Last time was a lot of fun, this is a great game jam community! And thank you all so much for the three trophies on Elementary, I was kind of in shock when I saw it got first in gameplay and third overall. Glad you guys enjoyed it!

This time around I'll be trying out Godot for the first time, for a 2D puzzle or card game with nicer graphics, but still cheaper build overhead than Unity. There's still that CPU particle effect rendering issue with web exports and other clunkiness I'll have to work around, but compared to Unity's bugs Godot feels more efficient and stable, especially for 2D work. I'm excited!

Photoshop or GraphicsGale for art.
BFXR and PxTone for audio. (Web version if you're interested in checking it out)

Goals: (very likely a choose-two-of-three scenario…)
Make something fun and puzzle-y again!
Improve my art and audio scores!
Actually sleep!

Hey folks! I thought it might be fun to brainstorm some ideas for the 10 shortlisted themes! You may not want to give away THAT special idea, of course, but maybe you have some sharable ideas for other themes?

I'll go first, and I'll fry the brain on my personal favourite of the 10, "Start small":

• City-builder type game where you start with a single builder, and one or two types of buildings. Build a small village, attract traders, and eventually get new types of building and make a city. Potentially a game without wars (although maybe criminals), just focussing on building a city.

• Instead of a city, you are a tiny tribe, and you must keep moving to harvest new areas and explore the wilderness. Perhaps you'll discover some ancient ruins with mystical powers, or run into the hiding place of a particularly dangerous animal? Or you'll discover a marketplace or even a city, and trade some rare goods that you can then use or trade with others in a different place?

• War-game. Perhaps like Risk, or turn-based like Heroes of Might and Magic or even a RTS - start with a few creatures, expand and recruit to take on enemies and unexplored areas. Convince all to yield with your sword and axe.

• Some kind of Tower Defense game, potentially as a city where you can add defenses as you defeat invaders and earn more gold. Start with a couple of archers and gradually build stronger and deadlier defenses!

I'm in for this Alakajam! I'm looking forward to jamming with everyone!

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Check out my previous entries too:

5th Alakajam: WizKnight

4th Alakajam: Falling in Love

3rd Alakajam: Hunk Hustler

2nd Alakajam: You Can't See Everything at Once

Excited to join in on another amazing jam.
Can't wait to see what everyone makes, and what kind of game I end up with.
Heck, maybe I'll actually make something that's not a platformer this time around.

Anyway, as per usual I'll be using:

• Beepbox - For the Music
• Bfxr - For the Sfx
• Gamemaker Studio - for… y'know… the game.
• My little brain - For the ideas.

Let's do this!

This'll be game jam #15 for me if I'm able to participate. I'll be pretty busy during the weekend, so hopefully I can pull another Spike Dungeon.

Here's what I'm using:

• Python - code
• Pygame - graphics library
• Px Editor - artwork
• SFXR or foley - sound effects
• Bosca Ceoil or LMMS - music
• 3x6 pixel art font - font
• entities.py - pygame 2D framework

Good luck everyone!

That`s my 2nd Alakajam and I already got the hype on! Last time it was my first time ever doing a game and the result/feedback was great - looking forward to see what I can do with what I learned in the past months!

Gfx: Aseprite
Engine: Pico-8/Gamemaker
Audio: Bosca Ceoil/bxfr

hype!

So on 2003 , october 12 a beatiful boi was ( hey that's me), and the boi was going up until 2008 when his dad got a notbook and he had his first contact with the internet on that moment, the mind of the boi just exploded with so much information, passing all those years on 2015 the boi aways seeing those incredible games that he played wanted to make one so he searched around the web and found it his first game engine RPG maker .

And more years passed until 2018 when he got Gamemaker and here we are on 2019 and the boi is going to participate his first GameJam.

Now for real i'm really hyped to enter my first Game Jam and why not make a popular game Like HopFrog did with Forager (on of my great inspirations)

My Stats are these
Engine: Gamemaker 1.4, tic80.
Art: Asesprite, Gimp.
Audio: Bosca ceiol, BeepBox.

So i would really be happy if i particepate of this Jam (it's my first Tho) -with Love, Danillo

6th alakajam.
It's the solo challenge.
let's do this.

unity or unreal.

asesprite
paint.net
blender

have fun guys and see you on discord <3

Hi everyone, don't mean to be spamming with non jam stuff, but thought it might be of interest to a few people here.
The company I work at is looking to hire 2 roles, A programmer (C# Unity), and an artist (mainly pixel art), more details on the website
https://www.cutenewt.com/
and reddit post with original ad https://www.reddit.com/r/gameDevClassifieds/comments/bccws3/paidrevshare_c_developer_for_new_indie_game/
its on site only in offices in London, UK, so no remote only I'm afraid.

Seems weird to have to say it but, just in case it's not obvious, Both roles are paid in actual real money, that can be used in exchange for food, shelter and other basic necessities, just like a normal job :)
Well thanks for reading

Ohhhh boy was I having trouble with the theme this time.

I was a 90's kid but too young to really remember what it was like, and I didn't even have games until the early 2000s. I missed out on a lot of game culture back then :(.

So I google games from 96 and told myself: I will make a version of the first game that pops up!

"Pokemon Red"

Oh…Ohhhhh noooooo!

I am super intimidated :| but dedicated to my word. This is going to be an interesting project…
(and if I were a better coder I'd use the posted GameBoy stuff ><)

Wish me luck folks!