Game Jam 9 Phase 1: Art Jam

[TomFulp]

AustinBreed has announced Game Jam 9, which begins NOW with a one week art jam!

The theme is "Screenshots You Want to Play", where artists create a pretend game screenshot. Teams will then have their choice of screenshot and two weeks to develop a working game based on it. Read the official post for more info! Dates are also up on the calendar.

[Manly-Chicken]

At 6/12/13 02:40 PM, TomFulp wrote: AustinBreed has announced Game Jam 9, which begins NOW with a one week art jam!

The theme is "Screenshots You Want to Play", where artists create a pretend game screenshot. Teams will then have their choice of screenshot and two weeks to develop a working game based on it. Read the official post for more info! Dates are also up on the calendar.

Sounds fucking awesome.
Too bad I can't dedicate myself to a two week jam...

[TomFulp]

At 6/12/13 02:50 PM, Manly-Chicken wrote: Sounds fucking awesome.
Too bad I can't dedicate myself to a two week jam...

You don't have to use the whole two weeks, you can just do what works for you!

[MSGhero]

I can't complain about having 2 weeks, parents interrupting won't be an issue now. It does seem a bit long, though; it'll be interesting to see the games since there's 4-5 times as long to make them.

[MikeyS9607]

So, if we're just MAKING a game based on a screenshot, we just wait till next week, am I right?

[Sinclairian]

I think I'll be up for this :)

[TomFulp]

At 6/12/13 03:19 PM, MikeyS9607 wrote: So, if we're just MAKING a game based on a screenshot, we just wait till next week, am I right?

Yup!

[ZJ]

This sounds awesome! To clarify, we CAN just make a picture for this, right?

[TomFulp]

At 6/12/13 03:38 PM, ZJ wrote: This sounds awesome! To clarify, we CAN just make a picture for this, right?

Yupper

[Tyler]

this is a rad idea for a jam, HOT DAMN.

unintentional rhymes.

[Potatoman]

sound fuuuhhhhnnn!

[squidly]

Not a huge fan of the Two Week deal. I don't usually have two weeks :c

[TurkeyOnAStick]

Oh shit this sounds like a brilliant idea.
I can get a screenshot for a game concept pooped out.

[SafePlagiarism]

Loving all the mixing of different subcultures on the site recently. First the NATA novice theme and now the game jam, even the VA competition had some intermixing with the animatic that was made. I'm not sure if this is all just starting to happen, or if I simply hadn't noticed before; either way I like it!

[SCTE3]

I like the sound of this and I look forward to the games that come out of this Game Jam.

[Viper50]

Pretty interesting. Looking forward to the submissions.

each Game Jam seems to get better and better.

[Mr-Shark]

Coolest gamejam idea yet so far. Can't wait to see what the artists come up with, I'll def consider particpating, but my game jam game from a couple years ago is still being made... lmao

[BoMToons]

Great idea!

[Elixur]

Having the artists' submissions collaborate with the game designers talents will ultimately give us some creative submissions, so I'm royally fucking stoked!

COME ON AND SLAM, IF YOU WANNA JAM

[Mattster]

Fantastic idea! Really looking forward to this one :D

[squidly]

At 6/12/13 06:56 PM, Elixur wrote: Having the artists' submissions collaborate with the game designers talents will ultimately give us some creative submissions, so I'm royally fucking stoked!

COME ON AND SLAM, IF YOU WANNA JAM

You heard of the dream team? Well we're the MEAN team.

[yetanotherjohn]

So do the developers need to rely only on the screenshot to make the game, or can the artists make a description for them to use as well?

[Magical-Zorse]

That's actually a pretty neat idea, I'm looking forward to playing the entries.

[PoisonHeart]

At 6/12/13 06:56 PM, Elixur wrote: Having the artists' submissions collaborate with the game designers talents will ultimately give us some creative submissions, so I'm royally fucking stoked!

COME ON AND SLAM, IF YOU WANNA JAM

http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/5/24672000/ngbbs51b8fc84c7b0f.jpg

that counts as an entry, right?!

[TomFulp]

At 6/12/13 06:56 PM, Elixur wrote: COME ON AND SLAM, IF YOU WANNA JAM

Ya know what's crazy, I never saw Space Jam growing up - I think I was already too old when it came out. I never knew it was the origin of the Star Syndicate theme song until a few months ago when I watched it with my kids.

[TomFulp]

At 6/12/13 07:51 PM, yetanotherjohn wrote: So do the developers need to rely only on the screenshot to make the game, or can the artists make a description for them to use as well?

I think it's best to leave it to the developer's imagination, vs any additional explanation.

[AustinBreed]

At 6/13/13 09:47 AM, TomFulp wrote: Ya know what's crazy, I never saw Space Jam growing up - I think I was already too old when it came out. I never knew it was the origin of the Star Syndicate theme song until a few months ago when I watched it with my kids.

This website will fill you in on what you missed.

[thedevilsgarage]

This couldn't have come at a better time. Im all guns for this Game Jam

[TomFulp]

At 6/13/13 02:41 PM, thedevilsgarage wrote: This couldn't have come at a better time. Im all guns for this Game Jam

w00t!

[deathink]

I can't wait to see the screen shots.