I am.

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!

Follow me on Twitter to keep up with my progress!

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

The new Alakajam! is finally approaching and will start on May 31st.

The goal of the event is simple: make a game, from scratch, in just a weekend. You can do this on your own, or in a team, you can be a seasoned pro or a total beginner. If you opt-in to the competition, you will be ranked against every other contestant!

Full schedule

Dates	Phase	Description
May 17	Theme submission & voting	You can submit theme ideas for the jam and vote for all other submissions.
May 24	Theme shortlist	Only the best 10 themes are kept. Rank them by order of preference in this final phase of theme voting.
May 31 6pm UTC	Countdown stream	DanaePlays and Aurel300 host an official stream on Twitch to launch the event!
May 31 7pm UTC	THE JAM!!!	Start making a game solo or as a team, and simply submit it before the deadline!
June 2	End of ranked jam	The main competition ends here, exactly 48 hours after the start time.
June 3	End of unranked jam	If you want to go for a relaxed weekend - or need more time - you can create a game in the 72 hours of the unranked jam.
June 16	Results	After two weeks during which all entrants are invited to play, rate and comment on other peoples games… The results are released and the winners crowned!

Rules

There are three divisions:

• Solo, in which you make a whole game alone in 48 hours
• Team, in which any number of persons can gather to make a game in 48 hours
• Unranked, a more open division which grants about 72 hours to finish the game. Useful for those not interested in the competitive aspect of the event, want to work on an existing project of theirs, or simply did not finish their game in time.

See the full rules for the Alakajam.

How to enter

All you need to do is:

1. Create an account on this website
2. Publish your game before the deadline

A lot of participants also post an "I am in" blog post presenting themselves or their team before the event. Describe what tools and frameworks and engines you will use to create your awesome game! Which themes do you like? Let us and the community know!

If you can, feel free to spread the word about the jam - the more we are, the merrier! glhf ;)