you can have 2 student going into the same course, and one comes out with a ton of knowledge and the other has none

[lavish escarp]

in your experience

[rotund rampart]

but if its helpful for my game dev, then yes, I've led a 20 man art team for a game project before and I wouldn't be able to do it if I didn't learn my basics from art school

like it isn't the "answer to everything", but its one of the ways to get started imo

[lavish escarp]

just in general, im typically pretty dismissive of art school but i try to pick up opinions and angles from everyone who's attended it

i wonder how it affects people's trajectories in art

[rotund rampart]

it highly depends on the institute, the lecturers and the students attitude

I wouldn't say its for everyone

[native chasm]

gonna go rate some games, but before that, plug
https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213344

[rotund rampart]

heck, most of my fellow graduates from the same class just stopped doing art entirely

[lavish escarp]

rough

[rotund rampart]

honestly though, if you have the right attitude, everything that gives knowledge is a +

[lavish escarp]

did it cost you much?

[rotund rampart]

and if you see someone blaming an institute for their failure or something, i can guarantee you 9/10 of the cases its just the person not making full use of it

[rotund rampart]

hmm, I wouldn't say its alot

but it differs from people to people

based on their finance etc

[lavish escarp]

im hesitant to say that honestly, ive heard some horror stories as well

[native chasm]

oh wait, Rolling girl is web game

[lavish escarp]

i know a creative institute (video) that effectively teaches nothing, then shovels their students into this short form content editing sweatshop as interns paid very little

[lavish escarp]

its a song

technically

[rotund rampart]

oh the same can be said about alot of programming schools and bootcamps tbh

[lavish escarp]

the web game is Rolling Girl :Neuro https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3211830 @native chasm

[lavish escarp]

i have actually never been in a dedicated programming school/bootcamp

[rotund rampart]

honestly, the best part of school is just that it gives you an environment to focus on exploring and improving your skills

[lavish escarp]

i have been in them for robotics, engineering, dronemaking, and we HAPPEN to program

but never dedicated programming

[rotund rampart]

alot of programming schools just streamline students into making bare minimum stuff with no understanding of the underlying systems

[lavish escarp]

its interesting to see you seem to have a positive take on them tho

[rotund rampart]

like they'll give you classes on "basics and fundamentals", but all they're doing is go through these slides and then answer these questoins and move on

[lavish escarp]

im wondering how it was as a whole in your case

[lavish escarp]

oh yeah ive been through that as well fwiw

i was the only one in my uni's programming course that could actually program

[rotund rampart]

imho, College should never be a barrier of entry to work (non professional fields)

[lavish escarp]

okay NEVER is a stretch

lmfao

engineering - healthcare

absolutely should be

[rotund rampart]

I mean you have your medicine, law etc that NEEDS a degree

that's professional

[lavish escarp]

i disagree about law tho, if you can do the BAR

you should be able to do law

[rotund rampart]

the state of education these days being as bad as it is is highly due to the whole "you must have a degree for work"

it drops the overall quality of education to make it into a "necessity" for every single human to reach a certain level

and by doing that, you start hiring subpar teachers/lecturers to meet demand, and the goal is to get them to a "passing grade in society"

which is why courses that just blindly teaches you how to make website front end and back end without understanding the underlying fundamentals exist

[lavish escarp]

theres also the ones where a university education doesnt make sense for imo

[rotund rampart]

for example, I can guarantee you that a fresh graduate that says they specialize in azure web development, if you gave them a blank console app with .net framework, they won't be able to recreate an MVC pattern

[lavish escarp]

stares in firmware dev

a what

[lament ermine]

Model View Controller

Model- data, View- the way you show the data, Control- the way you can interact with the data

[lavish escarp]

ah

[lament ermine]

(I had an angular js lab for some reason, that's why I know this)

[lavish escarp]

(i know almost nothing about devops)

[lament ermine]

(me too)

[rotund rampart]

like its so easy these days to just click on visual studio and they just create a MVC for you with a service pattern prebuilt for you

that its like 75% of the work done

and then because schools these days are profit first and tries to do the bare minimum to get you to be able to work in society

they teach you the remaining 25% and you're now a graduate (a little exaggerated, but this is from my experience hiring devs)

[lavish escarp]

judging by all the stuff youve mentioned i take it youre primarily referring to devops?

[rotund rampart]

I ran a game studio during covid, so majority of the jobs I got during that time were web3 related

[lavish escarp]

ic

these the people im going up against in the game jam

[lament ermine]

the part I hate about my clg is that they are abysmal at actually teaching, I'm always better off just studying on my own

[rotund rampart]

its actually my first game jam, its been a really fun experience so far

[lament ermine]

the part that I like is that I got to learn about some cool shit like Finite Automata

[south hazel]

\

FOR THE 7TH FUCKING TIME- I WAS ALMSOT THERER UIOBAU(DVB*)(G@

[lavish escarp]

rolling girl is my first game lmfao

[rotund rampart]

I mean for what its worth, I definitely got alot from school too haha

[lavish escarp]

im not regretful tho i think i did well

im mildly proud of how competent rolling girl is

[rotund rampart]

but its mostly self study as well

[lament ermine]

impressive work, both of you

[rotund rampart]

its pretty good

[lavish escarp]

its no tutel rancher tho

[native chasm]

which game is this?

[lavish escarp]

sup IvChill

[rotund rampart]

crazy robot body

[lavish escarp]

just saw the clip of koko yelling at vedal for letting v*dolf top her

[placid salmon]

This is my 13th game jam entry

[native chasm]

oh, have it in my list to rate

[placid salmon]

Hi!

[unreal plinth]

Jam games Alex has played on stream today:
0:35 - Vedal's Secret
1:10 - Neuro Scratch
1:13 - Abandoned Pub
2:03 - Neuro 2024 Simulator
2:15 - Memory Frenzy
2:26 - Remnants of the Past: Defend Neuro's Memories
2:39 - Someone Tell Vedal There is a Problem with My AI
2:54 - Neuro-Sama Tutel Rancher
3:04 - Staz's vod constructor
3:31 - Unhando
3:45 - Vedality: Clause & Neuroffect
4:04 - Anniversary
4:21 - Branching Paths
4:47 - Sea of Memories

[lavish escarp]

damn

did he play game jam games yesterday?

[placid salmon]

I saw that clip too, Koko is so funny

[rotund rampart]

I'll probably just be sticking to Neurosama jams in future, its fun but its time consuming

[lament ermine]

This is my... let me think, first game jam was a disaster, second was one game jam split into seven, where I participated in three of them, third was last year's game jam, next is pirate software jam, and finally it's this jam

so... that would make this my 7th jam

[placid salmon]

There are other game jams that give you more time to develop projects, and some are smaller and less competitive

[lament ermine]

The concept of the second jam was pretty cool tho, basically it was a week long, and each day of the week you had to pick up the surviving games from the previous day (that you never worked on)

[lavish escarp]

im probably sticking to neuro jams too

[rotund rampart]

I mean it takes time away from dev-ing work stuff I guess

[lavish escarp]

neuro fills me with determination

[rotund rampart]

same

[tame rapids]

this was mine 4th game jam

[lavish escarp]

as of now

i got clip studio paint over christmas

so i am drawing

interesting shit coming from medibang paint pro

[lavish escarp]

@rotund rampart

this is actually my art lol

idk if you guys caught the sleepover w camila but i died of cuteness

[placid salmon]

Cute art

[rotund rampart]

looks good!

what I wanna dabble into next is music when I have time

[lavish escarp]

i tried getting into music

i am fucking horrid.

[south hazel]

I KEEP DYING TO THE LAST STAGE

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[lavish escarp]

lmfao

[placid salmon]

That's my weakness, I do have a game with only music made by me but it's really hard

This is how I performed in all my game jams, Dokka is the only non solo dev

[rotund rampart]

taking piano classes is my new years resolution

[lament ermine]

sound stuff is the only major area in game dev I can't do competently

[rotund rampart]

there's a touhou jam?

fingers crossed I get 20+/25 for this jam

[native chasm]

looks pretty good ig

[placid salmon]

Yes, that was my first game jam with the theme winter games, I did bad because of not following the theme properly but I have no regrets, I made the game I was passionate about.
https://itch.io/jam/touhou-jam-10
I even joined their discord server for a while and they are pretty cool people

[nimble dew]

Is that the popularity ranking or what? Can be skewed a lot by shamelessly plug spamming...

I'm also looking into other game jams. Some are a bit odd. Like an "Anime game game jam". How the heck do they define "anime game"?

[lavish escarp]

ill have to test this theory wont i?
(shameless plug)
https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3211830

[lament ermine]

pirate jam, was a disaster

[nimble dew]

Pirate Jam seems so overcrowded... 10k joined already for the upcoming one...

[placid salmon]

Those are the overall results after the voting period, not popularity

[lament ermine]

neuroshock rating

[rotund rampart]

I mean the winner gets plugged

[lavish escarp]

tbf thor's whole community centres around game dev as well

[rotund rampart]

people want that

Neuro-sama > Thor, don't @ me

[lavish escarp]

game jams and ferrets

[lament ermine]

I just looked, and the second jam, the interesting one doesn't have ratings

[nimble dew]

Do we not have that ranking value yet?

[rotund rampart]

most creative jump scare I seen in this jam

[rotund rampart]

3 more days

[lavish escarp]

lmfao

[rotund rampart]

nothing scares me more than this

[placid salmon]

No, we don't know who is going to rank high, just because a game has high popularity or ratings doesn't mean they are going to win

[unreal plinth]

@past meadow In case you wanted to see Alex playing your game, since you just said you missed it, here are the timestamps: #2024-game-jam message

[waxen trail]

Ngl I imagine Alex and his team rated my game lower than the average rater but it is what it is

[placid salmon]

But just finishing a game and sharing it with people to get feedback is a win in my opinion.

[past meadow]

Yeah, I just finished rewatching that portion of the VOD before joining live

[waxen trail]

Still fun stream and was cool seeing him check out branching paths and enjoying it (Shard's game)

[south hazel]

game
complete a very difficult boss fight
chose not to hug

[hasty drift]

i was the last game that got the ratings shown, definitely does not look good for me

[past meadow]

I am so salty they rated 4 for visuals

[tame rapids]

no audio when clicking on characters smh

[sour horizon]

hearing the team discussing points in the bg is like an exam committee

[waxen trail]

-1000 ratings for that

[nimble dew]

Many videos talk about them as a learning experience. I see a big value in developing mechanics and testing game design ideas in a smaller scope to maybe put into bigger games later.

[rotund rampart]

ahaha

[south hazel]

i wasted hours to get that ending

gonna waste hours more to get that other ending

[lament ermine]

least dedicated neuro fan

[waxen trail]

Damn but I'm sure other people's rating of your game will cancel that out

(Cuz it's gud)

[rotund rampart]

I gave you a 5

[waxen trail]

HOW?

How tf can you rate that 4 for visuals lmao

[tame rapids]

WHAT

[waxen trail]

Ok ban Alex

[south hazel]

here we go again

[tame rapids]

it's literary one of the best looking

[rotund rampart]

probably being ~~petty ~~ thorough with the overlapping visuals in places like the blender etc

[hasty drift]

alex really does not like tower defense games, after wave 10 closed the game and said it takes too long But I guess he is right, TD games are not as time per input engaging as other games

[waxen trail]

It's a jam though

[lament ermine]

what is considered 5 stars in visuals if not that

[past meadow]

I was so happy to work with my favourite artists from the community, and they did such a good job, thank you for rating it

[rotund rampart]

I can see some people giving - points whenever there is a visual bug

[waxen trail]

It was a bit slow but in a chill way, I could listen to something else and add tower and stuff. I enjoyed it a bunch either way

[limpid osprey]

He expects unreal 5.5

[lavish escarp]

lemme check what i gave pub

[hasty drift]

I am someone who plays idle/clicker games so yea, some other people who hate the genre would call all the games i play boring

[lament ermine]

now I'm anxious about what he'll think about our game

[hasty drift]

he finished all the other games so dont worry

[lament ermine]

blobsweat~1

[tame rapids]

their game (though can't lie, SADecsSs carries)

[rotund rampart]

something like this I mean, I can see some people just giving -1 if they're strict

[lament ermine]

nahhh, that's stupidly strict, I never even noticed that

[rotund rampart]

I mean given the timeframe, its 100% ignorable

[lament ermine]

or thought it was a problem

[rotund rampart]

in the end its up to the voter y'know

[hasty drift]

for some games, i dont know how graphically to improve them for their ratings justify a 5*. most games have all their art and sprites and animations done in 3 days like ours

[lament ermine]

I thought it was a feature

[lament ermine]

true

[lavish escarp]

i personally fucked up by fucking up the scale of some sprites compared to others

[rotund rampart]

that green car in the blue void

[waxen trail]

I guess some players are always going to have preferences towards certain types of gameplay but I think your game didn't have pacing issues at all

[lament ermine]

our artists cooked

[lavish escarp]

thats mr beans car actually i was under the assumption most people would notice

[rotund rampart]

couldn't tell haha

[waxen trail]

I also loved the music in your game

[rotund rampart]

not a fan of mr bean enough

everyone did great!

[lament ermine]

sound designers also cooked, I had no idea they were that good

[hasty drift]

we will see when rating period ends your game will be very high on the fun rating scale

[tame rapids]

true

[waxen trail]

I hope so!! but if not I'll know to blame Alex

[hasty drift]

yes, keep calm and blame alex, i will join you

[rotund rampart]

this scene was done in a few hours

[hasty drift]

alex will add +1 graphics point just for the barrel roll

[rotund rampart]

its so messy

[waxen trail]

Will have to add Alex as a character as revenge it's the only way

[rotund rampart]

I highly doubt its possible to get a 5 if @past meadow got a 4

haha

[hasty drift]

time to make a cringe ship fanfic for alex next year as revenge Kappa

[waxen trail]

Or alternatively... make a really good one like Soda

[hasty drift]

voidtuber character would go well for your game tho

[hasty drift]

it was so good, alex played it TWICE!

[tame rapids]

i mean, he played for quite a while and even came back to it

[rotund rampart]

the writing in Soda's game is SO good

[waxen trail]

Alex type voidtuber would work honestly

Yeah that game's writing is fantastic

Perfect balance of code and romance leaving you begging for more

[lament ermine]

now I HAVE to play that game

[waxen trail]

It's so gud

[hasty drift]

alex was stronger than me, i quit the game ||when i saw the socks|| but he came back for more after that

[south hazel]

finally i beat the game

i actually raged bro

i swear

😭

[waxen trail]

The ||socks|| were the best part

Writing so good it made LuDeRu quit in horror, actual masterpiece

[waxen trail]

Congrats

[hasty drift]

i never play visual novels, and the writing made my cringe, shrinking together in my seat, i cant handle that degree of fictional boylove shipping
but one saw that the game maker clearly did his research or remember that moment from like 2 years ago and interpreted that in a very shippy fandom way

[lament ermine]

hmm...

[waxen trail]

I can see why you feel that way, I kinda just perceived it as a really elaborate high effort joke and it worked really well in that context

Cringe writing just means it was effective

Okok sorry I'm defending it too much lmao

[hasty drift]

maybe i am way too emotional and thats why overreact lol. Life makes me cry every time

many will rate it super high just to troll alex, alex lowkey wanted to disqualify the game

[tardy geyser]

it is a banger, very emotional

[hasty drift]

i am one of the other 100 submissions that used life in some way for their game, i know not really creative, but the song just hits 👍

[tardy geyser]

petition to add humor as a category next jam

[waxen trail]

I am kinda against humor as an actual category because it'd mean that games have to implement humor (meaning, horror will lose out on that category)

[hasty drift]

yea more rating parameters might be good. like, there is no story parameter? but adding that implies that your game HAS to have a story. but i think ppl dont implement it in the fun category, just the gameplay

[waxen trail]

But if it was a bonus category that doesn't apply to the actual ranking

So you still have top humor but without affecting jam overall rating that would be gud

[tardy geyser]

yeah, i was joking. it would encourage too many meme submissions i'd think

[lament ermine]

god this would be peak content if Vedal played it on stream

[waxen trail]

Unless... we do one small jam with all meme submissions

[hasty drift]

alex told vedal to not play this game at any cost (serious)

[hasty drift]

eliv birthday 1 1/2 day game jam lesgooo

[lament ermine]

wonder if that's going to make Vedal play it just to spite Alex, reverse psychology moment

[south hazel]

i did try to speedrun it but they were too many bullets

[warm gale]

We should have added raytracing and a huge explosion to get a 5 😔

[hasty drift]

it will mentally scar vedal just as much as alex

[rotund rampart]

give us a programmer category somehow haha

[waxen trail]

It's actually criminal that it'd be rated a 4 on visuals imo

[lament ermine]

I would pay for that content

[south hazel]

well its too late

i already beat the game anywya

[rotund rampart]

makes me glad he didnt play my game HAHA

[south hazel]

i finished playing that game

it was good yea

[waxen trail]

Yeah Branching Paths is fantastic

[hasty drift]

thats also what alex said, branching paths is a sweep like shards game from last year

[south hazel]

oh for fucks sake lemme edit

[hasty drift]

classic

[waxen trail]

Have you played my game? it's Sea of Memories

[tardy geyser]

genuinely i think every game i've played so far had considerable effort in them

sorted by random

so either i got really lucky or you guys really cooked hard

[rotund rampart]

play mine! it's pretty short haha

[waxen trail]

Neurojammers cook every year

[hasty drift]

there were very few with little effort but generally, when people take their time for a 3 day jam, they put in effort

#1 community after all

[waxen trail]

Least dedicated community

[lament ermine]

I am dying playing this game

[rotund rampart]

which one

[lament ermine]

the soda one

[rotund rampart]

YES

[waxen trail]

YES

[hasty drift]

have you seen what the swarm did in the comment section of the last tweet twitch did?

[rotund rampart]

that's the funniest game

[tacit wasp]

That's the normal way to play this game

[signal monolith]

They havent played mine yet, right?

[rotund rampart]

sounds like I gotta join in

[hasty drift]

they havent yet

[waxen trail]

I hope they destroy Twitch ngl

[tacit wasp]

Alex is playing by most popular too?

[hasty drift]

nope. by what chat says or what gets recommended. some from people that did comment on their game

[rotund rampart]

seems like he's just picking stuff he wants to play

oh that makes sense

[hasty drift]

retrospectively, was bad decision to mention my game

[tacit wasp]

Damn, I have doubts he will play mine then

[waxen trail]

Alex rated abandoned pub 4 on visuals so might not be the kindest rater

[rotund rampart]

he's a harsh critic, you don't want the bad score on your sheet haha

[tacit wasp]

Oh shit

[hasty drift]

my average was 2*

[native chasm]

this one was so ing long

[waxen trail]

HOW

[hasty drift]

he did not like it

[waxen trail]

Wtf

[tacit wasp]

Oh yeah
The atmosphere and the ending is so good but the character so slow

[hasty drift]

Alex rating is harsh and i had the TD game debuff

it just be like that, no hard feelings

[hasty drift]

[rotund rampart]

post this on the twitch post

gogo

[south hazel]

💀

[lament ermine]

bandicam!?

[native chasm]

which ones did Alex play?

[hasty drift]

#2024-game-jam message

[lament ermine]

the first game he played was Vedal's Secret

[rotund rampart]

I gave you a 4 average

[hasty drift]

its definitely his favourite

[hasty drift]

[rotund rampart]

kinda hard to live up to that

no wonder everyone else had such low scores

[native chasm]

how did he rate tutel rancher?

[hasty drift]

uhh i cant remember but i think creativity was 5 or 4?

[south hazel]

obs lags with the games i play so i had no choice

[rotund rampart]

did you actually record every single one?

[hasty drift]

they kinda rated creativity higher on game genres they dont know. they seem to not know rancher type of games

[lament ermine]

damn, but cool tho

[rotund rampart]

I feel like I gave 5 to creativity so often

with how creative some of these games are

[south hazel]

yea every single neuro jam game i played so far

[native chasm]

oh wait, next one for me is crazy robot body, nice

[buoyant flower]

I do love when a game predicts what happened to the subathon

[south hazel]

then i delete the recording for disk space

[rotund rampart]

99999 is still too low

[native chasm]

hopefully it won't take 35 minutes with basically 3 minutes of gameplay

[rotund rampart]

should've added another 9

[rotund rampart]

oh that game is a platformer hack and slash

[buoyant flower]

Rated! 🙂
I guess you did not get a WebGL version working?

[lament ermine]

anyone have links to Vedal playing games

[waxen trail]

What's the game called? maybe I could try it out later too

[lament ermine]

I already watched him play pub

[tawdry apex]

unlucky, though I'm suprised other software runs better

[rotund rampart]

oh did someone say plug

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3213059

[buoyant flower]

Plugging their game: https://g0urm3t.itch.io/neuro-sama-remnants-of-the-subathon

[waxen trail]

Thank you for the link!!

[rotund rampart]

you got outplugged

[lament ermine]

https://voidbois.itch.io/troubleshooting popularity is dropping bois, gotta get those numbers up

[lament monolith]

What is secure pack?

[rotund rampart]

finally got to 60
woohoo

[lament monolith]

Yeah but for what reason

[buoyant flower]

Seems like I need to plug my game.

[fleet goblet]

For your game?

[lament ermine]

still double ours

[past meadow]

[rotund rampart]

I plug harder

[fleet goblet]

The characters and the background look like they come from different games

[signal monolith]

https://itch.io/jam/neuro/rate/3211560
Imma plug mine

[lament ermine]

I agree

[rotund rampart]

I do get quite a few non jam participants playing my game though, so I'm happy that people actually enjoy the short fluffy story in my game

[native chasm]

literally playing it rn lol

[past meadow]

Yeah, I am not saying that you should've given us 5/5, I am just salty you didn't

[lament ermine]

same