The Making of Genre Hopper (GMTK Game Jam 2020 Devlog)
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- Published on Jul 17, 2020
- A behind the scenes look at our GMTK Game Jam entry Genre Hopper! Available to play at itch.io/jam/gmtk-2020/rate/69...
What were some of our original ideas for the 'Out of Control' theme? How many rejected genre ideas did we have? Why DOES the FPS crosshair get blocked by walls? Find out all of this and more in this rambling 15 minute dev log.
More from me tomcheshire.itch.io/
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Fish Mug Games fishmug.itch.io/
and of course Sean who does ALL OF THE ART seanrugg.com/
As always, a major thanks to Mark Brown of Game Maker's Toolkit for organising this jam. This is my third time entering and it's been the most fun one yet! 
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Good stuff! Always interesting to see how people make their games and get ideas together. Personally, I like the idea of a game where the UI goes nuts on you XD
It was really cool seeing the process of another programmer+artist team, and it was amazing all the stuff you guys were able to fit in with only 48 hours. I'm really looking forward to what you do next!
Really cool idea! Nice to see the constraints you worked with in order to be able to make 7 different games in such a short time
Well this game looks very nice and it's such a nice game idea
This is one of the coolest ideas I've seen for a game! If you published a full game on steam, I would totally spend money on it!
Fantastic game, revisited some of the best game jam games and I saw you had a devlog
Really cool idea and execution, didn't expect even stealth to be included!
Hey, congrats on being in Mark's top 20! I remember playing this game on stream (AlexClarkeGames if you remember, made the Ziggy game)
(Commenting this long after the gamejam as it took me like 2 months to finally make my devlog from the jam and so was checking out other people's gmtk devlogs lol)
Ziggy game is great! Thanks a lot
As a fan of games such as Bishi Bashi and WarioWare, I really like your idea for this game. Thank you for sharing the devlog.
Awesome game, when I saw it on the gmtk video, and I was like wow!
You could've put a rocket(from space shooter) over the ball in pong . It should be a easy fix for collision.
I searched GMTK games, (although I can't play any 😂) but this looks really good! Well thought out 👏👏
Best game in this game jam, I can’t program, but when I find somebody who does know how, I am gonna do something similar where every level is the different genre, with some kind of genre swaps level, recapping the previous levels, with a final level going through every genre
I'm a little curious since i'm using GMS2 also. To get the sprites to change between genres, did you change the just change the sprite index? And then with that object change the state to the correct genre? I'm working on a mini project that's similar so I thought I'd ask. Super interesting game!
Most creative game on jam and i find you after 1 month and i have to give you 100th sub keep up dude and thx for youtube recommend your channel
Haha thanks for helping me reach that milestone :)
The hand and the gun give it serious Wario Ware vibes
great job brother.!
Yo this looks hella sick ngl
Good job on making it into the top 20!
Thank you! Still can't believe it myself
Oi mate, while testing around with your Genre Hopper leaderboard, i accidentally destroyed it, so you have to reload the page everytime you fail.
Please deny requests which include "|" & remove the highest 4 rankings. this should fix it :]
Sorry!
@Tom Cheshire yep. It should also be useful to limit the number of characters also in the backend :p
Also a simple verification, like a captcha for people who would get into the leaderboard, would probably help.
Ha, you certainly did! I've deleted those records so it's working again. Will try to get the actual 'vulnerability' fixed soon. Thanks for being open about this!
congrats on top 20
It’s so sad that every day I see someone that made a game jam vid but they don’t even have a thousand subs WHY
did you know you're in GMTK's video?
haha yes :)