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GOL Game Jam Has Entered Rating Phase

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Submission phase for the first ever GOL Game Jam has ended and now begins the rating phase. You can now head on over to the jam page and check out all the entries and rate them based on a couple of simple metrics.

You can find the jam page here: http://itch.io/jam/gol-game-jam

In total we got 12 entries. There is actually quite a variety of different styles of games at show that use various different engines. So now all that is left to do is to get them into some kind of an order before we can declare one of the developers (or teams) a winner.

For the ratings I chose a couple of very generic metrics that are typically used to rate games they are Graphics, Sound, Gameplay and Performance/Stability. However, keep in mind that the games were developed in a week while you rate them. I hope it doesn't come as a surprise to anyone that you can't create games that rival the likes of Shadow of Mordor, Metro: Last Light etc. in a week's time.

Finally, thanks to all the participants and good luck on the ratings! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Eike Oct 26, 2015
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I didn't yet take a look at the games, but I wonder if categories like "Sound" will match well.
How about some "Creativity" or so?
"Fun"?


Last edited by Eike on 26 October 2015 at 3:23 pm UTC
Samsai Oct 26, 2015
Quoting: EikeI didn't yet take a look at the games, but I wonder if categories like "Sound" will match well.
How about some "Creativity" or so?
"Fun"?
To me creativity and fun fall under the gameplay category. But we could change these up a bit in the next game jam so feedback is appreciated.
Storminator16 Oct 26, 2015
A lot of good stuff entered. Hats off to all of you!
Guest Oct 26, 2015
Quoting: GuestTux Bomb is a blatant copy of BombJack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jJzasm63DE

And the FPS game is not a blatant copy of.. hmmm.. every FPS ever made?
ricki42 Oct 26, 2015
I wanted to try Godot Miami last night, but couldn't get it to run. It couldn't find libXcursor.so.1. I made a symlink from steam to /usr/lib32, but that did nothing. I tried LD_PRELOAD, but that just made the terminal crash. I'll have to try again tonight.
I was going to try Tux Bomb, but then I saw that I'd have to install mono, so I haven't done that yet.
Played Reticle, that one worked out of the box. Simple game, but good target practice.
erx700 Oct 26, 2015
I tested Godot Miami on Ubuntu 14.04. It worked "out of the box" like Godot Engine.
http://www.godotengine.org/


Last edited by erx700 on 26 October 2015 at 8:57 pm UTC
bubexel Oct 26, 2015
Quoting: GuestTux Bomb is a blatant copy of BombJack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jJzasm63DE

<irony>Oh really? OMG! how it's possible?... i really can't belive :S i don't understand :(</irony>

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Remake of bomb jack for linux game jam from gamingonlinux.com 2015
Submitted by Bubexel with 9 minutes, 49 seconds before the deadline

If you check the first video where i decide what kind of game to do, i talk openly about i will remake the game of bomb jack. One of the first arcades i played in my life.

Exactly minute i say i will make a Bomb Jack remake while i'm showing a video on youtube about bomb jack

Btw, is not "blatant" its a "Tribute". Same way is Tux Kart a tribute to Mario Kart, i can say millions of examples.

We had only 1 week to develop a game, maybe you think i will make a full complete game design creating a new gaming genere out of take ideas from existing games.

Or maybe you think i took a bomb jack as template and i just changed the sprites? if it's what you think, you are totally wrong, there you have 13 hours of video showing how i build that from scratch.


Last edited by bubexel on 26 October 2015 at 10:05 pm UTC
bubexel Oct 26, 2015
The game is designed by me from scratch, all created from zero. I didn't used a full game and just changed the sprites -.-'.
bubexel Oct 26, 2015
I'm really bored, first people say my game is not linux native, when others made game with Unity that is Mono C# the same runtime i'm using for my game. Now you say i used a full game as template. Well i'm start to begin bored of that shit. I'm really bussy on real, ihave to much work. I dedicated many hours to develop this game for that Game Jam. I didn't used any stupid Engine. I did all physics and everything by myself. Not using a stupid engine and getting stupid assets. I'm retired from that game jam. Don't vote for me.. because i'm out. I won't participate never on it again. bye

PD: Solar, what is the game you made?


Last edited by bubexel on 26 October 2015 at 10:20 pm UTC
Guest Oct 26, 2015
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: bubexelmaybe you think i will make a full complete game design creating a new gaming genere out of take ideas from existing games.
then it shouldn't be entered into GOL Game Jam.
rule number 5

What's with the shit stirring? If you don't like a game on there, don't vote for it.

Perhaps the wording was not ideal, but I read rule 5 as essentially you can't just go and tweak an existing MIT / GPL licensed game.

I don't think clones (built from scratch) were contradictory to the rules.
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