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Feature: Game jams for indoor-types
When you're cooped up inside all day long (for forty-five days and counting), making a game can make for a good distraction. There have been more than a few quarantine-related game jams, each with their own themes and concepts. Isolation, social-solidarity, and "stay home" are common, and when the historians look back at the prolific game dev output of 2020 it won't be too hard…
PowerPoint Game Jam asks for more than a clip art budget presentation
Did you know video games could be created using the most loathed piece of Microsoft's suite of office software? Not only can PowerPoint (with some additional coding) run a sensible adventure or visual novel, but one of its champions is hosting a game jam on Itch.io specifically challenging others to create their own. The PowerPoint Game Jam started accepting submissions today and will remain open…
It's a kind thing to do, feeding a friend. You like your friend, don't you? You want them to eat? You don't mind if it gets a little intimate? A little sensual? And you don't mind if it gets a little horrifying? Of course you don't. You're a good friend. That's why you'll feel perfectly uncomfortable with Utsvulten, a wee free browser game from the…
The Lost Histories Jam keeps gaming’s stranger stories alive
The greatest lie of the information age is that 'the internet never forgets' - it has a memory like a sieve, and we're losing games every second, along with people's records of them. The Lost Histories Jam on Itch (run by Emilie "Coleo Kin" Reed) is about preserving the little things that nobody paid much attention to. A collection of stories, zines, interactive essays and even…
Last month, we partnered with our brothers, sisters, uncles and grannies at EGX to host a game jam. The EGX/RPS Jam invited entries on the theme '11', in honour of EGX being in its 11th year. We got umpteen excellent entries that you can read about and play here, but from that group we've picked one winner that will be playable on a stand at…
Feature: They mostly only take a couple of minutes to play, you know
EGX Jam: Come play all 24 entries – or at least watch the GIFs
Recently, Rock Paper Shotgun teamed up with EGX, the UK's biggest gaming event, and held a game jam. This game jam came with the theme of ‘Eleven’ to inspire developers, in reference to it being the 11th EGX. A winner will be selected from the submitted games to be showcased at EGX in Birmingham later this month, and that'll be announced soon, but in the…
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Hundreds of free games with only a few bits missing from the GMTK 2018 game jam
There's so much we take for granted in game design, which makes it all the more fun when designers find ways to completely bypass genre norms. Inspired by Snake Pass's platforming minus a jump button, the Game Maker's Toolkit 2018 Jam gave entrants two days to make a game with a fundamental part missing and worked around.The theme of the jam: "Genre without Mechanic", explained by GMTK host…
Make a game for EGX’s game jam contest and you could show it there
Update: There are still 10 days left with in which to enter the EGX Gamejam for a chance to exhibit your work at the show. Read all the details below.Original storyWe're teaming up with our corporate siblings behind EGX, the annual games show in Birmingham, to celebrate their 11th birthday with a contest. Like great emperors demanding tribute, they want you to make a game…
Feature: Ideas generation
"I started feeling a little bogged down by the scope of [Brutal Legend]," says Tim Schafer, founder of Double Fine. "It was really huge and I felt like the team had been doing it for a long time and had a long way to go yet. I felt like they needed a break."That break was Amnesia Fortnight, a two week game jam during which anyone…
Searching for something unsettling rather than terrifying for the Hallowe'en period, I happened upon Parasomnia by Acatalept. It's perhaps best described as a futuristic chrome version of the Theseus and the Minotaur legend. Except you're not Theseus. Theseus hacked the game by bringing in a ball of string, killing the Minotaur and escaping. You're (currently) one of the preceding generations of Athenian youth sent in…
"Hello and welcome to the show," says robot Bob Ross. "I'm your host, B.O.B. R055." Today B.O.B. R055 and I are going to be learning how to draw a black square on a white background. Now, as someone who used to work in an art store which sold Bob Ross art supplies and videos I must say my memories of non-robot Bob Ross have him…
I wouldn't normally post about something like this so early, but it's cool. If you judge game jams on their potential to create interesting works, then the Procedural Generation Jam wins by hoping to ride the wave of interest in "making stuff that makes other stuff" towards a slew of fascinating games, tools and toys. If you judge game jams on your ability to join…
Super Game Jam continues. The online reality series pairs two indie creators together for 48 hours in order to create a game, films the process, and releases both documentary and resultant game together. Episode four is out now and stars Hotline Miami co-creator Jonatan Söderström and Rymdkapsel creator Martin Jonasson, and their game about underwater something-or-other. There's a new trailer below.
We'd normally cover jams when they're done and there's a bunch of games you can play, but raising awareness early seems fair when raising awareness is the point. The Accessibility Jam wants to give "developers knowledge and experience of how to make mainstream video games accessible to gamers with disabilities, to provide good examples of what's possible, and move accessibility towards being widely accepted good…
Not content with remodelling Wang for the sophisticated modern gamer, Devolver Digital have been snapping up promising indie titles to unleash on the masses. Not content with his machinations in the interactive sphere, the devilish and devious Fork Parker has now set his eyes on the medium of documentary film. Super Game Jam is a five-episode series, with each instalment following two developers over a…
I know people often feel fatigued by the resurgence of 8-bit and 16-bit art styles, but there's still not enough games aiming to revive the vibrant colours and sharp edges of old Spectrum games. The Speccy Jam aims to change that. As reported by IndieGames.com, a week of toiling has created more than twenty games almost all of which are playable in your browser.
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The Code Liberation Foundation offers free game development workshops for people identifying as women in New York City. So far they've provided short courses on C++ and openFramework, as well as their own game jam, and between now and the end of the year they'll be offering classes in GameMaker, HTML5 and Unity.I spoke to Nina Freeman, one of the foundation's founders, about the whys,…
