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Stabyourself.net Forums Game Jam 2014
So I suggested in the chat room that we have a game jam, and everyone seemed to really like that idea.
The jam ran from 12:00 PM (Midnight) Central Time on Saturday, October 11th to 11:59 PM Central Time on Sunday, October 12th.
This will gave participants 48 hours to create a functioning game.
You may use whatever programming language or game-creating program you want.
NAQ (Never Asked Questions):
How do I join?
You don't! The jam's over.
What's happening right now?
Just look right below to see the jam's current state:
Current Stage of Jam:
The jam is over!
renhoek is the winner, with Deep Colo!
Participants:
MagicPillow
renhoek
Turtle95
Mr.Q.Marx?
Alesan99
Automatik
Games:
MagicPillow - Color Quest (Fixed Version)
renhoek - Deep Colo
Turtle95 - Turtle95's game
Mr.Q.Marx? - Mr.Q.Marx?'s game
Alesan99 - Ball Factory PANIC
Automatik - Sudden Youth
So I suggested in the chat room that we have a game jam, and everyone seemed to really like that idea.
The jam ran from 12:00 PM (Midnight) Central Time on Saturday, October 11th to 11:59 PM Central Time on Sunday, October 12th.
This will gave participants 48 hours to create a functioning game.
You may use whatever programming language or game-creating program you want.
NAQ (Never Asked Questions):
How do I join?
You don't! The jam's over.
What's happening right now?
Just look right below to see the jam's current state:
Current Stage of Jam:
The jam is over!
renhoek is the winner, with Deep Colo!
Participants:
MagicPillow
renhoek
Turtle95
Mr.Q.Marx?
Alesan99
Automatik
Games:
MagicPillow - Color Quest (Fixed Version)
renhoek - Deep Colo
Turtle95 - Turtle95's game
Mr.Q.Marx? - Mr.Q.Marx?'s game
Alesan99 - Ball Factory PANIC
Automatik - Sudden Youth
Last edited by MagicPillow on 21 Oct 2014, 04:35, edited 10 times in total.
I'll hop on this train as well. It should be a blast!
- Mr.Q.Marx?
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Yep. In.
It'll probably be gamemaker but whateves.
It'll probably be gamemaker but whateves.
- HugoBDesigner
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As I said in the chat room as well, I'm in!
I'm joining. I might be busy on the weekend though.
why couldn't this be Halloween themed?
Because "halloween" isn't exactly going to give interesting game ideas?
- Mr.Q.Marx?
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I got some but the fact is, all our first thought was spooky themed platformer.
But 'Frogs' or 'Bread and Butter' totally will, right?Automatik wrote:Because "halloween" isn't exactly going to give interesting game ideas?
Also I'm gonna go learn a coding language so I can pwn you all with my l33t h4xxor skillz.
- MagicPillow
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Well, neither frogs nor bread & butter won.
Also, if Halloween was a choice, then it would've almost certainly won.
I wanted all the options to have a fair shot.
Also, if Halloween was a choice, then it would've almost certainly won.
I wanted all the options to have a fair shot.
- HugoBDesigner
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I'm afraid I won't have time to participate on this jam, since (SURPRISE!) my PC stopped working again. But, as common as it might sound, this time it wasn't because it is a bad PC, but because I've had problems with energy, as I said before in the Steam chat.
Also, even though I said I was going to participate, you didn't add my name. That's racist >:( (jk)
Also, even though I said I was going to participate, you didn't add my name. That's racist >:( (jk)
Forgot to post it there, but I'm participating.
Also here's the current state of my game : https://www.dropbox.com/s/4bn3v3s66kbzq ... .love?dl=0
Also here's the current state of my game : https://www.dropbox.com/s/4bn3v3s66kbzq ... .love?dl=0
- MagicPillow
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Sorry about it being so sudden. If there's another one, I'll be sure to give lots of time in advance.
The game looks interesting. I'll have to play it.
Also, you do know that you still have all day tomorrow to work on it, right?
The game looks interesting. I'll have to play it.
Also, you do know that you still have all day tomorrow to work on it, right?
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- MagicPillow
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Although I guess I could've made that clearer.MagicPillow wrote:The jam will run from 12:00 PM (Midnight) Central Time on Saturday, October 11th to 11:59 PM Central Time on Sunday, October 12th.
This will give participants 48 hours to create a functioning game.
Ok, I guess I have "finished" my game. I call it "Sudden Youth". It's could be made better, but at least I submitted within the times.
Arrow-keys/WASD/ZQSD to control the character, Press R if You're stuck.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzd6u0h6a0t1s ... .love?dl=0
Huge thanks to Renhoek and MM102 for feedback.
Arrow-keys/WASD/ZQSD to control the character, Press R if You're stuck.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzd6u0h6a0t1s ... .love?dl=0
Huge thanks to Renhoek and MM102 for feedback.
- Mr.Q.Marx?
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You have to pull people over for speeding. Due to anti-discrimination laws you have to have an equal number of people of each 'colour' on your arrest sheet.
A - skip, D - Stop or you could just click the buttons.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p1oiuv7ne116x ... x.zip?dl=0
A - skip, D - Stop or you could just click the buttons.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p1oiuv7ne116x ... x.zip?dl=0
I finished my game and like everyone, I had to cut out many features but I like how the game turned out.
Anyway, here it is, Ball Factory PANIC.
INSTUCTIONS:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gd3m52rakpxig ... .love?dl=0 (Use LÖVE 0.9.0)
Music from Vectorman and by Jon Holland
EDIT: Mute button changed to 0 and graphics updated a bit.
Anyway, here it is, Ball Factory PANIC.
INSTUCTIONS:
Music from Vectorman and by Jon Holland
EDIT: Mute button changed to 0 and graphics updated a bit.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/976 ... 02014.love
It has two levels. I barely had a lot of time to make them today due to work from 12pm-5pm. Ah well, I hope you guys enjoy it regardless that it's so short (and I probably could have reworked the graphics a bit.. but again, barely had the time). Anyway, I'm happy with how it turned out!
You're being experimented on with a new ability to shoot colors from .. thin air/your mind/etc. Basically you can't touch surfaces using your feet that are not the color of your shirt. If you do, you have to restart the level. You pass through Color Gates in order to change colors, and left click shoots the current color. A and D to move left/right and S to duck. W to enter elevators.
Also, use Love 0.9.1 (or 0.9.0) > http://love2d.org/
Another thing: Huge thanks to Mari0Maker for helping me find sprites for the player, sounds from bfxr, and overall putting up with me. Hans, Jeviny, and Chase also get credit for helping me with feedback on tiles, etc
It has two levels. I barely had a lot of time to make them today due to work from 12pm-5pm. Ah well, I hope you guys enjoy it regardless that it's so short (and I probably could have reworked the graphics a bit.. but again, barely had the time). Anyway, I'm happy with how it turned out!
You're being experimented on with a new ability to shoot colors from .. thin air/your mind/etc. Basically you can't touch surfaces using your feet that are not the color of your shirt. If you do, you have to restart the level. You pass through Color Gates in order to change colors, and left click shoots the current color. A and D to move left/right and S to duck. W to enter elevators.
Also, use Love 0.9.1 (or 0.9.0) > http://love2d.org/
Another thing: Huge thanks to Mari0Maker for helping me find sprites for the player, sounds from bfxr, and overall putting up with me. Hans, Jeviny, and Chase also get credit for helping me with feedback on tiles, etc
- MagicPillow
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I finished my game, and just in time!
You can play it by clicking on this sentence
EDIT: Updated the main post.
Don't forget to vote for your favorite once you've played them all.
You can play it by clicking on this sentence
EDIT: Updated the main post.
Don't forget to vote for your favorite once you've played them all.
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- Mr.Q.Marx?
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Yeah, on the chat room I also mentioned yours wouldn't open MP.
- MagicPillow
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I have no clue what was going on there
But I somehow managed to fix it.
Here it is.
I hope this works.
EDIT: Okay so I think that I FINALLY figured it out.
But I somehow managed to fix it.
Here it is.
I hope this works.
EDIT: Okay so I think that I FINALLY figured it out.
Hey, is there a bug in the second level? I'm trying to jump on the first floating block and it's not letting me. There's like an invisible wall.Turtle95 wrote:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/976 ... 02014.love
It has two levels. I barely had a lot of time to make them today due to work from 12pm-5pm. Ah well, I hope you guys enjoy it regardless that it's so short (and I probably could have reworked the graphics a bit.. but again, barely had the time). Anyway, I'm happy with how it turned out!
You're being experimented on with a new ability to shoot colors from .. thin air/your mind/etc. Basically you can't touch surfaces using your feet that are not the color of your shirt. If you do, you have to restart the level. You pass through Color Gates in order to change colors, and left click shoots the current color. A and D to move left/right and S to duck. W to enter elevators.
Also, use Love 0.9.1 (or 0.9.0) > http://love2d.org/
Another thing: Huge thanks to Mari0Maker for helping me find sprites for the player, sounds from bfxr, and overall putting up with me. Hans, Jeviny, and Chase also get credit for helping me with feedback on tiles, etc
It's actually that you have to duck and move to the left to get on top of it. I didn't mean for that to happen, but there was no time to fix it otherwise :|popcan12 wrote:Hey, is there a bug in the second level? I'm trying to jump on the first floating block and it's not letting me. There's like an invisible wall.Turtle95 wrote:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/976 ... 02014.love
It has two levels. I barely had a lot of time to make them today due to work from 12pm-5pm. Ah well, I hope you guys enjoy it regardless that it's so short (and I probably could have reworked the graphics a bit.. but again, barely had the time). Anyway, I'm happy with how it turned out!
You're being experimented on with a new ability to shoot colors from .. thin air/your mind/etc. Basically you can't touch surfaces using your feet that are not the color of your shirt. If you do, you have to restart the level. You pass through Color Gates in order to change colors, and left click shoots the current color. A and D to move left/right and S to duck. W to enter elevators.
Also, use Love 0.9.1 (or 0.9.0) > http://love2d.org/
Another thing: Huge thanks to Mari0Maker for helping me find sprites for the player, sounds from bfxr, and overall putting up with me. Hans, Jeviny, and Chase also get credit for helping me with feedback on tiles, etc
Welcome to Idiot's review corner! This time I'm quickly reviewing both the entries and also the contest in general. I do not mean to offend anyone in this review but I will be giving my honest opinions. So without further ado...
Game Reviews!
-if there's not a proper title for the game I'm making a terrible one up on the spot-
As for the contest overall, it was a trainwreck. Please do not take this personally MagicPillow, but for our first Game Jam this could have been done so much better.
To give a nice list...
I may just steal this idea from you and run another one later, since I've done contests in the past with great reception. I love this idea and we've seen great ideas this time, but it needs to be run so much better.
Game Reviews!
-if there's not a proper title for the game I'm making a terrible one up on the spot-
To give a nice list...
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I should mention that in my game you can also change colors with the number keys ("1" was the mute key in older versions though) but it really doesn't matter now.
Anyway if we do have another game jam then idiot should handle it, unless MagicPillow can do better next time.
Anyway if we do have another game jam then idiot should handle it, unless MagicPillow can do better next time.
Idiot kinda summed up my opinions on the games and contest, so I have no reason to do a review as well.
As for the next jam though; I think it'd be nice to involve more people into it.
So I thought it'd be nice to combine the sprite-contest idea with this Jam.
You can break it down into two rounds: Round one is where the spriters make as many tiles, characters and enemies as they can for the given theme and gametype. When that round is over all the sprites will be thrown on one big pile and in round two the coders will create games with the sprites of their choice.
Or you could have people team up (preferably randomly selected), though this would require equal amounts of spriters and programmers. But results will most likely be better.
As for the next jam though; I think it'd be nice to involve more people into it.
So I thought it'd be nice to combine the sprite-contest idea with this Jam.
You can break it down into two rounds: Round one is where the spriters make as many tiles, characters and enemies as they can for the given theme and gametype. When that round is over all the sprites will be thrown on one big pile and in round two the coders will create games with the sprites of their choice.
Or you could have people team up (preferably randomly selected), though this would require equal amounts of spriters and programmers. But results will most likely be better.
...
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I prefer that first suggestion, where it's 2 rounds with both contests merged into 1 myself. Sounds more challenging making a game out of sprites that you haven't seen until a few moments before it starts.
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It's fine that you think it's boring. I also think it's boring.
I just wanted to try something new and sometimes new ideas are ones people haven't released because they're terrible and boring.
I sort of wanted to show that yeah it was difficult to police races evenly when the divide isn't even. That's why the percentage chance is based on the UK census.
It's a game though and as a game it kinda sucks.
I just wanted to try something new and sometimes new ideas are ones people haven't released because they're terrible and boring.
I sort of wanted to show that yeah it was difficult to police races evenly when the divide isn't even. That's why the percentage chance is based on the UK census.
It's a game though and as a game it kinda sucks.
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So I don't know how the whole instant-win thing could've slipped past my radar.
I made a patched version if you want to play it the right way.
Since the jam is technically over, I made the download separate.
You can download it here, in the main post, or not at all. Your choice.
I made a patched version if you want to play it the right way.
Since the jam is technically over, I made the download separate.
You can download it here, in the main post, or not at all. Your choice.
If the jam is technically over, who was the winner?
- MagicPillow
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I meant development was over, but I guess now's a good a time as any to end it.
renhoek wins with Deep Colo!
renhoek wins with Deep Colo!
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I like Turtle's game the most. Even though it only has two levels, I would love to see that game as a whole with more colors. My only complaints are that it's VERY short and that the player sprite looks like a recolored Mario sprite. But it's pretty neat for something made in two days.
I couldn't be active on the forum at the time, so I missed the jam. Will there be another one eventually?
I couldn't be active on the forum at the time, so I missed the jam. Will there be another one eventually?
- Mr.Q.Marx?
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Probably. No date has been set.OrbitalBlueprint wrote:Will there be another one eventually?