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At 10/5/13 01:06 AM, MintPaw wrote: Guys, can it, we've had 9 Game Jams on Newgrounds all (except for one of them) have started on a Friday and ended on the Sunday following. I'd be pretty upset if you extend the jam seeing that I've been struggling programming 10hrs today to meet the deadline that I knew was there.

I thought that was the point of a game jam, to do it in a crazy low amount of time.

At 10/5/13 01:06 AM, MintPaw wrote: Guys, can it

no u

seriously, gonna need more time for this if I'm putting any significant effort through

At 10/5/13 07:50 AM, Spedmallet wrote:

At 10/5/13 01:06 AM, MintPaw wrote: Guys, can it

no u

seriously, gonna need more time for this if I'm putting any significant effort through

Sorry you feel that way, maybe your schedule will be more open next time.

Seriously guys it's a game jam. Giving you guys a week to make your games would ruin the fun. Also when you guys submit your games put in assassinjam as a tag so I can find them easily.

At 10/5/13 08:06 AM, Toast wrote: Sorry you feel that way, maybe your schedule will be more open next time.

sucker go to hell shithead

1.5 days pass, have talked to main artist once on Facebook, hasn't done any work yet. Says he'll take tomorrow off to make sure he has enough time. Running low on hope.

At 10/5/13 04:34 PM, kkots wrote: This thread proves to me that I was always doing the right thing by hating jams.

Random jams are a lot worse than normal jams. But the topic was iffy at best and it was pretty terribly organized.

At 10/5/13 04:38 PM, MintPaw wrote: Random jams are a lot worse than normal jams. But the topic was iffy at best and it was pretty terribly organized.

which is why we need more time.

like, half my team is away right now.

At 10/5/13 04:56 PM, MSGhero wrote:

At 10/5/13 04:44 PM, Spedmallet wrote:

At 10/5/13 04:38 PM, MintPaw wrote: Random jams are a lot worse than normal jams. But the topic was iffy at best and it was pretty terribly organized.

which is why we need more time.

like, half my team is away right now.

I don't think the finish time was ever mentioned in the art thread, so that could be part of the reason. But people shouldn't sign up if they won't have any time to work...

Yeah, sooooo poorly organized, the start and finish times weren't mentioned at all in the original thread.

At 10/5/13 04:56 PM, MSGhero wrote: I don't think the finish time was ever mentioned in the art thread, so that could be part of the reason. But people shouldn't sign up if they won't have any time to work...

I had time, just not three days to do an entire project with an on and off team

At 10/5/13 06:23 PM, Spedmallet wrote:

At 10/5/13 04:56 PM, MSGhero wrote: I don't think the finish time was ever mentioned in the art thread, so that could be part of the reason. But people shouldn't sign up if they won't have any time to work...

I had time, just not three days to do an entire project with an on and off team

If they ring the bell and declair *its finishing time* show us what you got and we still have half the team as no-shows with just a bunch of art and no programmed game... it'll suck i admit, but I'm not going to magically learn how to program a game in 1 day when our voice actor never once showed up and our wildcard is MIA for 2 / 3 days and the programmer was only there for the first day. but yea i dont think the finishing time was mentioned at all in the art thread. Truly i expected a solid week to conceive build and work on and polish it *at least* but that was my guess when i signed up.

At 10/5/13 04:44 PM, Spedmallet wrote:

At 10/5/13 04:38 PM, MintPaw wrote: Random jams are a lot worse than normal jams. But the topic was iffy at best and it was pretty terribly organized.

which is why we need more time.

like, half my team is away right now.

Yea its just you and I, also the music / audio guy thats two on art ( still hard to pull thru with ) and still waiting for the programmer tonight. so thats tops 3 minus the programmer and that leaves 2 that are fully absolute AWOL and 1 that is intermittently showing up.

(((*obligitory begging for more time to do this please*)))

i so want this to be completed so bad

My team and I are working really hard, but there's no way we're finishing in the next few days. I hope the deadline is somewhere in the middle of next week. We could probably complete it by then.

At 10/5/13 06:55 PM, Rampager wrote: (((*obligitory begging for more time to do this please*)))

i so want this to be completed so bad

Well if you're in love with the concept, then you don't neceassarily have to finish it on time. You can still submit it, just not as part of the contest. I'll agree with most and say this contest is beyond shoddy, and dates/times should have been released and the fact that they haven't is beyond stupid, and that the organization of it is off-the-wall bananas. It's still a Game Jam, which always had the concept of making a game that quickly.

Now if you want to give your game the best of polish, then follow through with it after the contest with your team, and make that one hell of a game. I believe in you for that!

Also, as a side note, we've got some pretty nice headway going with our team. While it'll be tough, the monday deadline is looking easily doable for us! go team!

Realizing how terrible I was with the dates I have an idea. On Sunday night have a member of each team to send me a PM telling me how far away you are from being done. If on average most people aren't done the deadline will be extended. Sorry for the disorganization.

At 10/5/13 10:32 PM, J-Rex wrote: Realizing how terrible I was with the dates I have an idea. On Sunday night have a member of each team to send me a PM telling me how far away you are from being done. If on average most people aren't done the deadline will be extended. Sorry for the disorganization.

And if you're already done but no one else is (a la MintPaw's problem), then you get more polish time!

At 10/5/13 10:32 PM, J-Rex wrote: Realizing how terrible I was with the dates I have an idea. On Sunday night have a member of each team to send me a PM telling me how far away you are from being done. If on average most people aren't done the deadline will be extended. Sorry for the disorganization.

<_<

At 10/5/13 11:01 PM, MintPaw wrote:

At 10/5/13 10:32 PM, J-Rex wrote: Realizing how terrible I was with the dates I have an idea. On Sunday night have a member of each team to send me a PM telling me how far away you are from being done. If on average most people aren't done the deadline will be extended. Sorry for the disorganization.

<_<

Hey, look at the bright side my feathered friend, at least now we'll have an influx of actually complete games and you'll have time to make yours legendary. *pats on the back*

Seeing as I've gotten three teams telling me they are super desperate for time. I will expand the dead line. I will be back later tonight with the specific time and date.

Again sorry for the disorganization.

At 10/7/13 12:05 AM, J-Rex wrote: Seeing as I've gotten three teams telling me they are super desperate for time. I will expand the dead line. I will be back later tonight with the specific time and date.

Again sorry for the disorganization.

Wooo! Hey man, don't worry. It's all good. At least now we'll all hopefully be able to pull some quality games together & all that.

When's the deadline?

I'd say since from the PM's you guys need a good amount of time I'll say have your games in by this Friday 12:00 A.M. GMT -4 EST. Seeing as you guys will now have to work weekdays to finish the games Friday seems fitting since you can't work as much as you can on a weekend. Good luck guys!

At 10/5/13 03:47 PM, MintPaw wrote: 1.5 days pass, have talked to main artist once on Facebook, hasn't done any work yet. Says he'll take tomorrow off to make sure he has enough time. Running low on hope.

Probably should have checked the note that had the hours I was awake. Anyhow, jobs been done since 3am alaska time today.

At 10/7/13 06:36 AM, J-Rex wrote: I'd say since from the PM's you guys need a good amount of time I'll say have your games in by this Friday 12:00 A.M. GMT -4 EST. Seeing as you guys will now have to work weekdays to finish the games Friday seems fitting since you can't work as much as you can on a weekend. Good luck guys!

Well that works I suppose I can fill out some more characters and effects with the extra time.

At 10/7/13 06:36 AM, J-Rex wrote: I'd say since from the PM's you guys need a good amount of time I'll say have your games in by this Friday 12:00 A.M. GMT -4 EST. Seeing as you guys will now have to work weekdays to finish the games Friday seems fitting since you can't work as much as you can on a weekend. Good luck guys!

Beautiful. We can definitely finish our project by friday! Thanks for extending!

Just wanted to chime in about the time constraint that people seemed to have a problem with. The idea behind a game jam is that you only have (generally) 24 to 48 hours to complete your project. This means you need to find a way to manage your time and make the best use of it as possible.

This puts everyone under pressure, and without coordination/cooperation between team members disasters happen (as can be seen in this thread). But, that is the whole purpose of the jam. It is something that is supposed to push you to be as good as you possibly can, and if you don't finish that is okay.

At 10/7/13 04:49 PM, Lewchador wrote: Good stuff

You're 100 percent right but I didn't organize this very well so letting them have some more time seems fair.