Week 11&12: The Game Jam
As an attempt to get more external users to test our toolkit as well as the documentation, tutorials, etc., we have decided to host our own game jam! We have spent the past 2 weeks planning around this event and doing a LOT of work in advertising, designing, implementing AI, GUI, …
Game Jam Format
1. Make your own character/modify our template character with PAT
2. Use that character to fight our boss
3. Deliver the coolest performance
Game Jam Schedule
November 30th 20:00 Opening in Discord channel
November 30th 21:00 Workshop in Discord channel
December 1st 13:00 Check-in
December 1st 20:00 Pencil down, submissions, live showcasing in Discord channel
Tech support hours: November 30th 20:00 – 23:00, December 1st 13:00 – 19:00
Game Jam Trailer
Can be viewed here. The storyboard looks like this:
Game Jam Boss
For redistribution issues we are not actually able to use this boss model we are showing, but we did get approval to use the same animations and VFX. And they were pretty cool, here are two for references:
Game Jam Scene
Game Jam Node Graph
We are also using this game jam as an opportunity to test our newly implemented GUI (Node Graph).
