If you have any questions regarding this jam, please feel free to ask here! Will try to respond ASAP.
that's too bad, i would love to participate, i make everything myself but i can't and don't want to learn how to code and i generate all scripts with chatgpt
This is too bad... I am in the same situation. Not everyone needs to know everything and even if we did, we can't do everything by ourselves. What is the difference between an AI and a helper or a friend? After all, we want to make a game and we use an assistant to help us make a game... I am developing a game by myself. Is using AI forbidden in all GameJams?
Thousands of games have been made by people alone before. Solo devs work hard even on their weakest skills to make games.
This is a jam for beginners. You LEARN. You MAKE MISTAKES. You IMPROVE. The skills you’ll learn by making things by yourself will carry over to your next projects, that is the point.
By letting an AI do it for you, you’re missing the goddamn point.
Look at the submissions in this jam. Dozens of games made by first-time devs. Are they perfect? Are they the best thing since sliced bread? Maybe not. But someone put hours of work into learning how to make a fucking game.
‘What’s the difference between a friend helping’ - you’re exchanging ideas and learning together. You’re bonding. Spending quality time together doing something you both enjoy, creating memories. That is the difference. That is something genAI will never be able to replace - the human aspect, the fact that we’re social beings who thrive in the presence of our loved ones.
Do better.
for me the main issue is that i hate coding and never even want to start wasting my life on learning it, and all my games gonna rely on AI code because of that, and its not because im lazy or something, i gladly learn some other things like painting or 3d modeling, that is intresting to me, and writing scripts by myself is not one of that things, i just want to make games and only do parts of process that i like and have patience to learn, and not sit everyday looking at this mess that is code for me
thinking that something sucks means you're lazy, ok but that means that im lazy only in coding, i like everything else in game development and love doing it, i think soccer sucks too but i like to exercise in general, so how does this work? i don't think I'm lazy in general but maybe you're right if not liking to do something that bores you is lazy, but then only lazy in this activity
'i think soccer sucks too but i like to exercise in general, so how does this work?'
By your godawful defensive analogy, you make something in literally any other medium than a coding-based one
Seriously, don't pigeonhole yourself into one medium if you hate one of the most central aspects of creating something in that medium. You're a soccer hater complaining about playing while standing in the middle of the soccer field when you could be doing literally anything else
no, for this jam we’re looking for specifically the experiences of a road trip (cars/vans, roads, gas stations, questionable road food, stuck in a small vehicle together, flat tires, etc)
a train trip would offer completely different dynamics and experiences, which while very interesting does not fit what we’re looking for sadly
final fantasy xv does a section where you they go on a brief train trip, so entries could have that too, but the main focus should be the road trip
Interesting question… so, for this jam we’re looking for the experiences of a road trip (questionable road food, stuck in a small vehicle together, travelling from place to place, meeting new people/food/cultures)
So I don’t see why you couldn’t have an ufo in space, as long as the story has the characteristics of a road trip! Could totally have the characters go on trip around an alien planet or something like that. I’m fascinated by this concept now omg
Hit “Join jam” on the jam page. That’s it! You’re signed up
Make a game
When you’re ready to submit, follow these instructions: https://myfirstgamejam.tumblr.com/post/641207538943164416/how-to-submit-your-game-you-may-think-that-you-can
Sorry for the late response, I’m graduating today and had to check with my co-host lol
If the bus drive has the experiences of a road trip, it should be ok. E.g: stopping for meals and gas, staying at hotels, sightseeing, etc. I think the difference between a road trip and a regular bus travel in your case would be more important.
They don’t have to know each other from the get-go. Getting to know (or hate) strangers during the trip is ok.
The interactions don’t have to be positive. If you want everyone in the vehicle to hate each other’s guts/ actively plan for their murders/not care about each other, that’s okay. The social aspect can be as negative as you want, not all road trips are fun times for everyone.
Minibus and van are ok, my own game has a van as it vehicle.
thank you so much! I have a few test builds out already that are already playable (with a few levels) so I'm gonna submit it and just keep updating then if that's okay! I really hope you guys end up enjoying it this is my first game jam and I've gotten pretty ambitious :) This is so much fun I'm definitely doing game jams in the future ^_^ and thank you SO MUCH for the swift response WOW that was fast! thank you for your time!!!!
Wow, that was a fast response!
But anyways, the problem doesn't actually prevent people from playing it since there are two ways to bypass it
1) Turn off Windows Defender
2) Just ignore the error. Windows give you the option to proceed anyways, so it's fine.
My personal idea is that (if it's fine with you) I create a new topic under the community page of this Jam. I could use it to help anyone with issues they have with playing my game, because I spent a decent amount of time creating my own original music and coding it, so I want to make sure that everyone can enjoy my game without much hassle!
Hi there, I'm new to all this (not gaming, been into that since Pong on the Atari and now VR/MR!) and am a published UK musician and composer. I'm looking to get into creating game music, and it's been suggested that Game Dev jams would be a great way for me to get some real experience and examples in this area. If there's any music I can contribute to this, please let me know how I go about creating what's needed, or providing it for this game dev jam. I have plenty of ready made bits and also can knock bits up quickly in my home studio. Here's my YouTube link in case there's anything that would be good to use (please ask me if so and I'll send the proper files, rather than ripping anything off) :) Woop! Good luck, ThunderBird
This should be helpful! https://itch.io/jam/road-trip-game-jam/topic/4476699/tips-how-to-recruit-team-me...
I would love to participate in the Game Jam, but also, I won't, because before I even join, I was already treated badly for a simple question, while other users had an appropriate treatment/response. I don't like to hold grudges, and neither am I, but I haven't seen anything saying about "can the game be calm?" other than my question. At this point, my question is deleted FOR SOME REASON.
the print is before delete
No, please do not do that. It's disrespectful to the other creators. Also, please do not spam the board; this isn't an instant messenger app.
EDIT: Just to clarify, seeing how others do things and getting inspired by them is perfectly fine, we just ask that you try to put your own original spin into it!
The Discord server isn't for this Game jam it's for VN devs, so it's not our server.
This might be helpful, though https://itch.io/jam/road-trip-game-jam/topic/4476699/tips-how-to-recruit-team-me...
