Making a STORY GAME in 7 Days! | BTP Game Jam Devlog

I actually have not, but i've seen it around a lot on Twitter. I will definitely check it out, hopefully it will bring some inspiration!

Have you played a game called Jenny LeClue? If not, I highly recommend it. It is an Indie game on Steam (and probably other platforms). It's a Nancy Drew type of mystery game, but the format of the game is almost exactly like what you made. linear walking and solving all sorts of puzzles along the way. Also a really great story. You game reminded me of it, so might be a possible direction you can go in!

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Thank you so much Noa! We really enjoyed putting all that quirky dialogue in! Would be fun to see you use some of those words haha

Thank ya Mr.Moo! My favourite part of game dev is getting all the different parts working together. Glad you liked the concept :)

Thank you!! Haha yea these fopdoodles and lubberworts are everywhere xD

Ooh thank you so much for playing! That Yarn Spinner plugin looks really nifty, I'll definitely have to check it out. I'll be redoing the entire dialogue system for the improved version for sure :) Thanks for that!

Thank you! Story driven was risky but it would be a fun idea so we took the plunge haha! Teamwork was definitely key for this one!

We love love love details! Thank you so much for the positive words!

Thanks Snuti! Stories are always so much fun to add to games!

Hi! Welcome :D Thanks so much for checking out my channel and all these nice words! Dotween was awesome to work with, definitely recommend if you want snappy UI elements!

Thank youuu! Yep getting the dialogue system working nicely pretty much gave it the backbone to continue playing I think. Thanks so much for watching, next video coming soon -im a bit behind on it! :)

Haha thank you for your support as always! 😊

Hahaha oh yea that elevator was pretty flakey 😂 Thanks for watching Skeffles!

Thank you!! We'll definitely be coming back and improving this version :) Hopefully even get an hour of gameplay out of it at least!

Me: Let's pretend we never saw that xD
Haha thanks for watching Yannick!

Hey bro,😄

Ah thank you so much whateep!

Teamwork is great! Everyone can bring their skills to the table and its awesome to see it come together. I'm always in awe when devs work solo, it's so cool. I'll be trying my first completely solo jam soon, hope I can pull it off hehe😅 and we definitely want to take this game further for sure!

Thank ya!! :)

Thank you so much for watching!! :)

Haha thanks for watching Rob 😀

Thanks for watching 😄

Thanks girl

Game jams are awesome for learning quickly! Do drop a link to your Brackeys game, would love to check it out :) And thanks for watching! 🌟

@Wannibe Manisha Of course! Good look in the Chain Letter Jam too (if you are participating?) - It looks it! Thanks for the recommendation! :D

Hahah yupp! Thanks so much for the kind words Saul! Dotween was awesome and so easy to use, definitely recommend trying it out!

I would consider taking that class if it was taught in game form hahah xD DoTween was awesome from the bit ive tried. Definitely will make UI look snappy. Thanks for watching!!

We doth not speak of the dialogue system 🤐 hahah was definitely sloppy but it did the job xD Thanks for watching!

@Wannibe Manisha I eagerly await the newer version then, should be good! As I was playing it I was thinking I might be able to persuade you to add voice overs, so that might be worth waiting for (rather than trying to complete the game then)! It was the list that I threw out of bounds, so I was thinking I bet I needed it to complete the game so I may as well stop playing (though I did play it a bit further to see what else there was).
Good to hear that live action acting is your favourite, I definitely got the impression you enjoyed that kind of thing. I thought the Halloween Candy Contraption one was awesome, it's definitely my favourite video of yours, that I've seen at least. I'd say it literally deserves at least a thousand times as many views, though I don't normally watch stuff like that so maybe I don't know how stiff the competition is! I appreciated the background information about the Arduino and coding that went into it, though maybe for people who aren't as interested in that stuff it would have seemed a bit dry.
The cinematography, choice of music, costumes, acting etc was really on point though, you definitely seem to have a real flair for that stuff! (And your sister and friend added to it nicely as well of course) And it was sweet how you roped your Dad into helping out too, I imagine he's been roped into a lot of stuff over the years! The Blobs of the Jungle video was cool too, very wholesome and some of your mannerisms in the interludes were very endearing. It'd definitely be cool to see some more of your acting from over the years, especially the action clip!
That makes sense about the gender of the protagonist, seems natural to draw from whatever you were drawing influences from, so if you were drawing influence from Shakespeare then a male protagonist makes sense. The fame definitely has a fun script, so it seemed like voice acting would definitely be a good fit for it! And I'm curious to see how you'll handle the voice acting for the male protagonist haha.

Haha yea voiceovers would be awesome! Thank you for the additional feedback, I am adding it to my list :)
Live action acting is my favourite too -as seen a couple of my other videos (Blobs of the Jungle, Halloween Candy Contraption). I used to do a tiny bit of acting for my friend's videos years back, even did an action clip loll but I feel more comfortable in a directing role.
We didn't overthink the gender of the protagonist. We usually just go with what we feel, and as much as I love female protagonists, this game seemed to work well with a male character!

@Wannibe Manisha Hopefully you will add voice acting to the newer version too then! You're welcome. Another thing is it wasn't always clear who was talking, so that's something you could fix, eg I thought the main character was the one flirting with the (old) woman until his inner monologue kicked and realised it must have been the other way around.
That's good to hear about the voice acting! What about 'live action' acting, would you be down for that too?
Also, what made you decide to go with a male protagonist when you were a (mostly) female team, out of interest? It certainly made a pleasant change from the "kill all men" type stuff you see from some women!

Haha never considered voice acting really! Thanks for checking out the game. There were a couple bugs in there, we'll definitely clean that up for the newer version! Thanks for the suggestions! I'm definitely down to try voice acting for anyone who wants it :)

Thanks for your support as always :D

@Wannibe Manisha You are awesome.- Thanks.

Yea devlogs are an awesome way to get motivated. I got a huge burst this week too! Build on it and keep it up. Wishing you luck on your new game 😄

Thanks friend!

@Wannibe Manisha :D

Henry the 4th!!! That was a typo hahah I definitely know my Shakespeare and roman numerals ehem🤐 😆