Today I’ve been addressing a few things about the game that were discovered or suggested at 1GAM Galway.
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OBSTACLES is a top-down 2d driving game that started life as an entry for the UL Gamejam held on November 3rd 2018. It’s available as a browser game playable with a keyboard or controller on itch.io. The gamejam theme was “Obstacles”, hence the game name. Designing the Game I sketched a few ideas for games and settled on an idea that became this game. The idea was that the computer plays as the car and you play as a monster/wizard that is throwing heavy objects on the road to cause the robot car to crash. With the pressure of time, and maybe a little too much time trying to figure out lanes and such, I decided to go simpler and…
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The Game Development Society of the University of Limerick asked me to deliver a workshop on Pico-8 in advance of their third ever gamejam. Heres the story!
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Some thoughts about making this particular tiny game prototype on a team of one.
Leave a CommentAbout a week after UL’s Game Dev Soc Game Jam, I had some free time to revisit the collaboration tool I made for the gamejam team. It was nothing special, but I was hit by a mini-epiphany of turning it into a super-simple web app that would aim to make it as easy as possible to use. A fun little side-project, why not? Generally when solving any problem I have to ask myself “Has this been solved before?” because usually the answer is “Yes” and in this highly connected world we live in there is a Good Reason why a problem has not already been solved by someone else, in which case there is some rewarding thinking in asking yourself…
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Naturally, a game about jam is the simplest gamejam game you could make. Here’s a little breakdown of the team and our process for the gamejam.
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I’m delighted to be able to attend my 4th Global Game Jam in Galway. I’ll be switching to another game engine for the jam AGAIN – this time I’ll be using Godot Engine instead of Pico-8 (which I have been using these past few months). Since the Previous Global Game Jam I used Godot during last year’s Global Game Jam and I failed hard. A lesson was learned, which is what game jams are about! While an obvious one, let me share it with you: “One should not learn a new game engine at a game jam and expect to have anything more than a Pong clone”. Sadly, since then I have not used Godot for anything, even though I…
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