Purple Monkey Game Jam VIII - April 2017

The Purple Monkey Game Jam is a theme-based, non-competitive, two-day event where developers, artists, music composers, writers, and anyone who has an interest in building games get together to build something awesome. The theme of each event is picked at random from community sourced themes and announced the day of the event. Participants can join teams or work alone.

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2. Special thanks to
3. Purple Monkey Game Jam VIII April 22nd & 23rd, 2017
4. n. game jam - a two day event where one scrambles like crazy to build an awesome game with good folks. We made an awesome game at a game jam.
5. How to survive a game jam.
6. 1. Keep it simple
8. Take one idea and simplify, and simplify, and simplify …
9. Until you have something you can safely build in a day or less (because it will take you longer).
10. 2. Plan like crazy
13. This will help you focus, delegate tasks and finish your game.
14. Especially at 2 am at night when you refuse to go to sleep (you should probably sleep).
15. 3. Organize
17. Create a repo everyone on your team can work from.
18. Decide upfront if you want to work on master or use feature branches.
19. GitHub Pages can also be a great place to host your game if you are building it with HTML & JavaScript.
21. 4. Code fast and furious
23. It’s OK if your write bad code, as long as it works.
24. Write bad code now, fix it later.
25. “Don’t look at the code I used to animate the [main character]. Please.” – Quote from a real person
26. 5. Have fun
27. Game jams aren’t worth it if you don’t have fun.
28. If something you are building is stressing you out, it’s probably not worth it.
29. Theme reveal!
31. Good luck!