I'm super excited to share that I've been nominated for a Black In Gaming award and I didn't even vote for myself 😅 . A lot of people I really admire and respect have either won one of these or have been nominated so this means a lot ! Thanks @blackingaming.bsky.social
#bigawards2025

Today is our first community day of the new year ! Join me and my coworkers as we play a few DDS shifts with our gaming community ! You can find the room codes and other information on our Owlchemy Labs Discord Server !

I contributed a few quotes to the book Great Games Need Great Leaders by Matthew Dyet and finally managed to get a copy for myself, I look forward to reading through it myself !

Game devs, post your first shipped game and your latest shipped game.

I finally connected the pet data with pet art and scriptable objects to provide them base info / stats. I also created simple test UI to select, nickname ,and render out stats for the created pet. Next up I need to make a solid animation controller class. #unity #gamedev #ScreenshotSaturday

Also seeing my total gaming time tallied up on just this platform is insane . 369h is equal to 15.3 days straight of gaming on just one platform ...WOW

Took a look at my Xbox Wrapped and I forgot how much Palworld had me in a chokehold, this doesn't include my Steamdeck hours either . It's been a great year for RPG's altogether . I played Unicorn Overlord , Persona 5, and Dragon Quest Monsters all in the past year too but that's for the Switch!

Saturday December 7th at 11am PST I will be participating In the BIPOC JOB fair giving a live resume, LinkedIn, and Portfolio review discussing what I look for in a resume a team i'm is hiring and what has been successful in my own 12+ years career

Job fair : www.igdafoundation.org/job-fair

I've always enjoyed the classic infographic for flow curves it details the ebb and flow of challenge and accomplishment which can be so difficult to nail . You want to make sure your players experience both challenge and skilled play otherwise they will bounce due to boredom or frustration.

Something like this or that gives these vibes

Data management isn't a sexy aspect of gamedev to showcase but for a monster/ pet training game I feel like it's a backbone.

Here I'm showing storing values such as username, currency , generating pet objects with unique UID's , and adding objects to an inventory.

#unity3d #gamedev #indiedev

I've missed #ScreenshotSatrday !

One of my favorite games within a game was the Chao Garden/ Racing/ Combat experiences in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. I'm exploring prototyping a virtual pet/ competition game in that same vein and this is my Racing V1 test!
#gamedev #Unity #prototype #indiegame

Metaphor : Refantazio is so good ! I say that as someone who enjoys Persona but never went crazy for it but Metaphor is such a gorgeous and charming game and the battle system has so much complexity and depth to it and I know I'm still learning it . It's an excellent game all around!

Hey everybody my name is Jonathan Jennings but lots of people call me JJ or Jonny! I've been a game dev for over 12 years, have worked on dozens of games / apps ranging from mobile to VR , and currently I enjoy working at Owlchemy Labs . Game devs are my favorite people!

#gamedev #blackgamedev