#ggj2016

[matchaastudio]

The product of a 36 hour development rush! We made “Lost Light” at GGJ 2017. Working with the event’s theme of “waves,” we explored the use of sound, rhythm, and poetry in video game storytelling.

[dollarincash]

Global Game Jam is starting up again soon so I felt like posting up the game my pal, @skullbeans, and I made last year. You can play it if you're not on chrome (lol) http://www.rianburbridge.com/witchhunt/WebBuild.html 

[rocketbrain]

cek2x gambar ... wow GGJ2016 😂 #GGJ #globalgamejam #oldskool #gamedev #gameart #gamedesign #gamedevelopers #gamedevelopment #passion #enjoy #cool #lyto

[kr-024]

GGJ2016 - giombi panic

oculus、VRホラーコンテンツ-giombi panic のグラフィックや一部モデル製作を担当しました。

http://globalgamejam.org/2016/games/%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A8%E3%83%A0%E3%83%93%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF-giombi-panic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtzZRmjyQg0

[workofwill-blog]

“Dash or Crash” January, 2016

Worked on 3D art and programming

Made with Unity 5 and Maya 2016

[joshuawillems]

This past Global Game Jam, I worked with some talented friends and made a little game! Playable here.

[ryanmillergamedev]

Otto is a game built for the 2016 Global Game Jam with Andy Peverley and Ian Zamojc. It’s an auto-runner game in which you solve puzzles by moving around platforms and guiding Otto towards a safe exit. You can get it for free here

[ratrogue]

I should write a bit about the Global Game Jam.

We (that’s Jana and me) participated this year, after the last two years were a bit disappointing in this regard. And we made a game! That felt really good, because we didn’t do a complete jam game together for much too long. The fruit of our labor is Potion Panic, which you can get on itch.io. It’s a bit sad that the new GGJ site doesn’t allow comments anymore, and removed all previous entries we did.

Anyway, Potion Panic is a local multiplayer game were the two pupils try to make a potion according to the instructions of their Master of Potions. You can sabotage your frenemy by putting the wrong ingredients into their pot (or even throw a bomb into it), and by punching them. If Sna..., I mean, the Potion Master sees you when you do this, he will zap you, making you immobile for a few seconds.

Would be cool if some people would try it, as we think it’s fun. This is always a gamble with jam games for me, because I really need to learn how to create the core gameplay early enough (read: on the first day of the GGJ), but I’m not there yet. We could do a few short test sessions in the last hours only.

The best thing about Potion Panic is that we decided to go for 2D characters (in a 3D world), and it turned out pretty well. In the beginning I had some doubts, as it meant that I had to create a special animation system for the players and the teacher, which is why I was so reluctant. But really, it’s looking so nice now (especially the Snape guy), that we think about using that style in another project too.

Here’s the whole thing in action:

As usual it was fun to see how the game became more and more complete. Even though I’m still not there yet to actually create fun time lapses like so many jammers do, at least I document the progress by creating screenshots now and then:

I implemented the Potion Master early on, but he only became important later. He didn’t do much for most of the GGJ, just walking around!

[wintercastgame]

The Early Rising of Wintercast

A little over two weeks ago was Global Game Jam 2016, my second Game Jam, and there I started working on Wintercast.

I regularly work from the co-working space the jam was held in, so I was there before the action even started. Also arriving early was a friend of mine who I had met at the previous year’s jam, Michael Shilliday, a 3D modeler and graphic designer who mainly freelances, making hats, skins, sets, and loading screens for games like TF2, and Dota2. His partner in crime, and soon to be in life, Paige Cameron accompanied him. While Michael operated mainly in the 3D medium, Paige represent the ying to his yang, art’ing it up in 2D, developing the textures for their 3D models and sets they submit to Valve.

Shortly after Paige and Michael, Matthew Rafuse arrived. Matt is a bright guy, and the current president of the Saint Mary’s University CS Society. It was Matt’s first game jam though he leapt in head first taking the lead on the level effects, and animation. David was the next to arrive, and he brought the thunder, literally, he is an audio engineer and created the sound track for the game. I hadn’t worked with a sound guy on a game before, usually opting to go without, though there is definitely something motivating about listening to your own game’s tracks while smashing out some code. Branden was the next to join the team, having been floating around the event space before getting pulled into the group. Branden is a developer, like my self and Matt, and put work into the user input / controls, as well as combat mechanics.

As rad as all these people are, they’re all still nerds and keeners, being some of the first to show up Global Game Jam 2016 and winning themselves a seat on team Early Risers. Honestly though, I didn’t pull the team together and I’m not even sure who did. I walked by the table and Matt asked me if I was down to join the team. On the spot I said yes, but I was uneasy because I hadn’t heard any ideas yet and wanted to make sure I was working on the raddest of teams. Long story short, I should play the lotto because I won the jack pot, this team is amazing. I think it is well balanced and composed of a motivated set of individuals.

After the theme reveal (ritual if you hadn’t already heard) we locked ourselves into a conference room and proceeded to brainstorm. We considered what defines a ritual, and related ideas, and then considered what we would like in our game. Initially the team was leaning towards developing a 2D game, mainly because the less experienced members of the team felt that this would be easier, though Michael very much wanted to express his medium, and I vouched for Unity, and its ease of use creating 3D games. After much iteration (maybe 2 -3 hours of brainstorming) we settled on a 3D arena based fighter.

The end result of Game Jam is a fast paced arena fighter we called Witch Arena, and then renamed to Witchual, and now Wintercast. Wintercast drops four players into an arena fighting for control of a pentagram in the center to complete their ritual. Control of the pentagram scores points, though around the outer edges of the arena are five pentagrams that may be captured to give the player a power up / active ability, ie. fireballs. Hot fucking fireballs…  and other things too. More than fireballs though, each power up will counter another. Since there are 4 players and 5 pentagrams, at any given point at least one available power up is attainable. Player will be able to quickly dash to switch power ups, creating a fast paced game of rock paper scissors, pulling players to the outside of the map.

Oh, and my name is Dawson. I’m a software dev. I make things, and sometimes they work :)

[redpenguinbowtie-blog]

Preparing for the Game Jam

In the week leading up to the global game game 2016 we crammed as much unity tutorials as we possibly could, we weren’t well prepared, but y’know we had a good go and we knew enough.

[queermogames]

GGJ 2016

Feb 12th, 2016

Couple weeks ago was Global Game Jam 2016, the prompt was “rituals” and I helped put together DoorGate.  It’s a goofy sci-fi twine game, I did the coding, art by Delossopher, music by ToyTree, music by Castleman but I have no idea if he has a site.  I should probably get a cooler nickname.

Game jams are amazingly therapeutic for how stressful they are.  There’s another one starting tomorrow.  It’s giving me a lot of great momentum on making things, but makes me antsy to get back to work on my own projects.  But I need the Unity practice, so it’s good.

[art-of-otoshi]

Day 7 ~ January 31st, 2016

More art for the Global Game Jam 2016 game. I referenced a few different barns to get the overall shape, then created a front-view concept where a character can walk through the barn doors ( the black rectangle ) and appear to be going inside // outside the barn, giving some depth and perspective.

[dzungief-blog]

Fhionnuisce (Phoenix)

3D Puzzle game. This was made during the 2016 Global Game Jam. The full was not fully completed within the time limit. The game revolves around lighting torch puzzles to make your way to the top for the sacrifice. Staying in the darkness hurts you. Light the torches to light the next puzzle. Staying in the light restores your health.

Download:

http://globalgamejam.org/2016/games/fhionnuisce

[hugosu-blog]

Global Game Jam 2016 GuangZhou Team 2 Sgougou 48 hours work more info can through http://globalgamejam.org/2016/games/annual-ring-%E5%B9%B4%E8%BD%AE

[jasmineeladas]

Some of the artwork that ended up in the game we made at the global game jam :) One of the constraints I had was to only use 4 colours, so I used different shades of pink, yellow, blue and green (many saturations/brightnesses per hue).

[the-art-of-deive-ex]

Oh, yeah, almost forgot. Here’s some animations I did for my Global Game Jam 2016. Not my best work, but it did the job.