#game-jam

[robinpoma-blog]

22 – icy-creamy-shaky

Mon troisième jeu de cartes est terminé ! Commencé à l’occasion de la Strawberry Game-Jam 2017 (dont le thème était plus ou moins : “faites un jeu de fesse”), c’est une sorte de jeu de planification jouable seul ou à deux, un jeu de construction relaxant. À deux, le jeu se fait un peu plus complexe, coopératif et communicatif. Tout ça est illustré de glaces à manger et de smoothies à boire qui visiblement procurent un plaisir incroyablement intense. Grand avantage de la métaphore sur un tel sujet : être inclusive.

De jeu en jeu, j’ai l’impression de parvenir à des choses en plus en plus satisfaisantes (à faire comme à jouer). Tout ça est très encourageant.

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[anthonyhj]

My first Game-Jam

Last night, I attended day one of my first ever game-jam in Cambridge.  The theory was that we had three hours, from seven until ten, to make a game based on one or all of the three supplied themes - two players, one screen; bungee-jumping; Swiss cheese - and some people hit that target, but it was more of a warm-up day while people arrived and got up to speed.

My own offering (available [here]) took a little over the three hours, but I was proud of making something (vaguely) playable in only three hours.

In the end, I realised just how little dev-time three hours gives you.  I have been used to long dev-cycles and large teams, so working solo in a short time-scale is new and terrifying.  I could spend over three hours writing a pitch document, so making the game from scratch in that time needed a change of approach.

Today, I am looking after my sick wife.  I should make it to day two slightly late, but I am not going to push it.  There are two more days to go after today, so if I have to wait for the morning, so be it.  In fact, all the good seats will probably be gone by the time I get there anyway...