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Thanks! A few more reviews came in: 100% - City AM, 90% - Buried Treasure, 80% - Edge, 80% - Slant, Bestest Bests – RockPaperShotgun And we got to over 100 user reviews, all but one of them positive.

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Released! “A brilliant, joyous, clever and generous experience.” 4.5/5 – ThumbSticks “This is a gag delivery device with a seriously good hit rate” 83% – PC Gamer “Great mash-up of indie platforming and classic adventuring.” 8/10 – TheSixthAxis

Got round to seeing Part 2. I didn't think much of it until the last section where the metaphors and twists come out in full force and it reveals itself as an anti-MRA, anti-toxic-masculinity, pro-genderqueer movie, and it all works really well. Also, the song over the credits is Beck in a more modern Midnite Vultures mode with The Lonely Island rapping about credits, and it's fantastic.

Regarding the Lego Movie, I said: (if you do a search for "lego" in this board, you'll find a bunch of other, mostly positive opinions) I watched the Lego Batman Movie and enjoyed it a lot more. Funny, a solid story and actually quite touching.

Part 2: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/548966396 Nick is planning to do another stream same time next week where he catches up on some unplayed Jam games of the past and revisits old favourites. So, any requests, let him know!

In case anyone missed it, Nick streamed some of the games last week: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/545364126 He'll be streaming more (perhaps all the rest?) in about 5 hours from now!

This looks and sounds great, and it definitely captures the jank of Trespasser! I managed to kill a few dinos and then succumbed to the jank. Is this original VO or did you rip it from the original game?

This is really cute! Not much gameplay, of course, but it's still satisfying to watch DG get bigger and eventually gobble up entire buildings. The ending was a really funny idea too!

A funny, good-looking little game. I liked the low-poly black and white aesthetic, and the dramatic presentation!

This looks and feels great - I love the visual style, especially when it gets extra trippy, and it's very satisfying when you get into the flow. I did sometimes feel like I was just fluking my way through rather than having an 'ah ha' moment and figuring out a tactic, but I made it to the end without using invincibility!

This is really stylish, and a very cool puzzle conceit. I wasn't able to figure out the exact rules and parameters so I only ever managed to get through the first roof door, but I'd definitely be interested in playing this with more Valve style tutorialisation!

@Roderick I just asked it to send you an email invite, hopefully it worked!

I get it on Prime UK. There's some very clunky writing - the first ep papered over the cracks with good pacing, action and acting. The second ep was mostly serialisation busywork so it didn't fare as well. I suspect ep 3 will be good.

It's an itchio! https://warlockpreserve.itch.io/alpha-magus I believe I speak for the whole team when I say we're very proud of what we managed to make in our spare time over these past weeks!

We've announced the release date: 21st February 2020. Also, main trailer is up: Three weeks away! Very excited! Again, if everyone could wish-list it, that would be really lovely and helpful: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1060600/Lair_of_the_Clockwork_God/

This is coming on leaps and bounds, but we're probably going to take advantage of Wizard Jam's legendary flexibility, and not release until Showcase Weekend. Even though we were mindful of scope in the initial design stages, we still ended up taking on a pretty big project!

Some really cool effects, there!

A quick clip from the latest build, which sums up the game in microcosm!

I remember seeing that Gremlins 2 trailer in the cinema, it got 10-year-old me really excited! I think I'd seen the first one by that point, but for a while it was too scary for me because I never made it past the relatively straight horror stuff at the start to find out that it gets pretty silly by the end, so this trailer's mix of horror and comedy vibes really clicked with me. Back To The Future II's trailer has almost 30 seconds of clips from the first movie at the top to serve as a recap!

Thanks! We now have a rough cut of the opening moments of the game:

Almost at the halfway point now, and we're making a fair amount of progress. The game structure is: opening area with a small puzzle - main space with one small puzzle then opening up into four or so solve-in-any-order puzzles that, once completed, lead you to the end confrontation. The design for all the puzzles have been nailed down except the end confrontation, plus we've got 4 characters with first-draft dialogue and some modelling done. There will be at least 3 more characters, then we'll see how much time we have to add in any more. Plus we'd like to add more optional content in the main space, but we'll see how it goes. Time to show off some work! We've got a game logo (edited into the top of this thread), and a team logo: The main space is going to be a mix of cyber and fantasy, so we're testing out some looks for the terrain: And we've got some models and animation going: All very exciting!

Hmm, interesting! I managed to Thanks for the hint!

This thread is for recruiting team members! If you have a game idea and need help from a reader with a particular set of skills, post in this thread, preferably in the below format to make it easy for people to find you. Once you have enough members, please edit your post and note that. If you're an individual looking for a team to join, and there's nothing here that suits, you can pimp your skills in the team-seeking thread. And everyone can join the #wizardjam channel on the Idle Thumbs Slack channel for team-building, advice or just live chit-chat while we're working on our games! Format: Pitch: Game Pitch (Try and keep this to one or two sentences!) What I need: What you need (Artist, programmer, writer, etc) What I'm doing: What you're contributing Contact Info: Your contact info (PM, email, whatever) And optionally: Time Zone: It's probably easier to work with people who aren't 12 hours off from you? But maybe it's fine. Portfolio: A link to your portfolio / website / whatever if you have one, so people can check your style. [Then whatever else you want] Example: Pitch: I wanna make 'You, Fisher', a 3D stealth fishing game about casting lines without being spotted by security, and catching as many fish as possible before sunrise. I want to learn UE4 and C++ What I Need: 3D artist who can animate some fish (and help with design!) Audio person to make some sneaky music and fish noises. Smoky jazz? What I'm doing: Programming in UE4, Sam Fisher impressions Contact info: PM me on the forums or message me on the Idle Thumbs Slack Time Zone: EST (UTC -5) but I'm usually up late Portfolio: Here's my website with some gifs of other games I've made! www.puffin.biz I've been a fan of Splinter Cell since first seeing screenshots of their dynamic shadows in ~2005 and I have a Sam Fisher bust above my fireplace. I'd like the game to have a light stealth system, fully rigged realistic humanoid characters, and a dynamic music system that's entirely early-2000s style drum and bass but made exclusively out of samples of water splashing and seagull noises. Template: Pitch: What I need: What I'm doing: Contact Info: Time Zone: Portfolio: Thanks to those who came before me and created this thread format. I am standing on the shoulders of giants.

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