This is my submission for the "Game Makers Toolkit" yearly game jam for the 2020 year. The game jam started at 2 PM CDT on July 10th, 2020. It ended at 2 PM CDT July 12th, 2020. The theme for this year was "Out of Control".

Overall, this project was finished in about 18 hours:

• 2pm - 6pm, 8pm - 10pm on Friday
• 10:30 am 4 pm, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm on Saturday
• 9:15 am - 1:50 pm on Sunday

My time, broken down:

• 1 hour initial scoping
• 2 hours spread around gathering assets
• rest of time spent developing

The initial scope of this project was:

• The player controls a floating city
• The player builds balloons, adds buildings into their building, and generally flies higher
• As the player goes higher, the balloons degrade quickly and eventually pop
• The player must frantically move as the game spirals "Out of Control"

This was my first Game Jam. The most important thing I learned is scope control... 48 hours is not a long time to make a game and even trivial features that take several hours can quickly become targets for scope cut. (i.e. I had scoped several different types of resources and buildings)

It pays to have art assets prepped and ready to go before the Game Jam starts.

You can download built artifacts using the releases on GitHub. Download your appropriate build and run the game.

You can also download the latest on Itch.IO.

You may get security warnings on Windows. Ignore and run at your own risk.

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Mountain Background Balloons Whales Sky background