Just submitted! Currently drinking a celebratory cup of tea. This was a fun jam with very little stress (mostly on account of submitting early)

Here is a quick breakdown of how I spent my time (detailed statistics curtosy of wakatime):

• Day 1: 09:00pm - 00:00am (09:00pm was the start of the jam for GMT+2)
• Day 2: 10:00am - 01:00pm; 02:00pm - 03:30pm; 05:00pm - 06:00pm; 10:00pm - 00:00pm
• Day 3: 10:00am - 03:00pm

All in all that comes out to roughly 13 hours of development. It's time for some much needed rest!

Wishing everyone best of luck with their submissions!

Game: https://alakajam.com/17th-alakajam/1432/sourze/

Here's my progress after 6 hours of development on this game.

Game Jam Progress

i really hope that embeds properly
It's kinda ugly, but maybe I'll improve it later. Currently, the main game loop works fine, and is decently fun. I still need to implement

1. Music
2. A title screen
3. Bugfixes

Anyway, the community has been really nice, and I'm really enjoying participating.

Last day ended at 03:40.. Tons of placeholder sprites to test the basic mechanics

Forgot to post, but I'm in and this is the state as of last night/this morning :)
I'm using pico-8 to code my game as a solo dev

3 hours in. Make an (okay) start but oh boy tomorrow is gonna be a grind

Can you prevent the hydro plant from breaking and keep the villagers safe?

Wanna try it yourself?
ssh -p 2222 pi01-thedreamweb.ddnsgeek.com
Note: at this time, no commands other than create_user, login and close work.

We are a team of three from Stuttgart, Germany! One dev, a game designer and a game artist. Let's do this!

Going to use Godot 4, I see RC5 just dropped! Let's see how many bugs are still left :)

Fortunately River was one of the few themes where I had a more or less concrete idea. Let's see where it takes me.

Have fun y'all!

With the theme now revealed, the 17th Alakajam! has started. Let's make games :)

If you're entering the competitive, ranked jam, and are unsure what you're allowed to do, please check this page for the detailed rules of the jam (in particular the "What is allowed?" section).

Submission times

The end of the jam is depending on whether you pick ranked or unranked. You can create your game page at any time during the jam (and update it any time after it's created):

• Ranked: February 26th 7:00pm UTC, which means you have 48 hours (+1 hour for late entries to create their page).
• Unranked: February 27th 10:00pm UTC, which means you have a bit more than 72 hours.

Big thanks to @alyphen for hosting the launch stream! If you missed it, you can still find it on the Twitch channel.

Cool things to do during the jam

• Write a blog post: Share your thoughts on the theme, post your progress, images of food or gifs of cute animals. You can also free to use posts for advertising live jam streams.
• Tweet about #alakajam and follow the alakajam Twitter account
• Initialize your game page early!

Have a nice week-end all of you, and see you on the other side!