Make a Game January 2014

[Stephen Roantree]

Happy new year! It was great seeing people in the pub last night. Anywho, the theme for this month is (taken from looking out the window):

STORM

This could be stormy weather, or storming a castle, or anything more metaphorical interpretation. As always the theme is 100% optional, it's just there as a jumping off point if you want to use it :) And here're some pretty pictures for inspiration:

 

Good luck! I'll send on the details of the meetup at the end of the month soon :)

[Colm Larkin]

There's a great game jam happening this month called Global Game Jam. It's a worldwide weekend-long event, and the GameCraft folks are hosting a Dublin version in Microsoft. It's on for the weekend of Jan 24th-25th. More info and tickets here:

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-gamejam-dublin-griffithgamecraft-tickets-9890883900?aff=efblike

Global Game Jam has seen some super games in the last years, including Surgeon Simulator:

http://2013.globalgamejam.org/2013/surgeon-simulator-2013

[Colm Larkin]

The January 1GAM meetup will be on Fri 31st January, so mark your diaries folks!

Hope to see some more neat games. Phil's boat-balancing game concept from the last meetup had a lot of potential!

[Colm Larkin]

1GAM meetup tomorrow evening!

As usual we'll have it in Against The Grain at 6.30pm (upstairs). Bring along your games or prototypes and lets have some fun!

[Owen Canavan]

I only just started on something on Monday, so I have nothing done for this month. I'm going to keep on it for next month.

At the moment I'm just taking a resource vein generation script I had written years ago for a game and am trying to implement it in Unity. The veins in the original were just 2d, but this will end up as 3d, and then I'll add in some surveying mini-game, kinda like the surveying in Star Wars Galaxies, and then maybe mine camp management etc. Maybe a 4X without the last X.

This was the original php script:

 and this is what I have working atm in Unity (spawning cubes just for visualisation):

Have to add in more than one layer now so the different resources can wrap around each other.

[Philip Cass]

hey it's the game I did for this months 1GAM! 
left and right to balance the weight, 
try to keep yourself upright and all your cargo in your boat for M4D PO1NTZ

http://weh.bz/1GAM/boat_balance/boat_balance.html

[Colm Larkin]

Nice Phil!