So this will be my 13# time. I'll work together with my crew, Setmind Studios and some guests. It'll be a team of 4 or 5. We hope to do something good, let's see what we can do!
Tools
Well, I always find some useful tools in "I'm in!" posts, so I'll try to make a detailed post/review of our tools
Godot it's an open source engine, wich is growing very fast. It's very lightweight and fast, has PBR support, 3D and 2D (Real 2D), very easy and a bunch of other nice stuffs. IIn my humble opnion, Godot is the third element of the holy trinity of the big engines (Unreal, Unity , Godot). You should try it, there are more than 500 actives devs of the engine, and it's only 40mb. Really you should at least download and try it a bit :)
Art
3D
In my opinion best 3D tool. Yes, i'm not saying best 3D open source tool, i'm saying best 3D tool! It's a
Swiss Army Knife tool, very powerful and open source.
This tool is paid, but believe me, it's worth every penny. Imagine something like building stuff with The Sims build mode and exporting it to an 3D object. You have a variety of pieces and put them together it easily, if you no good with 3D art, use this. And if you know your ways with 3D, you can create your custom blocks.
A free lightweight 8-bit voxel art editor. Very easy to use and free! In case we go for voxel style we will use this.
2D
Gravit it's a nice 2D Vector tool. It runs directly from your browser, saves in the cloud, with nice features and it's free! A great alternative to Illustrator.
Really, you should cancel your adobe account(kidding), this tool it's a PhotoShop online direct from your browser. For basic editing and cutting this tool is perfect. I no longer use photoshop because of this tool.
We have a pixel artist aspirant in our team, so we'll let this tool near in case of need. From every pixel tool i used, this is the best one.
Audio/Music
I'm no good with music, but our main music guy says this is the best tool for composing and very affordable for what it's offer.
If we need some audio editing, this will be our tool. Open source and it's very simple to use.
Free sound effect generator. Imagine a Bfxr but with more options.
Team Collaboration
In the beginning there was Git, and it was all dark. Then there was GitKraken, and it was all light. Really if you are afraid or don't understand commits, merge, pull, push etc. Fear no more, this tool will help you. Very intuitive and easy to use, works perfect with Godot. Even if you are a git console user, this tool will make your life easier.
We were thinking about using Trello for planning and team tasks management, but we are starting to use Notion in our job, for documentation and other stuff, so we are planning to test it in the Jam to see how it goes.
End
Well, this was long, but I hope this will be helpful for someone. Good luck and good Jam to you all!