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I prefer jelly.

i think the 15-17th april jam should not be related to pico day as it ruins the speciality and how awesome pico day......its like having 2 christmas each year making the occassion tasteless :)

This looks good, it should be exciting to have so much going on.

I'm going to be hosting the Newgrounds Hip Hop Competition sometime in March likely (It will be determined soon, I'm just waiting on my exam schedule to be released and then I'll set the dates). If the timing on the hip hop comp lines up with a JAM you should make a hip hop themed JAM!!!

At 1/6/11 03:18 PM, TomFulp wrote: For 2011 we hope to set an aggressive schedule that involves one jam EVERY MONTH, alternating between game and movie jams.

Here is a rough draft of what this calendar could look like and I'm interested in feedback. Let me know if this conflicts with any common exam periods, holidays, etc. NG event days included for reference.

Jams could typically run from Friday @ 7pm until Sunday @ 7pm if that sounds good. The theme could vary for each jam to maximize excitement.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

January 28-30th
Movie Jam

February 25-27th
Game Jam

March 18-20
Movie Jam

April 15-17
Game Jam (should it relate to Pico Day?)

April 30
Pico Day

May 13-15
Movie Jam

June 10-12
Game Jam

July 10
Robot Day

July 15-17
Movie Jam (pop culture theme leading to Comic-Con?)

August 15
Clock Day

August 19-21
Game Jam

September 9-11
Movie Jam

September 22
Madness Day

October 14-16
Game Jam (zombie game jam for Halloween!)

November 11-13
Movie Jam

December 16-18
Game Jam

Thoughts?

So everything's organized this year, eh Tom? There's only one request (although I bet that you probably have gotten something like this from other people before): Could you make the game/movie jams themes less predictable? The last two game jams were just basically what went on around us with the weather and all, and there was no creative stability to it at all. I know it's good to get all the basic "Holiday" or "Season" themed projects out of the way first before you set your eyes on something bigger, but perhaps a little more variety? Just a tad?

What about pirate day?

At 1/6/11 03:35 PM, Mystery-Moon-Pie-Aud wrote:
A jam is a collaboration of people. The game jam includes audio people. But remember, this site is flash-based, so they aren't gonna really care about the audio. It's just like that =[

In that case, I'd love to participate as long as the workload is reasonable.

Thoughts?

This is a very good thing, i'll have to do one next summer

Nice schedule.

At 1/6/11 03:18 PM, TomFulp wrote: Thoughts?

sounds good to me!

This all sounds super awesome to me.

omgah. im so sick of these stupid Jams. people pumping out games that couldn't hold your interest for longer than a minute keep making it to the front page and taking up space where other more deserving games could be. quality over quantity, man!

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Tentative indeed, but it looks great so far. Although they aren't included just yet, I'm excited for the different themes.

I don't like jam really!

I think the movie jams should be a week long as a baseline.
You're just asking for spam content otherwise.

What about a blackberry jam! HAR HAR HAR ORIGINALZ AND T3H BESTZ!

this is awesome, now it should get everyone a chance to join one jam or another!

there should be a page, like the buddy system set-up for people wanting to join or leave the jam incase they can't make it in the last few hours or something for the future.

Not too fond of the idea of movie jams. Seems like there's too much pressure on the animator, especially if the writer and voice actor take a day to get their shit done. But hey, I don't have to participate if I don't want to. I'm just glad the game jams will be happening more often.

For each game/movie jam the challenge should be to fit the game/movie into a category already set up in the movies and games section.

So for example there would be a Noir jam and a Parody jam and a Music Video jam for movies as the year progresses.

Would be a nice way for authors to experiment with new things, atleast.

I'm sure this is a bit of a n00b question, apologies in advance for that.

Ok, I totally get what a game jam is and what it's all about. My question is physically how they happen - does everyone get together in the same place, or can teams work anywhere and then submit their game/movie at the end of the jam?

If we make a game or movie for the jam, is it automatically sponsored by newgrounds?

whats game jam? PM what it is!

At 1/7/11 07:51 AM, TompanX wrote: whats game jam? PM what it is!

Or look back a couple pages to the 10 people who already asked :P