Having only learned even the most basic of concepts in Unity about a month prior, this month I managed to convince my bf to team up with me and make a game for My First Game Jam: Summer 2020. Over the two weeks we made a very clunky and frustrating 2D platformer. Based on a weird in-joke and complete with a totally unnecessary backstory for our protagonist, Good Luck With The Lamps! did surprisingly well in the jam and ended up near the top of the "popular" list, which was very exciting!

We'll hopefully keep going with development and try to make it actually good, but we gave ourselves some time off to recover after the end of the jam.

Riding the high of a successful jam submission, I immediately joined two more. One involves making a story-driven game, 100% out of my comfort zone, for which I'm attempting a visual novel. The other lasts for a decade, so no rush there!

As well as all this I've made some good progress this month on the underlying systems for my long-term project, a management game about running an MMO guild. No screenshots to share for that one yet, but I'm happy with progress so far.

Productive month!