Getting Started…….The beginning of a journey. This is only brief. To share a few thoughts. So I decided on a whim to join KenneyJam this year. It was 27 minutes before it started that I decided to join.

I’ve been in a few jams before but very much out of practice with GML. To that end, yes Gamemaker Engine was the easy choice to make because I’m more familiar with it. I still preference 2D projects…..it’s that nostalgia you see…..I grew up playing games on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).

So I joined the jam at approximately 12:30am my time (AEST). By 1am the jam began and the theme of scale was announced.

I concluded I’d go to sleep and work when I wake up.

Alarm went off at 8am, went to the bathroom and straight back to sleep. Alarm woke at 11am, got up, ate cake and tea and started looking through Kenney’s assets. Kay’s are no good being 3D. I’m not skilled enough yet to take 3D stuff and convert them back to 2D somehow. So sticking with 2D stuff. Kenney does good stuff.

Took me maybe 10 minutes to collect and organise Kenny’s assets into a source folder I can drop into Gamemaker.

I’ve been jamming Curious Quail lately so chucked them on as background accompaniment. I do recommend going and checking out their music.

Thinking about Scale…..there’s size, weight, justice, animal element, music……makes me think maths a little.

Been playing a lot of The Talos Principle 2 lately - Puzzle Game - Which got me thinking…..what if it’s like golf and puzzles, get the object in the hole but you might have to change scale to make that happen? Even typing this up I’m getting more ideas in my brain.

Scope Creep kills like 90% of projects and I am very aware of how bad scope creep can be for me. The hardest part is coming up with something worth doing and not letting scope creep win also.

A classic example, I crochet. Been making these nativity sets, very cute. But then It went to nativity sets with a bag, to nativity sets with a bag + camels, to nativity sets with bags + camels + other animals……guess who still hasn’t finished a full one because scope creep? Yep me.

And ADHD makes it so much worse because novelty seeking and task initiation and completion because of executive dysfunction means starting is hard and if I start, I don’t stick with it because I want to jump to something new, shiny and interesting.

So the battle to make something real and reasoned and working is quite the challenge sometimes. But I’m endeavoring to make a few posts here to keep me accountable to myself hopefully plus document the jam too.

So it’s now 12:03pm…….Now I should work. I’ll drop another update later today at some point.