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Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: sambr on August 25, 2012, 04:54:48 am: i was just wondering if there was any chances of this happening, because it would be pretty sweet. i know a lot of you are programmers, and maybe you would find this interesting. just a neat thought that i thought i would share with you.
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: goldenratio on August 25, 2012, 07:35:35 pm: I've actually been kind of toying with the idea of making a new game, I'm a programmer and I always get hung up on graphics and artwork and stuff, also i'm not "super great" at coming up with fun game mechanics. I have a little "tech demo" of a simple 2d RPG (like early final fantasy, it has a side-view battle system working and it uses the Tiled map editor and stuff, it's cool) but that's kind of a boring system unless you come up with really neat story or unique artstyle or something, or both. I might take interest.

But honestly there's not enough people here to do any kind of game jam or whatever, unless that just means we all team up to make 1 game because that could be doable.
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: thecatamites on August 25, 2012, 08:09:35 pm: i think having everyone team up on a single game would be the opposite of doable, at least in terms of getting something finished :o/

i would definitely be up for this though!
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: denzquix on August 25, 2012, 09:08:24 pm: What kind of time limit do you have in mind? I would love to try getting involved in something like this.
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: goldenratio on August 25, 2012, 09:51:47 pm: Quote from: thecatamites on August 25, 2012, 08:09:35 pm
i think having everyone team up on a single game would be the opposite of doable, at least in terms of getting something finished :o /

i would definitely be up for this though!

What if we find some comp at like TIG or somewhere (I don't know what other sites have comps but I know there's quite a few that do) and create a Salt World team to create a game? Not necessarily everyone on the site but we could assemble a smallish team maybe and enter a game. I think that'd be fun.

Otherwise yeah if we just did a small comp here at SW with a nice theme and decent time-limit (I don't have tons of time to work on a game outside of work, maybe just on the weekends and a couple days after work during the week) I'd still be up for trying. Finding graphics is always the hardest part for me.
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: Biggles on August 25, 2012, 10:09:06 pm: I'd probably be up for it. Been meaning to do a puzzle game for some time and it would be nice to take a break from the regular game grind. Longer time limit preferred because my free time doesn't line up with normal people time, and neither does my timezone.
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: sambr on August 25, 2012, 10:32:15 pm: hm... we could work out a time limit between ourselves! i've heard of a few jams with time limits like 2-4 hours, but then some, like ludum dare, are 48 hours. maybe we could do something in the middle?
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: sambr on August 26, 2012, 06:32:05 pm: maybe we could do 24 hours?
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: bonzi_buddy on August 26, 2012, 07:14:21 pm: i enthuasically support this but unfortunately orangutans aren't the most craftiest with game makin + lack of time and inspiration... >:^1
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: tuxedo marx on August 26, 2012, 07:20:14 pm: it's those long arms, very difficult to manipulate keyboards
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: bonzi_buddy on August 26, 2012, 07:23:06 pm: Quote from: geodude on August 26, 2012, 07:20:14 pm
it's those long arms, very difficult to manipulate keyboards
very good for putting my finger up in my butt, looks like youre no different geoboob... >:^B >:^B participate fool!!!
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: tuxedo marx on August 26, 2012, 07:32:43 pm: unless this happens in the distant future i won't have time
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: sambr on August 26, 2012, 08:25:56 pm: will i have to talk to the admins about organizing this? just curious.
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: tuxedo marx on August 26, 2012, 08:29:53 pm: round here we just kind of do things

fwiw i doubt dada's response would be anything other than "sure! sounds cool!" anyway
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: thecatamites on August 27, 2012, 07:47:51 pm: for what it's worth i think something like a week long thing would be a good time, since people probably have jobs or whatever and noone works on these things for more than a couple hours anyway~ but yeah, just make a topic with some arbitrary date and more people will probably join in :o)
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: Ragnar on August 27, 2012, 08:52:05 pm: I could do a 100-song soundtrack in about 15 hours
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: Puppet Master on August 27, 2012, 09:23:34 pm: I too would like to do soundtrack stuff, but at nowhere near that kind of output. If there's just one team then go with Ragnar, but if there are a couple games I'd like to get involved.
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: sambr on August 27, 2012, 09:52:02 pm: what topic do you think i should post it in? gaming? programming?
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: denzquix on August 27, 2012, 09:54:01 pm: I agree that a relaxed deadline like a week would probably be more successful than a tight deadline like 24h... it's up to you, though, of course.
Title: any chances of a salt world game jam?
Post by: sambr on August 27, 2012, 10:09:37 pm: the thread has been made!
http://www.saltw.net/index.php?topic=83364.0 (http://www.saltw.net/index.php?topic=83364.0)