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Favorite Game You Worked On?

A topic by KevEatsCheese created Jul 31, 2023 Views: 771 Replies: 46
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Curious what everybody's favorite game they got to work on was! Comment below :)

My personal favorite was Bouy: https://keveatscheese.itch.io/bouy. It was awesome to see so many people pick up where I left off and really take it to the next level. I've linked all the final versions in the project description. Big thanks to all developers. It came a long way from the buoyancy physics playground. 

On a separate topic, I'm going to plug my own game now. Sorry.

Ahem.

Now that the jam is over I'm going to return to developing my main project Haunt: https://keveatscheese.itch.io/haunt

You should read about it with the link and if it sounds interesting please join the discord! I'm hoping to finish the playtesting demo next month and I would love to have some people to which I could give an early demo and receive your feedback :)

Sorry again for the bait and switch(not too sorry but still a little bit sorry)

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I really liked making the sprites and bullet reflect mechanics for Hex Dungeon. I'll definitely re-use the idea in the future, probably as a more structured game than as a proc gen one. Will definitely be studying how other devs graphically showed how the chambered bullets looked in the UI

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Interesting. I'll hafta go check out hex dungeon tomorrow.

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This was a fun game to work on!  Your mechanics were very cool.  I added mostly UI elements so I made the revolver bullets spin when you fired and showed which one was loaded and up next.

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I really enjoyed this one too, even if all I touched was the gun mechanics

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Octalien by far but truth is I had a blast working on all the games, this Jam has been such a pleasure!

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I played that one! It was very cool. I've also enjoyed working on all the projects. Wish I could've made it for day 1...

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Would you like me to do a fake Day 7? I’m addicted to this game-jam format atm lol.. Which branch do you think I should fork from?

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referring to buoy

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ooo that's a really tough one. I think they're all really cool but my personal favorite was this one: https://itch.io/jam/day-6/rate/2196302.

I think they did the best with mood and Bob the fish. Also if you are good at/like doing visual stuff, that version of the game still has plenty of areas for improvement.  I did the tileset and coin sprites on day 4 but my combined lack of implementing Bob and having no art skills didn't make for the artistic integrity that I think the game deserves.

 That is just my personal opinion and all the other versions were very cool too :)

EDIT: I just checked and that version doesn't have the source code uploaded. I asked them to update the page though so maybe it will be soon.

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Alright, looking forward to see what I can do with it :]

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yeah me too! :)

Your fork of Octalien was what caught my attention for it first. I was doing it for day 6 but had some family events to attend to, so missed the upload

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Ah I’m sorry to hear that! glad that my visual / audio overhaul got the game more attention though It’s such a delight to play :]

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I liked Buoy too! Also Octalien! Water games are just fun

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Yeah, I really like the scare in the one with the angler fish!

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yeah that one was my personal favorite I think. 10/10 good bob the fish

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It's hard to tell. Octalian had the most stuff in it, Breakfast wars was the first time I had made a colony-developement game. budget doom was made for a break, and Save The Wild had a Blackthorn prod boss. I would have to say it's a tie between Octalian and budget Doom(Just had to add all that blood). If I was forced to answer, I would say Octalian, just because I got to see all of the wonderful work done by the previuos devs.

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Budget Doom is so funny haha! I loved your changes.

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I almost worked on Budget Doom for day 6! XD

It's hillaroius. Love that it made it(WITH TWO DIFFERENT VERSIONS)

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Octalian was very cool. I considered it for day 6 but I didn't want to mess it up, assumed there would be many versions anyway, and I didn't have any ideas on what to add to it. On the topic of budget doom do you know who did the sfx overhaul if you know what I'm referencing?

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I’m pretty sure that was IggyWise haha!

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lol nice

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Well, thank you both. I am glad that you liked it.

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This was the most fun game which I worked on Day 6: https://swayam2004.itch.io/cute-parachute

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I played a day 4 or 5 version of this. I'll go play the modern ones!

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I think PogoDig day3, It felt really satisfying getting the bomb to work xD

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I think I played that specific version! It was a fun one for sure.

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For me it's been paradriver, It was Just so much fun to playtest that thing that i ended up playtesting 80% of the time.

The meccanics were simple, jet hard to make as satisfying as i wanted.

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My second favorite game to work on was this: https://oktopus888.itch.io/ptgc-2023-day6-whack-a-keyboard

I worked on this with a friend and my dad on day 5 and we steered the direction pretty far off the beaten path, however, the day 6 version has an issue with the resolution which I'd imagine puts a lot of people off of playing it(especially with the other very cool adaptations of the typing game.) I'd encourage anyone to go try the version linked above though. It looks a little janky but it's still totally playable. 

Budget Doom definitely but that’s probably because I’m addicted to making first person shooters 😅

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Nice. I played several versions of budget doom. It was pretty interesting.

Glad to be the first budget Doom lol.

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Hey Kev, in which engine are you making your horror game?

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Unity! I picked it up in 2020. It was my first engine(unless you count geany) and I haven't branched out since

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Definitely Octalien! It already had cool and polished mechanics, so I could focus on adding new fish, new huge map, and QOL stuff. After my day 3 submission the game branched out so much, you can see it here

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Yeah! I can't believe how many versions were made. I thought Bouy had the most for a little bit and then I searched Octalien to check and there's like at least 6 lol. I haven't played all of them yet but I'm curious what they have in store.

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Ha I wonder what happens ned by the time I worked on it one day six it was full of jank.

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for me probably stacker, by the time I thoiched it the mechanics were solid so it was a really chill day of polishing and adding cosmetic features,


my best work was probably heaven must fall and I'm sad everyone took the boring taxi version to work on instead :D

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Definitely Drift King it was awesome to be a part of that chain of games and see it go from a basic prototype to a nicer looking prototype then to an actual game where you have to survive cars then someone added drifting and then for the finally a dude added multiplayer which is CRAZY.

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That's a very easy answer for me since I only had time on Saturday and therefore only worked on one game: ParaDiver! :) It really was a lot if fun, though and I'm quite proud with my work on it 😁

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Sheep herder for me. It was so much fun to work on day 4.

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I really liked working every day, but my personal favorite days were day 3 for Pizza-ed https://thomas-bringer.itch.io/pizza-ed and day 5 for BEAThoven https://thomas-bringer.itch.io/beathoven. The reason is, I completly changed the game's idea in both cases, which was just a ton of fun. For Pizza-ed I completely introduced the pizzeria theming in a generic top-down shooter template. For BEAThoven, I turned a slow, strategic, cute game into an intense rhythm-based game, while throwing away part of the original idea!

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Neat! I had fun working on pizze-ed too! :)

I liked working on Bouy as well. I enjoyed moving it into a direction and giving it character, making music for it and adding VFX. Also learned a lot of new stuff during it. I also enjoyed seeing the different additions people made for it. Big thanks to everyone working on it or giving feedback.  I also worked on a branch of pizzaed, but that project seemed to already have a lot to it, and some things seemed a bit too complex for me to understand that quickly. But i definitely learned a lot about 2D particle systems this Jam :)

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I really liked doing cave crunch (day 3) because I really started exploring with pixel art that day. I also enjoyed hex dungeon (day 6). I learned so much from it, but I also had a lot more that I wanted to add