WIZARD JAM 2016 // Welcome Thread

[Jutranjo]

Hah, yeah I do the same. Every week when a new episode comes out I look at the title and think about what game could be made from it.

 

Rigid Body Rat King writes itself.

[Spenny]

There's an art style, well, really a gimmick, I had thought of doing for a game. I don't want to say much, but today I discovered my girlfriend owns a crystal puffin and it got me thinking I could marry the style and this jam.

[clyde]

Your girlfriend owns a penguin? Is that legal? Don't answer that.

[Spenny]

Puffins are Auks. 

[Ben X]

Like from Lord Of The Rings?

[Spenny]

I can't understand you through your accent.

[Ahr Ech]

I've been contemplating a game based on "And That's Why Skeletons Fart That Way" since the first Wizard Jam. Might take a crack at it! If not, I can at least help anyone using Construct 2 if they're new to the engine.

I'm excited!

[J.C.]

I've been meaning to jump in on one of these jams and learn how to make a game, I'll see if I can make that happen this year.

[Broxxar]

Hype. But the real question is how many of us are going to make "Rigidbody Rat King"?

[matthew]

hey 051, i threw up the random episode thing with multiple podcasts on my site: http://matthewishii.com/random

 

dino can update his page (just copy the html, I included the script in there) or you can update the link

[brendonsmall]

Good trailer. This is exciting

 

Also, Rigid Body Rat King is an amazing jam theme haha

[dosymedia]

I've never made a game before, but the wizard jam sounded like so much fun last year and "The Bear's Black Heart" is such a sweet title. 

[Synnah]

Man, I kind of want to make 'Rolling With The Pope', a simulation of Cheese Rolling with various playable West Country characters, one of whom is the Pope.

[zerofiftyone]

hey 051, i threw up the random episode thing with multiple podcasts on my site: http://matthewishii.com/random

 

dino can update his page (just copy the html, I included the script in there) or you can update the link

 

Thank you Matt! This is great.

[dibs]

Waaaa. Rolling with the pope is my main contender at the moment too! Different idea though:P

[Synnah]

Waaaa. Rolling with the pope is my main contender at the moment too! Different idea though:P

 

Oh don't worry, I'm still probably going to go with Dot Gobbler! It was just an idea that amused me. 

[Jutranjo]

There are no rules. There aren't any rules about 1 game per title. Also probably none about reusing titles, Dot Gobbler last year was really well made.

[zerofiftyone]

I seem to recall that last year we had 2 Shoot that Pizzas, 2 Cyberpunk Cop Killers and 3 Nineties Cockpit Freakouts. There's probably more I'm not remembering too.

 

I kind of like seeing the different approaches people have to the same prompt.

[dibs]

I seem to recall slipping you £50 to have first choice on names zero???

[zerofiftyone]

Haha Dibs you and your funny jokes...

(shhhhhhhh, we'll talk privately later)

[getinthedamnbox]

Zombie Train Beyond Earth <3

[coaxmetal]

Hey y'all. I work at a game company now but I just do backend, want to learn regular game dev but can't rn. But, if anyone wants to make some kind of multiplayer or game that otherwise involved a networked backend, with any degree of game of matching of business logic at all (leaderboards, server side content, w/e), hmu. I'll even host it. Not usually a jam thing I know, but that's what I'm good at so putting it out there.

[Ben X]

Looks like it's time to start the team-building thread. I went ahead and made one, hope that's not treading on your toes 051. Let me know if you want it deleted or edited

[Ben X]

The game development subforum is about 1.5 years old and has a small but active community. Here's a few threads worth checking out.

How to get started:

Pretend I don't know the first thing about making games.

Help Threads:

Unity Questions

Unreal Talk

Twine

Gamemaker

Math

Writing

Programming

Where to fins free game assets:

Primary Thread

Feedback:

Post Your Game for Feedback and Playtesting

Visual Art

[Synnah]

There are no rules. There aren't any rules about 1 game per title. Also probably none about reusing titles, Dot Gobbler last year was really well made.

 

I'd actually forgotten that Atte's amazing collection included a Dot Gobbler! But yeah, what I have in mind is very different, and multiple takes on the same theme aren't discouraged at all. I'm always interested to see how people interpret things differently!