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Quick Status Update, Coffee Jam 2022

Added 2022-10-09 16:48:27 +0000 UTC

Henlo! Sorry for the radio silence, the past 2 weeks!

After over 2 years of staying clear of Covid (33 years, arguably) I finally did catch it, two weeks ago; which is why I took a week off, to recover. After the initial hit of fever and feeling very unwell, it went on to be a pretty mild case, luckily—mostly just a bunch of flu-like symptoms. And now I feel fully recovered, yay!

Then, this week, I took a break to work on something completely different for a while: After 2 years or so, I finally participated in a little game jam, again!

Coffee Jam 2022

I joined forces with my friends Mannikobunneh and Hoppelhoop to work on a lil' game for Coffee Jam 2022: You can check out the result on itch.io:

https://manikobunneh.itch.io/rawr-bucks

(Unfortunately, the game can be a bit picky about what browser it will run in; so alternatively you can download a Windows version that hopefully runs fine.)

Here's a few impressions of the final result!

If I had a nickel for every game I've made where you play a kaiju that munches on trucks, I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's still weird it happened twice.

You may have destroyed a city in the process, but there's always time to express your true feelings

Incredibly cute character art, courtesy of the amazing Hoop!

I had a lot of fun working on this silly little game! Well, maybe except for the frantic last-minute bug fixing—but you can't have a game jam without that, hah.

It also was my first proper project using the Godot game engine, so it was a very interesting learning experience for a Unity (the engine, not the company) fanboy such as myself.

Game jams like this are a fun exercise and a nice palate cleanser; definitely want to do more of them, again, in the future!