Game Jam 2 Results

[TomFulp]

Our guest judge for the Second NG Game Jam is Edmund McMillen!

Edmund has been posting games on NG since 2001 and has most recently been tearing up the XBLA and STEAM charts with his indie sensation, Super Meat Boy.

Edmund selected his top five in order of how much fun he had. His results are DIFFERENT from the popular vote, but it's OK to be different.

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  IceBoy by 4urentertainment

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  Everyone

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  Last Town On Earth by AustinBreed

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  Rated

  Everyone

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  Eskimo River Rush by molkman

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  Rated

  Ages 13+

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  The Pyre by 14hourlunchbreak

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  Rated

  Ages 13+

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  Mechanical Ice Apocalypse by bcdefg123

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  Everyone

Members of the IceBoy team will each be receiving $30 store credit for the first place prize!

While I have your attention, here's an honorable mention to three submissions that faired well with the audience vote:

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  BearBound by JackSmack

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  Everyone

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  Alvin's Alps by Wurmy

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  Everyone

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  Escape from ice mountain by MonoFlauta

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  Everyone

I hope everyone enjoyed participating!

If this makes you want to get your jam on, don't miss our January Movie Jam, with the story phase currently in-progress.

Next week we'll finally talk about winners for the informal Winter Flash-Off we had in December.

[Death]

congrats to the winners! I really liked bearbound.

[WingDemon]

Lol. the results are FINALLY in.

[NonPlusUltra]

Gratz to all the winners!

[JackSmack]

OH SNAP. The guys in the forum didn't believe me when I said it was anyone's game.

[speeling]

IceBoy deserved it. Good jam.

Now onto the movie jam.

also I miss Luis :(

[Donut]

Congratulations to the winners! I enjoyed playing all of the games and I'm excited for the next Game or Movie Jam. It's always great to see the community work together and make something we'll all enjoy.

[JackSmack]

Oh and Tom the original contest post says...

"The last game jam went really well, with 19 teams, 14 finished submissions, and a grand prize of $300 store credit for the winning team! You can check out the results of the last jam here."

So that is a Benjamin apiece for the winners not $30. I know the economy is rough but I'll assume you just didn't know and aren't pulling a fast one. Though... I've got my eye on you.

[JackSmack]

OR I should read that better and know that the post didn't say anything about the prizes for this jam at all... other people quoted it in the forums and I got confused. mah bad. Still have my eye on you though.

[ZStriefel]

At 1/14/11 10:36 AM, JackSmack wrote: Oh and Tom the original contest post says...

"The last game jam went really well, with 19 teams, 14 finished submissions, and a grand prize of $300 store credit for the winning team! You can check out the results of the last jam here."

So that is a Benjamin apiece for the winners not $30. I know the economy is rough but I'll assume you just didn't know and aren't pulling a fast one. Though... I've got my eye on you.

He thought he was gonna get away with it too!

"Thwarted again by that damn JackSmack!"

[speeling]

At 1/14/11 10:36 AM, JackSmack wrote: Oh and Tom the original contest post says...
So that is a Benjamin apiece for the winners not $30. I know the economy is rough but I'll assume you just didn't know and aren't pulling a fast one. Though... I've got my eye on you.

Well there goes the money for the movie jam

[JackSmack]

At 1/14/11 10:39 AM, ZStriefel wrote: He thought he was gonna get away with it too!

"Thwarted again by that damn JackSmack!"

Actually Z, I went back and actually looked over the announcement post for this jam and there is NO mention of a prize at all for this jam. the $300 is in reference to the previous Jam. So, I guess the joke is on me and the rest of the jammers. The 30 bucks is more than we were promised, though it was eluded to that it would be the same as the last jam several times in the forum and it was never corrected.

Knew I should have read the fine print. :P

[JoaoGabriel]

Congrats to winners!

[maxvm]

At 1/14/11 10:17 AM, TomFulp wrote: Edmund selected his top five in order of how much fun he had. His results are DIFFERENT from the popular vote, but it's OK to be different.

Edmund makes games professionally, I think it's okay to make different choices when games are part of your job. But yeah, he did make a good selection.

[ZStriefel]

At 1/14/11 10:44 AM, JackSmack wrote:

At 1/14/11 10:39 AM, ZStriefel wrote: He thought he was gonna get away with it too!

"Thwarted again by that damn JackSmack!"

Actually Z, I went back and actually looked over the announcement post for this jam and there is NO mention of a prize at all for this jam. the $300 is in reference to the previous Jam. So, I guess the joke is on me and the rest of the jammers. The 30 bucks is more than we were promised, though it was eluded to that it would be the same as the last jam several times in the forum and it was never corrected.

Knew I should have read the fine print. :P

Oh shiiii.. The NG police got to you didn't they?!? Tom got you on his payroll! NOBODY IS SAAAAAFEEE

...mmmm sleep deprivation.

[Timmy]

Congratulations to all of the winners - the only one of these games I've actually played is BearBound (and loved it) so I'll have to try out the rest of the winners.

Way to go, everyone who participated!

[TomFulp]

At 1/14/11 10:38 AM, JackSmack wrote: OR I should read that better and know that the post didn't say anything about the prizes for this jam at all... other people quoted it in the forums and I got confused. mah bad. Still have my eye on you though.

Hahah actually I only checked Austin's post for the second Game Jam, where he just said store credit without naming an amount... And $30 is like our typical store credit prize since it lets people buy one of just about anything. I didn't think to check what the prizes were in the first jam. :P

[TomFulp]

The four IceBoy team-mates now have $75 each in store credit, instead of $30.

In light of these unexpected expenditures, the winners of the Movie Jam will collectively need to pay NG $60 in place of a prize.

[XwaynecoltX]

Congrats to all the winners and such, the bear one was my fave though fun stuff as always, keep up the awsome work newgrounds.

~X~

[ugolegend94]

Congratulations to the lucky winners!

[speeling]

At 1/14/11 11:07 AM, TomFulp wrote: The four IceBoy team-mates now have $75 each in store credit, instead of $30.

In light of these unexpected expenditures, the winners of the Movie Jam will collectively need to pay NG $60 in place of a prize.

I think this means you need a team tom

[LiquidOoze]

What? Icy Cave of Fustration isn't mentioned? That game is awesome! Well, congrats to you guys anyway. :)

[Manly-Chicken]

Iceboy won? Didn't see that one coming! Congrats to all!

[ShadowGamer2]

WOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!! thank you edmund!!!

ill be honest, my money was on bearbound, that game was beastly.

yo, congratulations for everyone who participated, all the games were awesome. :D

[CloudEater]

Cool results, I'm really glad it was judges by a professional and not just everyone.

[BoMToons]

Dudes, mechanical ice apocalypse was by far the best of the bunch, though it needed more lives.

[MonoFlauta]

First of all sorry for my horrible English and a lot of mistakes I had and will make :)

Well what can I say? First I didn't though we got the 100% of possibilities to win. I thought that there were other games really near to win and even with more possibilities that our games. First, I think that IceBoy is a really good game and really well programmed, I never thought it had a lot of possibilities but well, they won and I am happy for them :). Then there are some games I can't understand how they reach there, the AustinBreed one, really people, had you fun with it? You just move in circles throwing fire... just that! I think it's well programmed at everything but I find a lot more fun other games, a lot more :S sorry Austin but I didn't like too much your game, it's really well programmed but I can't find it fun :S. And The Pyre, is lagged as hell and I don't find it really well programmed, I never thought it had a possibility but well, me or the rest of the people weren't the judge. I am very happy that Eskimo River Rush get a position there, I think that from there it should had second place and Mechanical Ice Apocalypse the first place (from the winners) but well. I am happy for both of them because they reach that place :) and I really had fun with them especially with Eskimo River Rush :P. Then, I think that the three games I thought they were going to win just get an honorable place below, I think its awesome that they won that because I think that three games should be in the top 5, not because the votes, I mean because the graphics and the programming things, don't know which game first but I think those game should be first. Also something I can't understand is how Icy Cave of Frustration didn't get at least an honorable place, that games was like really popular, it's very simple (at least for me) but people really liked it and with the high score system it became very popular. Well I think I can't say anything more, I think that the top five should was like this: Escape from ice mountain, Bearbound, Alvin's Alps, Mechanical Ice Apocalypse and Eskimo River Rush (not in particular order). Well I think don't have anything more to say, I am happy for the winners and I can say that this experience was anyway very good, because now people like RedHarvest know me and wants to work maybe in another project with me. So this thing of random integration is very useful for a lot of people who is a bit good like me because can work in great projects if they are really ready. Why I am saying this? Just to tell that this thing of random things is something we shouldn't lose like we are doing in the movie jam that we send the team made, because is something really awesome that the jam had.

Just hope you find something of this useful for the next jam or be agree or argue (in a passive way lol) with me :)

Best regards,
MonoFlauta

[3D-xelu]

At 1/14/11 11:38 AM, BoMToons wrote: Dudes, mechanical ice apocalypse was by far the best of the bunch, though it needed more lives.

At 1/14/11 11:41 AM, MonoFlauta wrote: I think that from there it should had second place and Mechanical Ice Apocalypse the first place

Thank you very much guys for liking Mechanical Ice Apocalypse <3 U ARE AWESOME

And congrats to the winners.... (damn you creator of ice boy)

Aaaaaand good luck next time :3

[SystemOfAtte]

Hey Tom i've been meaning to ask this Question for a while, where can i see what are the shipping expenses (I wanna know because i live in Finland and i'm pretty sure it's not free..)

[Koolguykai]

At 1/14/11 11:28 AM, ShadowGamer2 wrote: WOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!! thank you edmund!!!

ill be honest, my money was on bearbound, that game was beastly.

yo, congratulations for everyone who participated, all the games were awesome. :D

Yay we won! But I really thought that Bearbound was gonna win too. Or Icy cave of frusteration.