Play my game. If I get 10 comments on the game with the hashtag #SquareBorne I will turn the game, to instead of just a normal rage game but into an actual full game. With weapons, enemies, tons of levels, and little hats for the player :). You can never go wrong with little hats.
So I am planning my game to be unfair and frustrating but still be like playable and like a bad version of 2d soulslike where you die a lot. Would I get bad marks for that? Like the game will be hopefully polished but almost impossible.
I just remembered this jam today so I am gonna be making a game for a jam that I forgot about with a programming language I have never used which is Javascipt. I used to use python but I am branching out.
What I would recommend, because I was in your situation last summer, as a new gamedev using AI to even an innocent thing like trying to learn with it. Will, send you down a rabbit hole of "Well I don't know how but AI can so I will just use that!". What that does makes it, so you don't understand the program, and it really isn't your own. I would recommend joining as many jams as you are willing to do, not at the same time, but not too spaced apart. My first jam, I had 4 days, and I only got the movement working. But I learned and by my 2nd I had enemies and a moving background, it wasn't a full game of course though but by each game you learn, and it is a whole lot more valuable than AI. So, I would recommend trying to recreate a simple older game like pong or block breaker. I am fine with engines but only using a language is a lot better for helping you learn, like Python I would recommend.
I teamed up with AeonDDM and TheOnlyWormo to build a Doom-like speedrunning game. I was the programmer, AeonDDM was the artist, and TheOnlyWormo was our composer. I made a custom Python ray casting engine for this project. The storyline for the game would have been escaping out of a lab filled with Mutant clones of Morgan aka the player. It was a pleasure working with them they are very talented people, and we got I would say pretty close to finishing but looks like we won't. There are no future plans to finish based off of a few accidents in where I was using an old version of Python that isn't compatible with browser play. I have learned a lot this Jam and I look forward to playing everyone's games!
