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Games Jam!

Games Year 2
Teams of 6

Pump up the jam! Submit games Friday 11am

Announcements and prizes


2:30pm
Monday 10am - Briefing

Friday 11am - Submit & Play

Schedule Submit to Itch.io - Post link on Discord

Friday 2:30pm - Announce Winners

Support

MS Teams & Discord


SA103: Wed PM, Thu AM/PM, Fri AM
Most Polished Gameplay
Categories
Best looking 2D

Best looking 3D

Most Hilarious
Honour among "The enemy of art is the absence of limitations"

thieves
- Orson Welles

Single ‘Board’ (fixed camera)


Single Board
Single Board

Super Crate Box Velocispider Slayin


Single Screen

Overcooked FTL
Honour among "The enemy of art is the absence of limitations"

thieves
- Orson Welles

Single ‘Board’ (fixed camera)


Advice
Keep it simple

Get your game plan before you start


Everyone helps with everything but decide your team roles and initial design

Concentrate on the important parts: Movement, Controls,


A way to "die/win", the "feel"

Finish gameplay early and polish until the end


Don’t Panic!
Buggy game? Find something fun about it and call it a No story or characters? This is an arcade title!
feature!
No gameplay / all story? This is a visual novel!
Only one level? Call it a “battle arena!”
No “game over” or way to die? "How much can you
Broken weapons? Make the game an “avoider” with no achieve in 60 seconds?"
guns!
Too tired to finish? Call it done right now and
Sound broken? Your main character is deaf – or in submit anyway!
space!
It works but it sucks? Take pride in the fact that
Not fun yet? Make it a “joke game” meant to annoy you finished! Most of the other participants won't!
players!
Don't beat yourself up! Don't let your pride stop you
Ugly art? Call it retro / hipster / ironic! from submitting whatever you were able to accomplish.

Poor framerate? Make it a turn based strategy!


Resources
Icons/UI Audio Audio Software
Game-icons.net Bfxr Audacity

Kenney SFXR Waveform Free | Tracktion T7

Free Sound
Fonts Assets
Kenney
DaFont Asset store

Open Game Art


Font Squirrel Kenney

Google Fonts Open Game Art


What next?
1. All Join discord!

2. In the role-assignment channel say


if you are:
Concept Art, Asset Production,
Indie Dev, Games Dev.
I will then give you a role!

3. Indie & Games Dev join the teams


channels first. (2 max)

4. Once a channel has 1 or 2 Games or


Indie Devs, others can join.

5. Once you have a team of 6 fill out


this form!
https://forms.gle/p6SkEbshw4UQBRur9

6. START JAMMING!
https://discord.gg/krzxkBt9du
7. Any questions, sit in “I’m Confused”
or ask in “help-requests”

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