i've got another announcement that i am so excited for we are doing another game jam and i'm gonna be
participating in it so it's gonna be so much fun i am so excited for this one it's been a minute
since i participated in a game jam and i am so thrilled to be able to do it with all of you
this particular jam is going to be a 72 hour jam starting at the end of next week i don't
know when you're watching this but it's gonna be january 28th from 5 a.m eastern time until
january 31st 5 a.m so it's effectively very early friday until very late on sunday i was gonna do
it at midnight but i know a lot of you are night owls so i pushed it back about five hours which is
perfect for me because i get up at like five in the morning so also this is all eastern time if
you view the jam page it should adjust the times for your particular time zone so if we go to the
jam page together you can go there with the link in the description or up here in the top corner
when you get to the page there'll be a join button that'll be one of the first things and you'll
also be able to see the time that is adjusted to your particular time zone click the join
button if you want to participate with us this jams for all skill levels so even if you're not
super big on you know being able to do a bunch of stuff we have a channel in the discord for people
to find groups and teams to work with so pair up with a a better coder or a better 3d artist and
you'll learn some things this is going to be a very casual game jam i really want you guys to
develop your skills during this weekend if we scroll down we can see some of the info read
the rules if you've never participated in a game jam before or don't really know what they are a
game gym is a timed event where you have a certain period of time to come up with an idea and develop
a game so make from scratch start to finish and there's different rules on what you can and cannot
use like different assets or 3d art that you got ahead of time or code or whatnot this particular
jam is very loose you can use whatever assets you own and then by the end of the time you have to
have developed a full game based on the theme that is usually announced right when the jam starts
and that is so nobody can cheat and start ahead of time it is an amazing way to learn because you
have to essentially make a full game and usually a pretty pretty crunch down time period so you get
to notice the faults in your workflow and what you really need to work on and whatnot so this
game jam is less about completing a project and having a nice polished game and trying to win
unless you're like super good and you're going all out for it it's more about learning and using this
experience to see okay i kind of struggled with this particular part of game development and so
maybe i need to watch some tutorials or tell justin to make some of these tutorials so i
highly recommend you join the discord if you have not already and that's going to be the main place
where everybody is going to talk and communicate and whatnot there is also a community tab up here
where you can ask questions but highly recommend you just join the discord because that's where
most of the conversation will be happening this particular gym is going to be rated based on
enjoyment so how much fun is your game to play on concept so how unique was your idea how difficult
was the game to implement the presentation how polished your game is and of course use of
theme how closely did you stick to that theme and we'll be using these four categories to
rate everybody's game and uh see who comes in first second and third and i'm going to be
uh part of this pool now also you can only rate if you participate so if you would like to you know
be able to give a little um nudge in one one direction or the other then uh you have to join
the jam as far as rules go mine are pretty lacks just no not safe for work content i'll be asking
a couple questions when you submit your game jam so just make sure you answer those honestly one of
them is what assets did you use so i don't really care what assets you use just as long as you
let me know what you did so that you can give the appropriate credit and then there's a little
faq board here so can you submit more than one game technically yes but i don't recommend it if
you've already made a game can you submit it that answer is no this particular game jam requires
you to start right when the jam starts you can use any particular engine you want so if you're
a godot whiz or if you're better at unreal you can use any of those i personally use unity just
because it's d sharp and i know this engine pretty well now but whatever engine suits you you don't
technically have to follow the theme but your writing is gonna suffer because of not following
that theme so keep that in mind if you find the theme particularly difficult to implement or if
you can't come up with an idea you can of course just make whatever game but you're likely not
going to win if you do that and like i mentioned before if you have assets that you have created
ahead of time that are more standardized like just tools you use or if you've bought assets from the
asset stores for instance hurricane vr or hexa body then you are totally allowed to use these
and also the winner of the game jam is going to i just recently have been talking to the developer
of hexa body and hurricane vr and they are willing to give the winner of the game jam a hurricane vr
key and a hexa body key and then second and third place both get hurricane vr keys which is super
fun so thanks to them for effectively sponsoring a little bit of this game jam and last but not
least if you're not able to submit your game in time just reach out to us on the discord this jam
is not particularly structured we're not giving out thousands and thousands of dollars worth of
prizes so it doesn't really matter as much if you hit that deadline right on the money but
you know for the spirit of the game gym try to stay within that time frame and limit the scope
of your game to facilitate that and of course if you're interested in sponsoring this event reach
out to me i would love to be able to advertise this a little more or give out some more prizes so
reach out to me on the discord if you're interested in sponsoring that's pretty much
all i got for you i'm going to be participating in this jam like i said earlier so i'm going to
be live streaming most of that weekend to show my live development process so if you can't actually
participate in the gym then feel free to come hang out in the live streams and uh you could be on my
team you can give me some ideas and we can code through some stuff together so join the game jam
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time i go live or for future videos and tutorials and other than that i will see you next week