Description

This year marked the 50th year of the first Pride marches to take place. With so much that has been going on in the world - so much discrimination, hate and ignorance - it's time we step up and shout proudly about who and what we are!

Often various groups are under-appreciated and under-represented.

Our identity is important, and thus, this event to create games with more representation of those who get a bum deal when it comes to this shit. Our culture, our race, our sexuality, our gender. Who we are matters and we deserve to be represented in ways that we can appreciate and share with others.

And thus begins a day for each year taken to throw open the doors of ignorance and expose the world to our flaming amazingness. Or something. Let's gammak!

Theme:

REPRESENTATION



Rules
- You have 50 days to make your game.
- Any resources allowed but be mindful of Let's Players and streamers when it comes to copyrighted content.
- Any engine.
- Game must be more than 20 minutes long. Longer time, longer game requirement.
- Event runs from Saturday the 11th July until Monday the 18th August
- Game must be created during that time.
- Must have an accepted game page so that you may submit.


SUBMIT ENTRIES BY MAKING A GAME PAGE, ADDING THE DOWNLOAD THERE THEN SUBMITTING IT HERE.





I don't think it needs to be said, but I'm going to say it now so no-one can say I didn't say it earlier - this event is not about representing hate groups nor racial groups that are already over-represented. It's to draw attention to those groups that are under-represented in media. So if I find a game about Brittany the straightest, whitest Cali teen who ever Cali'd and how she is falling in love with Stevie McWhiteboy, the straightest and whitest Cali boi who ever Cali'd, or a game about being a cop who gets to beat down black folk, I will revoke your ability to gammak. Somehow. I'll find a way. So help me Lord Aremen, I will.

Thank you, that is all.


Details

  • 07/11/2020 12:00 AM
  • 08/30/2020 02:00 AM
  • 20

Achievements

Registration

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Teams Members Entry
Red Team
Drow are Underrepresented! As the resident drow, I demand gammak!
KO Cupid
Team miraks a fuckupp
Project Matchmaker
Green Team
A Pan Girl with Depression and That One Friend
Fflo's "Rendez-vous en terre inconnue" with the wiccans
RADICAL TWIN GUITARS
Golden Girl Gays
Maybe Not An Empty Promise
Let's go hunt a Dragon!
Libbitea
OzzyTheRetired
Team Notifications
Enhanced by Gugure
Sam the Autistic Flies Solo Again
Looking for teams in all the wrong places
How do I do this within the closet?
Team Azure/Vermilion Re:Union
It's the 12th and I still haven't started

Posts

Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
15170
Ride that slacker/energy wave!
Gretgor
Having gotten my first 4/5, I must now work hard to obtain... my second 4/5.
3420
Alright then, I'm almost done moving. I'm typing this from my new place, with only a few boxes left to unpack that my wife and I are too lazy to finish today.

I think I might actually finish this before the deadline. Not entirely sure, though.
Alrighty, the entire story is done, minus a handful of small campfire conversations that don't have a lot of moving parts involved.

And on to balancing this beast!

So far, the difficulty on the "intended" difficulty (hard mode) is...Interesting.

One one hand, you can lose TONS of HP to one or two enemy attacks and end up in serious trouble VERY quickly (and if the enemy gets a kill, especially bosses, they can REALLY snowball).

On the other hand, you have a HUGE amount of options to get un-screwed. And if you don't need to use those options to get un-screwed...You can use them to dominate the enemy pretty convincingly.

I'm glad I went with ATB, I was able to do a lot of neat tricks with it. Popping a powerful move and going "Everyone gets a turn RIGHT NOW" or "you can take 2 actions this turn" are both REALLY fun to use.
Fflo
Be careful ! I'm French
3650
And it's finished for me. (Wow, I'm only the second to have finished!)

So:
- Size of 32 Mb, RPG Maker XP RTP not required
- Novel is 20 to 30 minutes long ; depending on your reading speed
- No readme file (too lazy to add it) ; but the credits are present at the end
- The game page is here
- Only tested the English story, but it should work for the French one too

Now it's time to prepare an argumentation for the potential critics.
Gretgor
Having gotten my first 4/5, I must now work hard to obtain... my second 4/5.
3420
Yay, good on you, Fflo! I'll wait for the English version, cuz I unfortunately have never quite learned French very well :(
Fflo
Be careful ! I'm French
3650
News of the week:
The novel is over! (The French version only, but it's getting good!)
With 29 minutes, I'm glad to announce you I've reached the 20-minute limit required.

Now it's time for me to improve the graphics, and add some music.
I should change some villagers' sprites too. (e.g: the teenagers, they are as tall as adults ; even if they're only 13!)

And after that, go to the English version!
Gretgor
Having gotten my first 4/5, I must now work hard to obtain... my second 4/5.
3420
author=Sidewinder
author=Gretgor
Does anyone know where I can find MP3 versions of the RM2K3 victory jingles? I guess I could use the MIDI version, but all other music I'm using is MP3, so it'd be kind of jarring, wouldn't it?
You could try using https://solmire.com/midi-to-mp3 to convert the midi versions.

Oh my god! Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for! An MP3 converter that actually makes the MIDI sounds slightly more MP3-ey.

I've used it to convert the JFanfare2 RTP song to MP3. I think the app did a good job, hopefully everyone else agrees.
author=Gretgor
Does anyone know where I can find MP3 versions of the RM2K3 victory jingles? I guess I could use the MIDI version, but all other music I'm using is MP3, so it'd be kind of jarring, wouldn't it?

You could try using https://solmire.com/midi-to-mp3 to convert the midi versions.
Gretgor
Having gotten my first 4/5, I must now work hard to obtain... my second 4/5.
3420
Does anyone know where I can find MP3 versions of the RM2K3 victory jingles? I guess I could use the MIDI version, but all other music I'm using is MP3, so it'd be kind of jarring, wouldn't it?
author=Gourd_Clae
Uh, quick question, do we have until the 18th or the 29th? I'm assuming the 29th since that would be 50 days, right?


The updated date thingy on the top of the event page has been updated to say the 29th.
Uh, quick question, do we have until the 18th or the 29th? I'm assuming the 29th since that would be 50 days, right?
Gretgor
Having gotten my first 4/5, I must now work hard to obtain... my second 4/5.
3420
My project page has been submitted, I'm just waiting for it to be approved.
OzzyTheOne
Future Ruler of Gam Mak
4696
Well, I never left the planning phase together with Fomar and other things in life got in the way and I don't think I'll be able to finish anything. I wish everyone the best with their projects, you can do it!
I've mostly been updating via the RMN discord, soo...

All dungeons, carved (just patrol routes left to do)
All enemies made (Stat balance required)
Final boss completed (And MAN do I love it)

Welp, time to turn all that loose dialogue I've been writing into proper story cutscene and "campsites", then do a balance run or two, and I'm done.

...And given that I'm on vacation this week...Yup, looks like I'll finish in time. :D
Gretgor
Having gotten my first 4/5, I must now work hard to obtain... my second 4/5.
3420
Alright, I'm gonna have to throw the towel. Starting today, I'll be spending an entire week focused on moving to my new place, and after that, my advisor will probably want me to pick up slack on the thesis, so I won't be able to deliver my project in time :(

I will, however, eventually finish it, but it will have to be outside the jam. I bit more than I could chew with this one, and I only have myself to blame.

A project page should be up before the jam is over, but probably no playable demo. Not because I don't have a lot of the gameplay implemented, but because I'm doing it in a "non-linear" fashion, meaning I don't have the fundamental introductory parts done yet.
Fflo
Be careful ! I'm French
3650
News of the week:
Written a lot of dialogues! Tested and improved the first half. The game's currently 14 minutes long.
And I've posted my gamepage too: Florian's Eyes, but I'll be adding English screenshots when the French version will be finished.

And finally:
I'd like to turn Florian's Eyes into an episodic game ; only if the Wiccans episode gets a fine review.
(I guess the score will be around 2.5-3.5 stars.)
author=Gretgor
I feel you. You know what's been ticking me off? Having to map. I don't want my maps to look too ugly, but at the same time I hate the amount of work I have to put into them to leave them half-decent. I guess I just don't understand how physical space works or something.

That is an ENTIRE mood and a half.

I HATE mapping. Creating a space for the player to traverse that is both entertaining and also looks good is seriously a pain. :(

It's why I'm such a fan of the 3D plugin (which I'm NOT using for this project). The 3D plugin simplifies the mapping process so much, by trimming out most of the decorating process, and keeps most rooms/corridors small.
Gretgor
Having gotten my first 4/5, I must now work hard to obtain... my second 4/5.
3420
author=AtiyaTheSeeker
Right now, I want to find whatever is in my brain that makes me hate my passions, and fucking strangle it. If I don't buckle down, I'm not going to complete this thing in time.


I feel you. You know what's been ticking me off? Having to map. I don't want my maps to look too ugly, but at the same time I hate the amount of work I have to put into them to leave them half-decent. I guess I just don't understand how physical space works or something.
AtiyaTheSeeker
In all fairness, bird shrapnel isn't as deadly as wood shrapnel
5424
Right now, I want to find whatever is in my brain that makes me hate my passions, and fucking strangle it. If I don't buckle down, I'm not going to complete this thing in time.
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
15170
that is a beautiful flower beard rockstar monster hunter himbo