Game Jam 2

86602

Level 25 Chipist

Razerek

post #86602 :: 2017.06.21 10:03pm

Bitfox and Quirby64 liēkd this

nice

86603

OH BOY

86604

LET'S DO THIS

86605

this is more hyping than e3

86606

the results party will be at my house

bring dip, chips will be provided

mtn dew code black only

no staying up past 11 or else my grandma will get mad

86607

flip yeah, time to go see what theme ill be unable to figure out how to do in game maker studio and then proceed to make a game anyways and get like last place in the end because of said mistake that I happened to make and brought up earlier
(legit tho, coolio. \.o./)

86608

Ok You people, who wants cool music in your game? Hit me up!!!
ogmoot AT gmail DOT com

first come, first serrrrrrrrrrv

86609

Oooh boy, time to look up some tutorials.

86611

ordinate that would only be fun if we were on copious amounts of drugs.

86615

Woot, 9 days means I should have almost no excuse to not make anything :P

Also, to collabdong or not to collabdong :o

86616

ugh - i'd love to participate but the first 7 days is possibly the worst week for me in the entire year.

i might do something small and stupid.

still hoping for these in the future (hopefully not the too distant future! <3)

86617

Only HTML5?

Wow. Disappoint.

86618

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86619

Umm. Why is the upload limit 5 MB?

That's super small. I hope we can just upload an index.html that redirects to another page...

86620

yeah we should probably bump the upload limit
okthx

86621

A W Y E A H T H I S I S H A P P E N I N G

edit: reminder that every time intentional extra spaces are automatically removed from my post god kills a kitten ~~>:C~~

86622

musician for hire. post on my profile yo

edit: or pm on irc

edit 2: i'm gone until monday though

86623

i don't know how to program but i can pixels and musics so hit me up idk
(unless i learn enough programming to make a game)

86624

I would gladly draw and animate pixel sprites but too much work these days :(

I really REALLY wish I could do this I love the spirit of collaborating!

86625

woo

86626

Looking for some artists or people with ideas.

I'll write yer codes for ya.

86628

First major with voting categories that actually make sense.

86629

I can codes and musics but I can't pixels very well, so I may need some helps on the pixels.

~~even though the only OHB I've ever got gold in was a pixel~~

86630

YEA

Also Quirby don't worry about not scoring well, that last place is gonna be MINE and NOT yours lalalala nananana

86631

can't wait for ano destroyr 2

86632

I don't have enough time to learn how to do html5 games and pull out one man army so if anyone needs art and/or music then I'm willing to collab :o

86636

i wonder what theme will be

86638

Dust of course

86640

also I do know that I'm gonna be attempting flipping game maker block code again so if anyone wants a game that will be ~~absolutely terrible~~ surprisingly decent just ask yo boi quorble65 to help

:p

86641

I can stream the games on my channel

(please let the end time be next saturday please let the end time be next saturday please let the end time be next saturday please let the end time be next saturday please let the end time be next saturda--)

86642

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5LD12vdqpBmdi1FeVZDYUJGRTQ made some battle art

86652

Anyone looking for a pixelist, I'm one of your options!

86672

i wonder what game will break me on stream this time

this one sure took the cake last year

86674

oh yeah considering how good me and my friend's game did for you last time I'm gonna think specifically on how to make my game on how its gonna be played during le strem. :p

(and it wont be impossible this time I swear)

86697

just don't get me banned from twitch kthx (´・ω・｀)

86701

The 5mb filesize limit was some kind of typo. HTML5 format official max filesize is 25mb. Hope that helps! :3

Also -- entries must be uploaded in full on to the site within this 25mb filesize limit! :P

86703

RIP RPG Maker epic

it's okay, i'm sure someone can program their own rpg engine in html5 and make a whole game with it in the span of 9 days

86708

Can someone recommend a JavaScript game framework for me?

kthnx

Also have to learn JavaScript in 10 hours lol

86709

Vanilla JavaScript here I come

86712

oh boy gamedev finally my time to shine

86713

Scrubmitted my game before the the compo started.

This is a bug

86716

this makes me feel sexy

86724

There was a Reddit post two days ago with a guy that posted his HTML5 RPG Engine.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/6ifqdp/html5_rpg_for_beginners/

86735

Just use pixijs. Seriously, it's amazing!

86738

the bitpack being so specific and exclusive for a major was really dissapointing- gonna have to drop out of this one

86739

Nah bro, the only lib we need is jQuery. It's wonderful and does all things.

86741

The bitpack really isn't that specific and exclusive.

The only rule is you are limited to unicode characters for visuals.
It doesn't say you aren't allowed to manipulate them.
CSS allows all forms of rotation, scaling and skewing.
I've also said that gamemaker is fine so long as you adhere to the rules of only unicode characters for visuals.
You can even achieve a form of pixel art using block characters.

86743

ok so can I make my sprites in the game ascii art and have the different things in different scales etc? i'd probably go for that but idk if that's allowed :o

86745

I'm guessing that's a no since that'd be a graphic asset. Fairly sure he means actually using unicode and doing text rendering.

86746

yes the text can be scaled or rotated or manipulated in any way so long as it's text

86748

o game maker is ok suddenly everything alot easier okthx

86751

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86760

This game jam might bring us games with actual storylines and high effort music, which is not that bad after all :)

86769

GOOD bitpack

86772

I was making my game and all of the sudden I made this...

https://minerscale.github.io/botb-html-game/

86784

the cover art isn't ascii

quick, someone go fix that

86795

hey, maybe I might be able to enter this time

86796

Okay, I fixed the cover art to match the bitpack rules

86797

Haha nice one!

86803

You could try to layer the characters because it's impossible to distinguish what's written from the distance

It wouldn't be a text file anymore, but it follows the bitpack rulez

86804

I wanna know if we're allowed to put a favicon in the page _{(you know, the small icon that appears in the browser tab that's somehow always illegible when I make one but it's full hd 1440p 4k real colors when anyone else makes it)}. I hate blank icons >:C

86809

favicon is unnecessary but it's not actually in your game
so i don't think anyone would care either way

86812

I'm probably going to need an ASCII artist for my game. If you can ASCII and are willing/able to provide ASCII art for my game, let me know either here, on puke7's Discord, or on IRC (I'm more likely to respond on Discord btw) Role has been filled by Quirby64

86813

remember, we have the entire unicode library at our disposal! also, with css and some containers + absolute location you can stack them and thus create designs using colors and the geometric shapes from the unicode library (or webdings/wingdings). anything is possible :)

86814

Am I able to include a web-safe font into my game to make sure that it works on all machines? My game would look like shit without it. It's also on this list http://www.cssfontstack.com/Web-Fonts

open sans by the way

86816

Jun 23 16:30:44 <sincx> can we use this https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_google_fonts.asp
Jun 23 16:30:47 <BotB> How To Google Fonts -- well organized and easy to understand web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use html, css, javascript, sql, php, and xml. Page info: HTML, Javascript, Ajax
Jun 23 16:31:27 <puke7777> hmmm... maybe
Jun 23 16:31:30 <puke7777> lemme think about that
Jun 23 16:31:37 <puke7777> i'd have to update the rules again
Jun 23 16:31:58 <sincx> lol nevermind then it prob doesnt make much diff anyway
Jun 23 16:32:38 <sincx> was just A Thought
Jun 23 16:35:56 <puke7777> i mean it's early on in a 9 day entry period
Jun 23 16:36:11 <puke7777> but embedded fonts are not gonna give you any extra unicode characters
Jun 23 16:36:16 <sincx> that is true
Jun 23 16:36:40 <puke7777> also embedded fonts is a way to cheat if you make your own which i said no to earlier ;)

idk if we reached an Actual Conclusion but i would assume no, to be safe

86836

Damn it... My code is too inefficient.

I'm gonna have to redo pretty much everything :(

86844

Alright, so I've been trying my hardest to follow the rules of the bitpack to the best of my abilities but we're running into some major issues with our game because of it. It seems that Game Maker: Studio does not allow text drawing operations with web fonts unless I disable WebGL, so I did that and everything seemed fine at first except...

Apparently disabling WebGL causes a massive drop in performance for any of the text drawing operations. Thus, the renderer I wrote for this caused the game's framerate to hover around 15 fps.. which is completely unacceptable, especially for a game whose only "graphical assets" is text.

So, I figured out a way around this to optimize performance, involving the use of what Game Maker calls "surfaces". Essentially, surfaces act as a frame buffer (so, instead of drawing the text directly to the browser window every single frame, I can draw once to the surface, and just draw the surface to the browser window each frame instead and update the surface periodically, which improved the performance a lot.)

However, there's a major issue with this. Normally, Game Maker allows surfaces to have transparency, meaning you'd be able to display things behind it. Apparently, this isn't the case for games with WebGL disabled, as I've tried using this method and no matter what the surfaces are completely opaque... making it downright impossible to have multiple layers of text in our game.

The only way around this would be to enable WebGL, but then I can't utilize the built-in web fonts. Luckily, Game Maker does have an option to use fonts with WebGL enabled, using a menu that looks like this
. The only problem is, html5 exports using this method of displaying text require a texture page (a graphical asset) with all of the font's characters.

So my question is this: Would it be still be within the bitpack's rules if I used these font textures? All of these font textures are generated from fonts installed locally, and I can limit myself only to the ones that are web safe (it would still be in the spirit of the bitpack and also wouldn't look any different visually to the real web fonts). I've been trying as hard as I could to follow the bitpack without resorting to this but every time, Game Maker throws something at me that makes it extremely infeasible. :(

86846

I have been wondering the exact same thing! When GM:S rasterizes the font into a .PNG texture page pic anyway just like any other graphic resources I guess the rules COULD maybe allow using just sprite images of letters etc. if you wanted to take the easy way (and I am sure there will be entries doing just that) though I am personally trying to keep it as legit as possible by having it actually draw everything as text (or as close it can get)

86852

I am fine with this work around. Import whatever websafe font you want into your silly crutch studio environment! :D/

86855

~~OK, so as it turns out I'm too lazy to write music for my game. Let me know on puke7's discord if you're interested in composing for my game.~~ Role taken by pigdevil2010

86856

BotB Game Ham

86857

Ok I just realized I might've been dumb when writing my post. Turns out the surface issue wasn't a WebGL problem but a Me Coding Like An Idiot problem and I just assumed it was because of WebGL being disabled... So! As it turns out, I can do this without the need for importing textures after all!! :)
_{(Plus the way GM:S handles layering of texture-imported fonts looks terrible anyway so thank god)}

86865

I want to do sound design and music for somebody's game! Any takers?

86866

DevEd hit me up! ogmoot AT gmail

86868

~~you were supposed to hit ME up via discord >:C~~

86883

how i think my lead programmer is thinking right now

86931

So um, anyone else interested in having a completely professional soundtrack on their gaym jaym?

86949

I have no game in sight.

Just a fucking sound engine

86958

mootbooxle: I'm interested in choons.

86960

oh dear god I was going to get so much done yesterday and then nothing got done lol

86961

I hope every one here likes avocados

86962

~~inb4 astrocados 2: electric boogaloo~~

86963

We're not making astrocados 2.0 ~~>:C~~

86969

so close to something playable, most of the bits and pieces are there
but still not actually anything resembling a proper game yet

This is all my fault for not working on it that one day.

86973

Don't worry we've barely got an engine running

86974

I, too, am part of the "have not gotten as much done as I wanted to at this point" club.

...It's ok though, maybe puke will find it in his heart to give us all a 24-hour extension!! <3

_{_{_{or at least a 12-hour one ;__;}}}

86975

Can I join the club?

I've made some okay progress so far but not nearly complete yet. I've also got some rather ambitious plans that I have no idea if I can realistically do but eh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

^{also part of my plan includes POWERING THROUGH a ton of code and stuff pretty much all of Saturday. we'll see how that pans out.}

86976

Welll my pile of ascii dongs is pretty much done so I guess I'll just spend the remaining two and half days plus the possible extra day tweaking it into absolute perfection

86977

[This n00b ashamed of what written. - BotB]

86983

If theres a Extension ill finally have time to add a baseball cap to my player!

86984

My Jam right now

https://soundcloud.com/kristianpedersen/this-dot-feat-daniel-shiffman

My main javascript file has 68 lines.

68... 68... sixty fucking eight that's all I've managed to do in a week and a fucking half. 68 fucking lines fuuuuuuuck

Can I just train a neural network to make my game for me?

86988

Normally I wouldn't be okay with an extension (in fact my game is almost done, just have one more level, the final boss, and the credits to add), but A) I'm sick right now, and B) the mere thought of programming a boss makes my brain twist in strange directions. nope, it's done now

86989

oh come on

86996

proceeding to take dump on keyboard just like the programmer girl that i linked earlier

to be fair she did say "if i see another keyboard i swear i'm gonna fuckin' shit"

87016

...I barely implemented anything I wanted but I at least shipped it.
I'm not sure if I'm glad or screaming inside.

87041

Okay yeah I'm definitely gonna need an extension :c

87043

~~My game is done, I'm just waiting for my composer to finish the last track. I may or may not need an extension so he can finish...~~ nope, it's done now

87044

[This n00b ashamed of what written. - BotB]

87045

how i think my lead programmer is thinking right now, not-ranty version

87047

I can't wait to play these games! I loved the last game jam.
Doing music for tfx's game. Extension or no extension I'll meet the deadline! Finishing up tonight.

87049

Reminder that, assuming no extension, I will be streaming the submitted games on Sunday
.

This time, I have a time! I'm gonna stream at 2PM PST!
(Normally I'd do this in the evenings PST, but 1) I have people across the ocean to cater to alongside the time zones around me, and 2) Comcast is being a butthole whenever I stream in the evenings)

87063

🐦 how is this unicode?

87064

🤷

edit: this might say nothing if you lack the shrug emoji

87087

Some words from puke7 if you're thinking about dropping out of Game Jam 2 at the last minute because your thing isn't done.

87091

~~the problem with my game though is that it's done but is missing ONE SINGLE MUSIC TRACK~~ not anymore

87097

nearly everyone on this website has made a music track in under one hour; surely you still have plenty of time and there are plenty of people who would be happy to help you

87098

Ok let's settle this once and for all.

EXTENSION OR NO EXTENSION. PLACE YOUR VOTES HERE

87099

in response to puke7: 🤔

btw I kinda wanted to ask if emoji were allowed at the start of the battle but I didn't because I didn't plan on using them in my gaem

87100

idk what exactly is going on here but i thought the bitpack made it pretty clear by saying "you have the entire set of unicode characters at your disposal" and then including emoji in its UTF-16 text

87102

Emoji are part of the unicode standard so you could draw your own conclusions from there. I'm surprised it took this long for someone to ask.

87103

~~inb4 somebody submits an unofficial emoji movie game~~

87105

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87108

It's Not Unfair If The Tools Are At Everyone's Disposal™

87110

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87111

I think it's more unfair to limit yourself for the sake of it. If you go ascii art only you're only appealing to the audience who likes that sort of thing (99% of this site obviously, not including myself) and you're also severely crippling the things you can do with the rest of unicode. The characters on adnrew's game? Oops, unicode, sorry, can't do that with ascii.

I could've initially gone ascii only for the game graphics, but tell me,

|>

Does this piece of shit look attractive? It doesn't, hence why I decided to do a complicated system for fancy but easily breakable graphics. I'd take the whole browser inconsistency over low effort crap for this thing every day.

I'm pretty annoyed by the whole "retro is good modern is shit i hate convenience" bullshit I often get from you, and this is no exception. I'd rather not limit my possibilities for the sake of old retro hipster crap I couldn't care less about honestly.

87112

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87113

Stream postponed until later tomorrow at around the same time; my brother invited me to the local county fair and is going at around the time that I originally planned the stream for.

87114

>unicode ascii

Nice contradiction there

Honestly with that kind of shitty attitude I doubt I'll ever work on anything with you again. This is the same kind of naiveness that brought the project down and eventually prompted me to quit, among other factors.

There's an old broken ass car in front of my house. Is it better than the 2015 lamborghini my neighbor happens to own? Most definitely, because old is good.

87115

[This n00b not actually ashamed of what written but it no longer applies. - DevEd]

87116

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87117

Except when you didn't do shit for days. If you're working on a collaborative project you're expected to do what has to be done instead of branching out on whatever arbitrary shit you came up with.

I tried my best coding an engine but in the end it's not worth it. I'm not willing to do stupid crap that won't ever be finished and that none of my teammates were serious about. Also thanks for insulting me when I'm trying to legit argue, sounds just like your usual self.

Include me in the credits or not, I don't really care.

87118

my next game jam gaem is going to be a game where blaze weednix and vilxdryad fight to the death

87120

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87121

Yeah thanks for confirming my opinions on you, you're an idiot.

87122

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87125

_{_{_{_{_{_{edit: i forgot to mention that that was intended for both vilxdryad and blaze weednix}}}}}}

87127

Roll a fat one. Eat an avocado. Chill the fak out!

87129

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87130

Start fighting in spanish while you're at it :O

Nice advertisement campaign btw

87131

hooray, drama!

87132

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87138

Brother cancelled plans of going to the local county fair, so stream is back today at roughly 2:30pm PST

"but a-zu-ra you said it was 2:00pm pst earlier" let me eat lunch and shower, okay ( ﾟ^ﾟ)

87140

omg slept in after working on my game until 7:30am and missed the deadline

stop the drama - why i wake up to drama!!!

87142

このスレッドの中で何が起こってんの？？おれはこんなきもい雰囲気ぜんぜんわかんないし、誰か日本語で教えてくれないだろ？？？？(*_*)

87143

goluigi hæitd this

87144

i like a-zu-ra tho

87145

[dusts off voting categories]

87146

what was the point of having that conversation here instead of in private? to see who gets more liēks and hæits?

anyway i'm glad more entries showed up! trying not to get skull aura this time

87147

here is the interactive website i made
(might be a game?)

http://b-knox.com/misc/Unicode-Omega-Hawk/

87148

Not at all! it was just something that got out of the rail

Please let's forget all this, i deleted my comments so move on; this is not pleasant at all, let's keep on the compo's topic please

edit: also neat game, puke7! lmao i wish it could have made it in time to this compo

87152

<bugreport>
100% voted, basically! Since I was a collab on Mr. Ampersand as well, I cant vote on it, but I did on all the others. :p
</bugreport>

Great entries here, guys!! You all definitely know how to ASCII. \.o./

87195

Speedrun splits are available for select Game Jam 2 games

Available in two flavors: LiveSplit and WSplit (will add more on request)

Supported games:
Herbert Willis (4 splits)
- Run begins when you are transported to the first stage
- Beat each respective stage (3 of them)
- Trigger the "you can't leave." message (run is considered complete by doing this)

The Long Sleep (5 splits)
- Run begins when you press ENTER on the title screen (6.50 offset)
- Defeat Gordon in the intro section
- Get $10 to buy the sword
- Talk to Gordon up on the mountains
- Defeat Shrunk and get the staff
- Awaken from the long sleep (run is considered complete when the music triggers)

Letterquest (HTML5 ver)(3 splits)
- Run begins when you press ENTER on the title screen
- Rescue t in Interwebz Explorer
- Rescue n in File Manager
- Trigger the Mr. Viruz cutscene (run is considered complete here)

Mr. Ampersand in ASCII World (5 splits)
- Run begins when you press ENTER on the title screen
- Beat each respective stage (4 of them)
- Defeat the end boss (run is considered complete when the credits begin)

Someone else can handle The Legend of Giant Spinning Cock because that game is super hard for my lackluster platforming skills ( ﾟ^ﾟ)

Also would've added Letterquest if not for the crash after the first two stages

87200

i think i'm obligated to stream this now

87208

Letterquest (idk what splits are haha)
- Wait until the game crashes (run is considered complete then)

Ok actually though, I did get a working Windows compile of the game that doesn't crash, if anyone wants to try that out.
:p

Moral of story : GMS HTML5 export is broken. I might have to attempt acutally making something not in game maker next time, ahh. :o

87210

Splits are basically checkpoints in the run so as to gauge how you're progressing on each portion of the run, since you can then improve on certain sections and get a better picture of your run in general (e.g. whether the run is improving consistently or if you're just picking up slack from a pretty bad section elsewhere).

If I were to do Letterquest splits based on the HTML5 version, they'd be this:
- Run begins when you press ENTER on the title screen
- Rescue t in Interwebz Explorer
- Rescue n in File Manager
- Trigger the Mr. Viruz cutscene (run is considered complete here)

And now they're supported splits!

87214

Gonna do a special off-schedule speedrun stream on Wednesday at 5PM PST on my Twitch channel
, speedrunning the aforementioned games that I made LiveSplit and WSplit splits for.

87364

↑ reminder that i'm doing a thing later today _(:3 ｣∠ )_ ↑

87416

1. Finished voting
2. Nice job everyone!
3. ^{_{sorry i flaked}}

87486

Part of me is tempted to throw the games that I sped through into speedrun.com
for comparison and competition's sake

should i do the thing

87487

i would wait until you actually have competition (if you don't already)

src has some pretty dumb shit in it already though so i see no reason not to add them on principle. but also no reason to add them if yr the only runner

87488

Fair enough; I'll wait for at least one more contender before I add them

Then again, there are also games posted on the site that have no runs associated with it at all, so I'll think about it ( ﾟДﾟ)

87495

I was waiting for the devs to do it but as they didn't I upped some mp3's of the bgm that i liked. hope thats ok, just wanted to be able to listen to it through the site!

87583

idea: next game jam have a open but direct themes ala ludum dare, giving one or two word prompts, it may result in more games being able to branch out and do whatever while still keeping the vibe of the original idea, ykno?

87676

^ Agreed. I was not a fan of the theme this time around, as I thought it was extremely restrictive. I think themes should be broader and more open to what you can do. Don't get me wrong though, it was a neat idea and it was cool trying to experiment with what we could do within the limitations (and it led to some cool entries), but I think there's a reason the turnout was lower this year despite being a longer jam period. Imagine how amazing the entries could turn out in a 9-day jam if we had a less restrictive theme.