The Game Jam Guide I wish I had when starting out
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- Is this your first jam and have no clue how a jam works? Well I'm glad you found this video! Here, I'm going to explain my strategy for game jams that I developed after about 2 years of game jams. Enjoy!
Jams in the video:
itch.io/jam/pirate
itch.io/jam/gmtk-2024
Resources I mentioned in the video:
obsidian.md/
www.zapsplat.com/
pixabay.com/
@RoyaltyFreePlanet
github.com/apps/desktop
How to write GOOD FEEDBACK:
- Never say "this is bad", always try to say how you'd improve it to make it better.
- Never just write "I enjoyed it", provide some extra context to that, like which parts of the game you liked the most and stuff like that.
- Always try to make your comment have some value towards the developer(s).
- Don't worry about your comment sounding too negative. A good developer should be able to handle constructive criticism, but at the same time make sure you aren't making a hate comment. If you justify your comments, you should be fine, but sometimes you just shouldn't write about certain things.
- Remember that writing comments gives you so called "karma points". This makes your game show up more often to other jammers. The way this works is completely undisclosed, but the more you comment and rate games, the more your game shows up.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Registering for the jam
1:34 Expectations and goals
3:18 Start of the jam
4:19 Interpreting the theme
7:38 Understanding the scope
9:21 Planning
11:17 Tips for making the game
15:04 Health and safety
16:45 Ending the jam
19:20 Check the description
19:26 Takeaway, learning
21:30 Outro
#gamejam #gamedev #tips 
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If anyone has any questions about jams, please ask and I'll try my best to answer!
thank you redline for informing me of what to do on my first game jam! Im planning to make a pixel art top down rpg with mutliple endings where your choices matter!
Hopefully it comes with a full orchestra soundtrack
With lots and lots of juice I hope
Thanks for this! I especially like the point of making the game look appealing while working on it; just adding a few favorite colors and some less than perfect graphics helped reignite my drive to work on my practice project haha
Wish I saw this video when I started jamming
It took me a few years to realise that my games sounded better when I wasn't the one making audio for them
Thank you for making this! It's a big help going into my first game jam.
Very good and helpful video. Especially I agree on the part about making game visually appealing early. By doing it you already cover part of your project and having a better feel for the final product.
Great vid!
Wow! This video was very nice and well put together!
I decided to join the Pirate Software game jam even though I don't know what I'm doing, meaning the only thing I know how to do is print "hello world" in Python and C, lol! But I decided to jump in anyway to give it a shot.
Good luck!
Hope this video helps.
w guide pal
My question is not about jams, so sorry for that.
Could you suggest some learning material for game dev math? I missed uni thus don't really have a grasp on where should I start with math.
Assuming from the videos you've created thus far, you have quite the experience in this area.
You don't need any maths skills other than some vector basics.
(the only complex one I "regularly" use is the dot product, for that I recommend watching ruclips.net/video/2PrSUK1VrKA/видео.html)
I'm literally a high school student.
@@nitro-gen-studios Thanks!
Well, then take it as a compliment.
can you condense this into a 60 second tik tok? ty
absolutely not :)