/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

Wouldn't it make more sense to start the poll for the next theme before the deadline of this week?

Either way count me in probably, I should have most of the week off.

>>23733

Yeah that's probably a good idea, I don't think we should make the poll too early though because some people might try to start on the next week's theme early.

>>23734

24 or 36 hours early, then lock it in right at the deadline. Poal.me has the ability to change your opinion so it could change until the last minute or if someone comes with a brilliant new idea one hour before for instance.

Be sure to spread awareness on the /v/ agdg threads, so maybe more than two people actually take part.

I might actually do this one if I'm feeling less sick over the next few days

I'm thinking of making a space/fleet combat game JRPG style

Anyone doing this one? Any progress updates?

>>23781

I'm in. Will have an update when it's finished. Be patient.

>>23731

Would love to participate. By battle system, do you literally just mean a working battle system that can have a game tacked onto it?

>>23783

However you want to interpret it, though it is pretty vague, given that a "battle system" doesn't even necessarily have rendering.

>>23781

I wanted too but I might be too late with how much time I have left

>>23796

Just do it nigger. We just started ourselves.

>>23795

Mine sure as hell won't.

Well shit. I would have actually have been interested in this one, but I stopped paying attention to the minijams after you guys did roguelikes for 2-3 weeks.

>>23801

There's still time to make a game, anon.

im cloning one of my space games and building the RPG system on top of it (it's otherwise real-time_

I don't give a fug if im breaking rules since I'm using an old project. It had less than a week put into it anyway

The RPG battle system is the part that matters I think anyway and im making that from scratch

so the jam is over right?

can we get a new theme

also the old threads should probably be deleted

>>23891

Someone made a poll here: https://poal.me/jz003e

But honestly I don't think anyone is doing these, maybe it was just because of the theme.

>>23895

last theme was pretty stupid which is why i didn't participate

not that i have any better ideas that's why i allowed people to add there own questions but nobody added anything worthwhile

>>23895

>3 weeks to do a roguelike

>asking for a 4th week

lol be serious guys do you actually think you're going to finish your roguelike in the next 6 days

>>23899

This. Also, what the fuck do you think a Game Jam is? Extensions kind of invalidate it.

If you want to finish your Roguelike, finish your fucking Roguelike, but don't trick yourself into thinking it's part of the Jam.

>>23895

I've been trying to participate but IRL shit and depression have teamed up to keep me away from game dev. I think I'm in a pretty good spot right now though, so I may be able to join in if we decide on a theme.

I don't think roguelikes or RPG style games are good for a "mini jam" at all, it kinda nulls the point of the mini in it. "RPG battle system" is also too vague, I wouldn't know what I'm supposed to be doing.

Breakout/shmup/asteroids and stuff like that would be ideal IMO.

>>23914

>I've been trying to participate but IRL shit and depression have teamed up to keep me away from game dev

A problem we all face. I was going to have a week off, but nope "get to work something came up".

>"RPG battle system" is also too vague, I wouldn't know what I'm supposed to be doing

Original suggestor in the first jam thread gave a suggestion

>Can have teammembers, magic, items, timed attack/defense inputs, whatever you can think of and think you could implement in a week.

So it'd at the very least come down to <have hero class, have enemy class, have GUI that lets you have their stats interact until someone dies> I guess. I was going to do something where 3 heroes have one button each and can charge attacks by holding, then have interactions when two attack at the same time. But again, work came up.

Also, again, any ideas on how to make this jam more appealing/motivating? Someone suggested to make a showcase of whatever unfinished crap we come up with by the end of the week. At first I was against it but I guess we can try that now.

Hotwheels pls let me post

Also, wow, this is a sticky now, didn't notice that

>>23919

id say there is a good chance people won't participate if they thing they pick doesn't win

i know i don't wanna make tetris and the roguelike quys obviously aren't participating

>>23920

my idea was to make a duplicate of the /agdg/ thread on /v/ i feel like having more people participate and ask questions and show stuff helps motivation

>>23919

Yeah either someone is rigging the votes with proxies or there are ideaguys voting who aren't even going to make a game.

>>23920

>Someone suggested to make a showcase of whatever unfinished crap we come up with by the end of the week

Definitely good idea. Another is obviously people participating and posting progress.

On the idea side I think small games / ideas work better than large ones. It's a lower barrier of entry which attracts more people and allows for more experimentation in my opinion.

>>23922

I thought the whole draw of poal.me originally was proxies are blacklisted and you can change your answer?

>>23921

>my idea was to make a duplicate of the /agdg/ thread on /v/ i feel like having more people participate and ask questions and show stuff helps motivation

I really don't know what the pitch for the /v/ should be

>>23927

You can't really blacklist all proxies. Though I don't think someone actually bothers with rigging the vote, I guess just random people passing by and clicking on it or something.

>>23929

>I really don't know what the pitch for the /v/ should be

same as the /agdg/ one maybe with some resources from the general

>>23931

>Also we should have some easy way to post our games and "archive" all the games from previous jams and such. I know you can just throw it into dropbox or something, but again it would help if you told people to share it in some specific way. (for example itch.io, though I don't know how open they are for letting you upload a bunch of half assed minigames)

I think itch.io allows you to upload 20 crappy unfinished projects but I think it's kind of unethical to abuse it. Maybe when we'll have a more grown-up jam we can host it on itch.io.

There are gitgud for code, I guess finished stuff can go to dropbox or goolge drive since they're more or less permanent storages.

I also have a spare shitty DO instance, maybe it can be of use, although it doesn't have a lot of space.

fuck I missed it.

>>23935

>botnet drive

Let's not encourage that.

I have no clue how github style things work, and I assume most aggydaggies don't. It needs to be as simple as "upload/download a file".

>>23945

Yeah gamejolt would be a good idea to host the jam.

>>23943

>I have no clue how github style things work, and I assume most aggydaggies don't. It needs to be as simple as "upload/download a file".

git is a version control system, it's not simple as "upload a file" but it's not a rocket science either

I'd say it's more or less mandatory to learn how to use one if you're going to work on a project that doesn't fit in a 48 hours timeframe

Although most jam games probably do fit in a 48 hours timeframe so eh. Also people will probably bully each other over the code written this fast, so eh x2

>>23945

>>23948

Yeah, gamejolt seems to have a lot of trash and dead jams. Sounds like what we need. I'm serious

>>23953

>I'd say it's more or less mandatory to learn how to use one

We're all (probably) beginners, and most people probably use an engine of some kind anyway. The less unnecessary tools needed, the more likely people are to join.

>>23953

>>23945

gamejolt seems fine though i won't be using since you need an account and im lazy

I don't many mare people are going to vote so should i just make the thread now

or wait till sunday?

i could make it now and till people the official start is sunday or change the end deadline to one weak from now

or just keep the deadline on sunday next week and give people a few days extra

>>23960

>gamejolt seems fine though i won't be using since you need an account and im lazy

Come on, it takes 5 minutes to make an account. Please do make one because having 25% of the participants off the gamejolt kinda undermines the purpose of gamejolt.

>I don't many mare people are going to vote so should i just make the thread now

or wait till sunday?

I don't think anyone actually works on the previous jam, it's been like two or three weeks already. Maybe we make all final preparations tomorrow and shift the jam again to Saturday-to-Sunday date?

>>23959

>We're all (probably) beginners, and most people probably use an engine of some kind anyway. The less unnecessary tools needed, the more likely people are to join.

I didn't mean that it's mandatory for participation. Just if anyone actually going to use it, there is gitgud.

Kind of off-topic, but I'll elaborate on the mandatory part. What I meant is if you're going to work with code sooner or later you'll have to learn how to use version control systems. Even if you're using an engine, chances are high that you're going to write some code (GML, Lua, C#, C++ etc.). Both Unity and Unreal Engine have built-in VCS clients, by the way. When you write code, you might occasionally break something. You might notice that not instantly but only after days, probably changing lots of files. VCS does a lot of good for projects and first of all it helps to keep track of when your code was working and when (and how) you broke it.

Though, as I've said, it might be actually an overkill for a small jam. On the other hand, we're doing this to learn things and jam might be a good opportunity to learn how to use a vcs (it's actually really, really simple).

>>23895

Looks like we're doing a shmup. This is going to be pretty hard Particularly art assets and level scripting, literally no idea how I'm going to do that yet.

>>23945

Thanks for bringing up GameJolt. I release all my shit for free anyway, and this will save me storage on my webserver. I'd never heard of them.

>>23971

it's a mini jam i don't think you should be making art-assets

So, anyone making a Jam on gamejolt? I no one will in a few hours, I guess I'll have to make one

Also, I'd suggest mixing both shmup and asteroid themes together, like a space shooter jam or something. Asteroids are close to shmups anyway, and the theme is neither too broad not too specific.

>>23997

i feel like a large degree of creative freedom is assumed but i guess we could make it explicit

>>23998

When is the official start today btw?

>>23997

> I'd suggest mixing both shmup and asteroid themes together,

Why change it at the last minute?

>>24000

>When is the official start today btw?

i dunno man whenever someone feels like making the threads i guess?

>>24000

>>I'd suggest mixing both shmup and asteroid themes together,

>Why change it at the last minute?

I don't suggest changing it, I just meant less restraints on the theme. >>23998 got it right

>>24001

Thanks! Guess I have to wait a bit longer

>>24002

Alrightly, I thought you meant subset of asteroids and shmups instead of the superset

>>23997

>So, anyone making a Jam on gamejolt? I no one will in a few hours, I guess I'll have to make one

did you make one

if not i can make one otherwise link it

>>24004

I couldn't make up my mind on those few fields I have to fill out so I didn't

Make one please, post link here && start a new thread

>>24005

new thread >>24006