#gbjam11

My friends worked so incredibly hard to get all of this done in time for the submission deadline, it's an honor to have the opportunity to write copy for it.

Please go check it out!

First, I participated in GB Jam 11. This game jam is a competition in full game development, where entries have all of their assets, mechanics, and materials produced over the 10 days of the jam! GB Jam specifically is a competition where you develop games in the classic Game Boy style - 4 colors, limited audio channels, and a lot of pixelation. I worked with a wonderful audio designer and composer Waker0, whose itch page is here. We developed Fleet of One, which placed #208 out of 404 submissions. I'm happy with the finished product, especially as it was my first time working with the game engine, as well as my first time doing any sprite work and art, especially 8-bit.

I also, following some of the Unity drama, started familiarizing myself with Unreal Engine 5. It's a fascinating piece of software and I'll certainly be writing more on it in the coming days and weeks. Anyone interested in learning I'm happy to provide some resources - but I mean it when I say that making a game is so much less complex than it was 10 years ago. It's still a labor of love, and takes time, and you need to be passionate - but there's so many easy-to-use tools to get your feet wet. I've met so many people who abandoned it because programming was too hard for them, don't let that stop you. Work in Scratch, Godot, or Unreal Blueprint; the extra abstraction layer makes it so much easier to approach, and you'll learn from there.

Finally, my portfolio site is finally live here if you want easy access to some of my favorite projects as I continue the along my road.