Anyone for Global Game Jam?

**Ñuño Martínez** · 28-01-2012, 05:45 PM

I didn't know nothing about this Global Game Jam. But I don't understand: What does "not virtual" means?

**Ingemar** · 28-01-2012, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by ?ëu?±o Mart??nez

I didn't know nothing about this Global Game Jam. But I don't understand: What does "not virtual" means?

Groups physically in the same place.

But for me it isn't very fun. I just don't know if I care to finish. I did have a playtester today, that was fun, but otherwise I am all alone. Not much of a "jam" then. I could have joined a group that is doing one of the ideas we came up with in my brainstorm group, but then we would be three programmers, all with different languages, and... I think I would code past the others in no time. I could have finished that game in the first evening. (Hey, I use FPC! Much faster.) And that would just spoil the fun for the others. So... I went for other goals, alone. I made a partial prototype yesterday, but couldn't see the fun. Today I made a boardgame instead, a strategy game. It works, it was actually pretty fun in the playtesting. But what's the damn difference whether it ends up on the GGJ server or in my drawer? None that I can see. I'll bring it to a game convention instead.

Sorry if I sound negative, I am a bit tired.

**Stoney** · 29-01-2012, 01:27 PM

We finished a game: http://globalgamejam.org/2012/dr-moebius-vs-world It's not in Pascal though, we used Game Maker (so indirectly Delphi for the Windows version

). I did the art for the game. The game is actually quite hard (almost impossibly hard and very unforgiving), there is also a HTML5 version here: http://spellmaker.de/ggj/

@Ingemar: I don't think doing the jam alone is a good idea. Were there no graphics or sound guys or gals that you could help you out with your game?

**Traveler** · 29-01-2012, 03:04 PM

That's a nice little game, Stoney. It's annoyingly hard, but at the time you still want to go on and try again, and again... and again.....

and again.....

good job!

**Ingemar** · 29-01-2012, 09:01 PM

Originally Posted by Stoney

@Ingemar: I don't think doing the jam alone is a good idea. Were there no graphics or sound guys or gals that you could help you out with your game?

The few graphics&sound guys quickly dried up, since there were more programmers. That made the first evening pretty bad. Yesterday was better, thanks to a playtester showing up. And this third day got a bit better still and I ended up programming a simple game from scratch in the last 6 hours, with two more people helping with graphics and discussions! So in the end, the Game Jam result was one board game and one computer game, plus a graphics demo I made the first evening (but had no good game idea for).

So the real game jam was the last six hours due to the problem of forming teams with mostly programmers around.

**Ingemar** · 29-01-2012, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by Stoney

We finished a game: http://globalgamejam.org/2012/dr-moebius-vs-world It's not in Pascal though, we used Game Maker (so indirectly Delphi for the Windows version

). I did the art for the game. The game is actually quite hard (almost impossibly hard and very unforgiving), there is also a HTML5 version here: http://spellmaker.de/ggj/

Looks nice. I wish it was in FPC, and for the Mac of course.

**Super Vegeta** · 30-01-2012, 10:57 AM

Hey. I took part in a local edition in Krak??w, where I currently study. We did a game in C++, basing on Qt, using Chipmunk for physics, FMOD for sounds and drawing in OpenGL (http://globalgamejam.org/2012/panzer-sushi-knight). Since my C\Cpp is rather poor, I didn't really do a lot of coding - only some simple tasks, plus I took care of sounds. But other than that, the whole event was quite fun. It was nice getting to know all the people, plus the atmosphere was really cool.

Ha ha, yes. I thought to myself - for the next GGJ, could try making an engine in pas and then just use it to create something nice.

**Ingemar** · 30-01-2012, 05:40 PM

Originally Posted by Super Vegeta

Hey. I took part in a local edition in Krak??w, where I currently study. We did a game in C++, basing on Qt, using Chipmunk for physics, FMOD for sounds and drawing in OpenGL (http://globalgamejam.org/2012/panzer-sushi-knight). Since my C\Cpp is rather poor, I didn't really do a lot of coding - only some simple tasks, plus I took care of sounds. But other than that, the whole event was quite fun. It was nice getting to know all the people, plus the atmosphere was really cool.

Ha ha, yes. I thought to myself - for the next GGJ, could try making an engine in pas and then just use it to create something nice.

Isn't it a pity when PGD coders have to use C++ for GGJ? Or make graphics and sound when you want to code?

BTW, why did you need QT? Maybe there are windows and menus that I can't see in the screen shot? Those flames/lava effects look pretty nice, I suppose they are algorithmic?

**Super Vegeta** · 30-01-2012, 10:36 PM

We used QT mainly because our team was kinda gathered from leftovers (we didn't know eachother before) and had an OS problem - we had two computers with Linux, two with 64b-Windows7 and one with WindowsXP, so we had to use something that was portable. Qt was proposed by one of the guys; we all agreed, as it is quite a big framework and offers a lot of features.

All gfx is done in OpenGL; I don't know it (that was also one of the reasons I didn't really have much to do... Gotta try learning after the exam session), so I can't really tell much. I think they are either shaded circles or circular sprites (with alpha decreasing from the center). As for their behaviour, all physics is done by the Chipmunk lib - in case of lava, it's simply a lot (1k when project begun, later reduced to 700-800 to combat lag) of equal-radius balls. If you were really curious, I think there is a .zip with sources attached.