RoundUp № 18
The St Louis Game Developer RoundUp is a semi-weekly news aggregator for the St Louis Game Development community. It is a collection of news, events, and other items of interest to the community.
Welcome back to the STL Game Dev RoundUp! Some cool stuff this time - plus the first one of our “Discussion Topics” Enjoy!
🫙 Game Jams
- Several members of our community made a game for the recent GB Jam: The Sweet Escape!
- The Boss Rush Jam 2025 starts January 2nd and offers a $2000 prize pool!
- Checkout The Brainvore with art by Fina for the GB Jam!
💬 Discussion Topic
Lets try something new: We’ll propose a discussion topic and you can join us in the St Louis Game Developer Discord to share your thoughts on the topic!
For this Issue, the topic is: Designing a Physical Game with pre-existing components — how would you approach making up rules for a game using toys, sports equipment, or other items that aren’t included with the rules? Like a war miniatures game with toy soldiers or new strategy game using a Monopoly board? What can you come up with?
Share your ideas and thoughts with us in the Discord!
📐 Design
- Ghost Ship Games - the team behind Deep Rock Galactic - posted an in-depth, behind the scenes explanation of how they generate levels.
📼 Videos
- Check out this Compute Shaders in Godot video by niceeffort
🎫 Major Events
- Indie City Games is running the Chicago Indie Game Showcase on November 2nd, 2024! Focusing on recent and upcoming releases from midwestern developers. Submissions to showcase at the event are open until Saturday October 5th, 11:59 pm CST via this submission form.