I decided to join my first ever Game Jam: Shawcat's Game Jam 2024, and compete to make a game in 48 hours. If you wanna play the game go to my itch page: DylanDev14. RU-vid won't let me post a link :( Music by CreatorMix
Thanks for sharing, this was a really engaging and educational video. As someone who has only dabbled with game dev on and off since studying my degree years ago, I think finishing a game.. and in the time limit of a game jam is no mean feat. Congratulations😊 I’ve had a look at your other videos and you have a great, structured approach to learning new skills. This will serve you well whatever you do in later life. Looking forward to seeing more of your game dev progress. I’m learning Godot again and it’s really inspiring to see your ideas come together.
I was on this Jam, my game was the first one until I got banned for no reason. The fact that I made a dev log and my fowlers rate my game incredible high. Other participants think I use bot to vote for me on a free game Jam. I played your game it was good
Great vid!! Question though, at what point in your game dev journey did you believe you could do a game jam? I don’t think I work fast enough to do a jam yet.
So I only really started making progress with game dev in the past 5-6 months and I wasn’t actually planning on doing a game jam for another 3 or so months. But I saw that Shawcat was hosting one so I joined, so about 4-5 months in I completed my first game jam, if you wanna join one as well join a small one that’s just meant for fun, so even if you don’t submit, you still would’ve hopefully made a solid framework that you can continue building. Also how long have you been doing game dev?
In total, probably 5 months. I’ve been polishing basic mechanics of a regular platformer to learn the engine and workflow, but it feels like I’m so slow at it. I might try a jam soon, I’ve never spent more than 2 hours at a time developing. Plus I only have experience in platformers lol.
The time constraint of the game jam might push you work a little longer at a time, atleast that’s what it did for me. Also, maybe joining a longer game jam like a week long one may be a better option for you. So if you do compete in a jam I wish you good luck
