I decided to gamify a small book that my younger children and I created some time ago (find it here) , and learn to make a game in the process, using Game Maker. The book-game is about a lonely girl and the importance of little random acts of friendship. In addition, I needed a time frame, or I would never finish it, because I have a hard time finishing things. I decided to enter the Rainbow Jam 2017 , even if I just discovered it, and never heard of game jams before (only music jams, where we improvise). I feel this jam is perfect because it has rainbows in it and a positive energy :) - and, more important, the celebration of diversity. When ready it will be published on itch.io . Level 2 looks like this image: © Illustration: Celia Ascenso | Agency: Dreamstime.com [DevLog] Lonely Girl Day 1 - Preparing basic sprites, and the first room object placement on GameMaker while learning some basis. Day 2 - Creating sounds to assign to objects, learning h...