theschap

Well done, very effective at setting the tone.

Ooo how about the Mario Maker Cat Paw cursor? I'm watching you floating window...

Custom tools are always cool to me. Also this sounds hilarious.

Here is an early concept of the blocks builder. Before the game starts the players will have a required number of blocks they have to use, and they can lay them out in anyway they please. They will then go into the esophagus where they must shoot digestion acid balls to bounce them around the level, and they then let them hit them to essentially digest their blocks and themselves.

Damn that looks cool.

Here are some early drawing of the blocks. Hopefully I found "medieval gross".

This is a crusade I can understand!

3D in GM2!? This is madness.

This is already has so much charm. Great animations.

Gamers in race car like gaming chairs collecting Mt. Dew reminds me of a time when we had all sorts of branded video games and it sounds great. Sorry I can't help with the physics in UE4. I hope you get it figured out.

This sounded like a terrific tinker simulation when I read the opening post and who was involved. Now I see some Lego and I am all in.

This sounds like a great learning/exploration project. I thought I would drop in and tell you I have enabled "Whisper Mode" on my Echo, and the world will never be the same again.

This looks great. I really like the setting, atmosphere, and design you have shown here. It’s hard to get a great feel for the tactical layer in just the trailer but it rings nostalgia of old BioWare games and that’s exciting. Nice work!

I wasn't going to jam this time around, but I couldn't stay away. I decided to do something small as I knew I had limited time, and if posting a dev log after the submission date doesn't give it away I am not done yet. So, I am going to post some of the assets I've done so far, as I continue to refactor my code over and over in an effort to make the most flexible, and scaleable thing I can. (Because apparently I think that's necessary right now) The main point is I want to build a random item generator, similar to the system popularized by Diablo. Here is my sprite sheet thus far. I've been restricting my color palette to 16 colors, and recreating some of the more interesting item types in Diablo. The Hair one was necessary so I could actually roll an item called "Plaited Haircut of the Whale". Mullets are funny, but perhaps I should actually make it plaited. Hmm.

This is a cool idea. I am always a supporter of setting goals that commit you to a certain cadence. will all your stories have their own universe or will it all be tied together somehow?

Game is available here: https://theschap.itch.io/from-earth-to-pluto Overall I'm happy with where the physics model ended up in the limited time I had over the holidays to tweak it. I would still like to get some audio in, and work with the lines I'm drawing and the shaders more. Enjoy! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wizard Jam time!!! Okay, so basically I want to make a golf game, because this is the year of golf games( Golf Story, Everybody's Golf, maybe more) and I found an episode that provided an aesthetic; Idle Thumbs 238: From Earth to Pluto. The general idea is this. I will model an exaggerated solar system in which you tee off on Earth, and must jump between planets and potentially other cosmic entities to reach the hole on Pluto. The physics in general are going to be strange in that you are playing space golf across mass distances, and gravity is all messed up, so I'm just going to model a familiar trajectory, but now that I think of it having things like black holes would give me some other game play options. New game development things I'm going to focus on: Scriptable Objects Materials/Shaders Here is what I have so far. I have basically gotten the power bar working, but there isn't an aim offset yet so that's coming next. Next items:(mostly for my benefit) Accuracy Offset Predicted distance/path before shot is taken UI to select different clubs Forces at play ie. solar winds, black holes, comets... All the art Menus and other UI Other game state stuff

I forgot to post here that I have submitted my game! It doesn't have any sound, and I didn't get to dig into shaders as much as I had hoped, but those are things I can add later. I spent a lot of time getting a physics model working with different clubs which have different power and angle outputs, as well as planet gravity. I had a tough time getting the trajectory and lines to look right, so there's some room to improve there, but overall I'm happy with how my first real physics intensive game turned out. Hot tip, you can hit the ball while it's moving through space! https://theschap.itch.io/from-earth-to-pluto

Please tell me you walk in a room and they are all playing poker! The sprites are looking great and the addition of color in the text is a nice touch.

I love games that model very complex interactions between objects, because the concepts become clear very quickly and leave room for exploration. I will second @Zirrrus above. A lot of smart people are hanging out in #wizardjam slack and have helped me with countless programming dilemmas.

I'm enjoying the journey through community asset land. Pulling all that stuff together sounds like a nightmare.

I This is looking great down to the fall timing of pills. One of my favorite games from childhood.

The level of detail here is fantastic.

Ha ha, YES! Who can make the best monster!?

Please don't give up! I'm loving this on every level thus far!

Proper Design Meeting!!! Woah! I'm excited!