Ultimate Game Jam - Round 1 ( Game Jam Devlog ) 

I personally find it ok to have a black screen as a game ending. Some games even have just a "You win" text as endings and are considered great games. I think it's more of a build-up to the end that overestimates a satisfactory game over.

The special character in the file NAME that makes things not work is what nightmares are made of

You made a lot for such a small time period! Nice job!

Thank you :D I really enjoyed your game.I must admit, that it was a little bit to tough for me. So I never reached the boss but now I think that was by design haha 😄

Been waiting for new devlog. Your videos always inspiring to create my own devlogs.

Create variations of floor tiles - one that does actually disappear if you stand on it too long, one that deals damage to you the longer you stand on it(or one that gives you health). I feel like variations in floor types could really help you setup interesting levels and particularly make the boss battles more interesting and difficult which would increase the sense of accomplishment after beating it. Good luck with the rest of the jam!

Tip for your artwork: You were drawing in a size that allowed you to mix pixel sizes and move in increments smaller than a pixel. Keep brush size consistent, movement of pixels locked to a grid, and dont draw assets in one "pixel resolution" but say UI in another.

When I player your game it felt like I was playing an actually finished game! The feel, the visuals, the great feedback, the audio. It all felt super polisched! Very well made and you definitely deserved to proceed to round 2 :)

2:15 wait you made this game? i played it a while ago and it's dope!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts I feel like there is so many deep things to learn from your process. I hope that we can keep seeing you grow. Keep us posted and kudos.

You basically went through every state I experience every jam I participated in. Except that I usually just give up and call myself a failure since it's easier. Props to you for committing till the end, the struggle is real!

9:37 LOL, that made me laugh a lot. Good video anyways, hope to see some more in Monkeys with Guns!

Thanks for sharing this. That hash in the filename issue is so relatable. lol

Oh man, I've been struggling using Trello too! I would set it up, then always do something completely different! I guess I'm more of a paper guy

This was such a fun journey, thank you buddy!

I do not like seeing this channel having 9k this deserves more

Awesome work!

Nice video man! Keep up the work 😉 Love working on smaller projects as well. Keeps things fresh and interesting instead of working for months or years on one project only. ❤️

Congrats on 2nd place and good luck on your next one!

Excellent work

Awesome video, and awesome game !!!!

Love these devlogs c:

Woah... The likes on this video, for such a small channel, is pretty big in one month! Anyway, I find this very entertaining to watch. Keep up the good work, you've earned a like

i just started a year ago in this area and am a Pro athlete. you sir have a great mind set and work ethic !!

Thanks so much for participating: glad you're in the next round! I'm sure it's only gonna get more tense from here! Hopefully my hosting skills were... good enough? (i hope lol)

Me: I want to watch some Devlogs today Vinlark: I gotchu fam

Vimlark, you’re the best.

I think the main issue here is the difference between movement that are limited by the platforms but the goal doesn't ask you to move back to places you made holes in it. One idea: point A give something you have to move to point B. If B lack the "thing" from A, tiles fall even more. And maybe putting the "things" in B put some tiles back. The difficulty get higher and higher not with ennemies and shoting but with traps that add up each time you make one travel. That way movement is your main mechanic and keeping tiles is important, as much as navigating between the holes. If you want a theme for this idea : point B is the dungeon monster, point A is the brick factory. Your little mage can take the bricks in A and give them to B to restore the dungeon. If B is hungry, he destroy tiles to eat the bricks and calm down until the next time he is hungry. If you want to keep the shooting maybe use the bricks. On the way back you can stunt traps or ennemies by shooting some of your bricks. Well, I hope you like the concept, I don't think anyone would ever make it but it was fun

I like how you made one of the non used player sprite as a enemy!

Nice video! I have never heard of that game engine. Really funny to see people using different stuff than just Unity and Unreal on RU-vid.

Great video! I loved how different your game is! As like you said most of us...did health (myself included)

Looks fun

That big ghost looks scary :D GJ !

The red bar at the bottom (of the video thumbnail) made me think I already watched this video when I didn’t

I like the way you went about drawing the sprites, they all are in a similar style and fit the game very well!

100th like! Love your videos! Thank you very much for them!

mate you inspired me to not procrastinate with making my game with my fear of it not being good.

I think you should list common errors that you encounter, and how to fix them. It has saved me lots of precious time, specially after a long break from which you are likely to forget precisely the 'small', 'silly' things. Also, it motivates me seeing how many issues I solved: it's also a trophy room, some took quite a lot of effort to figure out.

I love the vids and hope mwg is getting together well.

Well if the next mechanic is blackout at the game end, then you got it ;)

Looks like the Demonaire project remade like mine. Awsome!

My friend Todd Weiss was also part of the jam and I knew some people who join but I didn't realize bigger youtubers join which I thought was cool cause the host is a pretty small channel.

Interesting video buddy

I just finished my first game Jam and hoo boy I now know how you felt, on the last day I had so much to do but so little time, and everything kept breaking and I couldn’t figure out why. By 4:30 (the deadline was 7:00) I was just so tired, so I did a few bug fixes and sent it in at 4:50, it was super stressful. 😔

Look guys! He called me awesome :D

Tried out many planning tools too but the only one that works for me is a whiteboard and markers ;)

Nice game, even though it didn't turn out as well as you hoped I think it's still impressive that you were able to make that large of a game in a jam. Btw is there like a main discord channel or something that all the game Devlog channels are on, because id love to participate in something like this if it happens in the future!

Continue working on the game it’s really really good game

For me it helps a lot to just write organization things in a big text file. The usual tools are too inflexible for my taste.

I just completed the game it was real fun but it was quite hard good job

A fellow construct dev!

New video 🙌

I’m awesome and you totally appreciate me.

Cool game, mixels really bother me though after spriting for some time lol

like your edit i will keep watching you ;)

The word real is his slept in the final game

with eyes:cute no eyes:badass

Looks cool, what programs are used for the game making?

this is really inspiring - how do you find the energy?

"Decay" I think 1st of a field that wears down as you play and 2nd zombies... with his wanting to make a top-down shooter that would be great. Maybe I should do that. Zombie battle royal as you try to climb back up to the surface instead of falling down into the pit... yeah, that would be great. Oh, he thought of the floor too. Makes sense. My thought was that the floor decay was automatic though so I still have a project idea.

Nick, You're super inspiring. Thank you for sharing your dev experiences. As a young father myself, i've been slowley teaching myself how to make games in my spare time, but most days I'm finding that I can only devote 1 hour or so to anything. Was this a problem for you when your daughter was younger ?

Good video! I’m a new video game developer and I was curious how were you able to get the wand to rotate with the mouse and stay attached to the player character?

Title: It's Dangerous To Go At All

to clarify, will the mechanic that you have to add in round 2 and 3 be random like the theme?

I'm spreading word on my game jam The name is infinity jam.

I haven't seen someone use Construct in a long time

I know you don't want software suggestions, but have you considered using a physical kanban board? Like you just need a white board and some sticky notes that you move between the three sections. The reason it's effective and works is because you don't have to open software to use it. It's right in front of you like a physical reminder. For me, on smaller projects, I go one step easier and just make a paper based checklist that I keep on my desk right in front of me.

Considering how fast you work I find it very strange how long you stared at that thesaurus page for. Your true kryptonite?

What software do you use because I’ve been watching lots of different videos of people making really cool games and now I wanna try being a game dev so if you could give a me a couple tips, I would really appreciate it thx!!!

Neat

What do you use to make games (I want to try using it)

you made a mistake when copying and pasting other yt links in the description

you should have called it crumbling cantrips

Whats the songs used in this videos, they are amazing!

What program are you using to create this game?

What platform are you using to make your games??

What are you using to develop the games? That doesn't look like unity or regular game engines

Sorry I’m new to this type of content. What’s the game engine? I’m missing something.

you should consider there would be people with photosensitive epilepsy watching this video

Does anyone know what website he's using? it seems really cool and id love to be able to make games with it.

How long have you been using construct ?

what did you use to make the game

Why do you use Construct as opposed to Unity or Unreal? You are the only person I have seen on RU-vid that uses construct and it actually looks super simple, I might check it out tomorrow.

Which game engine did ya use?

3:20 AMOGUS

are you using block programing?

What game engine do you use sir?

What Program are u using

Is anyone else excited for him to quit his job and do this full time

Do they scale down as they fall ?

Yus

What game engine is this made on

What game engine was used in the videob

hey Vimlark, i didn't know where to put this, but there is a bug where the menu buttons still make noise when you hover over them, even when not visible... Great game tho, just now finally beat the boss

Which game engine does Vimlark use??

What game engine is that?

What are you using for programming this doesn't look like unity?

The title could of been tread lightly

What game engine do you use?

What game engine did you use?