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Im using the most hours i can within this range! Bring it on 10 days!
Im using the most hours i can within this range! Bring it on 10 days!
I wonder what will Dadio make in 10 days...Hafta say, personally I'm looking forward to this next GMCJam more than I have for many years.
My guess: Spankin' New Pun'kinsI wonder what will Dadio make in 10 days...
hum... unbalance is already a thing.I just hope it doesn't severely throw off the quality balance across entries.
yeah i dont disagree with that lol, I'm not that worried about it. My tone came off stronger than I meanthum... unbalance is already a thing.
you already have team vs one person.
you already have professional game dev vs. hobbyist.
you already have participant that can only put a few hours in due to life vs. other who can spend the whole weekend.
so IMO going from the 3 days format to 10 days isn't like you are introducing a factor that's not already in.
I just hope it offer more opportunity for more participants to give it a shot.
N result (E)
1 √2 = 1.41421356237... (this isn't even rational, let alone integer)
2 √4 = 2
3 √6 = 2.44948974278...
4 √8 = 2.82842712475...
5 √10= 3.16227766017...
6 √12= 3.46410161514...
7 √14= 3.74165738677...
8 √16= 4
9 √18= 4.24264068712...
If that's true, that's some The Seventh Guest levels of wordplay if I've ever seen it. (The infamous soup can puzzle, if nobody knows what I'm talking about)and the letter Y appears a grand total of 9 times.
I mean, Y isn't that rare in English, I can see it appearing 9 times across three different multi-word themes.If that's true, that's some The Seventh Guest levels of wordplay if I've ever seen it. (The infamous soup can puzzle, if nobody knows what I'm talking about)
Also "you're missing a GM-related clue" is in itself a really interesting hint...
Amen to this. The short deadline is what forces you to focus on the essentials.I am dead set against having the Jam for any longer than three days. The idea of the jam is to be original and prototype stuff, and three days is more than enough. Just look at the quality of some of the games we get every jam! I think any more is just too much, and unnecessary, especially given that many people have to work, so 10 days effectively turns into 2-3 days anyway for them. At least with a weekend, you can pretty much guarantee that everyone will have at least 1-2 days to work on it so it's a pretty level playing field. More time will just accentuate the differences between those that have time and those that don't as well as those that are beginning and those that are long term users.
I would also say, that the jam over three days is great for focusing attention, and any longer means that more projects may be dropped as people get bored, lose interest, or even start to see what other people are doing and get disheartened (this happens with just three days, but think how much worse it will be with 10 days!). With three days that's a lot less likely to happen. Oh, and 10 days is a competition 3 days is a jam, imho...
So, KEEP THE JAM AT 3 DAYS. I can't think of any decent reason to make it any longer.
That's a long-ish word, nice.Totally didn't shorten one of the words in my records and then forget to make it longer for the clue again
Pretty good points and I agree with you for the most part, but since it's already set, I think everyone should just give it a chance, see how it goes, then discuss again post-jam.Interesting seeing the time frame switch.
I know it set to 10 and I dont want to change it, but do want to express support same old 3 days and its supporters.
Seeing @Nocturne taking hits left and right for what I feel is a very reasonable and well expressed position.(totally right too)
Feels like too long to be a small prototype fun (throwaway) idea yet too short to be a proper viable small project. Everyone saying how they just use the 10 days to get a 72h of it kinda prove the point. how is that a jam, thats just ill make a game is that vague time period. its Missing all the pressure and even if it had any it couldn't be maintained it because 10 days is too long.
I do want to say I am put-off by the 10 days, I want to mention that because it goes against the common sense "more time, more entrants" and it doesn't seem to have been brought up.
If I decide to participate to something (i care about), I would want to have "worthwhile time" to participate otherwise its just not worth it. worthwhile time will vary from person and is entirely subjective, but its committed time and the more it is, the more off-putting it can be.
in a way its been expressed from others for the 30 days im just saying it also applies to 10 days albeit to a much lesser extent.(did win a poll, so ill trust you on this)
That being said, I don't know if ill participate yet, but i'll be keeping an eye out, feels like its been a while.
Educated guesses on the structure:QuickEDIT: That means the themes are
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - _ _ _ - _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
based on the lengths we got earlier.
BREAKING THE GAME
CORRUPTIVE
COUNTING BACKWARDS
-------E --- ----
-------IO-
--E----- -----I---
MINIMIZE THE GAME
CORRUPTION
SPEEDING ABORTION
Who said 'breaking the game' is the first theme?Oof that third theme
I like Corruption too. I'll probably keep the Apparition guess for now, but Corruption does kinda fit with our original guess for the first theme which is now impossible (breaking the game).
Definitely not you, for sure, you'd never guess something wrong :^)Who said 'breaking the game' is the first theme?
Why do you perceive that the word "corruption" refers to breaking or glitching? I mean true that it can define as so but you do realize corruption has more meanings.That's the thing, "CORRUPTION", "GLITCHES", "BREAKING THE GAME", they've all been done quite a bit with games recently. Yet they're very flexible themes. It's high risk (of repetitive boring stuff) high reward.
On the bright side, any bug can be considered a feature please dont do that if you join the jam and the theme is corruption
I know, I personally don't perceive it that way and would probably pick another meaning if it ended up being one of the themes. I was referring to how it is usually seen in games, especially afterWhy do you perceive that the word "corruption" refers to breaking or glitching? I mean true that it can define as so but you do realize corruption has more meanings.
Corruption can be also betrayal, schemish, or vandalism.
I love this theme.MINIMIZE THE GAME
Yes. That’s a great jam theme.I love this theme.
I'm sad I gave up on this and looked up the answer. I had figured out the single letters and just assumed that the answer was really strange words I didn't know. The actual answer (which I guess hasn't been confirmed yet?) is much more clever.Guessing this title doesn't means the ?(It might mean exactly that, and deny some of our previous theme guesses). It probably has to do with the missing letters anyway.letterswords are not in the themes, otherwise it'd be a bit of a weird puzzle
Also gonna suppose that there is one letter per ? (as the ? wildcard is often associated with a single missing character, while * is any number).However, some do feel like they need two letters.
Middle could be CUTE/CUBE/CURE, DEBT and BEAGLE. Bottom-left HORSE/HOUSE, SPIT/SLIT (highly doubt it's a swear word), LORD.
Top right might have BRIT, top left might have ATE.
As for those who feel like they probably have two, for example, bottom right might have WEARER, ARTIST, top right might have BRITISH. However as I already said, I doubt the ? is for more than one character.
EDIT: might be a letter per three-word-group, meaning the middle is CUBE-DEBT-BEAGLE with the letter B, bottom left could be HORSE/SUIT/LOUD U, and so on. Idk how plausible it is with other groups tho
EDIT2: gonna suppose the ? can mean more than one letter, so bottom right can be ATHEIST/WEATHER/EPITHET, THE
EDIT3: top left might be GAME, with some spicy confusing words: GAMETE (plant reproductive organ), LIGAMENT, and PURGAMENT (old latin thing that is almost not used now). This mixed with the second edit gives us the guess that theme 1 ends with "the game". Or maybe that it isn't that, given the title. however it seems a bit of a stretch.
EDIT4: top right might also be IT. PITA bread, BRITISH, and... BITIT is a small town and rural commune in El Hajeb Province of the Fès-Meknès region of Morocco? yeah no that one's a bit of a stretch. Unless @NAL meant to write "B?" for BIT.
for now what I see in this puzzle is:
Top left->GAME
Middle->B
Bottom left->U
Bottom right->THE
and maybe IT in the top right. maybe.
Top right->AND
EDIT5: it's not IT. Or at least it's not BITIT. This last triplet of words is really the confusing one.
EDIT6: AND. BANDIT, PANDA, BRANDISH.
Every ? is either a letter or a word:
Top left->GAME (Ligament, Purgament, Gamete - these are kinda complex, explanation in the third edit in the spoiler)
Middle->B (Cube, Debt, Beagle)
Bottom left->U (House, Suit, Loud)
Bottom right->THE (Epithet, Atheist, Weather)
Top right->AND (Brandish, Panda, Bandit)
The title hints at either these words/letters not being in the themes (which would break our previous "THE GAME" guesses for the first theme), or that they are in the themes (but then the puzzle title is weird).