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Marriage Hockey: a recap of GMTK Game Jam 2021
TLDR: Click here to play our 48-hour jam game in your browser!
This year, we decided to participate in our first ever GMTK game jam. We've done one other game jam almost exactly a year ago, but this one was a little different: instead of two weeks, we had just two days to create a game from scratch. We decided to blow off a little steam from working on Navi and give it our best shot.
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A web developer walks into a game jam...
Here's a super hot take for ya: making video games is hard, especially when you're new to it. Even though we each have a decade of experience developing software and we picked the simplest possible idea, it still took us multiple months to finish our first little game!
As we started planning for our next game, we realized there was one big unknown floating around: how much had we actually learned from building Boba Simulator 2020? We certainly felt like we'd learned a lot, but we couldn't quantify it. We started Bee's Knees Games with the assumption that our years of development experience would allow us to pick up game development more quickly, but with only a single point of reference so far, we weren't sure if we'd need to reevaluate our various business timelines to account for a longer ramp-up time.
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Our first little game
Every list of game development advice we've ever read includes this one point: don't start out by making your dream game. Pick something mind-numbingly simple, then cut the scope in half, and if you're lucky, your time estimate won't be off by more than double.
We brainstormed for a while, and ultimately landed on an idea that we thought was very simple, very good for a learning exercise, and very cute. Announcing... Boba Simulator 2020!!!
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Hello from Bee's Knees Games!
Hello! We're Bee's Knees Games, a new independent game studio in Portland, Oregon. We're a married duo who spent most of the 2010s making web applications for various companies, and we decided we wanted to start the roaring 20s by doing something different: making video games.
We'll have lots more to say in the days to come. If you want to keep an eye on what we're up to, you can sign up for our newsletter below or follow us on our official Twitter at @beeskneesgames for occasional updates. You can also check out our personal Twitter accounts (@jessicard and @jakecard) for more of a firehose-type situation.
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