Bob now plays cards with you on a moving car!

In the past few hours in my gmtk game jam game I have succesfully polished the main blackjack game. meanwhile my teammate has been working on shops, between scenes.

This doesnt mean there was no struggle

I have banged my head a couple of times on my desk trying to figure out how to order every signal and event in the correct order.

Bob was being a bit quiet

So i let him be able to talk, well kind of ragebait the player This dialogue system is definetly one of the more favorite ones I have made, mainly because of how fast I was able to make it.

Instead of making the next text function replace the entire current text that is displayed, I instead use a string Array to keep all the requested dialogues, where if there are no dialogues when adding to the array, I create a while loop untill I run out of dialogue strings, letting me handle multiple messags from different components all at the same time without even a chance of anything going wrong.

I had given the game to a friend to playtest

Understood that it is very hard to know what you are supposed to do (they got stuck not knowing what to do), that is why my main priority is going to be a polished tutorial, so people do not get stuck in the first 3 minutes.

There are only around 22 hours left in the jam Will it be possible for this games team of 2 to finish in time, yes, but very rough, so this game will have to be polished a bit after submission to the jam.

Comment your gmtk game jam games so I can check them out

Say hi to BOB

This year I am participating in a gamejam in the GMTK game jam. Now the theme is kind of not my favorite

(trauma from making timed games)

You might be asking who is Bob, well he is the green alien in the picture, idk I think it makes sense.

Game idea:

So this year to keep it simple, taking inspiration from balatro and gamble with your friends, you get stuck in the desert and you are missing 5$ for a bus ticket
but
Bob here decides here is going to give you a lift, but you must pay him for every km you drive,

you dont have money

but you can get it by playing blackjack against him.

Who said it was gonna be fair?

Appart from the regular blackjack implementation, I have added cheating and items both to increase your chances of surviving.

(Yes surviving, dont run out of cash)

Sometimes Bob gets a bit distracted, during those moments you have the chance to cheat….

Or if you are fancy, use your items to do a load of powerful effects.

Progress

Progress is a bit slow, since gmtk game jam ends in like 2 days, but I think this is possible, godot signals have become my best friend to keep everything ordered correctly in all the scripts.

This is definetly my best code for a game jam yet.

If any of you is working on the GMTK game jam, comment your projects!