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  1. Posted

    9 hours ago, One8Two8 said:

    The bees now respect solid objects (except in cases of low framerate). Next up, I need to start working on some actual gameplay. Right now my candidates for traps include: Trash cans, bug zappers, honey, pollen, nets, and wind. The tricky part will be making sure that all the traps are balanced. It seems like it would be easy for the player to simply set up an attractive trap like honey to bait bees into deadly traps, so there will have to be some limitation on either the placement or effectiveness on these traps.

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    This is a very good GIF. 

  2. Posted

    6 hours ago, Ben X said:

    Another 051 game that will require far too much dexterity for me to get far in!

    Sorry!! It seems to be a running theme for me; I'm kind of obsessed with games that pull the player out of their dexterity/coordination comfort zone. Hopefully aside from the weird controls it won't be too difficult to play. 

     

    1 hour ago, Broxxar said:

    Oooooh those triangles exploding is delightful to watch. Your games are always have that sweet ｇａｍｅ ｆｅｅｌ.

    Thanks dude! 

  7. Posted

    1 hour ago, fraig said:

    Hi. As Gil Scott-Heron once said - I'm New Here.

    Started listening to Idle Thumbs a few years ago, big fan of Important If True. But, new to the forum.

    Hoping to create something in the next 2 weeks. I'm a web designer (and a bit of a coder) by trade, but started experimenting with Unity in January after a friend told me it was free.

    Probably going to cheat a bit, and use a few tutorials to cobble something together, but for me the fun part will be creating assets.

     

    Looking forward to getting some crit, and seeing what everyone else is up to!

     

    Welcome Fraig!

  10. Posted

    Day 1 Progress

     

    So, the reason I picked the title "Half a Brain" is because it gave me the idea of making something with gameplay that involves having to control two objects independently, and having the challenge of splitting your attention between both objects.

     

    I started work on player movement tonight. The clip above shows a paddle made up of two independently controlled bodies (controlled with the left and right analog sticks), and a beam joining them. The movement doesn't feel great at the moment but it's enough to play around and see what it feels like to control both parts of the paddle. Messing around in this test level gave me some ideas for interesting gameplay stuff. 

     

    My current thinking is that this game will be a Geometry Wars style score-attack challenge where waves of enemies come at you; but the enemies can only be hurt by touching them with the beam, and will kill you if they hit either of your paddle's bodies.

  11. Posted

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    This game is released! You can play it here: https://zerofiftyone.itch.io/evader

     

     

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    Hey all. I'm going to be making something loosely based around the theme Half a Brain. As is habit for me, I've gone into the jam with only the faintest seed of an idea of what I want this game to be, and started working on UI stuff until I figured out what the game will be. I'll try and keep on top of this devlog and post regularly; hopefully there will be something interesting to read here.

  12. Posted

    3 hours ago, Henke said:

    Great trailer! Amazing production values. :)

    Thanks :tup:.

     

    3 hours ago, Henke said:

    UHHH, QUESTION: I'm thinking about making a VR version of my WizJam game from last year "In Search Of Paradise". Would that be an acceptable entry in this Jam, or would it be regarded as kind of a dick move to just update an old game and try to sneak it in again?

    As long as you make it so that the A of the logo flips upside down dramatically in the title screen to reveal "In Search of P∀Radise". :P

     

    Nah, it's cool. Go for it. 

  13. Posted

    It's just gone midnight here in GMT land, so it's officially time to jam! Looking forward to seeing all of the new devlog threads as people get started.

     

    Here is the list of diversifiers! As I said on the first post, the diversifiers are an optional challenge for the jam. They're creative prompts, designed to help you design a game around a specific limitation (or set of limitations). You can choose as many (or as few) as you like and incorporate them into your game.

     

    "2D's company, 3D's a crowd" - Make a 3D game using only 2D graphics. 

    Limited Vocabulary - Limit your player's verbs (run, jump, punch) to just one! Make a game that explores that verb to its fullest. 

    "You Just Played Yourself 🔑" - Make a game where you play against yourself, or a game where your past movements or actions are important in some way. 

    Hoisted - The game conspires to destroy the player in some way; or the game allows the player to be the cause of their own undoing. 

    Texture Thrift - Use the same art/prop asset as many times as possible in your game, whilst obscuring the fact you are doing this. 

    Frug Froctions - Include another, entirely separate game inside your game.

     

     

    Also, now is probably a good time to mention: for Wizard Jam 5, we're trying something new! After the jam finishes, we'll be hosting a Showcase Weekend; an opportunity for everybody to step back from the game making process and look at what everyone else has made; with an emphasis on giving feedback and comments to fellow creators. It's covered in the schedule below, and there'll be more details to follow.

     

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  16. Posted

    On 2017-5-27 at 4:53 PM, Juggy B said:

    Hey guys!

     

    I made a site for an easy redirect right to the itch.io page a while back, and I updated it now to direct to Wizard Jam 5! 

     

    You can go here for an easy redirect right to the itch.io page: http://www.wizardjam.org/ 

    And you can go here for an "archive" of all the past jams with easy to click links: http://www.wizardjam.org/archive/

     

    Ah, it's you! Thanks much for updating the site. I'm using it in the trailer as it's less of a mouthful than the full itch url.

  21. Posted

    4 hours ago, BigJKO said:

    I recently fell down the rabbit hole of the Lego CAD world! So after some tries, I finally got an optimized way of importing .ldr files into Cinema4D for rendering in Octane Render. So, these models aren't mine, they're all downloaded from ldraw.org, but I've done materials/lighting and rendering of them which is a *bunch* of fun!

     

    I could look at these forever

  24. Posted

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    Hello everyone! There will be another Wizard Jam in June. If you're new to the community, Wizard Jam is the community-run game jam we host twice a year.

     

    Wizard Jam is not a contest; the main emphasis is to celebrate the Thumbs community through sharing and collaboration over the course of a fortnight. We write devlogs and post GIFs. We offer support and volunteer music, sounds and other assets. We play each other's games and stream them. It's a lot of fun.

     

    The other thing we try to emphasise is encouraging people to try making something new and unfamiliar; or to try game development for the first time entirely (quite a few of the entries we've had in the past are from complete first-timers to gamedev!). We run the jam over the course of two weeks to give people the room to try something weird and see how it turns out.

     

     

     

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    Wizard Jam - Friday 2nd June to Sunday 18th June

    Showcase Weekend - Saturday 24th June to Sunday 25th June

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    Choose an episode title from any show on the Idle Thumbs podcast network and use it as a theme prompt for your game. Use this site to browse through show titles: http://randomthumbs.danjohnmoran.com/ (Thanks to Broxxar, Panzorfork & matt.ishii for providing the site)
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    The diversifiers are an optional challenge for the jam. They're creative prompts, designed to help you design a game around a specific limitation (or set of limitations). You can choose as many (or as few) as you like and incorporate them into your game.
     
    "2D's company, 3D's a crowd" -  Make a 3D game using only 2D graphics.
    Limited Vocabulary -  Limit your player's verbs (run, jump, punch) to just one! Make a game that explores that verb to its fullest.
    "You Just Played Yourself 🔑" -  Make a game where you play against yourself, or a game where your past movements or actions are important in some way.
    Hoisted -  The game conspires to destroy the player in some way; or the game allows the player to be the cause of their own undoing.
    Texture Thrift -  Use the same art/prop asset as many times as possible in your game, whilst obscuring the fact you are doing this.
    Frug Froctions -  Include another, entirely separate game inside your game.
     
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    1. This jam is not a competition, and there is no minimum level of game development experience needed to join. People from all backgrounds are  welcome to participate. If you're new to gamedev, let us know! Join us on the forums and on Slack; where you'll find help, advice and encouragement from the community. 
    2. Entries containing any form of harassment or hate-speech are not permitted. Anything crossing into this territory will be removed.
     
    Use this subforum to make development log threads, recruit folks, and chat about development related stuff! There's also the game development subforum and the #wizardjam slack channel. If you aren't a already a member of the slack group and would like an invite, send me a private message at @zerofiftyone and I will make sure you get access.
     
    For Wizard Jam 5, we're trying something new! After the jam finishes, we'll be hosting a Showcase Weekend; an opportunity for everybody to step back from the game making process and look at what everyone else has made; with an emphasis on giving feedback and comments to fellow creators. It's covered in the schedule below, and there'll be more details to follow.

     

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    HERE'S THE PAGE WHERE YOU CAN SUBMIT YOUR GAME : [https://itch.io/jam/wizard-jam-5]

     

     

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    Browse Past Wizard Jams:

     

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    Wizard Jam (Apr 2015)

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    Winter Wizard Jam (Nov/Dec 2015)

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    Wizard Jam 2016 (May 2016)

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    Wizard Jam 4 (Nov/Dec 2016)

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  25. Posted

    3 hours ago, Chris said:

     

    Goddamn, that's a hell of a suit. Looking great! Congratulations!

     

    8 hours ago, DocRandal said:

    Those wedding photos are the best. Congratulations to you both!

     

     

    11 hours ago, Kolzig said:

    Awesome wedding pics! Congrats on the marriage!

     

    11 hours ago, sucks2Bme said:

    Those are amazing photos! Congratulations! 

     

    13 hours ago, Roderick said:

    ZeroFiftyOne, those are gorgeous pics! Congratulations! (On the quality of the photos as well as getting married.)

     

    18 hours ago, miffy495 said:

    That dance photo is amazing. Congrats!

     

    On 19 April 2017 at 9:34 PM, RubixsQube said:

    Holy cow, congratulations! You both look so happy, and the wedding looks amazing. 

     

     

    Thank you all!