The Hardest Game Jam I've Ever Done - Devlog

[@artmanoil]

We made it. In numerous pieces.

[@alu2901]

You did it (barely, but still)!

[@HelperWesley]

Our little Frankenstein.

[@omegaminoseer4539]

Praise the sun! Great work on the artwork, in spite of your computer del sys32. \[ T ]/

[@mutee333]

The art is awesome.

[@pixelcatmagic]

Of course a musician and artist working together make a boombox theme.

[@HelperWesley]

It does make sense when you say it like that. 😅

[@eboatwright_]

This is awesome!! I love Artmanoiil's art style, and Emma's music goes perfect with it :D

[@HelperWesley]

They did a really great job giving the game a consistent feel. 💪Made my job a lot easier.

[@premedlynxgames]

Even though the development of the game was pretty rough, I feel like it turned out pretty good! Had a fun time playing through it.

[@HelperWesley]

I am pretty happy with the result. It's not bad, but the memories will make me think twice about next year's vimjam. (I'm sure I'll still do it next year, but I'll think twice about it before joining.😅)

[@asimplethievingbat5978]

The animations are giving me big pizza tower vibes. Good stuff

[@IberianInteractive]

"Dude I swear...It's not a penis, the shaft is for aerodynamics, you see..."

[@HelperWesley]

🤣

[@fosterturtle]

With everything that went wrong, y’all made a really awesome project, definitely something to be proud of! VimJam had some solid games submitted this year, and it was awesome to be a part of it!

[@HelperWesley]

Thanks! I'm always happy I joined, but I'm usually exhausted after.😅 Congratz on 5th place btw, your team's game was super well done. 👍

[@fosterturtle]

@@HelperWesley thanks! Been watching your videos since before I started working on games, so it’s wild to be working on the same jams at the same time!

[@HelperWesley]

@@fosterturtle Wilder still that you're working with my rival. 👀 Small world.

[@fosterturtle]

@@HelperWesley hahaha true that! You gotta love a good rivalry tho

[@HelperWesley]

@@fosterturtle Definitely. 😉 I will beat Sid one day. One day!

[@RockyMulletGamedev]

All those sacrificed goats finally catching up. All those black magic rituals had consequences. smh my head.

[@HelperWesley]

smh my head.

[@alu2901]

We have the VimJam. We have the Benbonk Jam. What will the next be? The HelperJam?

[@HelperWesley]

Lol, no, the jam I host is called the Fireside jam. Helper jam sounds weird. 😅

[@alu2901]

​@@HelperWesleyI know, I was just making a silly joke.

[@Tsea200]

That looks very cool. Congrats on submitting it before the deadline!

[@HelperWesley]

Thanks! It was rough. 😅

[@octo_dev]

Yea. Tbh the vimjams are hard even for me. One time I loset all the progres on my game on the last day lol.

[@HelperWesley]

I don't know if it's cursed or if there's just more time for things to possibly go wrong. 😅

[@XanderwoodGameDev]

Something Bad Happens.. this should be on a T-shirt and given out to all developers :)

[@HelperWesley]

You and your T-shirts. 😆 (That being said... if they sell, I want royalties.😉)

[@XanderwoodGameDev]

@@HelperWesley haha I don't think I'll be the creator.

[@kinetic_cal]

You all must have be relived when you finished the game

[@HelperWesley]

Very.

[@costelinha1867]

So basically, they made a sega genesis style soundtrack.

[@imzasoft]

Lovely Video! I Remember When You Had Like 500 Subscribers!

[@HelperWesley]

A long time ago in a galaxy far away. 😅

[@imzasoft]

@@HelperWesleyIndeed!

[@kirabrasildev]

Hello, I'm Brazilian and I really like your content. Can you please create a tutorial teaching how to create the Celeste camera style?

[@CERISTHEDEV]

I think the words you could use to describe the ost is a sonic cassino level

[@HelperWesley]

Sonic cassino level.... Well now I need to go look that up. 😅

[@CERISTHEDEV]

@@HelperWesley ok now im disapointed how someone with more than 10 years of existence never played the original sonic game

[@HelperWesley]

@@CERISTHEDEV It was a long.... long time ago... 😅

[@timothymclean]

​@@CERISTHEDEV I only ever played Sonic Advance and I know Sonic has a lot of casino levels. I can only assume that HelperWesley has meticulously avoided the Sonic fandom for years, if not decades. And if that assumption is true, I do not blame him.

[@noiJadisCailleach]

I mean, maybe he thinks it's a "Bezos" rocket. :))

[@DissonantSynth]

Commenting for the algorithm

[@costelinha1867]

Dude I'm literally partaking on my first jam, it's the second day, and I'm literally stuck on enemy vs player collisions. (Basically the player can damage the enemy, but enemies can't seem to damage the player.)

[@pedroamaralcouto]

I thought it was hard because you'd have to write the code with Vim.

[@HelperWesley]

To be entirely honest, I've only ever heard of Vim, I've never seen it used before. 🤔

[@WhimsicalGobelin]

0:34 There's a discord server?

[@HelperWesley]

I host one that's just for my games and one that's full of game developers who want to talk gamedev. 👍 Links are in the description.

[@vcdgamer]

Yep, there is. Come on in, it's awesome in here!😌👌🏾

[@ארישרייבר]

I'm the 620

[@Negreb25]

😅