A jam is the exact place to make your first game! It would be way too hard to start with a long-form project. I am brand new to all of this, and I did the Godot Wild Jam a couple of weeks ago, and made my first ever game. To couple that, I only had tutorial experience in Unity, so not only was I learning how to make a game, but I was also learning a brand new engine. Seriously, it was so rewarding, and now that the game is made, I can look back on all the lessons and apply it to something long-form, rather than that "analysis paralysis" that one might get from starting a daunting project with no bounds. A time limit is a fantastic motivator.
@@kiroshi7364 Only about 2 months. The first game I made was for the Wild Jam #37 in September that I mentioned. I did a tutorial the night before it started!
I have submitted two jam games so far, one solo and the other with a small team and those experiences taught me so much which made me really happy I did those. With that new bit of knowledge I been applying it for my main game and has showed some interesting results. I can’t wait to participate in more jams in the near future!
I'm participating this time around as well again! I usually either overscope or underscope my projects so hopefully this time I find that perfect sweet spot and make a super well polished short game.
I participated in a game jam a few months ago (Wowie 4.0) and I scored 15th in visuals!! On 1004 entry's! Thank you so much for your art tutorials, they really helped over the years tysm!
Thank you Adam! I am currently half way through a unity course and I am using you videos for additional learning. You have convinced me that my goal should to be submit a game in the 2022 LD!
This video is super important. Don't postpone doing these. Even for a Level Designer who works at Ubisoft, I always learn new things in gamejams. They are genuinely on of the best parts of Game Development!
My goal is to one day be a videogame music composer, so right now I'm studying OOP, C# and Game Design just so I'm able to participate in game jams and begin networking with indie devs, and hopefully one day write some music for the next big indie titles.
Thanks for posting this Adam. I was not planning on doing game jams any time soon; I'm making the transition from RPG Maker to Unity, and I only know how to do a few things, but you made me determined to make Something this weekend. I'm glad I did; I gained such a better grasp of what will go into making a Unity project. I'm sure that when I learn things now it will be at a deeper level, and not so passive, because I've made something and had to rely on myself to launch a whole (if small) game.
I’ve done ld51 and ld52 and both of them were blasts! My first game was dog shit but that’s because I was still learning unity but the second one was actually something I am really proud of might continue development on.
This rings true with normal software development too. Ideally you want to do develop anything using an "agile" method. Starting with the most basic functional version of your product, then iterating over that adding a feature, the repeat. That way when you hit a deadline your have something that hits 80% or 60% or 25% of what you wanted but that's better than 0% Were as many project/ developers end up doing a "waterfall" approach, which is get it all done in one go. Which can seem tempting but its alot harder to see where your going wrong when you do it all in one go & if you miss your deadline you basically have nothing to show for it other than a pile of assets
Holy smokes your videos are amazing! The way you explain things really connects with me, instant sub and super excited to follow along. Definitely looking forward to watching your streams!! I had a quick question, and forgive me if you've answered this a thousand times. But what program are you using in the background to show the images as well as draw on them? It looks like pure ref, but I can't seem to find a feature in there to draw lol. I work my ideas in this same way but the drawing ability is a game changer - what wizardry is this?? Thanks a million !!!
@@AdamCYounis I mean.. thank you for just doing what you do man! Also, they got another purchase of Leonardo thanks to you, soo - keep crushin' it dude!! Here for the ride!
Makes me think it would be a really good idea for you to do a video outlining some of the development, planning and documentation etc from the start to the end of a project and how you go about setting this sort of stuff up. As always Adam, Great Video!! it's been wicked learning from your videos, so thanks as well!!
I’ve fallen in love with game jams over the last couple years. I don’t think there’s anything else that does quite as much to teach you game dev than making game after game to completion
@@randomuser1249 the fact that there’s no penalty or prizes for entering means literally anyone can do one! If you fail to not create anything then you haven’t lost anything. And keeping the scope down is something you figure out over time, since when you start you have no idea how long things take.
I was gonna be in a jam once which is making a PicoCAD model. it didn't turned out great bcus i haven't experienced pixelart and 3d modeling. But know, i learned many things about pixelart (bcus of you) and learned many things in blender too! Edit: oh wait its a game jam.....
Guess I have to start joining jams if i ever want to properly understand the inner works of character design and implementation of said characters into a game, 2d or 3d alike
Do game jams include also old engines? Like for exdample I use rpg maker vx ace, and till now I haven't gotten a chance to participate cause the forums gamejams I see are only for MZ, so is there a chance for old engines? (also I love your videos
You did made me want to participate, but I have some stuff to do this weekend :( but I will try to join future GameJams, I'll look up for a page or something to know when one is going to start and join!
game jams can be good but all i ever experienced after a dozen or so jams was the negative side of game jams , people stealing games to sell online , people leaving fake ratings and reviews / bias towards ratings , negativity by others due to the game being for windows pc and honestly i do not see all the great things from jams that all these videos say , my goal was to make something entertaining but what it became was a battle of exposure with bias nature involved every single time
Hey Adam. Love your work, top tier pixel art content. Don't know if you will read this, but help me out. I would love to have a channel about game dev, but I'm brazilian. Should I do my videos in portuguese with english subtitles or do them in english with portuguese subtitles? I'm thinking about this because the english speaking market is way more evolved on this niche and staying on my native language might limit the reach of the channel.
I think Brazilian Portuguese has a pretty big audience, so I'm sure you'll be able to grow a significant audience with just BR. But, for sure, the English speaking world is bigger. If you can communicate well enough using English, I think it would be worth it in the long run.
So I'm an artist that wants to get into programming so I can do a game jam but I'm a little confused. Are you all really memorizing all of that code and just writing it all from memory or are you looming it up and copying and pasting code? Is that even allowed in a game jam? Also are their time constraints beyond 48 hours? Like could I stay awake and be working for the full 48 hours or is it more of a 9-5 thing?
Cause it takes me so long to do anything productive with code that I wouldn't have time to actually make anything meaningful let alone a complete game.
Counterpoints: * Something that you can do in a weekend isn't worth its space on a resume unless you need something to pad your resume out * I agree with you that if the choice is between playing games all weekend vs doing a game jam, the game jam is a great choice * Yes, you do get rapid feedback from a game jam, but if the design decisions in a jam game are inconsequential since the game has to be so small, you aren't getting valuable feedback * I agree with you that if you're really starting out then a game jam may have some value, especially if it's the thing that inspires you to actually work on a game. I see comments from other people who say things like "I'll do a game jam once I learn how to make games" and to those people I say "Stop making excuses and do the game jam. You'll learn something." * Overall my point is mostly: I have the perspective of someone who has more ideas than time to implement, so a game jam is just going to get in the way of progress towards something I'd actually like to be doing. I don't think I'd get any value from making a simple game. I personally don't value "completion" because I don't see completion of a simple game as any more of an accomplishment than completion of a system or meaningful portion of a more complex game.
Unless you're just making your games just for you, the test of your systems / games will always come down to whether other people think your game is fun or good. And getting regular exposure to how players receive your design choices will give you invaluable insight into where your effort needs to go. If you're just engineering physics or lighting, no problem. But if you're designing player facing stuff you can't really do that efficiently in a bubble without exposure to feedback. So even if the jams themselves aren't going into your resume, the experience from jams will make the bigger resume pieces much better.
Personally I don't appreciate the mentality that comes with Game Jams. You can learn a lot more by limiting what you focus on in a similar fashion (like a movement system, combat mechanic, story interaction) Of course this isn't as satisfying as making an entire game(for most people). If competition isn't what motivates you then this will most likely yield better results.
I'm currently studying game development in school, and I feel like joining a game jam but afraid it might affect my assignments. Maybe I can join during holidays, what do you guys think?
Once I figure out how to make games I will :D
You figure that out in the jam!
A jam is the exact place to make your first game! It would be way too hard to start with a long-form project. I am brand new to all of this, and I did the Godot Wild Jam a couple of weeks ago, and made my first ever game. To couple that, I only had tutorial experience in Unity, so not only was I learning how to make a game, but I was also learning a brand new engine. Seriously, it was so rewarding, and now that the game is made, I can look back on all the lessons and apply it to something long-form, rather than that "analysis paralysis" that one might get from starting a daunting project with no bounds. A time limit is a fantastic motivator.
If there is a place where you SHOULDNT know what you are doing it's a game jam
@@OllieboyOA how long have you been making games? I started learning programming a week and 2 days ago
@@kiroshi7364 Only about 2 months. The first game I made was for the Wild Jam #37 in September that I mentioned. I did a tutorial the night before it started!
I have submitted two jam games so far, one solo and the other with a small team and those experiences taught me so much which made me really happy I did those. With that new bit of knowledge I been applying it for my main game and has showed some interesting results. I can’t wait to participate in more jams in the near future!
I'm participating this time around as well again! I usually either overscope or underscope my projects so hopefully this time I find that perfect sweet spot and make a super well polished short game.
I participated in a game jam a few months ago (Wowie 4.0) and I scored 15th in visuals!! On 1004 entry's! Thank you so much for your art tutorials, they really helped over the years tysm!
Thank you Adam! I am currently half way through a unity course and I am using you videos for additional learning. You have convinced me that my goal should to be submit a game in the 2022 LD!
This video is super important. Don't postpone doing these. Even for a Level Designer who works at Ubisoft, I always learn new things in gamejams. They are genuinely on of the best parts of Game Development!
My goal is to one day be a videogame music composer, so right now I'm studying OOP, C# and Game Design just so I'm able to participate in game jams and begin networking with indie devs, and hopefully one day write some music for the next big indie titles.
Im rooting for you 🙏🏼
Im rooting for you 🙏🏼
@@kiroshi7364 thank you, haha!
Thanks for posting this Adam. I was not planning on doing game jams any time soon; I'm making the transition from RPG Maker to Unity, and I only know how to do a few things, but you made me determined to make Something this weekend. I'm glad I did; I gained such a better grasp of what will go into making a Unity project. I'm sure that when I learn things now it will be at a deeper level, and not so passive, because I've made something and had to rely on myself to launch a whole (if small) game.
Looking forward to watching your stream while I work on my own Ludum Dare entry once again. Good luck to everyone who decides to participate!
I’ve done ld51 and ld52 and both of them were blasts! My first game was dog shit but that’s because I was still learning unity but the second one was actually something I am really proud of might continue development on.
When i watch you, all i cant think is "oh...this guy....such a veteran."
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
This rings true with normal software development too. Ideally you want to do develop anything using an "agile" method. Starting with the most basic functional version of your product, then iterating over that adding a feature, the repeat. That way when you hit a deadline your have something that hits 80% or 60% or 25% of what you wanted but that's better than 0%
Were as many project/ developers end up doing a "waterfall" approach, which is get it all done in one go. Which can seem tempting but its alot harder to see where your going wrong when you do it all in one go & if you miss your deadline you basically have nothing to show for it other than a pile of assets
Thank you for this video! Going to use it as one of my sources for a final essay on Game Jams :)
Holy smokes your videos are amazing! The way you explain things really connects with me, instant sub and super excited to follow along. Definitely looking forward to watching your streams!!
I had a quick question, and forgive me if you've answered this a thousand times.
But what program are you using in the background to show the images as well as draw on them? It looks like pure ref, but I can't seem to find a feature in there to draw lol. I work my ideas in this same way but the drawing ability is a game changer - what wizardry is this??
Thanks a million !!!
Thanks for the sub! The canvas app is called Leonardo.
@@AdamCYounis I mean.. thank you for just doing what you do man! Also, they got another purchase of Leonardo thanks to you, soo - keep crushin' it dude!! Here for the ride!
Sir, you are a genius. And THANK you for showing us your process and everything. I really appreciate and absorb this stuff
Great video! I have never submitted a game during all the jams I've participated in. I hope I am able to submit a game this time!
Thanks for this!
your videos are always so calming and enjoyable :). keep it up man!
Makes me think it would be a really good idea for you to do a video outlining some of the development, planning and documentation etc from the start to the end of a project and how you go about setting this sort of stuff up.
As always Adam, Great Video!!
it's been wicked learning from your videos, so thanks as well!!
I’ve fallen in love with game jams over the last couple years. I don’t think there’s anything else that does quite as much to teach you game dev than making game after game to completion
What if you don’t think you can do a game jam? Also how do you keep your scope down so that you can complete the game?
@@randomuser1249 the fact that there’s no penalty or prizes for entering means literally anyone can do one! If you fail to not create anything then you haven’t lost anything. And keeping the scope down is something you figure out over time, since when you start you have no idea how long things take.
@@Mightyjordy ok thanks
Wow! You opened my mind
game jams are very useful for learning!
I was gonna be in a jam once which is making a PicoCAD model. it didn't turned out great bcus i haven't experienced pixelart and 3d modeling. But know, i learned many things about pixelart (bcus of you) and learned many things in blender too!
Edit: oh wait its a game jam.....
it's true, playing age of empires online to lose a bunch of ranking points is my usual go to when i don't know what to do
it did sound like hes drawing on personal experience :D
Guess I have to start joining jams if i ever want to properly understand the inner works of character design and implementation of said characters into a game, 2d or 3d alike
Do game jams include also old engines?
Like for exdample I use rpg maker vx ace, and till now I haven't gotten a chance to participate cause the forums gamejams I see are only for MZ, so is there a chance for old engines?
(also I love your videos
You did made me want to participate, but I have some stuff to do this weekend :( but I will try to join future GameJams, I'll look up for a page or something to know when one is going to start and join!
Great video, I'm convinced
What program or website do you use to make this sketch style slide show? It’s super neat
Wondering the same!
game jams can be good but all i ever experienced after a dozen or so jams was the negative side of game jams , people stealing games to sell online , people leaving fake ratings and reviews / bias towards ratings , negativity by others due to the game being for windows pc and honestly i do not see all the great things from jams that all these videos say , my goal was to make something entertaining but what it became was a battle of exposure with bias nature involved every single time
I should try to involve myself with one. I'm a newbie at programming but I could use more experience with art and that and it could be fun. c=
once ill get a laptop, i will
Hey Adam. Love your work, top tier pixel art content. Don't know if you will read this, but help me out.
I would love to have a channel about game dev, but I'm brazilian. Should I do my videos in portuguese with english subtitles or do them in english with portuguese subtitles? I'm thinking about this because the english speaking market is way more evolved on this niche and staying on my native language might limit the reach of the channel.
I think Brazilian Portuguese has a pretty big audience, so I'm sure you'll be able to grow a significant audience with just BR. But, for sure, the English speaking world is bigger. If you can communicate well enough using English, I think it would be worth it in the long run.
28:08 I met that guy last month :)
I enter a jam every time i start to feel burnt out or uninspired by my main project.... Ive spent more time on jams than my main game lol
g'morning there!
What resources (such as a Udemy course or book or site) that yu'd recommend for getting into using Unity for game development?
Adam. Are you using unity tile editor or tiled now a for level creation?
Is there an advantage to using VS Code other than how lightweight it is?
i just started figuring out how gamemaker studio 2 works, is that any allright? because unity seems pretty expensive?
So I'm an artist that wants to get into programming so I can do a game jam but I'm a little confused. Are you all really memorizing all of that code and just writing it all from memory or are you looming it up and copying and pasting code? Is that even allowed in a game jam? Also are their time constraints beyond 48 hours? Like could I stay awake and be working for the full 48 hours or is it more of a 9-5 thing?
Cause it takes me so long to do anything productive with code that I wouldn't have time to actually make anything meaningful let alone a complete game.
How good are game jams.....?
Darkside Detective is a good example of game jam made into a full game
Counterpoints:
* Something that you can do in a weekend isn't worth its space on a resume unless you need something to pad your resume out
* I agree with you that if the choice is between playing games all weekend vs doing a game jam, the game jam is a great choice
* Yes, you do get rapid feedback from a game jam, but if the design decisions in a jam game are inconsequential since the game has to be so small, you aren't getting valuable feedback
* I agree with you that if you're really starting out then a game jam may have some value, especially if it's the thing that inspires you to actually work on a game. I see comments from other people who say things like "I'll do a game jam once I learn how to make games" and to those people I say "Stop making excuses and do the game jam. You'll learn something."
* Overall my point is mostly: I have the perspective of someone who has more ideas than time to implement, so a game jam is just going to get in the way of progress towards something I'd actually like to be doing. I don't think I'd get any value from making a simple game. I personally don't value "completion" because I don't see completion of a simple game as any more of an accomplishment than completion of a system or meaningful portion of a more complex game.
Unless you're just making your games just for you, the test of your systems / games will always come down to whether other people think your game is fun or good. And getting regular exposure to how players receive your design choices will give you invaluable insight into where your effort needs to go. If you're just engineering physics or lighting, no problem. But if you're designing player facing stuff you can't really do that efficiently in a bubble without exposure to feedback.
So even if the jams themselves aren't going into your resume, the experience from jams will make the bigger resume pieces much better.
letsgooooo
Anyone know what palette he uses in Aseprite?
You are so cool. That's all.
02:10 good one haha
Personally I don't appreciate the mentality that comes with Game Jams. You can learn a lot more by limiting what you focus on in a similar fashion (like a movement system, combat mechanic, story interaction) Of course this isn't as satisfying as making an entire game(for most people). If competition isn't what motivates you then this will most likely yield better results.
Can you enter game-jam teams as only an artist/animator?
I am the oposite of you, I am only good at coding. Woud you like to do a gamejam with me?
@@alpi7411 as much as I’d love to I’m caught up with commissions! I was mostly just curious for the future :)
@@Lakatu I understand, good luck with youre comissions :)
I'm currently studying game development in school, and I feel like joining a game jam but afraid it might affect my assignments. Maybe I can join during holidays, what do you guys think?
I am using RPG maker MV,can i enter?
Notice me Adam-kun owo
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