HOW TO START A GAME JAM!! ( Tips as a Composer and Sound designer)

Hey there! In this video im gonna share some tips that ive learned through my experience as a composer and sound designer doing Game Jams!
This guide will show you the basic things most people do when starting a game jam as well as some solutions to some problems ive encountered along the way.
If your a programmer or artist of any sort wanting to get into game jams, there is some things in this video that can be helpful too! Just look at the time timestamps in the video to find any relevant info to you!
Didnt mention this in the vid, but if you have any questions leave them in the comments and ill do my best to answer them!
Time stamps
00:00 Intro
00:21 Finding Jams on itch.io
01:34 Finding a team on Discord
04:21 Using Trello and Git Hub
06:46 Git Hub issues when working together + solution
10:01 Git Hub size issue with Wwise
11:59 Advice and general Game Jam exp
Here is the link for the game Jam website!
----------- itch.io/jams
Link for Trello
----------- trello.com/en
Link for Git Hub and Git Hub desktop
----------- github.com/
----------- desktop.github.com/
All the music in this video was created by me! If your ever interested in working together on a game check out my website and my contact info should be there!..... It should also show some games that ive worked on as a reference!
----------- www.arcitecaudio.com/

[@wiii2316]

Great content, thx for sharing!

[@BlareVidal]

Super helpful thank you!

[@TwinPineStudios]

Very Informative, thank you for your help. I am gearing up to start diving into game jams this month :)

[@ArcitecAudio]

Glad you found it useful! Good luck!

[@soundstothecore3714]

Appreciate the upload.

[@ArcitecAudio]

My pleasure:)

[@gornemant4639]

Extremely interesting video! +1 subscriber 🙂 keep up the great work!

[@ArcitecAudio]

Thanks so much:) im glad it was interesting! I hope some of my other videos will be helpful to you in the future as well! If youve got something youd like me to do a video on, just pop it in the comments!

[@davidburmusic]

Super helpful!!

[@ArcitecAudio]

Im glad i thelped!

[@ryanw1578]

Very helpful!

[@ArcitecAudio]

Thanks buddy:)

[@melodyredacted1015]

Thank you so much for this! I'm starting to teach myself producing music, and game jams sound like a great way to practice both as being part of a team of creatives as well as improve on my own skills and receive feedback

[@ArcitecAudio]

Thats great to hear:) they certainly are! its a bit scary at first cause your always worried that your gonna let everyone down by not knowing how to do something, but in my experience most people are there to learn too so just go for it!

[@hollyhudson7832]

Very helpful 👏

[@ArcitecAudio]

Glad you found it useful! :)

[@garyhwang2714]

Hey man you gave me confidence thanks a lot. I was preparing so hard to be on that level but I think I should just jump into one of the game jam and learn. Thanks for the video!

[@ArcitecAudio]

Yeah man! you can do it! I didn't know much in the beginning but I learned so much from just doing it! You'll meet alot cool dev's along the way and will likely make a game in the future with them. Best of luck on your journey:)

[@JohnBrooks9995]

Very helpful and useful

[@ArcitecAudio]

Thanks John appreciate it!

[@solimancontilde9656]

5:09 I didn't expected that xd

[@ArcitecAudio]

nor did I but im glad you found it funny :)

[@StefHaynes]

Great video!

[@ArcitecAudio]

Hey Stef! Thanks man appreciate it! More videos on this stuff coming soon!

[@StefHaynes]

@@ArcitecAudio definitely interested in the fmod, wwise, unity workflow stuff

[@ArcitecAudio]

@@StefHaynes Yeah ive done some work with Fmod and Unity before, I really want to use wwise with Unity more so! Im thinking once I get some videos out on wwise and unreal ill probably go there next!

[@TonyDoubekMusic]

This was super helpful! I was wondering if you had any insight into average memory space allocated for audio in game jams?

[@ArcitecAudio]

Generally you shouldnt have any issues regarding memory for any audio as its quite light. If youre using soundbanks you can optimize those but using Wwise's event based packaging eleminates the need to manage your memory. You can even go on to their website to try out apply to use the premium plugins for wwise

[@malachiasharrisgtmalachias]

Hey, do I know you?

[@ArcitecAudio]

No......... not at all;)

[@Kamer.Sounds]

Super helpful thanks!