Making 2 Games in 1 Week - Game Jam Devlog

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Games made using Construct 3, Photoshop, Aseprite.
Hey everybody, thanks for watching. This is my first time making a devlog and it was a lot of fun. I wanted to show the experience I had of starting a project, getting excited about it, and then having to full stop make another game before getting back to it. I am a fan of many others making videos about their experiences in game dev and I hope I was able to give back a little bit of that entertainment.

[@m36games]

They need to make game jams into a reality tv show. I’d watch the heck outta that

[@Vimlark]

They tried and it went really badly because the producers tried to make it all about drama. kotaku.com/the-indie-game-reality-tv-show-that-went-to-hell-1555599284

[@ivohunter24]

@@Vimlark REALLY?

[@Vimlark]

@@ivohunter24 I know right? Could have been great if they didn't try to make everyone act crappy towards each other. But I'm glad that the contestants banded together and walked out because that's not what this industry is about.

[@ivohunter24]

Yeah, but that concept had so much potential.

[@A-SocialHermit]

Well that's just sad those producers obviously never watched master Crafters which was hosted by Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman from the show Parks and Recreation. Was surprised when I watched contestants helping each other and cheer each other on as they finished their Craft's. Literally the only drama was ppl being worried about not having enough time. I feel like a game jam show should've been like that. Would be very entertaining and would be a die hard fan of the show lol 😂

[@horusscope5368]

Can't believe you don't have more subs, a prolific creator on many levels. Stay true good man

[@zocz9072]

Horus Scope I find a lot of small game dev youtubers all the time and they are all very talented it’s sad to see them all so underrated

[@solodevelopmentstudio7645]

You are actually very good at art

[@Vimlark]

Thank you so much!

[@PlabsUnderscore]

you, are insane.... I can't even imagine how much you'd accomplish if you didn't need to sleep!

[@Vimlark]

I know right. Stupid human weaknesses ;)

[@Sarahchamorro]

Just played your the game boy style game and it was frankly addicting. I would play more 50 levels of that. Amazing job!

[@khiemnguyenba9062]

Gosh, i really really love your "Cross the gap", especially the art style - it inspires me a lot.

[@palewine]

That was really cool! Thanks for the video. I'm just starting in my game dev journey, so this is inspiring. It's great how you can throw together something in so short a time.

[@Vimlark]

Thank you. Best of luck on your journey!

[@EnderElohim]

8:58 we call it dark souls mechanic

[@Vimlark]

Dark Souls is usually more fair than that. Except for Capra Demon... never mind You are correct ;P

[@freshmilk7122]

This game reminded me of fireboy and water girl

[@tobylerone4640]

So this was the first video I’ve ever watched on this channel and when I clicked on the video my first reaction was “Wow I love this mans voice”

[@Vimlark]

Thank you so much!

[@jerrypaczka2060]

My dream is to develop games for a living and this kind of videos really help me getting in to the grinding / working mood. Thanks for the perspective i will keep and eye on this channel and your work!

[@Vimlark]

Appreciate the kind words. Good luck on your goal!

[@Ch3sm0829]

cross the gap is pretty nice.. after playing for almost 2 hours i managed to get a 3:58 by just using optimal routes and in the level 10 a small glitch where you can activate the lever and ride the platform at the same time (only possible with player 1) this saves a little time.

[@Vimlark]

Glad you like it. I didn't know about being able to trigger the platform while on it. Nice find.

[@cyber12shadow]

Discovered the channel yesterday and just binge watching your content. Amazing videos!

[@mindyourownbusiness9999]

Thats great.because u are good at keeping the viewer watching

[@willigoen6850]

Bro!, I loved more your solo game than the other one, it’s rare but it looks way better and publish than the team one. Love your videos!, I’m also very interested in game dev, and I’m already gaining confidence on it by watching your videos!. They are inspiring also because of knowing you’re a grown up, have side(“real” bills pay) job!, and also married!, don’t miss understand me, it’s encouraging because of the world that we’re force to live!, Hope you reach your solo indie game dev soon! Best of lucks! :)

[@Duke6598]

Super good Video!

[@JoshuaHults]

Very well done

[@TheKsbdude]

I did a tilted game jam a year ago. Tons of fun!

[@varunthacker1548]

Why this channel is so underrated...???

[@Vimlark]

You are too kind.

[@varunthacker1548]

@@Vimlark And You Are too patient..😊😊

[@adridrian3356]

Isn't that Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya in the background? Anyway great devlog and games!

[@Vimlark]

Might be a derivative of it, not sure? I just pulled music from KZbins music library so I didn't put too much focus on it. And thank you very much :)

[@rotmgnambiar]

This was fun. Thank you for sharing your experience! :)

[@elijahjns81]

Nice video. You're a beast and you still find time for famo. I should really finish something some year.

[@Piranha305]

This was a great video, thanks

[@puroktahzeeb9355]

I played one of those games on cool math games lol

[@Vimlark]

That's awesome! They licensed a few games from me several months back and they are just now starting to show up there.

[@Alex_MB]

hacker mode activated - ​1:08

[@gonbarrio]

This is amazing!

[@Vimlark]

Thank you so much!

[@aulaitshooter0777]

Instant sub!

[@leomartinscreative]

Great!😻

[@AstonJay]

Haha the first game was basically the premise for squid game before it came out😄

[@robertonome2448]

Love this channel Do you only use construct or is it just for game jams?

[@Daitli]

You and I my friend, have this addiction in common... The game jam addiction is real and I think I need to see someone to help me deal with it. I can't stop participating in game jams! Where are you from? I wish I could attend that game jam! It looked hella fun! Specially with them scope creeps!

[@Vimlark]

Yeah, they can be a problem. But I credit them with building me a portfolio pretty quickly. I'm in the Orange County are of California. The game jam is a lot of fun. I'm really lucky that there is an active indie dev community around here. Have you checked Meetup.com for your area? That's how I got into all the indie dev stuff here.

[@retatsuka3928]

Wow i see you in alot of comment mostly is from indie game devlog and btw your game look very good might check it out(sorry for bad english.Im from viet nam)

[@Vimlark]

Thank you very much.

[@simonsimplerain7466]

Wewd!

[@jeffrey4325]

Ah the ol hood up headphone technique

[@oumuamuamua]

I'm a fan of the Global Game Jam and have participated every year for 10 years now but I want to try different ones now that I'm deeper into game developing, if you guys have some favorite jams that you would like to recommend me please do it.

[@Vimlark]

I'm part of the 8 Bits ti Infinity community that puts on a monthly game jam. It was one of their jams that I made Cross the Gap. Discord and Jam info can be found here 8bitstoinfinity.com/ if you want to check it out

[@chadamitecheckoutredpillpl2641]

I wish it was a job for you, because youre very inspiring.

[@sharethepudding]

bro we're from the same area haha weird seeing the esports arena i go to

[@Tudvari]

Woah, impressive week :) Last week there was the Community Game Jam as well. Why didn't you attend that as well? :D

[@Vimlark]

Thanks, it was a fun ride. I wanted to do the Community Jam but that whole life thing got in the way that week.

[@Y2KNW]

Please tell me someone made a Rock Band style game of Gloomy Shark that somehow involved Baby Shark.

[@Vimlark]

One team did make a rhythm game but there was no Baby Shark to be heard.

[@JacobChrist]

@@Vimlark yah, that was jacob-christ.itch.io/dj-shark from my team:

[@kristapsbergmanis2093]

hey, im new here and i kinda now something about programming (i have projects in scratch) and i want to start making video games and you inspired me so can you please tell me where you programm your games because i dont now much about coding and i dont realy enjoy writhing codes like you! I realy like your artworks (games) and you pixelart. psss i realy like yor game yams and if you can make more vlogs about them because they are like wery intresting.

[@williamturner6192]

2 buttons only huh... I feel like I would make a menue that you open by hitting a box you have to carry around to swap out items. Or maybe items you have to switch betwee. It wouldn't be many, 3 or 4 on the low end though, enough to need to juggle the options.

[@LandOfBits]

omgg bro hit me up for music !!

[@AlextheMAN12245]

HAHA MIC GO BRRRRRRRRRR

[@TheRealDerpy]

I have a cannon (use it if you like) a brother and sister are stuck in an abandoned building after exploring for too long. Their original path has collapsed and the only way back out is the horrible falling floors. Can they make it out without falling to the bottom?

[@sm_uadib]

hey, what do you use for your pixel art? Trying to do some concept art for a game i'm planning

[@darkfox8891]

I belive he is using Aseprite and or Photoshop

[@sm_uadib]

@@darkfox8891 Thanks

[@T0NEL3SS]

i was listening to this while drawing pixel art and i realised that you sound like Seymour Skinner from the simpsons

[@dzplayer0149]

What engines do you use for making games?

[@Vimlark]

I use Construct 3.

[@dzplayer0149]

@@Vimlark that is a paid engine that uses visuals scripts if I'm not wrong?

[@Vimlark]

@@dzplayer0149 Yep. I'm more of a designer than a developer so the engine works really well for me.

[@boon8950]

Eazy Speezy willl speedrun it

[@kevinlee2606]

Do you use Unity to make your games?

[@blujaxs5]

hey, this is even on coolmathgames! (did coolmath just nab it from you or something else?)

[@Vimlark]

Is it finally up there? They licensed Cross the Gap and a couple other games a few months ago but I hadn't seen it on the site yet. So it is supposed to be there, thanks for letting me know.

[@Aqquana]

I did not think baby shark at all. I thought a dark sea and you play as a shark. thats it.

[@one4904]

a way to fill in a mistake 1:59

[@kylefarrell849]

They wanna be fireboy and watergirl

[@paperkoopsscratch9733]

I know it's been 6Months since this has been posted, but can you add bosses.

[@nkusters]

Amazing stuff. I can't believe I did not come across your stuff before. Subbed! If you want to hang out with more game devs and share your stuff with a new audience; lookup Jonas Tyroller here on YT; he has a nice community which hangs around on his Discord; be sure to say hi if you visit :)

[@Vimlark]

Hey, thank you very much. I've been subbed to Jonas for a while now, he makes great content. Haven't jumped in the discord though, I have so many servers at this point it's hard to keep up.

[@nkusters]

​@@Vimlark no problem :) it's a comfy size; been a mod there since last year I think, it's just a great community :) But no worries, just thought it would be a chance to reach more of an audience. I saw a Lumbermill video in your 'up next' on the video where you showed your own KZbin page; I went ahead and shared that with him as well when I recognised it; people on his discord said: "that is cool, I like vimlark", so quit a few of the people who are into this content already know you :) Anyways, keep it up, will keep an eye on you :)

[@Vimlark]

I will try to jump in there at some point. Lumbermill is a cool project I've been keeping up with, it's still crazy to me that people would know of my stuff out in the world like that. Thanks for letting me know :)

[@nkusters]

@@Vimlark no problem :) I'll look up your e-mail and send you a screenshot of the convo.

[@BWDev]

Fellow Vimlark subscriber here! Loving the content man 🤘

[@PatPatych]

>contruct Time to grow up.

[@Vimlark]

But I'm a Toys'R'Us kid

[@davidpopatnig8527]

you look like hungrybox

[@casualpigeon1979]

image using block coding

[@Aaron-dy2ey]

Wtf this isn’t unity!

[@The_DynamiteX]

People really like this look at the dislike counter

[@nemo9396]

So if you can make a game like this in a week why does it take to produce pixel games like 5 years in development?

[@Vimlark]

As someone with another game that is taking forever, all the finalizing is what takes the longest. You may have heard the term that the last 20% takes up 80% of time is totally true. It's always quick to get it "working" but to make it a product takes a ton of work.

[@HistoryInArmor]

I got a question in what program do you make your games

[@Vimlark]

Construct 3