LIGHT AND METAL

Hello!, this is the postmortem of LIGHT AND METAL! it wont be that long but ill try my best

GAME STATE :

PRETTY BUGGY!, really buggy i mean, but im still proud of it, first time really makeing a story based game and it was pretty fun!, the gameplay in my opinion was pretty good even if simple, the bugs will probably drop my ratings alot, but im not expecting to win anything, ill fix up the bugs and release a Definitive version of this game once the jam is done, my proudest point is the visuals imo theyre pretty good!the music was an afterthought beacuse i didnt have that much time to work on this game, also maybe why this game is the buggiest game ive made BY FAR!

TIME ISSUES :

OHHH BOY!, yea it was my fault that i didnt have that much time, but why? hmmm yeah, i kinda did 2 jams at once, with 2 diffrent games, and considering i also went in 3 days late with this one, understandable why the game is buggy and relatively unfinished, my fault :), but when i was getting into this, i knew what i was doing and that i didnt have time, so my plan was, simple platformer with a story, ignore music, and also work on art as FAST as possible, i had to take ALOT of shortcuts, for example there are only 3 tile sprites and a single wire sprite that i used as decoration and as a jumpthrough platformer, there are only 2 sounds used in the game, the music and a jump sound, all these were already in my files, another shortcut is that to improve contrast without spending alot of time on art and color is lighting, it  was easier to make a yellow gradient object blend with a white gradient object than to improve the art, another shortcut is with the titlescreen, i didnt focus on it haha yea its pretty simple, ofcourse i said i planned to not overscope but seeing how the game turned out.... ehhhhh i did, big mistake, since now there are 5 abilities celeste dash, a slide, a bounce,a waterproof, a coin ability, and the ending ability, and making those things not completely bug out is a tall order, the celeste dash, making the wavedash and superdash, that was HARD, and with the very limited time i have of (8-3)/2 days is 2.5 days which i couldnt even use to the fullest cuz i was busy, had to reuse alot of code and stress alot to finish this game, and considering the time i had, i think it was pretty impressive i could make this game, which im pretty proud of it.

THE JAMS :

Two diffrent jams with two diffrent games both kinda overscoped....

https://itch.io/jam/zeno-jam-8/rate/2683040 for the zenojam called REBORN:ANEW

https://itch.io/jam/goedware-game-jam-11/rate/2689065 for the goedware jam called LIGHT AND METAL

in these two jams beacuse i made the mistake of doing two jams at once both games i thought didnt see their true potential, but i learned alot in these two jams, i did alot of new things in these jams, and thus expanded my ton of reusable code and art assets!, next im planning to do the bullet and pixel jam, and i will only do 1 game, i will not make the same mistake again :))

looking at others game, the quality is reallly good,  hoping to get atleast top 20??? maybe!!!! please!!!, haha but i havent played all the games yet, this jam is really good, love the challenges and the devlog challlenge, i havent made a devlog EVER, this jam made me try so many new things and i will def particapate next jams!, my only feedback is that uhhhhh the jam background being white is kinda bad, please make it green!!!! :))))) now its time for a showcase of the earlier versions

this was before lighting

and after lighting

i think it adds alot more depth and emotion, for the corpse scene i think it adds alot for it.

for next jam, ill make it look diffrent, my artsyle is cutesy for a reason, its faster and easier to do, but next jam ill have 10 days and i wont be doing 2 jams at once, ill try a more high res pixelart style thats more natural, but ill keep the lighting love the lighting, and ill get to make another action based high paced game! :))))...

so jams over and i have 5 days before the next jams, prob gonna take a short break from jamming, also schools gonna start so uhh yeah

see anybody whos joining any of those two jams later!, ill prob be talking in the discord. see ya!

POSTMORTEM

BTW play the game please please and also rate it!