DECEMBER GAME JAM: Theme: WHAT'S IN THE BOX?

Might be a build configuration thing. Try changing your build config from ‘Development Editor’ to just ‘Development’?

That sucks aye, I know how you feel Id been testing in the editor and standalone just to have some bugs pop up only in packaged build. I think I got a good tutorial or two out of it and Im certainly looking forward to a proper release where I can spend some time on the mechanics I had to drop because of time constraints, Im certainly looking forward to the post mortems done by the devs bout their projects, I did suggest to our team that we each do them to pass on some of the experience.

As this was my first ever Game Jam and being extremely reluctant at first I finally found the motivation and Im surprised how much I actually enjoyed it :slight_smile:

originaly it;s ‘Development’

uploading the working version,had to use frontend

Ive narrowed the issue down with the MaxStepHeight, it seems to be not related to a bug at all like I originally thought, its to do with the Starter Content and that the Shape_Cube meshes seem to act differently to the one I created in , we’d started out using Epics in the beginning of the project and didnt move everything over as we were in the heat of things. Honestly the project was never meant to contain jump at all but the issue with the MaxStepHeight and stairs found me compromising.

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December Game Jam: Post Mortem

I sit here wondering, what do I do now!
The rush, the enthusiasm, the Pressure to come up with an idea and create some kind of workable game out of it is so exhilarating even with the problems, the lack of sleep, and the people who all of a sudden notice that you are alive and Won’t leave you alone for some reason.
What do I do now? I even thought of asking to create an In-between Game Jams Game Jam.

I know… I know… and yes I do have other ideas and other projects that need my attention, but what about my baby. I know it wasn’t much but it did work, well sort of and in the last game jam I did work on improvements and fixes to that game afterwards. But it’s not the same, you get attached to games you create, it’s like being a minor deity or something, creating what didn’t exist before.

Is there any help? Are there any groups, organizations I could join, is there a field of Therapy that can deal with this, a Game Jam Withdrawal Clinic.

Well if you feel my pain, please have sympathy and think of me and the other, now traumatized Game Jam Victims out there, pity us, console us when you can until we can once again…
Have our Game Jam Fix.

Thank you and all pity is accepted! :rolleyes:

hey MonsOlympus, isn’t there an option in the Character BP’s Details to set step height as well as ramp etc.

and @ I greatly enjoyed your stream last night on Twitch, thanks very much :wink:

Yes there is! ://www.onegameamonth
Also ://compohub.net

Totally know the feeling too!

Awesome to see all the entries! :smiley:

Yep , thank you all for it

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Hi
Thanks for your video stream. I really enjoyed watching it :slight_smile:

Sincerely yours, Dmitry Kornie… Kornienokov… Korniienko :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: (don’t worry, was a funny moment)

Just few words regarding your comments to game:

  1. Settings were not completed, but I just forgot to remove the button…
  2. Too many gifts - it is a part of ‘hardcore’ gaming. It is even hard to complete for us times to times :slight_smile:
  3. Radioactive gifts and cracked PS4, 360 MLG NoScope shooting - LOL :). We should add ‘Round winning delivery in xx.xx seconds’ as a part of the next update :):):slight_smile:
  4. Penalty for missing shots - every shot deducts 1 point from your score. Every hit to house adds 3 points, hit to chimney - adds 15.
  5. Minimap - I was thinking about this, even realized how to do this. But we had lack of time to implement this :frowning:
  6. Day cycle - Nickolay suggested to do this while developing. But again - we had no time for it :frowning:

One more thank to you again. The whole Game Jam was a fun-fun-fun :slight_smile:

Hey,

Just wanted to let know we updated our post for the game Snowball.
We added a new link to a smaller version of the game that also fixes some of the obvious issues with it. Ex: unfortunate butt-clipping and bad present throwing replication

Here is our submission: https://forums.unrealengine/showthread.php?53417-DECEMBER-GAME-JAM-Theme-WHAT-S-IN-THE-BOX&p=192875&viewfull=1#post192875

Hey everybody, just wanted to say thank you for all of the great contributions (Seriously, there were a lot of entries!) It made the past couple of days very silly here at Epic.

SO MANY GAMES! **41 SUBMISSIONS **I’m still playing through them all here @_@ EXCELLENT work you all! Can’t wait to show these on the stream :slight_smile:

Quick legal [question] … We understand per the rules you guys gain rights to use our submissions for promotions and other uses. But, is there anything that prevents us from further developing on a jam we started and maybe eventually releasing an expanded version as a finished product?

No. Their license is non-exclusive.

Go for it! We only have to say that we legally have rights to the demo so that we can show it off and use it for our purposes as well. If you make a game out of your jam game, we will not claim ownership of it. We actually really want to see you do that.

Non-exclusive rights means you still own your stuff, but it also means we can show your game on things like our Unreal Engine Twitch! BTW We’re doing that tomorrow](https://forums.unrealengine/showthread.php?54535-Twitch----and-Osman-Visit-Epic!-Dec-18-2014-2PM-ET).

Excellent - thanks for the clarification. We didn’t want to sink a lot of time into expanding it further without asking first.

Also… many thanks for the nod (FTW!), we were biting nails with so many other great submissions rolling in - this was our first jam attempt. Those were some long nights last weekend making all this stuff. I mean, you don’t conjure up a box of reindeer farts without being a little sleep deprived, right. Note: We’ve got a much more stable build available with a bunch of fixes that didn’t make the midnight cut if you want to use that for promotional purposes. Glass ornament weapon works correctly, boxes open now if they’ve been kicked around first, AI more stable, etc. Let us know if interested.

When you will reveal who has won?