Game Jams

I just finished my first game jam and I’m excited to share what I learned by participating! My goal for the jam was to gain experience developing a game with a team, to learn as much as possible, and to publish a game before the deadline. On my team of…

If you are a beginner game developer trying to take your skills to the next level or an experienced one looking for new projects, joining a game jam might be the perfect opportunity. In this article, we’ll talk about game jams and how you can nail them. What is a game jam? Game jams are…

The $50,000 MekaVerse Jam is a collaboration between MekaVerse and Core that challenged the community to create MekaVerse art, games, stories, and videos in a variety of jams from Nov 29, 2022 to Jan 2, 2023. For the Art Jam, we challenged participants to create an environment from the MekaVerse…

In November 2022, Crayta ran its latest Mega Game Jam. Featuring a huge $200,000 prize pool, the Jam was the centrepiece of the Crayta Creative program for the second half of 2022. The theme of the jam was “Unfinished Business” and we wanted games that excelled in retention mechanics. Games…

As farmers harvest crops and people snuggle up next to a fire, Core creators were busy making amazing projects to celebrate the season. The Harvest Jam was a one-week contest that gave $100 rewards to the top two contestants in 3 categories: Decor, Scenes, and Interactables. …

I’m committing myself to participate in GitHub’s Game Off. I’m sure you have heard about GitHub, the popular code-hosting platform. But GitHub also hosts an annual game jam, a hackathon for game development. Here’s a highlight of GitHub Game Off 2020! The cool twist about the event is that you…

(This was originally published on 3rd September 2022 as a devlog on the itchio page, but I figured I’d publish it here too for consistency’s sake) Hey folks, so it’s been 2 months! And I’ve had a great response to this project, enough that I got a good feeling this’ll…

This story originally appeared on the MyAppFree blog. Adrenaline Rush — the first big Italian Game Jam has come to an end and we finally know the winners. Over the last few months, we and our participants have been as busy as bees, and it’s been worthwhile. More than 100…

This year was my 7th consecutive year participating in this month-long competition to craft a game with web technologies within a 13kb ZIP limit. I now earned enough JS13KGAMES t-shirts to last me a whole week ;p The theme was Death, and I made an emotional 2D top-down arcade shooter…