My First Game Jam

Last Edited: Sat Jun 07 18:35:11 UTC 2025

As of an hour ago I published my submission to my first ever game jam!

You can play it if you go here:

https://pkingstonxyz.itch.io/204seal

To keep it a buck: I'm not super happy with how the project turned out. I think it looks really ugly, I don't like the gameplay that much, and it just doesn't have that sauce that I'm looking for. As a game, I give it a 2/5.

There are plus sides though. I finally hashed out the logic for 2048, and put together my first ever publicly released game. I liked working with pygame a lot more than I thought I would and I certainly see the pitfalls of the ad-hoc organization that my game currently has. I think I'll break out a lot of the components with a more modular state machine system moving forward.

I'll also be able to go back to a system I worked with previously, Love2d, with fresh eyes and be able to consider if I want to continue working with it or not.

All in all, it was fun! I plan on participating in the GMTK game jam in about a month and maybe putting together another game in the meantime.