GameJam Start

Welcome to the devlog of "Farbenfall" a game from EarlGrey and HopFlash!

EarlGrey and I are friends and colleagues (not yet in game development ;) ). He is a design artist and I'm a software developer.

Day(s) before theme released for "My First Game Jam: Winter 2021"

EarlGrey and I were randomly talking about our potential game and he had the spontaneous idea about waterfalls with different colors which can merge into different (realistic) colors like yellow + red = orange

Because I thought that this colorful base theme would push some positive vibes into the world I totally agree that this can be our fundament for the game of this GameJam.

Then we played around with some words for the game name and finally chose "Farbenfall" which is a word transition from "Wasserfall" (german word for waterfall) and "Farben" (german word for colors).

We were sure to do a 2D puzzle-like game. I want to use Python and PyGame and he wants to use Figma for the art.

Some time ago I streamed on Twitch mainly for fun but there was a little community built up and therefore I have a (mostly german) discord server where I have still contact with some very nice people and I opened up a gamejam channel to discuss with EarlGrey and other interested peoples.

I talked about this GameJam with some friends and I think I will have several playtesters when it is time for that :)

Day 1

At 9am in my time zone the theme "locked" was announced. Normally my day is filled with family activities and such so I normally will have time to work on this GameJam primary after 8pm but I can think about brainstorming things from time to time. After some time thinking about how the theme could fit into our game it manifests into an idea that I want to discuss with EarlGrey on Day 2 because this will be our first day we both have time to really meet virtually.

I started some organization stuff like this devlog, reading GameJam infos, thinking about tools like Trello and such.

I'm not sure at the moment if I will use PyCharm for the Python development (like I always do) or try out Visual Studio Code (which I used at work for JavaScript and other coding but not for Python) but I think because of this Jam is motivating to do new stuff I will try out Visual Studio Code.