#Cobalt Game Jam 1
September 18th, 2014, Game Development, Game Jams, Indie LifeUPDATE!
Deadline has now been reached and that means we are closing the submission bag! (LIBRUS: just slide your game in under the door, noone will know!)
Update:
Due to popular demand in the #cobalt channel, the deadline has been extended by 2 hours!
Livestreams:
- http://www.hitbox.tv/jansedivy
- http://www.twitch.tv/taschenschieber
- http://www.twitch.tv/TheOfficialStinger
- http://www.twitch.tv/gonarr
- http://www.hitbox.tv/DolanCZ
- http://www.twitch.tv/RedstoneShadow
- http://www.twitch.tv/frall_
- http://www.twitch.tv/raykatzon
- http://www.hitbox.tv/Janeator
- http://www.twitch.tv/isogash
Hello! Since I know many people need an excuse to make a game, we’re going to give you one! We’re hosting a mini game jam in the #cobalt channel on Espernet today! We guarantee
- No particular amount of exposure!
- No pressure!
- No spectacular prices!
- Lots of fun!
- A learning experience!
Event
#Cobalt Game Jam 1
Start Date:
Thursday 2014 – 09 – 18, 18:00 CET
End Date:
Sunday 2014 – 09 – 21, 12:00 14:00 CET
Theme:
“EVIL”
Optional Sub-themes:
Cat, Slime, Arcade, RTS, Shooter, Fast
This is for anyone who wants to make a game. If you don’t know how to make a game, maybe today is the day you learn how! Rules:
- Game cannot be started before announcement of theme.
- Game must be submitted before jam ends. Submit by posting a comment to this post
- We have final say as to which games get posted in the final post
- Judging will be done by the world at large. We will not rate any submissions.
Categories: While we will not be judging any games, here are some suggested categories to aim for:
- Most surprising dialogue
- Most interesting lag
- Least graphics
- Most use of words starting with E
- Highest jump
- Longest health bar
- Most disturbing mouse cursor
- Worst interpretation of theme
- Broadest diversity
- Highest button presses per minute
- Best use of 3,141592653589793.
- Smallest sprites
- Most convoluted use of theme.
- Best optimization of f,u and n.
Submission must contain:
- Name of the game.
- Link to game (all kinds of platforms/tech allowed)
- Special instructions if needed. (how to get it working)
- Description
- Author(s)
- Link to screenshot
- OPTIONAL: Your best learning points from the jam! What do you now know, that you wish you had known before?
Jam schedule:
- Thursday – Suggest themes in the comment field below.
- Thursday 15:00 CET – Theme is selected by us. This post is updated to contain the theme.
- Thursday 18:00 CET - Jam Start.
- Submit your finished game by posting the above requirements as a comment to this post.
- Sunday 12:00 14:00 CET – Jam End. (Submit your game before Jam Ends!)
- All finished and submitted games are posted in a new announcement post on this blog along with attributions to the author(s), including the screenshots, descriptions and instructions.
- The games are played!
- Comments and nominations for categories are then made by everyone in the new post.
- Done!
Have fun! Use the #cobalt channel on espernet to chat about your progress!
Bring out your tools!
September 18th, 2014 at 1:01 pm
My theme entry: Giant Cat Army!
September 18th, 2014 at 1:07 pm
My theme: Bloody cutie!
September 18th, 2014 at 1:08 pm
Cant Wait Defiantly going to enter
September 18th, 2014 at 1:15 pm
Theme suggestion: Underhanded Evil Minion
September 18th, 2014 at 1:37 pm
Slimes
September 18th, 2014 at 1:42 pm
Theme suggestion: Arcade
September 18th, 2014 at 1:50 pm
RTS!
September 18th, 2014 at 1:59 pm
Scrolling shooter
September 18th, 2014 at 2:02 pm
This suggestion may be weird but…. theme suggestion: Fast
September 19th, 2014 at 8:46 am
I have never done any project on my own. Going to start tonight. Hopefully can submit something on sunday. Good luck to everyone!
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September 21st, 2014 at 12:29 am
Dammit how did I not see this earlier
Would have loved to participate… Cant wait to see the results though 
I really hope there will be a #2 at some point in the (near) future 
September 21st, 2014 at 2:40 am
Submitting quite early, i don’t really have any more time.
spend the whole first day thinking what i could make.
enjoy
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Party Popper
Download .jar (crossplatform) :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bhfptv5cp0m1xea/Party%20Popper.jar?dl=0
Download linux (.tar) :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jtmtii5udp47z9h/linux.tar?dl=0
Download mac OSX(.app) :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fx259o8uanmzana/party%20popper.zip?dl=0
Download windows(.exe) :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/e690ew92ojfv2ki/Party%20Popper.exe?dl=0
Just download it and play
An evil eye is out to destroy every balloon it can find! You play the eye and obviously your goal is to destroy balloons
http://puu.sh/bHncc/e3c8b5ab38.png
September 21st, 2014 at 9:20 am
Evil dice simulator 2014 : GOTY edition
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61034749/Evil%20dice%20simulator%202014%20GOTY%20edition.exe
When you run the game for the first time, type anything but load.
Also, do not place on desktop.
Evil dice simulator 2014 : GOTY edition is an evil game that is about rolling a dice and getting a high score. The game contains multiple easter eggs and will save your progress so you can always come back and enjoy your game.
(progress is saved when the ending line is on screen)
This game was made by me and all the nice people that helped me out on #cobalt
http://puu.sh/bHHT2/397f1ccb94.png
http://puu.sh/bHHUN/35d4d3f5c1.png
http://puu.sh/bHHX8/78862e871b.png
September 21st, 2014 at 10:10 am
Here we go I got up early and here`s the result of ~4h of Coding Fun:
Kitty Clickiller
You wanted an evil game you got yourself an evil game. Click to feel like a monster. Click more to feel even worse. Right click to hire minions to do the dirty work for you.
Made by me (TP) using the löve2d lua engine
For Windows just download the Executable extract and run it. For Mac OS, Linux etc. download the .love and check the Löve2D homepage for more information on how to run it on your system.
Spoiler-free Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/1pWnqDU.png
Windows Executable: https://db.tt/0k6Nk04a
.love File: https://db.tt/SmDfD50o
September 21st, 2014 at 10:15 am
My jam entry!
Name of the game: NyahaBOOM!
Link to game: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8203408/ohgodwhy.zip
Special instructions if needed: This game is broke to hell. Read the readme.
Description: Catshooting cat tanks of the Catocalypse! Or atleast it was supposed to be that way…
Author: RayKatz
Link to screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/QXNnNBB.png
Next time I will complete whatever I started!
September 21st, 2014 at 10:41 am
What I learned over the duration of the jam:
- use version control
- don’t learn and use a new plugin while developing under time pressure
September 21st, 2014 at 10:46 am
My submission is “Goolord Rex: Destroyer, Annihilator, Cat?”. I only had a couple of hours to make it so it’s unfinished at best, and there are no sounds. It’s written in Scala (so it runs on the JVM and should work on mac, linux and windows) as functional and pure as I can handle. The graphics are done with Swing. The game is a shooter with a twist. You catch enemies with slimeballs and collect them to get points. The more points you have the more difficult it gets. You have a limited amount of ammo, but you can retrieve every slimeball, so don’t let them fall. I think the theme Evil is currently only present in its difficulty, but the themes Cat, Slime, Arcade, Shooter and Fast are definitely included.
Link to the game: http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=46446390705746834275
Link to the screenshot: http://i58.tinypic.com/262s7rp.png
September 21st, 2014 at 10:58 am
Game name CatDefence
Author Peter Goode (mrexcessive)
Link to game http://web2.mrexcessive.net/CatDefence
HTML5 game, so should work on most things.
So… only discovered your compo yesterday evening… Spent about 6 hours I think total. Construct2 great for prototyping.
Hopefully while provide 90 seconds of fun!
Screenshot at http://web2.mrexcessive.net/CatDefence/screenshot.png
September 21st, 2014 at 12:47 pm
Quest for Evil
evil.jansedivy.com
Description:
Incarnate the divine hero of truth in his quest to destroy the source of all evil in the world
Authors:
– Jan Sedivy – Programming – @jan_sedivy
– Janeator – Art – @janeator
– NameIsNotName – Music – @nameisnotname
Screenshot: http://cl.ly/image/3g2c1k402224
September 21st, 2014 at 12:53 pm
Had a really good time during the game jam!
It’s been a long time since I had done anything artistic (other than mapping
) and I feel proud of the results, really enjoyed the time I spent making it.
Thanks again to JanSedivy for pulling me into teaming up with him, and for all the code he’s done!
Also thanks to NameIsNotName for the track
Hopefully we will soon release a “full” version of the game!
September 21st, 2014 at 12:54 pm
“EVILEST GAME EVER”
- by DolanCZ “the most not programing guy on Cobalt IRC”.
You can download the game here : https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1VtYjQkgYKiWWNaLWtXbkl3TVk/edit
(There is a bonus file there too)
It’s a basic console game I created just for fun, since I am not able to do advanced stuff, just because I don’t know how. I am really noob in this, but since any game counts, I joined this community event!
When you discover the main theme of this game, it’s really easy to finish it. Plus it is kinda only for people that know Oxeye with some inside stuff around this community.
You can finish this game in less than 2 minutes if you are fast.
“This game is just some fool’y things put together in 2 days” – Have fun!
September 21st, 2014 at 5:22 pm
* Sneaks under the rug like a paper ninja *
Evil Sheep Game – by Samuel “MrOverkill” Meyers
I was a little over-ambitious with this one, but i’ll apply fixes to it and make it work better as time goes by.
This is a game where you gather crap from the good sheep and throw it at the evil sheep so they don’t turn your good sheep evil.
The game is written in Java, with python scripting making up the gameplay. It’s also public domain, so modify it all you like.
GitHub : https://github.com/TheOfficialStinger/Cobalt-Game-Jam-1-Entry
Updates page ( Where binary builds will be posted ) : http://www.epicknife.com/games/evilsheep/
September 21st, 2014 at 6:11 pm
Also, i’d like to note that there are several things i’ve learned from this game jam.
1. NEVER EVER EVER make AI for a game jam.
2. Know what you want to do before you start.
3. Eat more food when coding.
September 21st, 2014 at 8:02 pm
“Bricks” – by Ivan Becker Druckman
No highscores system yet, D:. You’re a brick throwing robot, the main objective is to kill as many people as you can with bricks. Try to get a bunch of points!
Image: http://i.imgur.com/8WrhXJo.png
Game download: http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=37869915925512145827
Please take my submission! I thought the jam ended at 12 am, not pm…
September 21st, 2014 at 8:09 pm
Also, during short game jams:
1. NEVER MAKE A GAME WITH LEVELS…
2. Don’t get sick…
3. Always make sure you get the end time correct.
September 21st, 2014 at 9:35 pm
“Super Insane Robot Demolition TV” – By Isogash
It’s a TV show about destroying innocent robots with vast arrays of missiles. You are that robot, good luck! Can you beat your peers in the missile dodgey game of the century?
Image: http://puu.sh/bIqsd/0cd6783d96.png
Game download: http://www.mediafire.com/download/cykzza85qqhy8kz/superinsanerobotdemolitiontv4.zip
(sorry it’s a bit late, but I had to start a day later than I wanted)
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September 23rd, 2014 at 12:58 am
I’m still working on it, guys! I’ll show it off when I’m done, and I believe it may take a while to reach that status…
October 3rd, 2014 at 9:59 pm
I wish I found this earlier. I made a game that would be cool for Game Jam (I made it when I saw this). Its very evil, but I’m not going to share it because it’s not complete.
October 4th, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Wow DolanCZ your game is way to evil. xD
October 6th, 2014 at 9:34 pm
I will try my best
December 3rd, 2014 at 10:22 am
Theme suggestion: Arcade
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