Game Dev Renaissance

Over 8 Years of Game Development Experience | Making games great again

[It's Based @itsbasedgamejam]

🏆Congratulations to the winners winter jam 2025! 🏆

1st Place: Neon Crusade
2nd Place: Be not Afraid
3rd Place: Grave

Amazing work by all participants in this jam celebrating creativity and pushing what is possible in such a short time!

[It's Based @itsbasedgamejam]

Our livestream had it's ups and downs, but one thing is certain it was only ups with these games. Thank you so much to the devs for their fantastic dedication.

@GDRenaissance - Neon Crusade
@czarivar / @GPrime85 - Be Not Afraid
@TaylorRSAllen - Grave

In announcements in our discord you can find the reasoning behind our final winner picks.

[Yorch Torch Games @YorchTorchGames]

Gamers,

I have a dream.

That LGBTQ propaganda gets banned to save Western Civilization.

[Art Gallery @X_ArtGallery]

Michelangelo at 26 yo
Bernini at 23 yo

[Game Dev Renaissance @GDRenaissance]

@LogoSimian @StarfighterInt1 @GPrime85 You guys should be proud you even entered the jam and completed something! Lot's of people struggle to finish something.

I think this is my 27th jam and I spent every day working on it. If I took time off my main project, I wanted to give it my all.

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 🇺🇸 @creation247]

Let's make 1950 a reality again:

[George Alexopoulos @GPrime85]

Conservative cartoonists can't find work in mainstream newspapers & magazines, are forced to scrape a living independently, and are not considered for awards.

Meanwhile, Pulitzer Prize winning leftoid cartoonists:

[Game Dev Renaissance @GDRenaissance]

@itsbasedgamejam @Nephilim_N100 GameMaker also has excellent and cheap support for consoles. I was able to port my last game (40K lines of code) to Switch in less than a month.

No rev share, you just pay a flat fee for a console license.

[Game Dev Renaissance @GDRenaissance]

Day 9 complete for @itsbasedgamejam

Made a new level, added a new samurai enemy, got item effects working, and started working on a basic inventory.

Tomorrow I'm looking to put together the intro sequence and a game over state.

#basedjam #pixelart #indiedev

[Game Dev Renaissance @GDRenaissance]

@itsbasedgamejam @Nephilim_N100 Everything just works out of the box for pixel art. Pixel perfect collisions, tilemap collisions, smooth cameras, path finding, rendering. You name it, GameMaker can do it extremely fast without any additional set up.

[Game Dev Renaissance @GDRenaissance]

@itsbasedgamejam @Nephilim_N100 GameMaker is by far the best 2D pixel art game engine. It has it's quirks, but nothing beats it for the time being.

[StarfighterInteractive @StarfighterInt1]

I'm doing a thing for the #basedjam this quarter.
I'm doing it in Redot.
Wish us luck! #gamedev

[Game Dev Renaissance @GDRenaissance]

@Nephilim_N100 @itsbasedgamejam GameMaker

[Game Dev Renaissance @GDRenaissance]

Day 10 and 11 completed for @itsbasedgamejam!

Started working on a boss fight and got the dialogue intro sequence working.

[X is run by gay jews @AndyPantsGames]

Playstation is finished.

[Game Dev Renaissance @GDRenaissance]

@PlanetOfMemes

[E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ @LogoSimian]

Years ago, I started hooking all character actions to a "virtual controller" which could be manipulated by NPC AI, or hooked to a real controller. It means before I get the AI finished, I can test enemy actions by temporarily putting that enemy on player controls.

[Game Dev Renaissance @GDRenaissance]

Day 8 is a wrap for @itsbasedgamejam

Got the player UI added today along with basic functionality for the item drops

Tomorrow I move on to having the items affect gameplay and looking to add a new enemy and level

#indiedev #pixelart #basedjam

[Game Dev Renaissance @GDRenaissance]

Day 7complete for @itsbasedgamejam 💪

Added enemy AI, a 3rd level, some sounds effects, and started working on the rewards chest

Adding item rewards tomorrow and working on the UI

#indiedev #pixelart #basedjam

[Game Dev Renaissance @GDRenaissance]

@itsbasedgamejam Dust II