This is maybe the third or fourth game I ever work on; me and my buddy aaprz are having a hard time of pushing through the core mechanics of a platformer.

We have a backup plan to do a puzzler with a hint of "Unstable" for the theme. But time constraints.

My wife wisely says entering the jam with so little game dev experience was a risky move.

I must wholeheartedly agree. We're feeling a bit worried about being able to turn something in for this jam, but practice begets mastery and we'll have more jams in the future.

I'm currently modelling a tavern level for the game. There's lots of textures to do, it's gonna be a long night. It would be a shame if someone were to knock over those bottles and make a mess...

Little bit of art, and little bit of programming.

Still a lot of work to do: UI, sounds, music, and a LOT of leveldesign.

Get it? Unistable?

XD

Well, it's nearly been a day in Central Daylight Time. Also, the weather hasn't exactly been the greatest here; but it's great when you're indoors, especially during a game jam!

From my bedroom window.

From the kitchen window.

...but we made this!

mockup screenshot's doin well

Well here we go. This might become something eventually. I'm not as happy with the current state of it, but I still have almost 24 hours to make something fun out of it.

Unstable; fitting because both my coding and my time schedule fit the theme! If my game crash, I just follow the theme, perfect! I'm in and I will be using Stencyl for the second time and Aseprite for the first time. Furthermore it's gonna be tough with a 4 week old baby in the house, and other plans sunday.

I will stream some of my progress on twitch.tv/gimbalock

Done: Movement, collision, graphics, a world, a minimap

Not done yet: Audio, any enemies to fight or anything at all to do in the world.

Stream has now ended, but the VOD is upon Youtube if you want 4 hours of background noise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Dve-qFUL0

This work is ongoing and we are really excited about the progress made already. Our game is called "Psycho Beaver" and it will be a rather trippy experience focused mostly on dynamic gameplay. Much more is yet to be done, but it seems like we should be able to finish at least the core part of the game and maybe even implement some of the extra ideas we thought of. Anyway, stay tuned for "Psycho Beaver"!