We've had some quite technical hacks and interesting visual changes today inside of Storm Survival!
Day 3 of our Game Jam!
Eddie has summoned the Gods of Rain to lash down on our poor bug just trying to survive the storm! Though fear not, because Bob and Jimmy the Guardian Squirrels are on hand to offer shelter from the heavens. If the player hides near one of the squirrels then nothing can touch them!
Arlo made his Game Dev Club debut as an official member today and made some very striking visual changes to his game. Such a cool style!
Tal made custom art for her sprites and gave her bug a shield to protect it from the rain. Check out Tal's raindrop design!
Seyon worked on Battle Tanks, he gave the game a unique look and designed a huge round to fire towards his foes! Seyon has loads of ideas for this game, I can't wait to see how it turns out!
We've had some quite technical hacks and interesting visual changes today inside of Storm Survival!
Harry completely changed the look of his game, giving it an abstract feel with a foreboding soundtrack.
Blake designed a bird enemy to swoop down and attack our bug friend, as if it didn't have enough problems with the rain and lightning!
Spriha and WIll wrote code to give the little bug an umbrella to keep itself dry!
Seb started work on a Mario Star to help the bug fend off the terrible weather!
Taylor and Denis made some very cool visual changes to their game. Denis made an amazing new player sprite and I really like the red rain in Taylor's game!
It was great hacking with everyone this evening...until next time!
About our game jams
A game jam is a themed build: we announce a theme, and children across the Academy spend a few weeks making something from it. There is no brief beyond the theme and nothing to finish by a deadline you can fail. Children share what they made on our own platform, where chat and sharing between members is moderated by mentors.
Jams are included in Academy membership. They are the part of the Academy where everybody is working on the same thing at once, which for a self-paced course is worth having.
The blog is in two halves. Guides are the evergreen explainers written by the mentors who teach the clubs, covering the questions parents actually ask: what comes after Scratch, how to support a coding-mad child when you cannot code yourself, and what works for autistic and ADHD children.
Club news is the other half, and it is where posts like this one live: game jams, Minecraft builds and weekly roundups, written up by whoever ran the session. Neither is marketing. If you want to know what the work actually looks like before you sign up to anything, club news is the more honest read of the two.
