Dinosaursssssss Posted April 17, 2015 It's been a week now, we're just over halfway through the jam. I think there are about 30 games being made, which is a lot! More than I expected, anyway. I've been really enjoying poking through peoples dev logs threads, so keep it up! Also if anyone's feeling really crazy Ludum Dare, the 13-year-running quarterly solo game jam, is this weekend. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Greymuse Posted April 19, 2015 Saw the Wizard Jam on itch and spent a few days poking around the forums before deciding to create an account. Pretty cool place. I added my game (The Perimeter) to the jam. If anyone has any questions about Unity, Mechanim or the RAIN AI framework, I might be able to help. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spenny Posted April 19, 2015 Saw the Wizard Jam on itch and spent a few days poking around the forums before deciding to create an account. Pretty cool place. I added my game (The Perimeter) to the jam. If anyone has any questions about Unity, Mechanim or the RAIN AI framework, I might be able to help. Hey Greymuse, I'm happy to see you're interested in helping out other jam wizards here, but I'm a little concerned your game doesn't belong with the jam. Its hard to determine if it was created within the jam period (April 10-23 2015) and more on point though, I can't really see how it corresponds with the theme. It was a major intention of the Wizard Jam to be inclusive of all participants, be they established community members or not, so I hope you can appreciate my concerns are not coming from a place of internet forum xenophobia, but just wanting to see the best results possible i.e. a jam page full of Idle Thumbs inspired games. As such I would ask you to consider whether your game really fits the theme, and volunteer to remove it if it does not. Thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Greymuse Posted April 19, 2015 Hey Greymuse, I'm happy to see you're interested in helping out other jam wizards here, but I'm a little concerned your game doesn't belong with the jam. Its hard to determine if it was created within the jam period (April 10-23 2015) and more on point though, I can't really see how it corresponds with the theme. It was a major intention of the Wizard Jam to be inclusive of all participants, be they established community members or not, so I hope you can appreciate my concerns are not coming from a place of internet forum xenophobia, but just wanting to see the best results possible i.e. a jam page full of Idle Thumbs inspired games. As such I would ask you to consider whether your game really fits the theme, and volunteer to remove it if it does not. Thanks. I understand your concern, and I would usually agree with your reservations. I have only added my game to the jam because the theme is optional, and the rules specifically state that "there are no rules". I was under the assumption the aim of this jam was to get a varied selection of games submitted, as well as to meet new people. I don't want to make waves. If my game doesn't quite make the cut for the Wizard Jam, I can definitely remove it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spenny Posted April 19, 2015 I guess I'm looking at enforcing the unwritten rule of a game jam submission page, which is, games submitted to that page should be made during and for that game jam. Looks like you removed it yourself, so thanks for being a reasonable person and welcome to the community. Also, consider checking out the Plug Your Shit thread, or Post Your Game For Feedback and Playtesting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
clyde Posted April 20, 2015 Is anyone else having dreams about their game? Last night I was dreaming that I had to decide how real people would be allocated to rooms on an estate by arranging them in a TyranoBuilder interface. They had opinions and general skepticism about the rooms I would put them in. It was like a worker placement game with real people where they were ery concerned about the possibility of being put in a room with someone who they did not get along with. And I was doing all this by dragging bars up and down a vertical-scroll event-graph. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spenny Posted April 20, 2015 Yes actually, I did, last night. My game contained a three dimensional pac man minigame sequence that I was getting frustrated that I had to beat every time I was testing the game. Then I had the brilliant idea that the final sequence of the game would be you going around a gallery while being watched and followed by the showcasing artist, who was also a metaphor for the game creator or something? Dreams are weird. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Berzee Posted April 21, 2015 I was halfheartedly working on a "Pegasus Launch"-themed game, but alas, I don't think I will find time to finish it. Best of luck to all u participants in these final days of jam! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zerofiftyone Posted April 21, 2015 It'd be cool if the Thumbs played a bunch of these games on the twitch channel at some point when this is over. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spenny Posted April 21, 2015 Danielle mentioned in the original thread that she was interested in doing exactly that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bakelite Posted April 22, 2015 I really wish I had the time to do something, but it's the worst possible time for me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
clyde Posted April 22, 2015 After we finish ours (we are still on schedule) I'm planning on coming back in to see if anyone needs help with entries that need another week or two to complete. I don't see any reason to stop after two-weeks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dinosaursssssss Posted April 22, 2015 After we finish ours (we are still on schedule) I'm planning on coming back in to see if anyone needs help with entries that need another week or two to complete. I don't see any reason to stop after two-weeks. the party never stops in the game dev subforum Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
clyde Posted April 22, 2015 the party never stops in the game dev subforumThat's what I'm sayin.I wonder if this jam will jumpstart dev-logs there. Edit: Actually, I don't really understand what the motivation was to have a separate WizardJam subforum rather than just putting it in the Game Development subforum. If someone doesn't finish their game by Sunday are they expected to stop updating their dev-log here? Or is the deadline an Itch.io thing? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zerofiftyone Posted April 22, 2015 the party never stops in the game dev subforum Can I get that on a t-shirt please? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erkki Posted April 22, 2015 Damn, I wish I would have followed this Jam's thread in Idle Banter before it really started, then I would have been able to perhaps prepare some time to take part of this. I definitely wanna join next time, do some game development again, haven't done anything in 3 or more years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fierydrake Posted April 23, 2015 I think a yearly jam would be a great. I love the spirit of this jam, it is very encouraging and it was nice to see a lot of people with limited time participating. Themes can sometimes be difficult to get a handle on, but I found it much easier with the episode titles, I often find myself listening to the podcast and wanting to make a variant of the hilarious weird game thing the crew is riffing about. It feels like the game ideas are just sitting there in the episodes waiting (some times literally begging) to get realised. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coods Posted April 23, 2015 The episode title theme really is a slamdunk, considering we'll have 52 brand new ones next time around. (I envision one jake rodkin inconspicuously attempting to seed the names of games he wants in the next wizard jam into future episodes) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zerofiftyone Posted April 23, 2015 we'll have 52 brand new ones next time around. Wow, you're right. I didn't even think of that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
z_bill Posted April 24, 2015 Is anyone else having dreams about their game? I've never coded anything this hardcore before, and I can't seem to wake up the past week without thinking my alarm clock is somehow tied into the alarm variables/ steps in my game. It's super stressful l! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
clyde Posted April 24, 2015 I've never coded anything this hardcore before, and I can't seem to wake up the past week without thinking my alarm clock is somehow tied into the alarm variables/ steps in my game. It's super stressful l! It's so weird and fascinating that repeatitious tasks get tied to subjects that have been stressful or interesting in my day. Programming seems to be my metaphorical action for the way I make all my decisions while dreaming in the midst of a game-jam. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gritfish Posted April 25, 2015 Itch isn't handling the "share on twitter" or "persistent url" stuff for Idle Dreams (From the episode "field of dreams"), so for now, you can access it here: http://gritfish.net/wizard/ If I get some more time tomorrow, I might try and fix up the punctuation, but it generates some pretty good dreams. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zerofiftyone Posted April 25, 2015 I have spent so much time in the past week or so looking at pictures of hair, that I've developed a weird reaction to looking at photographs now. When I look at a portrait photo I find myself instantly looking at the hair style and making a snap judgement on whether or not "I like the hair". I fear this jam has ruined me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites