GMTK 2024 – Build Scale Build Scale
Created in just 4 days for the GMTK Games Jam 2024, this unfinished mess fits the theme Built to Scale in a unique way: You have to build a contraption that can scale to the top of a tricky tower of obstacles. Think “Getting Over It” mixed with “Fantastic Contraptions”.
Play Build Scale Build Scale in your browser. Best in fullscreen mode.
Instructions
- Try to get to the top of The Tower.
- Load each of the included examples. Some of them can get to the top.
- Keys are entirely configurable, but WASD is what I tend to assign to the various elements. You can explore and reassign them by clicking parts – an inspector opens above the parts list on the left.
- Try to modify one of the included examples.
- Explore all the parts.
- Try all three environments.
- Mourn over the loss of the share/browse features.
- Laugh at the lack of polish/sound/music.
- You can make some very interesting things with the editor. Sadly there’s no tutorial.
Screenshots
Postmortem
Well that was a bit intense. I was way too ambitious in my initial concept, and while I had intended to do the jam in the original 2 days, in the end I did all four (spending a total of 53.5 hours). I know Mark’s (Brown, the Jam’s organiser) intentions were that nobody had to crunch, but that’s just not what devs will do with extra time!
