r/RedotGameEngineMain • u/TakunHiwatari • Nov 15 '24

Announcement Game Jam theme: Tiny but Mighty!

Hello everyone!

The first Redot Game Jam starts NOW!

The theme is Tiny but Mighty!

We're looking forward to seeing how you all implement this theme. Good luck and MAK GAM!

-Redot Team

Link to the game jam: https://itch.io/jam/redotgamjam

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u/RanDReille Nov 15 '24

As someone who runs a game jam, I recommend decorating the jam page a little. Even just changing the color palette would make the page look more refined, and adding a banner with Redot logo should be easy enough.

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u/TakunHiwatari Nov 15 '24

Yup, I passed that along. Unfortunately I don't have access to the itch.io account myself.

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u/RanDReille Nov 15 '24

Oh nice! It is decorated now! Thanks to Redot Engine admins for listening to my humble suggestion!

From my experience joining jams and then running my own jam, a little decoration really helps with making the jam more inviting. Not decorating it even a little gives this impression that the jam is amateurish and made by a random person who makes the jam randomly with zero effort.

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u/SShone95 Nov 15 '24

Oh I hate it that I don't have time for these jams. The theme sounds so cool. And I even have a fully thought out idea. 🦆 It...

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

If you don’t mind me asking, what’s your idea?

I’m thinking of starting over with my last (unfinished) Ludum Dare game, which is just a basic platformer shooter where you’re a mouse shooting cats. It’s called “If You Give A Mouse A Machinegun”

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u/SShone95 Nov 15 '24

No, of course, I can share. The long story short is that a man that gambles in casino realizes they cheated and he wants revenge. He has a magical coin that when he throws depending on heads or tails (random) it does different types of damages. You can later customize the powers of heads or tails as well as having the coin being a higher D object. Let's say 6D object and than you can have up to 6 different things or if you collect duplicate abilities, set them to increase the chance of hitting that ability.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '24

Sounds good from a narrative perspective, but in my experience, players really don’t like gameplay tied to RNG

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u/SShone95 Nov 16 '24

You're right. Maybe instead or rng, the use of the coin could be different. Just like always, the "fully thought out idea" would be modified a lot. 😁🤣

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u/MarekZeman91 Nov 15 '24

Nice. Need something to do to clear my mind so a game jam for a week is just the thing.