#omegajam

[awiola]

Omegaverse jam has been extended

Someone asked me to extend the jam by around a week and since there are only four submissions, I thought, why not.

THE NEW END DATE IS 15TH OF OCTOBER

Which means there's still time if you started working on a game right this moment.

The jam page is here.

[awiola]

The Omega Jam has ended.

Thanks to everyone who participated. This jam wouldn't work without you [literally]!

We've received 12 submissions [+ one confirmed late entry] so I'd say it went pretty well overall. 👈(❛ ᗜ ❛👈)

I feel like I hurt all dark mode users' eyes with my white bgs so have some proper art this time.

You can check all the entries here.

Self promo time ✨

I helped with some colouring for Bite of My Own, a BL cakeverse story. Right now it's still a demo but with your support it might get finished faster~~ Maybe~

Postmortem, kinda, I guess

This year, there was a new rule. Kind of. I mean specifically the genAI rule. To quote

Projects made using AI are heavily discouraged and its use should be directly mentioned on the page.

Pretty simple, isn't it?

Now, let's take a look at why I worded it that way

Generally, at least in my circles, people are strongly against using genAI in game development. Obviously, there must exist some enthusiasts or the opposition wouldn't even exist.

Now, a lot of people using generated content in their games, assuming they're doing it on purpose and aren't simply using unlabeled bg packs and so on, got used to having to hide that fact from others to avoid their game being removed and so on. Which is basically lying by omission.

This is a pretty big problem and I'm not capable enough to say with absolute certainty whether something was generated or simply appears that way. Not a fan of witch hunts, either.

This is why I made games like that still allowed as long as they're labelled properly. It obviously won't stop anyone from using that stuff if they wanted but every player can make their own decision on whether to support a dev like that or not. Transparency is best.

And yet I've still gotten an entry from someone that would rather be removed from the jam than add a whole one sentence to their page. Like... Really, now?

I know it's only one entry and whatever, who cares, but if the jam was bigger? There would absolutely be multiple of them. I gave people a chance and they refuse to read. Or do it maliciously.

Whatever the case, I feel like that's the better approach so the rule would most likely stay as is, at least for now, but honestly :/

Otherwise, the jam actually went pretty well. Due to the subject matter, I thought there might be some opposition but being relatively extremely minor, there wasn't anything. Or at least nothing that I'm aware of. Only people telling me they're not interested in the theme at all but fair enough, it's not for everyone.

We've got some fun entries, though. Some legitimately sound like nukige setups and gotta say, I respect that. Nothing better than making something you enjoy :D Wonder if we'll get more next year.

I'm still producing one off jams only but if anyone wants to continue the legacy[?], you have my blessing. [Would be nice if you let me know first, tho.] Especially since I know it's pretty much untapped market among evns. Or vns in general, I haven't really found much in the jp sphere either... As for others, I lack the language skills...

I can even share both of the mascots if anyone's interested. Maybe even give them a chara sheet or something, who knows. Kinda depends on interest cause I don't really need them for myself.

Well, either way - If you've read all of that - thanks! If not, the pic was all the way up there for a reason.

See you next jam, possibly even in my own server.

[awiola]

Omegaverse jam has officially started!

A bit late cause I didn't schedule my post and then I-

Anyway.

I have no idea how much people this post will reach but Omegaverse Jam has officially started [yesterday, as of writing this]!

I hope everyone has fun devving.

Due to the jam theme, I'm assuming a lot of entries would be nsfw in nature. Right now it seems that free games won't really be a problem on itch but were they to be deindexed or something, I'll probably accept more bare pages with links to patches or something. We'll see. Though hopefully it won't be needed. I didn't change the content rules so go wild.

Aaand now for side notes, feel free to ignore. I said I'll draw proper promo but I didn't really have time to test stuff so I basically drew this pic with no pen pressure to still have something. I need to test some other programs so I'll try to draw something related to the jam through the month. But worst case - we're here to focus on other jammers, not my art.

Hope everyone has fun :D

[awiola]

THE OMEGAVERSE JAM IS LIVE, Y'ALL

Exactly as I said. It is here, it's happening now for the whole of august and september + a few days during october just in case.

All story things, especially games, are allowed. Do go wild.

Here's the αβω link ωβα

The official tag for the jam is #omegajam