Regarding community run Gamejams
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Some of you may remember we used to have a GameJam. It only ran twice and then disappeared forever. Now however I thought we should start them back up again, but as a community. Below I'd like to start a discussion, if anyone is willing to run a GameJam, or if you can stream, start coming up with ideas below. Even if you're just interested in joining, start coming up with ideas. If you can do one but not the other, you could even team up with someone who can do the other. Let's bring gamejams back
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love doing game jams unfortunately i don't have the gear for streaming, i don't see why we cant find a suitable date maybe a poll or vote then submit programs and open a thread on here to showcase could do a live chat on the discord and all check out each others programs in order of submission.
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@waldron Thanks for the idea
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What if we did a fuze game jam with NO theme or a game genre and had a little longer to work on it. I personally think we would see more interesting programs. Idk what does everyone think?
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@LinkCraft We could run one of those "Just finish something" Jams. The only goal is to finish a game. Those typically run the entire year though
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@LinkCraft said in Regarding community run Gamejams:
What if we did a fuze game jam with NO theme or a game genre and had a little longer to work on it. I personally think we would see more interesting programs. Idk what does everyone think?
Surely a gamejam with no theme or time limit is uh.. not a gamejam?
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needs a theme ideally but can say a week to complete ??
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@SteveZX81 said in Regarding community run Gamejams:
@LinkCraft said in Regarding community run Gamejams:
What if we did a fuze game jam with NO theme or a game genre and had a little longer to work on it. I personally think we would see more interesting programs. Idk what does everyone think?
Surely a gamejam with no theme or time limit is uh.. not a gamejam?
I'd agree with this! Time limit doesn't have to be 24h or 48h but it for sure needs one. I think the theme is probably less important but it can serve the purpose of helping to ensure that people don't submit games they've already been working on for months (although we can tell this server-side when the game is submitted).
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May I nominate the theme, "distance"?
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Theme suggestions are great, but the problem with a community run Game Jam is going to be, who decides which one it will be? It has to be someone that is either not participating or you can guarantee does not already have a WIP of that theme.
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Ah, I agree. I suppose there could be a vote?
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@Martin maybe we could use a randam generator to decide the topic
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Tell you what - I'll volunteer to not participate and pick the topic from a list of ones submitted. How does that sound?
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Nope Martin, if we have one then you're entering it. My wife said so and she's always right.
