[unofficial] Neuro-Sama Game Jam 3

[hot trench]

Since Vedal isn't organizing one, we decided to do a community driven one instead, so welcome to the [unofficial] third Neuro-Sama Game Jam!
https://itch.io/jam/neuro3u

@torn summit @vestal hazel @austere hatch @heavy socket @icy arrow @tulip void @alpine whale @devout torrent @hoary yoke @frigid violet @reef bobcat @finite urchin @rich glacier @wide fiber @restive bloom @strange lichen @devout timber

[wild grove]

join the https://discord.com/channels/574720535888396288/574720535888396292 for theme wheel

[alpine whale]

[reef bobcat]

[hot trench]

the theme is paradox

[wild grove]

Good luck boys

[tame cairn]

I just joined voice randomly didn't even know this would happen.

[reef bobcat]

it

[tame cairn]

ANd thwn people started joining in droves

[reef bobcat]

is time to make a game now

good luck Blehh

[alpine whale]

time

[tame cairn]

[frigid violet]

can't wait to be top 20

[tame cairn]

I have no idea what's happeninf

[hot trench]

[tame cairn]

Oh wait

[wild grove]

it is now 21 atm, one person won't be top 20

[tame cairn]

[wild grove]

[hot trench]

[tame cairn]

I am dumb and blind

bruh

I can't make games

[hot trench]

lmao

[tame cairn]

[hot trench]

how did you even get here then?

[tame cairn]

I literally dont know programming

[wild grove]

sending this because it is only fair everyone has access

[dense folio]

they joined the vc randomly and then got linked here by me.. that how

[tame cairn]

I joined voice and then people started appearing left and right

[tame cairn]

Yes

That ois just what happened

but i joined in before

[wild grove]

another new soul, we are at 10% increase

[tame cairn]

everyomne

that scared me

like a jumop scare

i am eww eww people

i guess i am n then

time to find out how to make games then

[steel ore]

Hello I hope the game jam goes well
If anyone wants Neuro vocals or something NeuroSynth exists so just let me know

[frail brook]

how does it work?

itch io is just a platform to share the game? you dont develop it somewhere in it?

[icy arrow]

itch.io is for submission, you can develop it in any game engine you wish

[wild grove]

you yeet the project files into the upload button

[steel ore]

Wouldn't it be the compiled game you put there?

[hot trench]

ye

[wild grove]

browser has some web packaging sam is better at that one than I am

[hot trench]

im also bad it tbf

just not as bad

[frail brook]

there is 1gb limit when you upload files

pretty big

[steel ore]

Meanwhile average UE5 game

[wild grove]

beat me to the joke

[devout timber]

paradox...

[austere hatch]

I don't think I'll submit a game this time x.x

[devout timber]

i'll try to cook something

[dense folio]

paradox is such a difficult theme for me.. since i can't logically think about it because its the exact opposite of logic...

[austere hatch]

Good luck everyone, I'll play the games submitted even if I don't join the jam

[hot trench]

true

[devout timber]

my brain is loading

[hot trench]

let me put the theme on the jam page actually

eh

good enough

i cant figure ut how the itch text stuff works

[dense folio]

i think i got my idea.... time to make the game

[alpine whale]

same tbh, I and team wanted to make jrpg but it's kinda hard to implement with the theme

[true flume]

You have unlocked new role

[devout timber]

i dont have any ideas yet

[dense folio]

i mean.. it could just be a narrative theme. doesn't have to have mechanical implications

[frail brook]

these can be used right?

[alpine whale]

yeah, maybe, i just dont want it to look stretched

though maybe there is nothing wrong with it, hm

[devout timber]

i think i have an idea...

this might work might not also

[hot trench]

i think so ye

[hot trench]

goodluck

[wild grove]

The author did say they are free to be used by all yeah

[icy arrow]

would you guys say that a game themed around contradictions works well enough for paradox? as I'm struggling to get something around it since paradoxes by definition cannot be implemented :D

[reef bobcat]

Go for it

[frigid violet]

After 1h30 of brainstorming we have a, I would say, good vision of how our game should be like

[vestal hazel]

I wonder if neurosoda is going to join since they are back

[dense folio]

a contradiction is a paradox in itself in my opinion

[alpine whale]

no, if steve says that sky is red and you see that it's blue it's contradiction but not paradox

but it would be paradox if steve founded his argument so well you'd believe it's red (even though it's obviously blue but you cant logically prove it's not red)

[icy arrow]

the problem is that you can describe a paradox but you cannot implement it. So it's all well and good saying that you can just make your argument that the sky is red really good, but you never actually prove it is.

[dense folio]

i got a question if this counts as a paradox: you interacting with your past version and making sure to not mess up what happened in the past

[devout timber]

straight up, a paradox is a contradiction, "less is more", "this statement is a lie"

something like that

[reef bobcat]

I think it also applies to things that appear to be contradictory

[devout timber]

yup

[dense folio]

but also... theme is just one of the categories. so if you can't think of something still make a game that maybe doesn't include paradox at all just to submit something. getting the experience is more worth than trying everything to stick perfectly to the theme

[alpine whale]

well, sometimes it's not about experience but doing something good

it's not like I want to do masterpiece for gamejam it's just more fun to come up with something under rules

[wild grove]

Paradox in terms of time travel I believe is changing the past in a way to where the event that caused the time travel to occur no longer happens.

[dense folio]

exactly so if you need to keep track of the past and make sure a paradox doesn't happen that is still inline with the theme right?

[wild grove]

That is correct, but on the other hand. There is nothing stopping you from exploring what happens due to a paradox

[dense folio]

my brain already melts with my idea... i don't want to go down that path even more than i need to

i also had a idea where you could modify the properties of objects in a room and your goal was to create a paradox to "crash" the puzzle to proceed.... but that seemed too difficult to implement in 3 days

[wild grove]

This is just me, Honestly paradoxes are quite light compared some of the other things I tend to think about

which yeah... Puts me into extreme deranged catagory

[devout timber]

i think i have enough time to make my idea work but it might be tight

[wild grove]

It's a tough theme honestly

If I were running I'd be batting overscope and lack of game engine experince

[reef bobcat]

I do that every jam

Overscope

[dense folio]

ah yes.. the classic "lets just make a roguelike with 300 items" type of overscope

but not overscoping is a good trait you'll learn from doing a bunch of game jams.... will help with a bunch of stuff

[wild grove]

-# In context to this, I for some ungodly reason decided to try and take a lot of media and various concepts of magic, sci-fi, and other things and attempt to align all of them to work together. So deranged is an understatement.

[reef bobcat]

I worry if I don't push my limits I'll end up making something bland and uinteresting

[wild grove]

The issue is that it is working well I can quite literally apply magic to sci-fi and vice versa

[wide fiber]

Mhm looks like the motherboard died in my notebook...

[wild grove]

[rich glacier]

why did discord decide to show me the ping only now

[wild grove]

I got no damn idea

discord works in weird ways

[molten wing]

bro the theme is unusable

[icy arrow]

I have to agree here. I've been trying for 3 hours but I've got absolutely nothing that can count as a paradox without just being a simple contradiction.

[strange lichen]

same. My ideas either require the game solving the halting problem every frame or they are so boring that I don't even want to playtest the thing

[dense folio]

just don't overthink it... what you think of paradox can be something different than others think of it. or you can stretch the definition a lot...

[icy arrow]

But a paradox is a well-defined thing. There isn't exactly much to interpret

And it is by definition, incomputable.

[primal crow]

idk most uses of the word in daily life are gross exageration by people who dont know the meaning of the word, i'd argue it's fine to see it in the broadest possible sense

[dense folio]

it could also be something related to paradox it doesn't have to be the exact meaning

[primal crow]

there's no matchmaking forum, right? im trying to make a kind of VN with little RTS minigames interacting with the twitch API, but I could really use some help to make something pretty and polished lol id like to focus on the writing and the API interaction. the code is https://github.com/yo252yo/noeyes its all very basic html, feel free to shoot me a message if you're interested. the paradox theme is the twist of the story though so pretty light admittedly

[wild grove]

The only matchmaking forum would be here, best of luck

I wish we had more time to leave this up, but kinda missed on the idea of using a seperate fourm thread to let some other people know

[devout timber]

6 hrs has passed goodluck everyone

[frail brook]

If i got it correctly all you need to do is somehow explain how your game relates to the theme.
First time i participate in a game jam but i think it would be logical that not every game has theme as its main course and follows it so straightforward that nobody can have doubt that its 100% within the theme

And paradox is such a vague word you can put almost anything into it

[wild grove]

Man it is a paradox that this was submitted on time

[steel ore]

I wonder if anyone will find a NeuroSynth usecase

[tulip void]

game based around a fake neuro

[languid orchid]

om

[hot trench]

Contradiction works i think

[languid orchid]

paradoxes is a form of contradiction so surely it works

[hot trench]

Yes

Time paradox

https://tenor.com/view/okabe-rintarou-steins-gate-s-g-anime-gif-3188468857373972059

[hot trench]

Id make a couple cool shaders to simulate the universe collapsing in on itself in the 4th dimension

[hot trench]

If you're late just ping us and we'll see what we can do

I think its fine to stretch the deadline maybe an hour if need be

[hot trench]

Dont overthink it

Contradiction fits

[hot trench]

[frigid violet]

got my first unity crash of the year

[devout timber]

Taking a ton of time but i think im progressing well

[tame cairn]

I give up.

[devout timber]

[reef bobcat]

am also progressing

[still canopy]

ahhhh I just saw this, is it too late??

[dense folio]

you still got 2 full days

[steel ore]

Hello I hope the game jam goes well
Reminder that you can just let me know if you need some sort of Neuro or Evil vocals

[still canopy]

ah... alright. Might not be enough time, but I'll talk to some others in case they still wanna go at it
Was this gamejam advertised anywhere? I didn't see it

[dense folio]

it was basically only talked and advertised in #1336984748882399242 since its kinda unofficial

this thread was made 8 minutes before it started because noone had thought of making a new thread of it until then

[still canopy]

oh jeez, no wonder I didn't hear about it then...

not sure if we have enough time at this point but the team I was in from last year might try and make something for this, we were hoping there would be a gamejam this year again, lol

[devout timber]

the theme is paradox

so far i have completed 3 out of the 7 enemies im making, i hope i have enough time to finish everything

[dense folio]

i still haven't finished the main mechanics... but progress is slowly in the making

[reef bobcat]

I've been programming, 3d modelling, and making 2d art

it's a bit much

little sneak peak of what we've been cooking

[dense folio]

i guess here is a little sneak peak/spoiler for mine..

[tame cairn]

Yep

I made the correct choice

I should be studying mathematics instead of programming for three days

[lethal geode]

Wait, there's an (unofficial) game jam?

I was working on a game just for the fun of it, didn't know there was an actual game jam, official or not

Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to enter what I'm working on because it would be impossible at this point to incorporate the theme

[frigid violet]

ya it was not really advertised bc... unofficial

btw But bruh I lost 1h bc of unity once again
IDK why but I could not click ui buttons. Nuked and pull back my project and it work again

[steel ore]

Sily

Classic Unity scuff

[frigid violet]

ya

[devout timber]

[reef bobcat]

55 textures!?

[devout timber]

im gonna take a risk and take a nap, i only slept for 2 hours for the entire jam so im gonna hit the hay

goodlucks everyone

[wild grove]

Goodluck to everyone

[hasty plinth]

this is cool!

[wild grove]

instead of doing a game I'm... uhhhhh... my brain putting me to work thinking on how one optimizes raytracing in a custom enviroment while being close to clueless on the exact methods one does to achieve that.

[frigid violet]

dialogue graph of the first dialogue

[hot trench]

[devout timber]

you guys wont hate me if i end up making a rage game right

its a bullet hell roguelike

[hot trench]

go ahead

[primal crow]

in honor of this double record im really pushing myself lol

[true flume]

You have unlocked new role

[wild grove]

care to share some progress You now have that abillity

[dense folio]

i'll be honest i was way to distracted by the train, i lost like 9 hours of time to it... gonna take a nap and then grind. till its over. got basically all main mechanics done.

[hot trench]

have a good nap

[vestal hazel]

I don’t think I will be able to finish

[devout timber]

Ganbatte

I still need to code 3 more enemies and draw 4, also the background as well

[devout timber]

we at the final stretch, goodluck everyone

10 hrs left

[languid orchid]

gl to all contestants!!!

[thorn turtle]

Good lucky to you all with that, Shad

[alpine whale]

took a little nap yesterday and woke up 9 hours before deadline

gonna finish that buggy code (todaaaay~)

[devout timber]

Wip

[hot trench]

If you cant finish in time but its still reasonably close, just ping me and ill try to add it still

If need be ill extend the deadline a bit

[devout timber]

[dense folio]

i think im overcooking with my game.. i wouldn't be surprised if some will need like an hour to finish my game (or maybe im just cooked )

[devout timber]

I have about 15 mins of gameplay for this, i think you cooked amazingly

[dense folio]

the main issue i see with my game will be that it might be too frustrating to actually finish so people just drop it halfway through

[devout timber]

mine too

more progress

[hot trench]

[steel ore]

Hello I hope the game jam goes well
Here's your reminder you can make use of NeuroSynth if you want

[reef bobcat]

spoiler (I redacted important bits)

our game is definitely a little undercooked... probably scoped for a week long project instead of 3 days

but I learnt a bit so am happy

CerberCozy

[hot trench]

i feel like if we give some people extra time we should make it fair for everyone and jsut extend it

[dense folio]

make it 2 hours because 126 (hypetrain record) minutes is about 2 hours

[devout timber]

3 hrs left

i only have to make 1 more enemy then im done

[hot trench]

the median, the avarage, and the actual winner are all 2 hours

so im adding 2 hours

[hot trench]

5 hours left

[still canopy]

hi Vovgus!!

[devout timber]

[dense folio]

the extra time gonna allow me to polish the game more... also i managed to complete my game for the first time now. the puzzle is wacky but it works

[reef bobcat]

my gh when I game jam be like

[leaden pebble]

I didn't know there was a community game-jam...

[primal crow]

ive submitted an entry and i think it worked because it now says "submission to the jam" on the game page, but i didnt get the form to explain the link to the subject or to declare the use of AI or whatever I could have sworn there was a form, did it go away when extending the deadline?

[hot trench]

we might have forgotten to add that or didnt do it correctly

oh

my fields dissapeared

eh its fine probably

i probably didnt set it up correctly when makign the page

should probably get someone who know what they're doing next time to set it up

[frail brook]

there was "has ai output" checkbox for me

or something like that

[primal crow]

to be honest i was more interested in explaining how the game relates to paradox than specifying exacly where the screen was relative to all the neurons collaborating to the project ^^

paradox is related to my ending so it's easy to miss

[devout timber]

IM DONE

[steel ore]

Rare Scratch user spotted

[devout timber]

hi am a scratch dum dum

[steel ore]

Sily

[devout timber]

itch isnt loading

[primal crow]

scratch is fiiine i am raw html and javascript xD

[devout timber]

im pretty sure java and html is a couple leagues higher than scratch

itch isnt allowing me to set the game to browser

nvm i figured it out

[steel ore]

Javascript, not Java
They're completely different

[devout timber]

finally submitted

[reef bobcat]

we submitted as well!

still wanna do some extra stuff tho

if not for 2 hr extension it would been very close kek

[dense folio]

submitted too... im gonna use the last 2 hours to play through it once more and make some transitions smoother

[wild grove]

I can vouch for it being empty as well, got no idea why it wouldn't be accepting it

[hot trench]

[wild grove]

I know because I filled it out again

[dense folio]

man.. i know i need to finish playing my game again to see if everything actually works.. but its so difficult that i don't know if i can finish it in time

[devout timber]

sry did something happen to the video while i wasnt looking

[frigid violet]

I love ui

[devout timber]

if so my bad

[hot trench]

oh

the twitch embed has indeed gone to the shadow realm

[wild grove]

[hot trench]

oh

its back

[primal crow]

ok afaict my entry is submitted and relatively stable. there are a few features that are sliding into the "post launch patch" but it should be ready now. i want to finish said extra features but tbh i spent more time fighting technology than actually making games during this jam so i really need to sleep. i really hate what we've done to technology =x looking forward to checking out all your games

[devout timber]

Gg guys, its really fun, im gonna play the games tom when i wake up cuz its am for me rn

[hot trench]

forgot to press numlock

[reef bobcat]

https://voidbois.itch.io/neuro-seeks-a-life

[dense folio]

https://adesi.itch.io/neural-shadow i think im quite happy with this version and was also able to finish it...

but i did notice there was no field for me to explain why it fits to the theme.... when i submitted

should we just write that in the description?

[hot trench]

maybe ye

[devout timber]

Nvm i was just dum and didnt send anything here

Teaser

[dense folio]

damn... actual audio. im cooked

[reef bobcat]

fr fr

[dense folio]

tho beyond that im honestly quite surprised with how polished i managed to make my game might be my most complete gamejam game

[alpine whale]

dam, 40 minutes left and I got no playable build yet

it's pretty sad, I think I'm gonna give up

[hot trench]

[alpine whale]

it's a little bit embarrasing, I spend too much time drawing sprites

[frigid violet]

not me just finding I forgot to add open/close sound for 1 door

[wild grove]

anyone else need sprites for the title screen

[frail brook]

7 entries

(idk if its a lot )

[alpine whale]

I was gonna make small jrpg game with

the right one is vedal hiding his bald head with carton wig

[hot trench]

you can still release it seperatly, or if its not too late we can manually add it to the entries

[alpine whale]

nah, it's far too unfinished

i think i wanted to make too much with too few time

[frigid violet]

nobody else than us released a linux build

[wild grove]

[reef bobcat]

-# us too

Our game was meant to have multiple date-able girls

The game concept we ran with was "Neuro searches for an answer to Fermi's paradox while also dating personifications of famous paradoxes"

[frail brook]

i was thinking about it but it said "must be playable in browser or on windows"

[wild grove]

Something I want to try doing for this jam is seeing if I can create a game launcher for all of the games. I think it'd be a fun side-project. As a way to still participate despite not having an entry. Not sure if I'll be able to pull it off to the degree I'd want to tho.

[reef bobcat]

Ooh

[wild grove]

linux is for style points

[reef bobcat]

That sounds cool

Our windows build is 200 mb though

[hot trench]

not me and iggly being 7 months deep into what should have been a 1 week game-jam 😭

[wild grove]

macos decreases the style point counter

[frigid violet]

I remember previous game jam game using godot [edit: our game] working better under proton than native linux bc ? idk

[alpine whale]

you use godot under proton? Why?

[frail brook]

yeah i have ubuntu in wsl but idk if it would need some setup to test the game

it probably would work since that chess program worked

[frigid violet]

wanted to test window build in my linux

[alpine whale]

ah, I misread

i thought you used it to run engine

[frigid violet]

oh no

[wild grove]

The only thing I'd want to do is not half ass it by just making a generic launcher, So I'd want to use sprites/backgrounds from each title. I got an particular inspiration in mind but probably lack the coding skills to actually pull it off.

Wine I swear to frick

[primal crow]

i usually do a built for everyone since its only html but all the browser are building strong protections against local websites so it became too complicated

[wild grove]

one bashing the system to work later (and downloading the Friday Night Funkin' mod) This is what I first thought of

I think this still has wine issues but pretend it is correct

[icy arrow]

has a linux port...
uses a .zip instead of .tar.gz

[frigid violet]

I did think about using .tag.gz ngl told myself "nah"

[thorn turtle]

Hiiii Shad

[hot trench]

[devout timber]

sir phanta, is it much better if i download the game instead of browser?

[reef bobcat]

It is a little better

[devout timber]

[devout timber]

ADESI YOU COOKED

[languid orchid]

reminder that judging period is now on! you have ~6 days to judge each other's entries and give them a 1-5 rating on the 5 categories: Theme, Fun, Visuals & Art Style, Audio, Creativity & Innovation.
Once the judging period is over, each submission will be ranked!
the winner of the game jam will get... I actually don't know, @hot trench what was the prize?

[hot trench]

I think it was like 10 bucks or something

Idk how ill end up paying it tho

[languid orchid]

I'll see if I can throw something in as well but no promises

(probably can't)

[hot trench]

[hot trench]

oh ye

that was still there

[frail brook]

okay i have only 1 game left to try and 2 to finish

cant find time because want to watch the subathon

[dense folio]

same.. im gonna play everything tomorrow i think, and rate them

[neat plinth]

I have finished rating every game

[devout timber]

[devout timber]

you can even put in viewers

this game is fun

[frigid violet]

I want to rate everytame but after my exams

[reef bobcat]

I have to catch up on my comms

[dense folio]

alright i finished playing all of them and rated them all

[devout timber]

I only have to do 2 more but i injured myself so im kinda still healing

[frail brook]

finished
good games i had fun

time to sleep

[languid orchid]

might be softlocked in a game

oh nevermind I think I'm just stupid lmao

[devout timber]

[frail brook]

i really should have made web version of the game
its much more convenient

[languid orchid]

yea and also I don't want to run it on my computer

[frail brook]

well now i know
surely there will be next time

[dense folio]

web builds are always preferred. mostly due to malware, since even if you don't want to spread malware there could have been something sneaked into it

[languid orchid]

I'm pretty sure you can restrict platform uploads

need to double check though

Also, it means that your game is playable on all platforms

do we want to host an evil game jam or just do neuro?

@hot trench @wild grove

[hot trench]

both of us are watching s;g rn

give us an hour or 2

[frail brook]

I just read the rules and it said "windows or web" so i chose the one i know will 100% work

[languid orchid]

wtf is s;g

[hot trench]

steins gate

[languid orchid]

ah

[dense folio]

its fine generally. just something you generally do for gamejams. because you want to make it as easy as possible to play. having to download something is one more hurdle which will make people take more time and might make them consider playing everything else first

[rough sand]

Best show btw

[languid orchid]

Also forgot to do the halfway reminder

:neuroDinkDonk: only 2 days and 13 hours left to rate games!

[wild grove]

I've not done any game rating

[hot trench]

ye me neither

ill have time in february maybe

[wild grove]

I didn't know you were also based, I'm still on my first watchthrough

[hot trench]

thats mostly cuz i want it to be accesible to most people

i myself have no problems with running a linux

[rough sand]

https://tenor.com/view/kurisu-makise-kurisu-christina-assistant-steins-gate-gif-10614139948196234699

[hot trench]

my bad

[wild grove]

I'm almost considering it due to how much of a dumpster fire this has been. However that isn't my offical word on it, I'm just thinking aloud.

[languid orchid]

I think the same (also speaking "off-the-record" so to say)

[hot trench]

i think if we do an evil jam to we gotta get an arrangement with a mod or the tutel for how we are allowed to advertise this

id say we wait for the subathon to be over and then we could get in contact with them on it

[devout timber]

since gamejam is almost over, heres all the sprites i made

[languid orchid]

oh shoot I forgot

DinkDonk LAST DAY (kinda)

[devout timber]

1 day + 8 hrs

[devout timber]

[frigid violet]

Ono I will likely not be able to rate all game in time
-# I will still play all of them after (edit: there a chance I can !)

[upbeat sapphire]

Shame I just realized this was here, dont think id get a lot done in 1 day.

[hot trench]

the jam itself is already over

its jsut the voting left

[languid orchid]

speaking of, <24h left to rate games!

been a bit busy so idt I was able to rate many games

[languid orchid]

<12 hours remaining for rating!

[frigid violet]

Could I request a 2h extension to the rating period I should be able to finish rating all game tonight
-# sorry btw

[wild grove]

I'll see if I can

2h have been added

[devout timber]

dude the paradoxs game, i thought i had to change my device time im so dum

[frail brook]

Yeah its paradox

You dont know what is what

Also that game looked different in full screen and non-full screen

I forgot which is which

But one melt my eyes and another was great

[reef bobcat]

Probably ours

[devout timber]

with all due respect, your game was fun af

[reef bobcat]

the full screen thingy, our web version didn't work well non-full screen

[remote slate]

Fuck, that apply to all and that still a think?

[hot trench]

an hour left

[frigid violet]

thanks for the 2h extension was able to rate all

[remote slate]

Fuck. Okay, than no memes from my side, good luck to all.

[hot trench]

again i feel like i should specify

an hour left to vote

[tulip void]

raise the timer

[reef bobcat]

results are out!

[hot trench]

lets see

@primal crow

you won

i owe you 10 bucks

[reef bobcat]

✨

[hot trench]

[primal crow]

Wow wtf I didn't expect that xD thanks xD just give them to vedal lol it's OK I don't need money I just wanted to take part for the fun of it

[hot trench]

[reef bobcat]

BlankiERMs

[reef bobcat]

I suppose we archive this thread in a day or two?

[primal crow]

This was a really fun jam thanks everyone all the projects had a lot of interesting aspects!

[primal crow]

Something like that probably

[hot trench]

ye probably

ill let it live a day or 2 more cuz jam only jsut ended

[reef bobcat]

Had fun in this jam

Wanted more peeps to join in but there's always a next time

See you all in 12 months

[hot trench]

ill see what i can do about that

[remote slate]

I have to learn first

[languid orchid]

maybe don't close the thread unless you want a clean thread every time a jam starts

[hot trench]

i think a clean thread per jam would be better

[languid orchid]

probably

[wild grove]

@hot trench do not forget to actually ping people over to game dev general

[hot trench]

who am i supposed to ping?

[wild grove]

mb words

tell people that it exists

[hot trench]

[primal crow]

maybe you can look into scratch, it's designed to be super easy and you can do some really solid stuff with it, the game jam had an entry using it and I loved it xD but you can also look into the normal tools 🙂

ive been working on my game all week even after the game jam so I finally was able to push an update, id like to formally apologize to everyone who had to deal with the earlier scuffed physics engine and all its misinputs

[languid orchid]

what about donating bits to gamble the message being shown on a neuro stream?

something like "we had a game jam about you and yo252yo won the jam" and whatever

idk how the bits economy works on stream srry

[hot trench]

i emailed the turtle about game jam stuff. i dont want to get in trouble for self-promotion or whatever

[remote slate]

I learn how to use that like in 6 class... I try one time unity, but something didn't work, because i use new version or smth, so, it is what it is.

[languid orchid]

oh true

[primal crow]

very smart!

[languid orchid]

what exactly was it about? just asking for permission for next time?

probably shouldn't ask in a public channel but

oops

[hot trench]

mainly jsut askign if we would be allowed to advertise tot he wider neuro community

[languid orchid]

oh ok

[wild grove]

in the best case, if swarm news is still going on... Wait a second

there is Swarm News Network

[austere hatch]

Congratulations everyone , I played all the games and they were cool despite the hard theme. I can see why yo252yo won, really creative and unique game, and the most polished. I liked Lusk game the most but I think it needed more time to polish the gameplay (too fast and few SFXs/game feel).
hopefully I can join next unofficial neuro jam if it happens, I am too busy working on my first steam release.

[languid orchid]

Whatcha thinking about that for?

[devout timber]

Gg wellplayed!!

Honestly i loved adesi's the most, i enjoy the puzzle and the paradox being part of the gameplay is awesome

Honestly everyone cooked here

I couldnt play evil tomato sadly because i ran out of time

Neurotic shadow won in my heart

amazing gameplay

[dense folio]

if i added audio i might have won.. i mean it is first place in 3 out of 5 categories.

[devout timber]

still cant believe i got that high on visuals

i was supposed to add an ending to my game to make it paradox related but guess i didnt have enough time to finish up

also it was around 3 am when the submission period got extended and i kinda just dropped into bed once i finished

tldr, android is sent from the future to steal/destroy neuro, if you destroy neuro, it resets and you didnt exist so the timeline resets, only way to stop the paradox is to spare all to fight the vedal bossfight and the game ends with a short text based cutscene

but i didnt have enough time for that

also the game being really fast paced is by design so my bad

oh yeah before the archive happens im gonna rant a little on the games i played

neuro seeks life, zero gravity spaceship game is cinema, more people need to make games with this baseline, floating inside a spaceship is really fun and should be done more in spaceship games, story was cinema too and i got kinda worried about the person getting mechanized too so i think you did well on the story

ship of neuro is awesome, also a kinda got a bit teary eyed? extremely nostalgic and while the puzzles sometimes connect eachother without me noticing i still had a ton of fun

neurotic shadow is a puzzle game so good i wish more people make games like this in this genre, the tutorialization is one of the best i have ever seen around the same level as the original pvz, you just play as neuro 1 and when you play neuro 2 and see neuro 1 moving around, you just get it, the puzzle is also really cool, although some might complain the level is too long, i think its just the fact that there are 5 clones moving around, if you ever get the chance to make an offshoot and make a game of your own with this concept i believe it has a shit ton of potential

paradocs is a game that played with me the same way i played "there is no game" it was fun trying to figure out all the puzzles and while i did get stuck on some (i got softlocked at one point ) i still had a really fun time trying to figure out all the things i have to do

i have no eyes and i must stream has the most interesting gameplay ever and i ended up just typing a bunch of names in the twitch system to see what pops up, sidenote i got a ton of vtubers, viewers and clippers streaming, story was amazing as well, seeing the player go into insanity was a neat little irl check for me

[languid orchid]

it made me go insane

[devout timber]

well sorry for the spam but these are my thoughts on all the games that i played, you all cooked so much and did such an amazing job, also im really bad at words so sorry if i didnt speak right

[rough sand]

Artwork is beautiful holy

[primal crow]

I think everyone is happy to receive your feedback especially when it's such kind words!

[languid orchid]

it was a good run

see you all on evil game jam (if that happens)

(psst @hot trench any updates on that?)

[frail brook]

[hot trench]

Lemme check my email

Nope

[languid orchid]

maybe we ask for a mod to be on the panel next time

if possible ofc