{"id":263,"date":"2020-05-10T20:38:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T18:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galactic-overbears.eu\/?p=263"},"modified":"2020-05-10T20:50:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T18:50:21","slug":"tutounity-game-jam-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galactic-overbears.eu\/index.php\/2020\/05\/10\/tutounity-game-jam-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"TutoUnity Game Jam 2020: V\u00f6lusp\u00e1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the course of first week-end of May, we participated in a game jam organised by a French YouTube channel, TutoUnity<\/a>, to celebrate them reaching 50.000 followers.
The theme was “Start with nothing”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A little screenshot of a game in progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We decided to use the Unreal Engine, and started brainstorming together, deciding to go for a game where you start in an empty world and you can add shapes and paint them to fill the world. We chose to give it a Norse mythology flavour, by referencing the cosmogony of the world according to the Edda<\/a>. We decided to use the name V\u00f6lusp\u00e1 for our game, as it references the first poem<\/a> of the Edda, the telling of the creation of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because we had only 48 hours to make our game, we did not really take the time to document our work process. We basically set up a Trello board to keep track of our ideas and actions and to do list and a git repository to share our code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We wanted our game to be contemplative and peaceful and we chose a music that felt like that to us, thanks to the resources available on opengameart.org<\/a>. We found a music<\/a> by Lo\u00efc David “Dogers” Pasquale <\/em>that we felt was appropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was in charge with making the icons and decided to make them all with runes from the Futhark <\/a>alphabet as basis, trying to make them have the shape of the object they were supposed to represent. It turned out most of them were rather unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We made a UI that we tried to keep clear and simple, with just the indication of construction\/paint mode and the colour chosen, as well as the progress towards the next unlock of elements.
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We finished the week-end with a game that was playable, and rather fun, despite a few bugs annoying us. A few friends played it and provided some comments that were pretty useful, and we decided to keep working a little on it to have a few more things like a save function and a few more items. We also want to find some more music because when you play for a long time, our chosen music becomes a little annoying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our start menu at the end of the game jam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You can find our game on the itch.io website here: https:\/\/galactic-overbears.itch.io\/voluspa<\/a>. We are still working on it for the moment and updates will be announced over there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the course of first week-end of May, we participated in a game jam organised by a French YouTube channel, TutoUnity, to celebrate them reaching 50.000 followers.The theme was “Start with nothing”. We decided to use the Unreal Engine, and started brainstorming together, deciding to go for a game where you start in an empty…
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