Theres nothing wrong with the jam Spring. People will participate or they wont. As MedicineStorm says, theres a potential 29 entrys that could come from this jam. You could get a surge of entrys towards the end. its no way a disaster. I was taking part in the jam, but i hadn't actually clicked that, 'Join Jam' button. obvouisly I can't now coz of my hardrive stuff, but i was in there trying. Spring is a tricky month i reckon, i mean, my kids are on half term for 2 weeks, thens theres Easter, so theres a lot going on. Even if only one game gets submitted, its assets used from the OGA site, and potential for some new assets as a result, i'm sure there will be more. you set the jam up well, so well done for that, its a bit of experience for you if you host another jam of your own or another one for OGA. Always a positive in to take from something. still 10 days to roll, perhaps if anyone wants to show some WIP's, just post them here, il love to see some stuff! :)
well, ive just had the dreaded hardrive failure, so thats me out. completely gutted in so many ways. why i why i didn't back up my gamemaker projects with my other stuff. what a complete .............
You know what, I hear you loud and clear, and the depression part too. As much as i love game development and creating Pixel art, reading, researching and everthing, it very much hides or musks what is actually going on in my life. It is an 'Escape' from the reality's of my real life, and the more stressed or depressed my real world becomes, the more i bury my head into my game development world. i suspect you may be the same. Over the years though i have come to realise that this is not so good for me, my family, or my game development and there was a cross over where my 'real world' was meeting my development stuff and i found myself being just as depressed if not more because of the monotnous way game develpment is and can be, it is, espcially when working alone, a very lonely place. You situation is probably most likely somewhat different to mine, but depression is depression, and it has many forms. whats important is if you can find help then use it, i did, and i am so much better for it now,just talking to someone, or even just to have a bloody rant! and let off some steam now and again works wonders. :) my poor Pug gets moaned at all the time. :) but he don't judge me for it bless him. anyways i could go off on a right tandgen here and talk a load of rubbish.
in short:
take a break, break up the monotomy, try not to take on to much, eat well, excercise(nice walk) and don't sweet the small stuff. what will be will be. :)
You do have to have a lot of pateince and perserverance. I know it's all easy to just keep going at it and you feel it's not moving fast enough, and the motivation can be lost, espicially when coming up with new ideas during development. My advice is to take a break and come back to it, i found myself working a lot faster and progressed better when i took a break from my games im working on, instead of grinding it out for hours staring at a PC screen to not actually getting anything done. Monstropolis is a prime example, ive spent many months/years working on it, but not getting anything done because my motivation was with another idea i had. So i worked on that idea, and then the next, but i went back to monstropolis as intended and my work flow was so much more better because of the break, i got more done in a week than i had done in a month. Not saying it will work for you, but think im trying to say, don't rush it, and if you need/want to take a break from a game, then do so, it's perfectly fine, don't put unesscary pressure on yourself because it's really not helpful to your game or your wellbeing, and can be quite demoralising at times, if you ever feel that way then its a good sign to take a break Spring. Trust me you will feel a lot better for it, renergised and ready to go again!
If you don't feel up to the Game Jam, if someone else offers to do it, then let them if you not feeling up to it, noone will think any less of you for doing so. But if you do do it then thats great. Chin up it will all come good in the end. :)
oh mate, this is awesome! very clever, OGA should have an 8bit section just for this.:)
you are so right about the dreamcast and Sega, the Dreamcast is my favourite machine ever! that dial up connection though, god my internet was bad then(still is mostly) Sega were always so far ahead of the game, to far i think that its a shame that it didnt catch on. But look at intenet games now, we should all bow down at this point. :) oh and it's definatly worth mentioning that they were first with Vurtual Reality machines aswell way back in er 92-93?, and even then i'm sure there system had less wires than the PS VR. hahahaha :)
nice job mate, im tempted to get Monstropolis Street Racer out this weekend now, or maybe even Headhunter, i dare not play Shenmue as i wont get any work done over the weekend. :)
I have updated the download files to now include BMP files. These BMP files have been edited and set up to work with NESmaker software for easy importing, i have even included the colour pallete too. :) and as they are BMP files you can use these for 'Homebrew' projects as well.
great stuff! thanks for sharing :)
Should be fine as long as it can be uploaded to itch.io and can be played by others.
Oh, you have already done it. :) cool
Il look forward to playing you game, and having a go at you GBStudio. :)
Holy shit guy, that is epic stuff! Thanks for sharing, and under such a generous license.:)
Theres nothing wrong with the jam Spring. People will participate or they wont. As MedicineStorm says, theres a potential 29 entrys that could come from this jam. You could get a surge of entrys towards the end. its no way a disaster. I was taking part in the jam, but i hadn't actually clicked that, 'Join Jam' button. obvouisly I can't now coz of my hardrive stuff, but i was in there trying. Spring is a tricky month i reckon, i mean, my kids are on half term for 2 weeks, thens theres Easter, so theres a lot going on. Even if only one game gets submitted, its assets used from the OGA site, and potential for some new assets as a result, i'm sure there will be more. you set the jam up well, so well done for that, its a bit of experience for you if you host another jam of your own or another one for OGA. Always a positive in to take from something. still 10 days to roll, perhaps if anyone wants to show some WIP's, just post them here, il love to see some stuff! :)
well, ive just had the dreaded hardrive failure, so thats me out. completely gutted in so many ways. why i why i didn't back up my gamemaker projects with my other stuff. what a complete .............
thats me out of action for a while.:(
Good luck to you both! :)
"can only find solace in the furry universe"
You know what, I hear you loud and clear, and the depression part too. As much as i love game development and creating Pixel art, reading, researching and everthing, it very much hides or musks what is actually going on in my life. It is an 'Escape' from the reality's of my real life, and the more stressed or depressed my real world becomes, the more i bury my head into my game development world. i suspect you may be the same. Over the years though i have come to realise that this is not so good for me, my family, or my game development and there was a cross over where my 'real world' was meeting my development stuff and i found myself being just as depressed if not more because of the monotnous way game develpment is and can be, it is, espcially when working alone, a very lonely place. You situation is probably most likely somewhat different to mine, but depression is depression, and it has many forms. whats important is if you can find help then use it, i did, and i am so much better for it now,just talking to someone, or even just to have a bloody rant! and let off some steam now and again works wonders. :) my poor Pug gets moaned at all the time. :) but he don't judge me for it bless him. anyways i could go off on a right tandgen here and talk a load of rubbish.
in short:
take a break, break up the monotomy, try not to take on to much, eat well, excercise(nice walk) and don't sweet the small stuff. what will be will be. :)
be safe.
You do have to have a lot of pateince and perserverance. I know it's all easy to just keep going at it and you feel it's not moving fast enough, and the motivation can be lost, espicially when coming up with new ideas during development. My advice is to take a break and come back to it, i found myself working a lot faster and progressed better when i took a break from my games im working on, instead of grinding it out for hours staring at a PC screen to not actually getting anything done. Monstropolis is a prime example, ive spent many months/years working on it, but not getting anything done because my motivation was with another idea i had. So i worked on that idea, and then the next, but i went back to monstropolis as intended and my work flow was so much more better because of the break, i got more done in a week than i had done in a month. Not saying it will work for you, but think im trying to say, don't rush it, and if you need/want to take a break from a game, then do so, it's perfectly fine, don't put unesscary pressure on yourself because it's really not helpful to your game or your wellbeing, and can be quite demoralising at times, if you ever feel that way then its a good sign to take a break Spring. Trust me you will feel a lot better for it, renergised and ready to go again!
If you don't feel up to the Game Jam, if someone else offers to do it, then let them if you not feeling up to it, noone will think any less of you for doing so. But if you do do it then thats great. Chin up it will all come good in the end. :)
oh mate, this is awesome! very clever, OGA should have an 8bit section just for this.:)
you are so right about the dreamcast and Sega, the Dreamcast is my favourite machine ever! that dial up connection though, god my internet was bad then(still is mostly) Sega were always so far ahead of the game, to far i think that its a shame that it didnt catch on. But look at intenet games now, we should all bow down at this point. :) oh and it's definatly worth mentioning that they were first with Vurtual Reality machines aswell way back in er 92-93?, and even then i'm sure there system had less wires than the PS VR. hahahaha :)
nice job mate, im tempted to get Monstropolis Street Racer out this weekend now, or maybe even Headhunter, i dare not play Shenmue as i wont get any work done over the weekend. :)
I have updated the download files to now include BMP files. These BMP files have been edited and set up to work with NESmaker software for easy importing, i have even included the colour pallete too. :) and as they are BMP files you can use these for 'Homebrew' projects as well.
Thanks. :)
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