What went wrong for you? Too big ideas? Tech bugs? No time to test?
For me it was pretty nooby mistake developing on linux and not testing the Windows build (which was broken). So for about 1.5 days pretty much nobody could play.
Also share some (not too perfect games) for me to play
Here is my (now hopefully working) game:
https://whatyoudontseestudio.itch.io/postcards-from-camp-jackalope Mine was not knowing that laptops and PC's have different controls (whoops)
Cool I'll try it out! Yeah the small timeframe of gamejams are pretty unforgiving. We have a few wrong assigned textures in the game but we figured this out too late. Also we didn't had any time to do some decent balance check.
Feel free to try Swine Safari 🐽: /jam/brackeys-15/rate/4310503
No download required! Easy to play in your browser . Enjoy!
i had no time to playtest and rushed the last level, here's the link if you want to play: /jam/brackeys-15/rate/4309593 the first two levels are so good i think but the third one is not, but the first level its like impossible to win, i could pass it normally but form feedback i'm geeting it's difficult
For the life of me I still don't understand why, but I made the whole dialogue system in our game using csv files, and everything broke when it was on itch (or just exported at all really) because Godot just would not export the csv to the pck file. I lost many hours of the final day on that, and only corrected it after the submission time was over (thank god for the grace period) by refactoring the entire dialogue logic to use json instead.
And also I think we overscoped a bit, but that's just how jams go haha
Here's the game that now mostly works, if you want to give it a go!
Yeah it was really stressful, but it's all good now! The game is also not very well programmed because I just wanted to save time, but now as a result it made refactoring pretty difficult lol. I'll try to go over it more after the jam is over to have cleaner code.
Thanks a lot for the kind words! I'll definitely get to your submission when I get back from work tomorrow
I think developing strictly for a Windows / executable build was a big mistake. In an attempt to port to Web later on I found that many of the rendering techniques we're using for certain things (decals and outlines specifically) just aren't super compatible with Web builds, at least not out of the box. We definitely over scoped for our first jam but were ultimately happy with what we were able to produce. I do think the lack of Web build availability is going to hurt us in terms of number of players willing to give it a go, but that's a lesson learned for the next time around.
Dropping a link here if you want to take a look at our submission. Cheers!
Were you using Unity 6 URP? I also had an issue with decals which were important to the game. I found out that part of the problem was that Unity 6 uses forward+ render by default (at least for URP, maybe others) and that borks the decals in webgl and causes a bunch of other issues. It barely worked at all in Firefox. Switched URP to forward rendering and set decals to screen space and now it's all good.
https://gongylus.itch.io/the-vaults-below-durn-a-field-study
You nailed it! We were on Unity 6.3 LTS using URP. I played around with some settings but was ultimately just too exhausted after a long week to spend the time troubleshooting and fixing the Web support. I'll be taking a look at your game a little later this afternoon to check it out, thanks for sharing your experience and the fix you put in place!
For me it was the scope of the game, I had the idotic idea that I'm gonna make a quake style shooter with an epic linear map with multiple rooms and abilities and weapons to pick up, then day by day I realized how much work actually goes into such an idea, So eventually I just decided it'd be just a simple map to jump around and kill enemies endlessly until you die. it was too much especially for me as this is my first ever game.
shouldn't have picked a movement shooter as a first project T_T
here's the game: /jam/brackeys-15/rate/4311224
you decide to follow it. by bad friend :) mine was making the parkour part too difficult, i nerfed it twice but im not sure if others can beat it without frustration
The issue I faced was I had planned 50 levels for the game in the beginning of jam, I couldn't implement them all (implemented 40) and was barely left with time to playtest & understand what a player might feel playing the game leading to difficulty imbalance in certain levels that I wish to fix post jam!
For me and my friend, it was our first game jam. So we did mistakes, but not necessarily those I expected…
Anyway, it was a fun experience and we will do it again ! Here is our game, if you can check it out and rate it, it would mean the world to use : Three days left’s rating
Here is our lil card game /jam/brackeys-15/rate/4308059
We didn't have time to make a tutorial, which causes a lot of people to be confused when playing.
Definitely something I will not forget for my next game.
