TIGJAM TIGJAM TIGJAM TIGJAM
The weekend was ace! I made a few games, met lots of cool people, somehow got enough sleep…
Alistair put some photos up on Google+. Most of the weekend was spent feverishly dev’ing away upstairs in the CB2 café, but after they kicked us out in the evenings we headed to The Tram Depot, possibly the only pub in the world to have Grolsch Blond on tap. It’s all the better for it.
Stephen Lavelle (increpare) kept the whole thing running, walking round every few hours to issue themes for another three hour jam. Hardly anyone did a game for each three hour jam, of course – that way would lie madness – but each new jam was a fresh project. As the weekend wore on people began to stick with their favourites and develop them further.
I fell in love with the second project I started, so stuck with that to the exclusion of all else. But before I talk about that, here’s the first. I made it on Saturday in about four hours, and it’s an arcadey game about ants and bears and cherries that explode:
It’s an unbalanced mess, but it’s fairly dynamic. Dragging a cherry trail to an ant hill (hive? lol) brings a friendly ant out who’ll follow the trail and pick up other cherries for you, and if a bear finds a trail it can follow it to find ants to eat.
Here it is: BugsNThings
A few other jam games you should TOTALLY CHECK OUT are
– Inside a Starfield Sky by Alan Hazelden and Phillip Webster
– Untris by increpare
– line bender by increpare
The second game I started – the one I spent most of the weekend on – was a collaboration with a fantastic artist, so it’s much prettier. It’s a game about fishing with magnets, in which you hunt for robot fish hidden amongst the normal fish. It is REELS OF STEEL:
The art’s by Adam Vian of The Super Flash Bros, who is every bit as professional as he is talented. This one’s maybe half done, so you can’t play it yet but it should be out soon 😀
It’s been a busy few days so I took the day off. Back to work tomorrow!