If I understood correctly we are free to begin with this even before the jam started, so I began today. My game will be about parenting a robot. So I drew a placeholder robot and made it talk. Say Hi to Robo. He is a good boy.
Hi, I actually started last month when I found out about this jam (I saw the rules that it's okay to begin earlier + I was worried about developing a game while balancing a daytime job lol). I wanted time because it's been a long LONG time since I tried developing a game again & I'm trying Godot out for the 1st time... Been working on this simple game everyday after work, and finally managed to get it all running! Just some more things to fix, if all goes well I should be able to publish the game & submit it to the game jam close to the starting day...if that's okay?
It's a simple game about petting the dog, get hearts, & use said heart to buy items (food & toys) for the dog!
i hope godot is treating you well lol, honestly good call getting a head start on learning a new engine because that gets HARD. the hard black outlines and pastel colours reminds me of the look of the old macintosh UI, which is a lovely style.
hi! i'm lina and i also started early. i was already thinking of making a pet sim and when i saw this jam i felt so inspired and excited!
i wanted to make a post here today to mark what has been done before the jam starts.
you can already:
- choose between 3 eggs (that have horns because that makes sense)
- there are three "species", each with two evolutions (a lot of art still needs to be drawn)
- you can choose your room type and pet name
- you can buy and use items
- pet your pet, be nice or mean to it
- improve your pet's stats
- there will be 3 minigames (the first one is working, second is WIP and i haven't started the third)
for the visual style i wanted to reference a lot of online spaces and old web!
that's it, as i'm a solo dev i hope to use this space to interact a bit with other devs and see what you're doing, as sometimes it's easy to forget things outside my own game exist
yes!!!! i love that it looks like a web game from before the flash era! not to sound evil but all simulator games these days are missing the option to be mean. this is so inspiring to look at, i'm curious to see what the pet stats do because that's my favourite part of pet sim design. also jeez the fact that you've already gotten minigames working is crazy.
just started prototyping today after brainstorming my idea for a few... the basic premise is a reverse digital pet, where you play AS the digital pet. the main idea is a loosely karma-based reincarnation mechanic, where living "better" (or more accurately, "naturally") allows you to accumulate points that unlock new species to reincarnate as. right now, the only real thing you can do to gain karma is wiggle around as an egg, but the system is functional way faster than i expected, LOL
A REINCARNATION SYSTEM!! awesome!!! i feel like trying to figure out how a new species is meant to live its life after unlocking would be a really fun kind of trial and error, like a pet sim roguelike almost.
PET THE DOG
Pet, feed, and play with your virtual doggo!
https://acsis.itch.io/pet-the-dog
It may be early, but the game I created for this Pet Jam is now out! :D
meowwww
i think i got some good brainstorming/story planning done for today
a little vmu doodle...
i think this project will be a kinda... multimedia vn/comic scifi thing... i gotta hammer out some semblance of an outline, i think the first week will mainly just be focusing on that and drawin out concepts
added food types and basic foods, as well as some testing species! also started work on trainers/owners, making "digital pet" an accurate description of the player creature, LOL.
my next steps are:
smaller update so i'll just reply to this post, but..........
the base trainer is officially functional! they now have a chance to drop food every 15 seconds by default; 100% if they didn't drop food last tick, and 50% if they did. once there's more... game in the game, i'll be able to tweak these odds depending on how viable foraging turns out to be.
additionally, there's now a shopping_threshold that gets checked against the current size of their food inventory; once food stores get low enough, they add a "grocery shopping" event to the front of their queue, which will make the next event a "grocery" event. grocery events also ignore the event queue cap, and can be added to the queue even when it's otherwise considered full. as i explain this i'm realizing i should add a check to make sure the next queued event isn't ALREADY grocery, otherwise they might queue a ton of shopping trips...
while events can be queued and technically triggered for testing purposes, they don't do anything yet except delete themselves. working on that is the next step because it involves drawing another background, LOL
I was really charmed by the "clay sculpture" idea in the post ideas here thread, so here's my little guy in progress.
I've never made an articulated sculpture before (if you can even call it that, cause the head's just a separate piece that slots into a hole), so we'll see how this ends up working out. Possibly I will built a tiny VN or a zine or something around this guy, or possibly I'll just sculpt and paint it.
Forgot to post about last weekend's progress, but today's progress on my entry : some 3D modeling (somehow took almost all afternoon to make text follow the curve of the model...), some shader stuff, and a sketch of the 2D scene on the screen! The goal is to make something like a tamagotchi with which you raise a magical familiar!
working on a mouse game where you can build a house of whatever size you want... sort of.
I want to make a pet game where you can make several mice (4 for the limit) live togheter and you can out furnitures feed them, bath them. you get the idea and even put furnitures so they can interact with it like in animal crossing. i still got alot to do and i feel that time is not on my side but i will add what i can before halloween. of course, its not the best game nor has the best pixel work (crappy one if you ask me), but what can you expect from a novice developer like me? on the bright side, the game is comming as dandy.
The mouse is very cute! I really like the concept of the game too, it has the potential to be very adorable. Don't be too hard on yourself, making a game is so many skills to learn, so whatever you make you can be proud of it :D
update of game. i've been adding game objects and descriptions on the store. the items will work as, "while you left the game idle, not closed but idle, the mouse can self take care... that is if they move toward the item you just placed". 3 arcades based of 3 mice/rats games where added. just for fun. the description of each can give you a hint of what game is trying to describe.
looks nice, it reminds me to the one monster from "AAAAH! real monsters" is it an aline of some sort of?
Thanks, you are not the first to say it reminds them of AAAAH! real monsters. Resemblance there is a coincidence though. It's not an alien, it's something worse
oh. my god. this really is a precious miracle. if the full game is anywhere as bizarre as this thing then i 'm going to love it
Updated the shader material to make more skin colors based on logic found here: https://toneyalexander.github.io/inclusive-color-space/
It lets me change skin depth, flushing, and warmth independently. It works well for fantasy colors too at more extreme values. I had to make a new texture for this to work. I used only RGB values to map blush, pigment, and eye color respectively.
Hi! Been working on my game slowly, gonna be a chao garden/pokemon type thing. Game itself is just boring UI at the moment so here's some of the fellas I've designed so far:
Thanks! Yeah these ended up looking kinda elementalish but I plan to make a big variety of them hopefully.
Wasn't a fan of how things were looking so I scrapped it all lol, started over in a top downish environment and redesigned the fellas and I think its looking a lot nicer!
i've been working on a prototype where you observe 2 characters living together like their apartment is a hamster enclosure. i have nothing to show because i've been focused 100% on the code and have not made a single graphic yet (the characters are currently 3d donut meshes living in a grey box ^_^) but as you can see from these git commits i'm giving them a wonderful enriching life
Finished a workable prototype that I can hopefully bring into Godot to grow into a home for a digital deskpet. Rn I'm planning for the pet to be just a plane mapped to a texture atlas floating in front of the 'screen' for max retro vibes, so no actual pet yet.
cough there was definitely no inspiration drown from monsters of any digital sort no siree cough
I finally have a bit more showable progress :') I spent way too long fussing over the menu system, added a litte gal, and did some "text"
