BotB Game Jam #6 - Puzzles

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I love botb game jams so much! and I'm hyped for the NEW FORMAT :D

214495

behold! new format! AND multi-format game jam 😋

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HOLDON???????
GB STUDIO??????

OH MY FUCKING GOD WE ARE EATING WELLLLLLLL

214499

butt puzzles

214503

its not scratch, but ill still take this epic victory (:<

214508

am I on shrooms right now?

214510

@Kalowe considering the state of the site rn, we all might be rn
if this battle ends up being the most elaborate april fools, i WILL explode

214514

gonna try to make the wildest puzzle packet for this one

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iwanttobelieve.jpeg

214539

someone should do the crossword on the cover

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Butt Game Jam #6 - Puzzles

214549

I noticed the HTML5 lyceum lists a section for "game engines," including GameMaker Studio.

Would using Godot be allowed, since it can export standalone web builds? Or is using a fully-featured engine against the spirit of the format?

214552

totally fair game i'd say!

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question: are simple puzzle games reminiscient of box-pushers like chip's challenge or sokoban allowed [presuming, of course, the user is programming their own unique version/"engine", of course] ? asking for those of us who do not feel like inventing the wheel

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i think you should do what seems the most fun to you when you think about Puzzles and when you think about what you'd like to accomplish!

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HTML5 Entrants may want to check out Puzzlescript!

https://www.puzzlescript.net/

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https://www.flickgame.org

214586

any pixel artists interested in helping me out with a gbstudio entry

214587

@retrokid and I are collaborating on this here game jam. I've got experience in game dev. All we need is an artist pweaze pwetty pweaze

214589

I'm a lot less busy now if you want to collaborate!

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i am available for any collabs needing pixel art for gb studio or html5, let me know here or on discord/irc if you want my help! :D/

214596

Exciting to see the additional formats! I hope PDF still gets some love as well!

214602

making a puzzle is harder than i expected o_O

214609

oooh this looks exciting! Would it be okay to use this as an excuse to dust an old game demo idea off and finish it? and how do we feel about Quiz type games using what you see/hear in game, fitting in the puzzle format? Might be stretching it?

Thank youu

214622

I don't care about the submissions I'm solving that Crossword

214625

i think as long as you feel you're putting substantial new effort into a submission (and it hasn't been posted somewhere before, same as w/ music) you should be good

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incoming ambiguous kurodoko puzzle book

214695

game jam? GAAME JAM?!!! I'll try :)

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i think I solved it
https://ibb.co/NgnPvL6Y

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rules question for a concept I may not actually follow through on:

What if one were to make some kind of interactive puzzle adventure in one of the codist formats... and then 'ported' it to PDF as a second entry?

The porting would be a substantial effort in terms of setting up how the game 'works' in a paper format, ala D&D 'Gamebooks' (choose your own adventure with a few more elements) - or could even represent a substantial transformative step, if you were to make a 'DeMastered' or 'DeMake' or 'DeMix' version of the interactive game...

Does that sound like the sort of thing one could get away with??

(alternatively, a codist entry that goes hand-in-hand with a pdf entry, where the player has to go back and forth between the two mediums to progress, with puzzles solved in one providing keys to the other, etc?)

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the former thing i think would qualify as covering your own entry (and so probably not ok, sorry), but the alternative thing at the end sounds interesting. it would be difficult to vote on though. methinks it'd be optimal to have two technically standalone things that complement one another or reveal some new depth in tandem

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yeah I think that's fair.

also a good check against being overambitious 😅

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i have an idea for an action puzzle game (a la Tetris or Panel de Pon) i've been bouncing around since... i wanna say high school? it's def changed a lot since its original incarnation. saw this and thought about committing to it. it'll be a gamemaker project for HTML5. we'll see how it goes... I don't have infinite free time but I think i might be able to manage a demo of 1 stage at least
EDIT: apparently our documentation of "game maker" on "html5" curiously lists it as a paid program. which is not the case. for targeting html5 specifically you need an opera acct but the rest of gamemaker is free for non-commercial use and costs $100 once for commercial use.

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That was probably written before the changes Opera made. Currently, I have no idea if I will end up making something for this battle, but if I do I'll attempt using TurboWarp to not go through the pain of optimizing a custom Godot build.

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Godot developers beware! The file size limit for the html5 format is 25mb according to the lyceum.

215514

cool! i plan on porting a board game (kinda like a chess+risk hybrid) i made in 2023 to JS and posting it here.

215939

I would request one more week for this battle.

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the entry i'm working on is on track to finish, but an extendo would be great - it probably would allow us to flesh out our game more!

215980

i also would like an extension =P

215981

just to be clear, while i will keep this in mind to some extent, this is a monthly and we do not typically extend monthlies, so at the very least please don't plan on there being an extension 🙏

215984

still, it would be nice if there was an extension

215988

I'm probably biting off more than I can chew trying to hit all 4 formats, but fuck it we ball

Guess who's also been procrastinating on actually working on entries like usual T___T

(I will still be submitting, extension or no! Hopefully I don't have to settle for too much half-baking.)

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holy moly - send funute all your energy 💪

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To clarify I've started working/ideation on all 4 entries, by procrastinating I mean I started later than I should have and have a lot of crunch time to do :S

Where I'm at right now:

- pdf: basically done, just need to submit
- html5: idea stage
- gbstudio: idea stage, also been familiarizing myself with GB Studio a bit
- tic80: maybe like half of core mechanics implemented, need to implement the other half + make levels

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~~hate to say it but an extension would be awesome~~

we managed

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pdf: submitted
tic80: in progress, should be ready in time
html5: have some ideas but have not started yet
gbstudio: have not familiarized myself yet with tis new format

216055

uhh shit i gotta actually start my entry...! i had to deal with school stuff and also factor in time for not working on things so i have nothing to show, if this major had been like 3 weeks from now I'd probably been more able to work on it

unrelated but I meant to make a forum post on 4/20, but got caught up with easter activities

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I have been making full use of the 30 days we have and would kind of hate if there was an extension I can't lie >_<

216077

I have most definitely not been making full use of the 30 days but I also think it's only fair that it stays 30 days

216130

I haven't had the time and I don't have the skill, but I would love to see more of these in the future so I can try to ever something

216132

WDYM you don't got the skill??? Your pixel entries are fire every time

216148

honestly an extension would be really nice. the game is literally super close to being done we just need a bit more time

216214

hate to ask for an extension, but... extension? :D

216234

i have zero ground to ask for an extension cuz i started this with a little less than a week remaining, but i wouldn't hate having an extension for this one either

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Game will be done today, running a few play tests tonight and then submitting tomorrow :)

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Posting this for posterity since there's not much time left to submit, but as of right now Godot 4 does not support web exports if you write your scripts using C#. Beware!

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/4.4/tutorials/export/exporting_for_web.html

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a small extension - you have through the weekend to wrap things up and test and bugfix and all that good stuff. godspeed to the finish line! this is it!!

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back to the woodworks

216281

oh thank goodness...

this is good! now bugfixing can be done and I won't have to stay up until 1am tonight cramming in levels.

thank you dami

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certified 🙏 moment

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my solution to the cover art puzzle

216516

unfortunately, i wont be able to submit anything due to time constraints

216519

@damifortune Thx for hosting such a goated battol!!!

216522

alright entry done! this was a fun battle.

gbstudio is great, albeit a tad limited. overall though i had a blast. good luck to all participants, especially those in the same format!

216523

no more puzzles. evah...

217393

one more week of vorts. we need more of em! from myself included. let's puzz it up

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Much appreciated!

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maybe the puzzles never end . . .

217454

This has gotta be my favorite battle/ game jam I've ever participated in, as well as the most beneficial.

Through this surprise game jam I:
1. learned a game engine in a month
2. learned how to actually use furnace
3. collaborated on the largest scale I've ever done
4. found creative workarounds to seemingly impossible problems
5. found another reason to use my gameboy
6. pulled 4 all-nighters
7. frickin enjoyed myself

We need more BOTB game jams in the future!

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yo! I added another week to the voting period here. vote count is still pretty low, and since I have started checking out peoples' puzzles I can kinda see why - it takes a lot of time and effort to play and vote! I'm gonna go through them all before next Sunday to the best of my ability, and I hope you're able to, too.

217735

how puzzling that the puzzles never puzzle end puzzle puzzle

217785

arghhhhh i just wanna know who wonnnnnn

(makes sense. people, please vote! we need moar! i managed to finish in about 3 hrs, it’s not that hard lol)

218234

Good job everyone! I loved checking out all the GB studio entries.

I'd like to thank @retrokid104, @big lumby, and @John Favourite for collaborating on our entry. Could not have even dreamed of getting silver without you guys!

I'd love to see more game jams in the future. Especially GB studio jams :D

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worked my wars bit my battle