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Why is it called rush hour jam with a photo of the movie rush hour when the theme has nothing to do with rushing hours or rush hour the movie?

>when he says he uses blueprints in UE4

POST LOLI JAM IDEAS
...I mean, "rush hour jam" I deas.

Excusable if you have a good game to show for it. Like Wynn Dixie dev.

>What's a good way to get new ideas? It feels like I'm stuck and just thinking of the same ideas over and over again.
Entering a jam can help, if the theme restricts you enough to might think of something interesting. You could also try making games from genres you almost never play. For example I never play tower defense games, but I made one and got some ideas from it. Basically it makes you think of things your brain doesn't normally think of.

it isn't really obvious that she's in front of a computer

Can someone post a link to the video of the fiverr girls saying shit like "just like make game" and all that

If you can't get any good idea on your own, you should just acknowledge you'll never be anything more than a code monkey for somebody else's dream.

>the theme has nothing to do with rush hour the movie?
Just how the movie took an afroamerican comedian and a chinese martial arts expert and made them work together, you take two unrelated genres and make them work together.
Also "Take two unrelated game genres and make them work together jam" was too long

You have asked this in at least the last three threads.
Literally wasting days on something you could have googled in 5 seconds.

>blueprints can be converted into c++
>literally no disadvantageous to using them

t. blueprint "dev"

I'd rather use blueprints and dev than not use them and nodev.

>March 31st 2017 at 12:00 AM to April 16th 2017 at 12:00 AM
You posted too early, mate. Hype will die

gota work on the animations some more

> A Harvest Moon type game where you play as a fruit or vegetable and need to grow humans to sell them off into slavery.

Go away Molydeux

I'm not into cripple porn, sorry.

This jam is stupid, it's way too broad.
At least with a theme you would think "what kind if game I can make that fits the theme?"
Now it's "What kind of game I can make that combines two genres that I also have to come up with?"

your game is super cool looking, i love it

thanks

>0 Joined
as expected.

This kind of post makes me think agdg just doesn't want to have fun jams.

>people with no imagination wanting to make games
I'll never understand this.

See

>fun jam
>doesn't have a theme
What's the point then? Just make your own game.

Loli jam would be fun

Just nodevs being nodevs, they clearly aren't interested in anything related to having fun while making the game. They just vote for wathever they want to play at the moment.

If you can't come up with a loli jam idea that's not disgusting to you, you're just a bad dev with no creativity

>waah I can't make a generic platformer and just change the sprites to fill the theme, this jam requires creativity delete it

>Loli jam would be unfun
ftfy

no problem

See

This

>fun jam
>you can do wathever you want, but have a loli in it.
What's the point then? Just make your own game.

your welcome

I can, I'll just make a fun game and download a loli off google and paste it in the game.
That doesn't make the jam idea not shit

You're uncreative. Checkmate.

I don't really care about the disgustiness of the theme but I just don't care about making a game about little girls.

>can't mix two genres
>calls anyone uncreative
>"Checkmate"
lmao

>the jam theme isn't shit, you're just uncreative!
let's hear your ideas then

Bad devs focus on creativity
Good devs focus on delivering

Don't forget to vote on the next jam theme:

poal.me/hwtz1x
poal.me/hwtz1x
poal.me/hwtz1x

To reiterate the rules:
>you give votes to options you don't like

>at the end of the poll, 50% of the highest voted options are removed

>if unsure about whether to remove an option or not when making a new round (for example, an option has the same amount of votes like the last included one's) then include it.

>rinse and repeat until only 1 option is left - that will be the next jam theme

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The jam that already ended and from which the current poll's themes were derived from:
poal.me/atjauf

t. the guy that can't come with his own theme for a game.

The point of game jams is usually to give inspiration to those who want to make a game but don't have the creativity to whip up a "good" idea.

What is the point of joining a jam when it is essentially "Game Jam Jam! Make a game! Have fun!". Like fuck, if I wanted to literally just make any old game without direction, I wouldn't be looking at jams in the first place.

gets it

>can't make an original game with a loli in it
>calls others uncreative
lmao

in UE4 anim graphs, how can you set up a 'Any State' Transition like in Unity? I need it for a take damage animation, and I don't want to draw transition lines for every single animation. You can't transition between state machines as far as I know. And the "blend by bool" node does not work, because that blends instead of transitioning which means anim notifies still fire which fucks everything up.

Does UE4 seriously not have a 'Any State' Transition?

>The point of game jams is usually to give inspiration to those who want to make a game but don't have the creativity to whip up a "good" idea.
Your opinion.
For me the best part of a jam is making something new, a challenge. Because that's what I enjoy when making games, trying new stuff, learning stuff, doing something out of my comfort zone.
Go join loli jam, and I will join rush hour jam. Join both of them if you want. Problem solved.

see >The point of game jams is usually to give inspiration to those who want to make a game but don't have the creativity to whip up a "good" idea.
Exactly, combining two genres would help people get "good" ideas like patapon, or crypt of the necrodancer.

>What is the point of joining a jam when it is essentially "Game Jam Jam! Make a game! Have fun!".
>Like fuck, if I wanted to literally just make any old game without direction, I wouldn't be looking at jams in the first place.
Exactly, there's no point. That's why shit themes like "make a game but make sure to have a character in it" are shit.

> gets it
wait, you lost me

When I saw the picture I hoped we were doing a movie related jam.
Like a challenge to make a shitty box office movie game.

Imagine a rush hour rpg that's just an abridged version of the movie with hilarious stats and quotes from the movie.
Or just a mash up of different iconic scenes but each is its on genre of game. Like the eiffel tower scene is platform beat em up and there's like a frogger car part i don't fucking know
maybe a sex game part when you try to fuck that assassin girl but have to pass qtes
blah blah blah either way that'd be way more fun than this shit
maybe pick an easier movie

You're retarded.

or pick a tv show and we try to recreate our personal favorite episode as a video game

i'd have a fun time turning an episode of always sunny into a video game

>Pop Quiz with Jules & Vincent
I can dig it.

shit we could even abandon the original script
like game's set in a cinamic universe of the jams choice
man like imagine a short rpg set in the world of the invention of lying, fucking hilarious

Nice argument, man.

space jam game anyone?

Thanks. The whole idea of "hurr I'll take a game and stick the theme of the jam in it" is a meme and it's pretty much never been done.

The purpose of a game jam is to challenge the participants. The theme of the jam serves as a limitation, challenging participants to work around it.
The reason loli (and most "thematic" themes that are unrelated to programming) doesn't work well is because it doesn't limit you. You can take any existing game, stick a loli in it, and if fits the theme. Since the theme is not limiting, it is not challenging.
A platformer with a loli protagonist fits the theme.
A shooter with a loli protagonist fits the theme.
Tetris with the blocks being lolis fit the theme.
Telling people to "just be creative" is a poor excuse. It is like a racing track where the finish line is 1 meter away from the start. People would complain that it's too easy and you just go forward. Telling racers to be creative would be retarded, just because someone did a 360 before crossing the finish line wouldn't make the race track better, it'd only be improved by actually making it longer and adding turns.
The challenge should be the theme itself, not having a theme so broad that you have to create your own challenge around the theme.

now thats more like it.

Look at it, agdg. This is what you could have had instead of threads full of shitposting about polls and lolis.

Can I post progress now chinkmoot?

I made a game.

holy shit this delusion

im down for lena dunham jam desu

Sketched out a cover image of some sort.

Make it so the player can draw the face

Prove it.

>ljmg
>not jlmg

>agdg complains that rush hour jam isn't broad enought to their taste
>next thread complains that rush hour jam is too broad for their taste

that the idea. i also gonna make then white, so the player can choose the color too.
and you can steal other people body textures

That comes later, only tears now.

extremely gay

honestly it's nice except I wouldn't have done the mouse jumping thing on the right

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Wait are you telling me agdg is not one person? Hold the fuck up

why not Mongol/Burjat magic jam?
youtube.com/watch?v=je41KU7lt8k

ok, let's consider waifu jam, an agdg jam very similar in concept to loli jam
Here's sidescroller but with waifu
itch.io/jam/wj2015/rate/25690
Here's first person shooter but with waifu
itch.io/jam/wj2015/rate/25826
Here's platformer but with waifu
itch.io/jam/wj2016/rate/69242

Here's your debunked "argument", in case you forgot it.
>The whole idea of "hurr I'll take a game and stick the theme of the jam in it" is a meme and it's pretty much never been done.

literally me, I slapped a skull sprite and haunted house sprite on my game and called it a halloween jam entry

>you can steal other people body textures

>wants everyone to agree on a jam theme
>can't even agree on a reason to explain why a jam theme is not good

I agree with The mouse should have less of a lewd jumping pose, everything else looks pretty good though.

>4 examples out of 10+ jams we've had
Wow you sure got me
Also good job proving that they "took a random game and sticked the theme of the jam in it" instead of simply having an idea based on the theme.

>genre = game
you wot

Demo day is in less than two weeks.
Let's just make a list of themes agdg wants and have everyone who submits a demo vote on them.

where are your games?

> tfw you bitch endlessly at devs for not posting more progress but make the thread a scummy and awful place to be 100% of the time

You know what? Even if that ass is the gayest thing I've ever seen, I also see that a lot of hard work went into that cover. It has a good composition, and it has that Drew Struzan kind of movie poster feel, where the image alone tells a story and gives you a promise that there's hell of an experience and adventure waiting for you. Astonishing work!

See

Why do you do that?

Seconding, it really sticks out

Thanks, it's pretty obvious people who want shit themes are nodevs.

Is he pointing a fingergun in my direction?

Exactly my point against it.
You can have a pong clone with a waifu and call it a day.
Was it creative?
Was it fun to make?
Was it challenging to make?
Can it be reskined and reused on another jam?

Is recoloring UI progress?