{"id":385,"date":"2026-02-12T23:10:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/?p=385"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:10:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:10:53","slug":"global-game-jam-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/2026\/02\/12\/global-game-jam-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Game Jam 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I hadn’t ever really touched pixel art aside from Minecraft skins, but for this GGJ, our team of 4 decided on a pixel art looking theme as we had less than 3 days and I took the role of Character Artist \/ Designer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The GGJ theme was masks and we decided to base our platforming game<\/a> around infiltrating a demon masquerade with a medieval gothic theme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I started with a mood \/ reference board<\/a> assembled on Pinterest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sketches made before we finalised the theme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sketches made after we finalised the theme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I then made character sprites based on the sketches. I was informed that making rough silhouettes of the characters first would help with their readability and the advice was vital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Protagonist \/ Player Character Sprite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For the protagonist \/ player character, I made a simple animation + masked variant for them. The story, although unexplained in game due to time constraints, is that the protagonist got their face stolen by a face stealing demon and has to infiltrate a demon masquerade to get their face back from it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Face Stealing Demon, who is a Boss Enemy. This Demon has Stolen the Protagonist’s face and they must defeat it to get it back.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Demons are invisible unless when a mask is worn, but when the mask is worn the player cannot see the platform they’re standing on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘Generic’ Demon Enemies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Screenshots of the final game:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When Protagonist wears mask, they can’t see the platform but can see enemies (red blocks). Programmer didn’t have time to put in sprites for enemies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Face Stealer Boss.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Defeated by getting jumped on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hadn’t ever really touched pixel art aside from Minecraft skins, but for this GGJ, our team of 4 decided on a pixel art looking theme as we had less than 3 days and I took the role of Character Artist \/ Designer. The GGJ theme was masks and we decided to base our platforming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}