Rail-cabs can pull other cabs now. #gamedev #indiedev #godot

You can see why I might want to use the above in this clip. #godot

Neat sound I recorded from an automatic sliding door at my Not-Spelbaar Job is totally going into the game. #gamedev #indiedev

Rewriting the camera system is going ... places. #gamedev #indiedev #godot

maybe not landscape -- maybe instead, cells
#gamedev #indiedev #godot

Hm, I should probably stop messing around with noise-textures, gradients, clipping polygons, etc., etc. and start the 'actual gameplay' part of this prototype #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Working on a new prototype. No more uniform grids for me! #gamedev

Then in this series of 'gamejams done (mostly) before Spelbaar' are the few I did with a colleague (now friend) from work.

TIL you should not click the image icon when trying to attach a moving .gif -- have a retry.

The 10 years of gamejams retrospective continues!

For TriJam, the goal is to build a game within three hours. I went over-scope a couple of times, but even so they're still very small.

I'm just going to post all of these in a single message, without added thoughts, otherwise we'll be here all day.

These next batch of gamejam games (in the 10 years of gamejam series) mostly just represents starting, and getting comfortable with, Godot as a solo game-jammer.

Before that, I'd only used LÖVE (once), my own C++/SDL2 hack, GameMaker (once), Ren'Py (twice) or my terrible WebGL + pure js raytracer.

Here are all the gamejam games where I worked together with one of my family! (Except the current one, that gets it's own post.) -- Fun fact: They like antro stuff a lot, and it shows in some of the artwork.

Most of these are from the GMTK gamejams, which was our 'together thing' for a while.

This next thread of gamejam games is about the time I thought my own experimental web-based ray-tracer prototype was a good basis to build games on.

It was not. (Though there's some interesting ones here.)

I also did a lot more gamejams that year than otherwise (which was a very 2020 thing to do).

As I said, this was before the gen-AI explosion, and WolframTones isn't gen-AI, but ...

In the end, I guess this did contribute to the decision that I wouldn't use AI at all when working as Spelbaar -- or anything connected to creative work.

So, when it comes to my games, not even for the code.

Next, in this series of '10 years of gamejam games', let's take a moment to remember the games that never where.

Seems like a good moment, since it would've been Ludum Dare 41's turn -- if I had finished the game.

This is the one I got furthest with (I think at least) that never got completed.

Next in '10 years of gamejams' we have 'Familiar's Shape', which I made for Ludum Dare 35, a year after 'payload'.

An RPG (well, series of turn-based battles), you're playing as the shapeshifting familiar of a wizard. -- The twist is that for some actions you have to ask the wizard to do it.

Let's start with the one from 10 years ago, 'payload', for Ludum Dare 32. This one's old enough that it predates even my personal account on itch.io -- and the website I hosted it on has been gone for a few years now.

In a way, Spelbaar® is the 'logical' conclusion of my participation in a lot of gamejams.

I started in 2015, with Ludum Dare 32 -- which means my 10 year gamejam anniversary is coming up!

I plan to celebrate by participating once more, but I'll also post about my old jam-games one by one.