you jammin'

Orikaeshigitae

it's the global game jam this weekend. i helped set up the vancouver edition yesterday - the location with the most devs in one room worldwide! - and it was real fun + cool. i was looking forward to starting work on a game today buti'm sick so i'm doing it at home.

are you an Ideas Guy? are you Looking For Programmers And Artists And Other Jokers With No Ideas To Implement Yours

Well I'm Not Going To But Post About It Here Anyway

http://youtu.be/h_lTq6XL-AE

Orikaeshigitae

Being Sick Hella Sucks

Goose!

Sickness smells. Not as bad as this woman in my store who obviously is not homeless but still stinks to high heaven, but pretty bad.

Arang

I was at a party yesterday and it was being thrown in a basement that was incredibly cold

ladies love that shivering, though (?)

e: oh yeah, I woke up this morning feeling useless and it took me over an hour to realize that I was sick and not hung over

Antimatter

i would want to make a poison dart frog wargame

each frog would have its own ability, move your frogs around on a grid or a hex map, fight other frogs

shame i'm no good at coding/am impatient as hell when i tried dealing with the various types of coding i've tried, heh

Antimatter

poison dart frogs are cute and colorful and i really like them so yeah

Moriveth

I wanna jam it wit' you

Tallaclassee

There's a jam at George Mason University round these parts that some people went to.

Orikaeshigitae

the lack of on-topic in this thread sustains me.

Orikaeshigitae

Antimatter wrote: »

i would want to make a poison dart frog wargame

each frog would have its own ability, move your frogs around on a grid or a hex map, fight other frogs

shame i'm no good at coding/am impatient as hell when i tried dealing with the various types of coding i've tried, heh

lady we live in An Age Of Easy Tools And Frameworks

get a gamemaker trial or some shit, rip off the assets from frog fractions and get some shit DONE

Orikaeshigitae

for real,stop consciously talking yourself out of things and suddenly you feel better about your abilities

Orikaeshigitae

Goose! wrote: »

Sickness smells. Not as bad as this woman in my store who obviously is not homeless but still stinks to high heaven, but pretty bad.

pretty stinky sis

Orikaeshigitae

@bogey could you disallow reactions in this thread please (though i appreciate it, people who liked my 'i dislike being sick' post)

i would like this thread to be about Making Things And Posts

mully

how on earth do the reactions deter that

Antimatter

mully wrote: »

how on earth do the reactions deter that

posting just to get reactions i'd guess, as opposed to actually doing something functional

SCREECH OF THE FARG

we be jammin man

mully

doing something functional often warrants reactions

Sterica

Geth, enable hyper reactions.

Geth

Affirmative Rorus Raz. Allowing reactions in this thread.

Tossrock

what

Butler For Life #1

...hyper reactions?

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Arang

Overreactions?

OVERREACTIONS!??!?!

PiptheFair

Rorus Raz wrote: »

Geth, enable hyper reactions.

Speed Racer

I downloaded game mker earlier this week

For now I'm just fiddling with tutorials and learning what everything does but I am pretty confident that ill be able to do something with it

UnbrokenEva

I don't know if there is even a game jam site in my town but I'm away from my computer visiting my in-laws anyways.

Which ironically means this has been the most productive brainstorming time I've had in a while.

Currently bouncing around martial arts card duelling mechanics.

Orikaeshigitae

Rorus Raz wrote: »

Geth, enable hyper reactions.

8->

Orikaeshigitae

mully wrote: »

how on earth do the reactions deter that

i think reactions are a very low-effort way to interact with things

Sterica

They cut down on stupid shit like "QFT," empty quoting, "agreein' wit dis," and the dreaded "liming."

agoaj

Trying to make my guy go up stairs.
Accidentally added to his velocity instead of setting it.

He's in space now.

miscellaneousinsanity

Some of my friends are taking part in the RVA game jam (it's still in progress right?) Kellee Santiago from thatgamecompany came to give an opening talk.

Speed Racer

Speed Racer wrote: »

I downloaded game mker earlier this week

For now I'm just fiddling with tutorials and learning what everything does but I am pretty confident that ill be able to do something with it

Thanks for believing in me, geth

UnbrokenEva

I want to try and do tactical combat on the single-unit level, breaking a fight down to individual attacks and parries. Card mechanics would allow for tricks & feints, and like the combination of uncertainty of what your opponent has and what you will draw, with the knowledge of what you could do with the cards in your hand.

Ruby Rhod

I have dreams of video games I wish were made: super RPG's that have so much content and quests and ways to do things that it would take thousands of people coding forever to get all the things I want to do in them. Maybe someday.

Melding

Fuck ya i love jam!

agoaj

Come on and program
and welcome to the jam


Unity's given out some Pro trials if you want to jam
http://blogs.unity3d.com/2013/01/18/global-game-jam-2013/

Ruby Rhod

Like dwarf fortress level of content, but with actual graphics and being a game like Baldurs gate/arcanum/fallout 1-2/planescape torment.

UnbrokenEva

Ruby Rhod wrote: »

I have dreams of video games I wish were made: super RPG's that have so much content and quests and ways to do things that it would take thousands of people coding forever to get all the things I want to do in them. Maybe someday.

The only way that is going to happen (and you're hitting on it by referencing Dwarf Fortress) would be to have the game generate content/quests/stories procedurally

I dream of this as well... some day...

Ruby Rhod

The worst part about my dreams is waking up and realizing that, no, these games don't exist.

Kochikens

dont we already have a game development thread
it seems weird to have two threads for one fairly niche thing

Orikaeshigitae

game dev thread is defunct. this one will only last this weekend, if that, because it's about making things over a weekend

Orikaeshigitae

Fearghaill wrote: »

Ruby Rhod wrote: »

I have dreams of video games I wish were made: super RPG's that have so much content and quests and ways to do things that it would take thousands of people coding forever to get all the things I want to do in them. Maybe someday.

The only way that is going to happen (and you're hitting on it by referencing Dwarf Fortress) would be to have the game generate content/quests/stories procedurally

I dream of this as well... some day...

I've prototyped a few of these kinds of things. It's a thorny problem - both Robert "Radiator" Yang and Aaron Reed have/are trying their hand at it.

I'm not sure how feasible it is. Someone is going to come out with a procedurally generated story game in the next few years, I guarantee it, but as Yang says, games like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress succeed because of talented player-storytellers, not because the game itself tells stories. The game's events are essentially noise, since they don't have any significance in and of themselves. They only take on meaning when given a narrative by a storyteller.

I'm gonna have fun playing with the idea, though.