Oh, these pictures don't do proper justice to the actual game. It's also quite hard to get a screenshot while playing (using a Mac, so it requires me to use like six fingers to get the damn screenshot).

Oh, and wait til you hear the sounds. We're goiung to record a gameplay video later on, and til then we'll be working like mad to polish this thing.

Our final team member has arrived! Give a warm hand to Ari, our effects programmer/general programmer/artist. All around a handy guy!

http://www.globalgamejam.org/sites/default/files/ari.jpg

Heya!

It's not 5pm here in Finland, and things are heating up. We've got our first build (ok, we've had for some time now, but it got distributed to the whole team). There's a green tentacle thing snaking through the particle-scattered background, and it looks cool. Wait til the cool graphics roll in. There's not much sense posting a screenshot at the moment, as it probably won't make much sense, but once we've put in the seedling graphics, we could post some teaser pics.

Also, this great team deserves their 0.15 seconds of internet fame, so pics!

After 4 hours of sleep I'm back in the business. My head should be full of ideas by now, including what our main character should look like. Sadly, I'm like an empty table. Well, I guess after I've fed my growing hunger, there could be some progress on my area. I hope I can spit out some decent graphics before the evening, I brought my Darth Vader -figure from home to keep up the good motivation. But for now... nom nom nom nom...!

Blogging straight from the heart of rapid game development here in Tampere, Finland. It's bit over noon, and things are starting to speed up after a groggy morning. Prototypes all around us seem to be coming together slowly but surely. There are several cool projects being made here, but this blog post is about our game, Grow Up!

I've been staring at the screen for almost 30 minutes without doing anything, so I guess I'll be heading into the sleeping quarters quite soon. It's been a great day and I think that we're doing fine. There's been a couple of new ideas which we've added to a list of upcoming features, although if the time is not on our side tomorrow, we may have to forget them. Still, our game mechanic is working like a dream. A big applause to our programmers for that. I'll do my best tomorrow to speed up with the graphics. Tampere will turn quiet for a moment, but we'll be right back. Nighty night.