Devlog

• Review and Retrospective (and Demo)
  December 06, 2019 by davidwesst

  It’s been almost a week of reflection on this whole game jam experience, and I’m still feeling pretty damn good about the whole experience and what I managed to accomplish. In this video, I take t... Continue reading
• Day 30 Devlog | Victory! I am a Gamedev!
  December 06, 2019 by davidwesst

  I bring you the game: Car Scientist! The game jam is complete and my game is submitted for review. Best game ever? No. Will it will all the awards? Probably not. Did I accomplish something I had never... Continue reading
• Day 26 Devlog | Dialogue and Self-Doubt
  November 26, 2019 by davidwesst

  After being neck deep in dialogue and game logic code (two things that are very new to me) and as the deadline approaches, I have started to feel imposter syndrome and my mind is filling with self-dou... Continue reading

  
• Day 19 Devlog | The Design Hat (Also, It's Working)
  November 26, 2019 by davidwesst

  After wearing my design hat for a total of three (3) days, I share some thoughts on how important it was for me to shift gears into a more exclusive “game design” role, and the benefits that came... Continue reading
• Day 16 Devlog | The Halfway Feature Freeze
  November 17, 2019 by davidwesst

  Now that I’m halfway though the game jam, I talk about the current state of the game development and why I have decided to do a feature freeze-ish thing with new mechanics and gameplay... Continue reading

  
• Day 12-13 Devlog | New Tool Lemonade
  November 16, 2019 by davidwesst

  After banging my head against the keyboard last night and tonight, I finally realized that the problem was that I was looking too deep for the answer to my dialogue box display issues. Although this b... Continue reading
• Day 11 Devlog | Designing Foundations
  November 13, 2019 by davidwesst

  After returning from my conference adventures, I take some time to talk about how little time I have when I’m at a conference and how air travel is apparently the way I get game design tasks done. A... Continue reading
• Day 1 | And So It Begins...
  November 03, 2019 by davidwesst#vlog

  The Game Off 2019 game jam announces it’s theme “Leaps and Bounds” and I wake up and share my initial thoughts in my pajamas... Continue reading
• Day 0 | Wasting 3 Hours
  November 03, 2019 by davidwesst#vlog

  Day 0. Took me three hours to announce my participation in the Game Off game jam. I wanted to make a little announcement vlog post about my participation in the Game Off Game Jam hosted by GitHub on I... Continue reading