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This wiki provides documentation over the game development for the GBJAM-12. Feel free to contribute to this wiki by adding your articles or reviewing the content written by your peers. The goal with this documentation is to have a great overview on the decision taken during the project’s production as well as highlighting any key subjects for future production.
This project is launched in a game jam context. The core objective within this context is to learn and improve our skills as creative developers. The more you contribute and take advantage of this wiki, the better.
The GBJAM-12 requires to submit a game inspired by the Gameboy era. This means that they have specific rules for the techniques used in the game's development (resolution, inputs, colors on screen, etc.)
The final product will be evaluated on the following category:
- Gameplay: How fun and unique is the gameplay?
- Graphics: How does the game look?
- Soundtrack/SFX: How does the game sound?
- Gameboy Soul: When you play the game, do you feel that it represents the idea, feel or nostalgia of the GameBoy well?
- Quirkiness: How unique, interesting or unusual is the game? Does it do anything new, unusual or fresh?
- Secondary Theme Interpretation: Does the game include the Secondary Theme well? Is it particularly original, true or inventive with the restriction?
In addition to the overall GameBoy theme, a secondary theme has been announced at the jam's launch: Spooky.
Ghosts, ghouls, and goblins. Liminal spaces, analogue horror, gameboy terror. Strange things and unusual stories. It could be a scary horror, light-hearted haunt or a goofy ghost story. A tale of things that don't quite make sense. Maybe something weird happened to you and it's time to tell the story crouched around the glow of a gameboy screen.
This year we're getting a head start on Spooky Month. Make a creepy, uncanny, or unusual game for GBjam. Then refine it afterwards, ready for October.
What does SPOOKY mean to you?
Go wild, feel proud over the work you produced. When writing an article, don’t forget to integrate it into the wiki’s sidebar (under one of the major categories). This will make it easier for peers to see what new material was added.
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