#my first game jam

[myfirstgamejam]

My First Game Jam Summer 2023 will run from July 22nd - August 5th!

◾ Rules and FAQ

◾ Official Discord server - Join us! (Please note that you must be 14 years or older to join the server.)

◾ Fill out the optional entrance survey! Not required, but helps us assess jam needs!

My First Game Jam is an online game jam for people of all skill levels to learn something new. Never made a game before but always been curious? Set aside two weeks to join the jam and learn how to make a game along with others. Absolute beginners encouraged to join!

Our goal is to organize resources and make game development more accessible. We hope to foster an online space where you can share your progress with other first-time game makers and get help from experienced devs. By the end of two weeks, you hopefully will have some working game or prototype to share—it’s an exciting first step to making games! Individuals and teams are welcome, and we encourage you to both play to your strengths and try something new.

This is our 16th jam, and we’d like to thank our community for supporting new jammers! You can see some past jams here and here. We appreciate you taking the time to spread the word and look forward to seeing your games this summer!

[crystalnest]

I MADE A GAME! LET'S GOOOO!

[marzgamez]

HI!!!!!

I DID THE ITCH MY FIRST GAME JAM!!!

My Last Speed Date - The dating sim for people who love deranged characters.

Disclaimer: NONE of the dateable characters are based off of real people. Anything similar to real life, regarding dateable characters, is a coincidence.

Desperate for a love life, you decide to give speed dating a chance. What you had hoped to be a normal evening of trying to find the love of your life, was far from normal. Though, you could hopefully still find the love of your life among these (mostly)non-human killers.

Please check it out if you are intrested!!!

[marleyinbloom]

I participated in the My First Game Jam 2023 jam and made a game named Annomaly. It's a very short puzzle-platformer focused on time travel and the first game I have actually released publicly!

Try it out here:

[theniftyfoxcomics]

I might be participating in this years "My First GameJam" 👀

If I were to design a little zombo character, who would you pick?!

[slaughtermaticgames]

A house that is so scary

One of the origins of this EPIC JOURNEY of game development I've been on was one day in Discord with a friend. A popular low poly horror game was in a video and I said something like, "I bet I could flip some assets and make a game just like this in a few months and even make it scarier". Theres a lot wrong with that statement. There are other reasons I started this but they're not really relevant to this story.

So after watching a 5 hour tutorial about Unreal I was ready to start work on this game. First, I thought, I should just make a layout for a house. I didn't know what to name the project so I just wrote "Scary House". Thus the Scary House franchise was born.

You can probably guess what happened to that very first project. First, Scary House, then Scary House 2, 3, 4, 5 a reboot and so on. Eventually I started branching out and I discovered GBStudio and I thought maybe this is where I should start.

Scary Pocket. I spent about a day making the bottom floor of a house and scripting an enemy to pursue and lunge at my player character. The player character had a short dash they could use to evade and it was actually pretty fun. But being on GBStudio and having like 100 events in one scene it was a little framy at times and had collision issues. Then I discovered GameMaker.

Scary Pocket Remastered. I spent a day again making the bottom floor of that house and programming my AI. Its amazing it took me like 4 hours in GBStudio with events and it took me like 4 hours in GameMaker with code. The difference was 100 events vs 15 lines of code. This got me really interested in coding and I would split my time between learning coding concepts and game dev. Since then I haven't really messed with the Scary House property. I had (still have) an idea of what I want to do with it in 2D but pretty much shelved it. Everything game dev adjacent I'd done for a while was just basic learning. Learning ins and outs of Godot, trying out Unity (C# is now my target programming language outside of game dev).

After doing a few tutorials and learning code basics for a few weeks I felt pretty confident and decided to join 'My First Game Jam' (thats the name of the jam) and try to produce something. The theme is 'Growth' and I had a few ideas for this. One was in RPG maker using the MV3D plugin. It would start with a kid eating his vegetables and growing to titanic size and rampaging through his town mostly on rails and scripted events where people try to stop him and the fight options were just "Slap" "Squash" etc and you would just one-shot everything and eventually the police show up and shoot him (I'm bad at endings). One was reviving 2D Scary House and replacing the lunge with an expanding thing and it looked as stupid as it sounds.

Here is a link to the Game Jam if you're interested. Its aimed at beginner developers. You're even allowed to do a tutorial for it. Its meant to give people with an interest in game dev that push they might need to get started.

That pretty much brings us to today. I decided to mess with creating maps in 3D with TrenchBroom and importing them into Godot 4. I hadn't actually built anything in 3D since those early Unreal days.

So I guess I should just present the project I'm working on now for the jam. Its going to be a low poly/3D Pixel horror game. I believe this will take on the title 'Scary House'. The house has 3 floors, the gameplay is find a key open a door to the stairs, very simple; it is my first 3D game after all. I'm aiming for about 5 minutes of gameplay and 2 endings. I want to tell a small little short story primarily with symbolism.

I'm excited to see how this project turns out. I have 2 weeks to finish it but every time I think about an entire job description worth of work I need to do it makes my head spin. Hopefully I will get there.

This is the second floor. Everything is a little big. Its meant to make you feel small.

This is the starting floor ft my monster man stuck on a table.

I'm on the fence about this purple tint. I kinda like it but I just started experimenting with that earlier today.

I've learned how to do a lot of things by first doing them wrong. May write something about that someday.

A SCARY ROOM TOO?

Anyways. Thats a little backstory on me and what I'm currently working on. I may post some more stuff about this project. Topics like, learning things by doing them wrong (sort of) and why understanding documentation is like really important. Mostly just stories of me being not-so-smart.

[thehermiticbear]

The Moonlit Lodge is available!

My first officially finished project, The Moonlit Lodge, is now available for download on itchio. Its a solo journaling RPG where you play as a werewolf, trying to manage your health before the next full moon and your next transformation.

The game is free to download, so give it a look and let me know what you think!

I'll be writing up a post-mortem of the game and its development later this week, and after that its on to my next project, Court of Birds.

[nidbaesenpai]

Dare you say this love could just save you

[rexanesolo]

Adventures in Clairune is out!

If you want to:

Bully a dragon lord

Flirt with an elf

Trust an assassin

And most importantly romance them!! With perks such as:

he/she/they option for players

6 endings (good and bad for each love interest)

A 1 hour playtime (roughly)

Pretty art style & good music

FREEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

So go play my first vn! (I was inspired by the arcana and y'all might like this too :3)

[slitherbop]

I made a short RPG Maker Visual Novel for Winter VN Jam

You find yourself taking care of "Spinwhim"!

HERE ON ITCH.IO

[punkbarbarian]

[image id: a dark photograph of a grassy cliff face with dense clouds. a white illustration of a bat with its wings spread sits behind white text. text reads: Vampire Manor / a for truth's sake game by punkbarbarian. /end id]

On a rocky cliffside overlooking rolling moors as far as the eye can see sits a dark, towering manor home made of brick and iron. Tempestuous clouds cast a perpetual drizzle on the countryside and nearby forest, leaving the air damp and cold. Surely the generous owner of the manor the villagers whispered about will let you shelter there.  Maybe you’ll gather some interesting material for your research… Investigate the macabre manor, its eccentric inhabitants, and the nearby village through interviews and observation. What is the relationship between the unliving and villagers? Why do members of the community go missing without a trace? How long has the Vampire actually been alive?

Vampire Manor is a solo-journaling game where you explore a vampire's ancient manor and the surrounding village to learn more about the community and write an ethnography on them. 

Pull cards to ask questions of the residents, roll dice to see how well interactions go, and get to know a number of residents and fellow travelers, from a petty thief, to wandering nomads, a vampire hunter, and the intimidating Vampire. Unlock 12 different locations and gain levels in friendship and familiarity with the community as you document your discoveries in field notes.

You'll need: A d20, d12, and d8, and a deck of playing cards

Vampire Manor is a setting of For Truth's Sake by @hmooncreates. It was inspired by Dracula by Bram Stoker, Castlevania (Netflix), and Curse of Strahd. 

included in download: a plain text pdf and a formated pdf!

check it out on itch!!

[myfirstgamejam]

My First Game Jam Winter 2023 will run from January 28th - February 11th!

◾ Rules and FAQ

◾ Official Discord server - Join us! (Please note that you must be 14 years or older to join the server.)

◾ For returning jammers, there is no survey this time around!

My First Game Jam is an online game jam for people of all skill levels to learn something new. Never made a game before but always been curious? Set aside two weeks to join the jam and learn how to make a game along with others. Absolute beginners encouraged to join!

Our goal is to organize resources and make game development more accessible. We hope to foster an online space where you can share your progress with other first-time game makers and get help from experienced devs. By the end of two weeks, you hopefully will have some working game or prototype to share—it’s an exciting first step to making games! Individuals and teams are welcome, and we encourage you to both play to your strengths and try something new.

This is our 15th jam, and we’d like to thank our community for supporting new jammers! You can see some past jams here and here. We appreciate you taking the time to spread the word and look forward to seeing your games this summer!

[crystalnest]

my first game jam 2023

Day 1:

made a plan of action

made a list of necessary assets

written out all the scenes with a brief description and the relationships between them

set up the project before working in renpy and dig into the action manager addon settings

shoved Eileen into the washing machine

[sysig]

Maybe requestober prompt of soft?

Day 5 - Pile o' plushies

[ugukun]

A short story featuring the struggles between love, infatuation, and envy.

Hi! I worked on a visual novel for Queer Vampire Game Jam 2024. I helped design and create the character art for my team's game. :)

[renbiegames]

I've been a part of an incredible dev team for a few months and we just released a demo for Otome Jam called Cupid's Chatroom! It's a dating chatsim with 5 love interests, you can find the game here!

Here's some doodles I did of the two love interests for the demo, Roman and Daeho! I love them both sm ♡♡