GMTK jam has always been fun to work on, this year I made a Mech Piloting game which was totally out of control! (That was the theme..)

I made a parsing system for combination of button presses to perform certain actions on the Mech.

It was a funny throwaway game that I really enjoyed making!

The Wurst Buy is a simulation parody game based on Black Friday sales.

I did some of the programming for this one, mostly fixes to existing code and the level generation. I also did the game design entirely.

The latest GMTK jam, I participated by myself for once and managed to make a small puzzle / stealth game in under 48 hours. It was hard work, at the end I only managed to get around 400th place. But it is one of my proudest achievements!

This was an especially insightful learning process. Since the jam had such a high level of people entering, I got amazing feedback and got to talk to a lot of fellow developers.

I am still looking for more feedback so please try the game and let me know!

A game about a rock trying to find its way back home. I did all the programming for the game, including making dynamic particle systems based on the parameters of a in game mechanic. The game was quite easy on the programming side so I gave myself a little challenge which helped me get more out of the learning process!

I was working both days of the jam and had forfeited my in any of the ideation and design of the game. Doing so I was ready to go in as a programming slave to do my masters bidding. This jam reviled to me the biases people have towards certain things in the creative process and how they effect the game over all. We went out to make something similar to getting over it with Bennett Foddy and ended up somewhere close but not where I think the game was originally headed. Upon self reflection it made me realize all the times I had altered the state of many of my projects. At the end I'm still very happy with all the work I've done so far and I'm still constantly learning new things which is my goal!

The video explains most of it, but in short the game is about naughty kids who didn't get any gifts from Santa for Christmas. So they are trying to ruin it for the rest of the world. The core mechanic of the game is voice recognition. The kids of a library of swear words to pick from, curtsy of Wikipedia lol. The more they swear the faster they run! Santa has a similar mechanic.

We did however fall into the trap of making a multiplayer game for a jam. It got next to no ratings and the ones that were on there were from people who din't find any matches. Regardless of the feedback, or the lack there of, this was one of the best experiences I've had with a Jam!

Finally another week long game jam with a big and competent team. Everyone worked together like clockwork and we pumped out a polished ready to release game in just 7 days.

The game is not another space invaders clone(Nasic). It was not the idea that I personally wanted to make for the jam, given it's duration we could have accomplished a lot more. But going with the safe option allowed us to put in a lot more polish to the game.

The theme of the jam was "What is home to you". This was a very subjective theme and lead to a lot of different opinions coming forward from our team of 7 people! Big groups have their problems. But we managed to pull through!

The game is simple, you play as a parent doing chores around the house before the kids come back home in time for supper.

The theme for the jam was a sound effect! How crazy is that?! It was a old service bell sound and it was really interesting to see the ideas that came forth from the team. All so drastically different and all games that I would love to make.

We decided on a visual novel style game where the player unravels a sinister treasure hunt sparked by an shady group calling themselves DayDreamer.

We made a simulation of a smartphone and used is as our playground for this game. It was a very different experience making a game entirely in the UI layer with Unity.