Every animations you could see in our game were not really made like regular animations, they are all done with a primarily UI Tweening plugin haha

"If it works, ship it!" was said a lot during that weekend.

(Find it here /jam/gmtk-2019/rate/462077)

I  had the user press space to start playing the game, which then switched to the play scene, but space was also the controls for aiming and shooting, so no matter what, the space bar would trigger the aiming action in the play state. So, instead of messing around with cancelling input listeners and events and things, I just ignored the first key-up event for spacebar when the play scene loads. 

Here is my game: /jam/gmtk-2019/rate/461622

I wanted to have a restart level option but I couldn't get the Reload Scene function in Unity to work. Since my game is pretty much just moving in a straight line, I had the reset button set velocity and position to zero.  So it looks like the level is being reloaded but it's actually just the player character getting sent back to the starting point :P.

here it is: https://swegdude.itch.io/bullet-heaven

Everything in my game, You have One Shot,  is modeled with the Probuilder tool for Unity; Every Environment, Character, and Object is either a unity primitive (in the case of the perfect spheres) or a Probuilder object xD 

i had about an hour to get the enemy fireballs up and working before the deadline and i didnt have time to code proper spawning and ricochet code.  So i literally picked a random point around the player (slightly off screen usually) and a random direction and launched it at velocity...  rather than coding the movement i gave it to the physics engine in unity with zero friction and 100% bounciness. And let it go.  If it gets too far from the player it just respawns and goes again, technically there are only 3 fireballs at all in the game, but with this, it seems like the maze is full of them

Ebrius Maleficus

This version was a bug fix after the deadline (about an hours worth of work the next day) so its not really judgeable for rating, but I would love honest feedback.

In the beginning you can just move left and right in the game and see the title blinking in the background

pressing the up arrow actually starts the game........and you need to be really quick about it since you jump as well and a pair of platforms appear which are basically the crux of the game . I felt this was a much more visceral and fast-paced into than having a menu or anything else in the way

Game: https://vcp.itch.io/only-one-pair-of-platforms

Rate : /jam/gmtk-2019/rate/461979

Made a tower defense with no actual proyectiles fired x)

I really wanted to have some kind of lightning effect come from the eye of the tower, but having no idea how to do it with sprites in an elegant fashion (to have the sprite get stretched between the enemy and the tower ina  good looking way) i just made it look like the enemies die FROM THE EVIL GAZE OF COUNTERFEIT SAURON. It's hacky and i love it, and i totally need to change it when i get a chance, hahahaha

For my game Ride Share, I wanted to make all of the maps using svg in HTML to make them procedural, but I didn't have time, so I exported them as a png and used mspaint to find the pixel locations and loaded those into my .js. It would have wasted a lot of time to make each level that way, but luckily that was not an issue... Play my game to find out why lol

/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/461186

I didn't really want to make art for the game so I made all the players and enemies circles

My game is called One Shot In The Chamber, a wave based survival game where you must fight off hordes of enemies with the catch being, you have only one bullet. Fortunately, the bullet is magic and you can summon it back to you or teleport to it. Using this unique ability, you must survive as long as possible in the chamber. Here is a screenshot of the game and the link to the game page: https://mark-auman.itch.io/one-shot-in-the-chamber

We made this game where the idea is that you are a jelly that has to shoot enemies with a rock-paper-scissors mechanic using colors (Blue > Red > Green > Blue). Every time you get shot, you absorb the color of the bullet and then shoot it back to try to defeat your enemies. Since we only cared when things made contact with another, we used Triggers for everything.

Anyway, at some point during development we decided it would be cool for the bullets to bounce around and to reflect them once you were hit with the color that is weak against you. But we had already used Triggers instead of Colliders!!! And time was running out!!! And we hadn't slept!!! So... we hacked collisions and bounces using recasts after each trigger 😂

It was horrible, we are not proud, it's a bit buggy, but it worked! And I honestly think our game has potential to become a real game someday. But before that day comes we'll rebuild it from the ground up using collisions for everything. Lesson learned. Here's a gif showing off our super awesome Trigger physics haha. You can play it at the link above and give us any feedback and ratings here :)

Sooo many "that'll do" moments for this one! The humanoid animation pack wanted to move the model outside the player's position with "root motion", sort of fixed it but not really. The dragon is calling functions from inside its animation to get it looping. There are three separate methods checking for "isGrounded" (for jumping) being used and it still doesn't always work lol!

/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/462198

Umm,,, That's hard, since there are so many, but I think the main one is with how I structured my code.

My game is chess inspired (/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/459874, if you want to check it out. And if you do, don't forget to read the section after IMPORTANT in the itch.io page's description, and don't forget rating the game), and I decided to use class Tile, Player, and the main one. In player I didn't really have much, other then the variable "hisTurn" (which I could keep global as a boolean "white's turn" or something like that) and was useless, and the having only the Tile class makes it a mess of a code.

I never animated before, but decided to do a fighting game. The whole code is a clusterfuck of public stuff, where everything knows about everything.  Oh, and Unity crushed 9 hours before a deadline,  and corrupted my project (I was able to recover). 

But the most hacky thing is this. I encountered a bug, where menu music never started playing. I solved the problem calling PlayMusic twise in a row. 

Our game isn't multiplayer.

https://big-breakfast-collective.itch.io/waldoio

At one moment in the game there is a "reverse action" card, and it's in fact the opposite of the one before with a different sprite because I didn't have the time to actually code the method :'( 

The game: /jam/gmtk-2019/rate/462407

RPG Maker VX Ace doesn't allow for out-of-the-box manipulation of random encounter probabilities, so I had to write a custom Ruby script for my game that manipulates the current map's encounter table in the memory after each battle. I then discovered during playtesting, that this table is reset every time you re-enter the dungeon, so I had to move the code to a common event with two separate triggers, which would be carried across locations, which was a lot of ugly code, but it worked. I have since made the code much more elegant, and it will be included in the post-rating period re-upload...

I have a one-bullet top-down shooter. I had the idea of recalling the projectile while it is travelling, but since it's powered by physics, applying a force towards the player while it is travelling in an unknown direction proved to be quite unreliable. So, I decided to make the recall work only at low projectile velocities to lower the randomness of the trajectory.

Judging by the comments on my rating page, I should have actually fixed this, instead of sweeping it under the rug. :D

Game is here: /jam/gmtk-2019/rate/461473

When I started working on my second level, I couldn't get the directional light working properly on 2 walls without one wall being covered in shadow. I tried using a point light instead which did light up both walls but gave the level a creepy dimly lit atmosphere. Was too lazy to figure out the lighting problem so I decided to roll with that and my game ended up becoming a horror game. Definitely don't regret it!

https://jotlane.itch.io/one-leg

We actually used many hacks to make a game feels right. Name just a few of them:

- Distance of dash towards enemy and without it is vary - you can dash to enemy from a slightly longer distance
- At the end point of the dash we're checking if any enemies in a range and if any - we'll stick to them. This and hacks makes dash way easy to control without noticing it
- We used specific shader material on characters in order to not create any UV and textures for them
- Props are not have UVs either - it's just a three separate materials for 3 different colors
- Colors of environment was chosen from Japanese flag - just clear white with a little of red. Nice and simple!

Game is here: /jam/gmtk-2019/rate/462992