and one more question @chasersgaming:

I know you have to use 6 OGA assets in this jam, and you are allowed to use your own of course, techinally I could choose to either upload all the custom stuff for my own game in a single submission, but if I split it into many small ones, would each of these count towards the 6 asset tally?

@Spring:  I would say if the assets are such that it makes sense to split them up into separate submissions, then go ahead and do it that way.  But don't split them up soley for the goal of padding out your 'assets used' numbers ;)

@chasersgaming what does the rules say about the publishing of video footage from a game jam entry before the game itself is submitted?

Thanks for clearing that up chaser!

We'll see if I can figure out anything, but I would at least like to share videos of the game with my friends who know it's a passion project of mine, and on my youtube channel!

I thought I was going to make a breakout clone, but midways into the project it has turned into something in between a JRPG and a point and click adventure game, however I think I'm just gonna keep the two clashing genres in the game together and not even give a damn even though it's a drastic change out of nowhere :P

And maybe later in the game the breakout style will return again.

Not really midways, I'm still very early in the plot of course, but it's probably not going to be that long.

Thanks a lot, the problem is that because I was struggling for ideas in the beginning, I had no assets prepared ahead of time lik e some of the others had :P

Saying that, do you mean it's also legit to submit an unifinished game?

Ah, ok, speaking of using OGA assets my project actually uses all of the LPC tiles. 

I'll of course try to finish as much as I can, my main concern is not that the game will be completely broken, more that the end of the plot may not be reachable. And the general unpolishedness :p

Yeah, I guess I'll have to do that if neccessary, which it probably will be.

@Spring: /all/ the LPC tiles?   Are you sure?  That's a lot of tiles!  :)

Using all the ones I get my hands on that are relevant!

Crediting for those will be a nightmare :p

> give yourself a break if you need one!

Don't I wish!  Hitting crunch time myself, got a lot left to do and just a few days to do it as I will be traveling all weekend.   Think it'll be worth it though, definitely feeling the magic on this one. :)

The magic of Yulpers :3

There used to be a windows build of This big wide world actually, because I played it. 

It must've gotten taken down.

Yeah I still have it, it's a very interesting game actually, even though it's a bit hard to figure out what you're supposed to be doing.

Now that I've had some sleep and am back on terra firma, just want to send my own Congratulations! to every one who entered the Jam.  Looks like we got a lot of good entries this year, can't wait to check them all out!

To everyone who entered, do consider commenting on the submission page for each asset you used in yuour game.  Not required but it's always nice to let people know how you used there stuff, and it doubles as a nice way to promote the Jam.  :)

oh and of course... Thanks again to ChasersGaming for organizing everything!   You did a great job again this year!   

Let me know if you want my help verififying assets for all the entries this year.   I can just double check them myself as I play through them all and let you know what I find as I find it, or you can send me a list of specific entries to check.

This was one of the biggest learning curves I've had in development yet, despite the lengthy time we had for a jam. I definitely made a lot of planning mistakes between asset creation to implementation @.@ I think I've got a good system for managing production time figured out now so I can continue with my project, which I've already started remaking!

Thanks again for the opportunity, Chaser! My kids are having a blast playing and rating so far. They're running the show now! Congrats, people!

Here's a sneak peek of asset setup in unreal. It's nothing special, just taking advantage of 3d capabilities and learning unreal's fun lighting system.

https://youtu.be/5JfudBhD4mg

Also: What submission page? Here? If so what thread? On itch? If so where? Sorry if it's obvious.

@VimmNo.0:   The submission page for the art asset you used.

For example, I used Snabisch's song 'What a nice surprise' as the title music Yulpers, so you can see the comment I added to it's submission page here:

https://opengameart.org/content/what-a-nice-surprise-nes-version#comment...

You don't have to prattle on as much a I did, just a quick 'I used this! Check it out: (insert link)' is fine.

And again, it's not at all required, just a nice to do, I know I personally love checking out the things people have done with the works I've sumbitted to OGA.

@chasersgaming:  Oh dear!   Going back and thanking Snabisch for all his great tracks and I realized I mis-credited one of the tunes.  I put down his 'Around the World' ditty when I actually used his 'Celta World' song.

Looks like I should have started by auditing my own work!  ;)

Anyway, pretty sure I asked this question last year, but am I ok to post a new installer for the game that fixes this even though we are in the voting period?   If not, no big deal, I'll just add a note to the game page on itch.io and post the fix after voting ends.

@withthelove Oh, derp! I gotcha. I've seen people do that before, so I don't know why that didn't click. I probably won't do that, though. I messaged Mindchamber letting him know I used his stuff, so that's covered. Dropping a line on all four submissions feels like spam to me. Glitch or tinyspeck/slack wouldn't likely see it and I only drew three props based off of opp, so I'm not sure that's a good "see your stuff in action" sorta display.

But, if it narrows stuff down, here's what I used from OGA:

Effects and a few level props from Mindchamber's Jing.

Almost all the effects from Mindchamber's Pink Knight.

Explosion effects from Mindchamber's Night Strike.

Explosion effects and glowing orbs(?) from MindChamber's Heavy Terror.

Grass/ground, ferns and trees from Glitch, more specifically, Ix (though I think all of it was redrawn, if not most).

I used two leafs and a crystal from OPP 2017 Jungle (and caves), which was also redrawn(I may be off on the prop count).

@Chaser Maaan, kids are harsh sometimes, yes. I would like to go ahead and say that I mediated the ratings (at least softened the blow) and it's not just any of you. My oldest has some stuff to say about my game (and games) too, so she's not even bias lol

They've put up with me and even supported me by making refrigerator psychopomp fanart and sometimes telling me to work on it throughout this, so they get this.

@chasersgaming:  thanks, that sounds like a fine plan.  Totally get why submitting an update now might bother some folks.

@VimmNo.0: haha, that's a great story about your kids making refrigerator fan art for you!   Any chance you'd be willing to share a picture of any of it?    It's also nice to hear that they encouraged you to work on the game.   Similar story here, I was actually technically supposed to be on a big family reunion vacation this past weekend, but when everyone else went off to the beach my oldest told me point blank 'no, we need to work on Yulpers'.  To his credit, he stayed with me and actually made several levels for the game while I searched for songs to use for the different environments. 

Also, I know what you mean about thanking someone for each individual asset.  I just thanked Snabisch 9 times and it did start to feel like spam after a bit.  I did it anyway but I might try a single PM next time, I hadn't thought of that before.   

@all: Sounds like we are all a bunch of parents in here!   I think that bodes well for me as the 8 and under crowd is definitely my target demo for Yulpers! ;)

@withthelove lol I'm definitely not  a parent.

@VinnNo.0:  Just watched the sneak peak, and all I can say is 'ooooh, that parallax scrolling...'   :)
Looks great, tremendous sense of depth.   I haven't played the GMS version yet so I don't know if it look similar but I can see why you were so excited about Unreal's pipeline for setting that stuff up.

@withthelove Oh, wow. I love the idea of working with my kids. I did, kinda, my oldest drew a couple of the mushrooms I used but actual level design? That's too cool! And yep, I have some of their refrigerator art in the credits actually. I took the picture with a grainy camera and tried to clean it up in Krita, so it's messy but it's there!

And yes, unreal is amazing so far! I'm going to have to tweak some of the level art so that it meshes with other levels(i drew them with the fact that it would be one room/scene at a time. In unreal they'll be connected and streaming), but it's coming along! I spent a lot of time trying to get GMS to handle the raw graphics I used and it still fell flat, imo. I have all of the images I used in GM loaded into unreal and it uses way less space(each room in unreal: 700ish kb, each room in GM: 8ish mb), I don't even understand it! I could even do a mobile port, if I wanted to! The parallax in the jam version isn't great, but it's there.

@VinnNo.0:  wow!  That size difference really is something!   I know there are lots of good compression techniques built into modern video hardware that Unreal might be taking advantage of but a 10:1 compression ratio seems almost too good to be true!

I definitely did a pass 'tuning' my son's levels a bit, but he actually did a surprisingly good job.  We've had Mario Maker for a few years now and my boys have created I don't know how many hundreds of levels for it, so my oldest definitely has some training.   That's also the origin (and obvious template) for the level editor.   Normally my level editors are strictly development tools, full of lots of quirks and behaviors that only make sense to me, as only I need to use them and so it rarely seems worth putting much polish on them.  But for Yulpers, I figured 'why not model the level editor after something they know, then maybe I can encourage the boys to make a few levels for the game.'  In making the level editor polished enough for them to use, I thought 'gee I should really just pack this in for anyone to use'.   

As for the levels my son created, I mostly just had to edit out the silly ideas, like a giant stack of baddies that falls on Yulpers head as soon as the level starts and stuff like that.   Otherwise, I tried to leave as much of his original vision in as I could.  There's a 'cactus' in the desert level that is all Tobey.   And as a fair turnabout, he did some editting on my levels too.  Specifically making the last level a bit easier because 'I don't like it when it's too hard.'  :)

@chasersgaming:  Got a question on the ratings.  How are we supposed to score the 'Art Challenge' rating?  If I understand correctly, that one is supposed to be bonus points for using works from the OGA art challenges, is that right?   Do we just give one star for each asset used or something like that?

It sounds like there has been a lot of cool stories from this game jam. I probably would not have finished if the people in my life had not insisted I keep going back to work on the game.

@withthelove Here is how I have been handling the "Art Challenge" ratings. By default everone gets a one star (because otherwise it won't submit the rating). If after playing the game I can look at this collection https://opengameart.org/content/oga-art-challenge and remember seeing any of those assets I add stars. I consider 6 assets from that collection to be a 5 star rating. In this method it is not just about using the assets, but using them prominently and memorably. That said I have given out a lot of one stars in this category. My game would get one too if I rated it. Though I think we are allowed to be subjective in our opinions. If I was wrong though let me know, because I have some reviews to change.

Has anyone else been getting a lot of antivirus complaints? AVG has pestered me on every game I have run on my computer. Yulpers is probably fine in case you were wondering. ;)

It must be time to find a winner soon, right?

This game jam was so disappointing.

Really? I thought there was some pretty good entries. 

I guess there were, but my own placement I find very disappointing and this makes me feel a bit exhausted after it.

@Spring

You made a game that has no tutorial, plays like no other game I have ever seen, and uses right click to talk/interact. In addition to that the autoscrolling text is hard enough to read that I could not follow all of the conversations, the game does not have a propper ending and there is at least one bug that significantly shortens the playable section of the game.

Yet in spite of that you finished #5 Overall by vote (#6 by itch.io's calculation) and where winner of the OGA Favorite ( https://opengameart.org/forumtopic/oga-jam-results ). You did really well.

Yes, making games is a lot of work. Making the best game is even harder. You know that better than I do. So then what are you going to do moving forward? If you want to be the best you need to keep growing. What got you here will not get you there.

Alternatively, you can step back and look at the journey. What did you learn? Did you make any friends along the way? What about cool life experiences that happened while particpating? Game jams have so much more to offer than a number one next to the name of your game. Remember the only prizes in this game jam are the ones we made for ourselves.

I understand you are tired, I think most of us are, but even so do not be discouraged. You did a good job.

WHAT I WON OGA FAVOURITE?

I wouldn't have said that if I knew! //''^^''//