Elephant in the room: Yes, it's a big bummer that Forsaken City didn't reach its Kickstarter goal. Hopefully this isn't the last we hear of this project; I like to think everything has a way of working out and I know Studio Firelight is serious about making it happen.

The topic of THIS post though is games, specifically game jam games.

NG Game Jam 7 is happening next weekend and this past weekend marked the 35th Ludum Dare MiniLD.

I've been really liking the games that come out of game jams because they are often experimental and pure; they come from a good place. We've been fighting off an endless barrage of shovelware here on NG, so games like these are always a breath of fresh air.

To better showcase these competitions I've put together a Game Jams collection. It includes the existing NG Game Jams but also has a collection for Ludum Dare entries that exist as web games on NG. We have a lot of entries available from Ludum Dare 23 but the challenge now is filling in other events. Right now if I do a tag search, only one entry comes up for MiniLD34. If you made a web game this past weekend for MiniLD35, you can tag it with "minild35" and I'll find it!

This is also a good time to organize any other game jam entries that exist on NG, such as entries for the Global Game Jam. Reply to this thread with links to any games you know that were made as part of a jam. We can make sure they get properly tagged and included in appropriate collections!

ALSO

When you see something cool or unique from an unknown artist, click the heart next to their name and FAVORITE the artist! It will encourage them and prevent you from missing out on their future stuff.

For example I thought this was really intriguing - I was lucky to catch it in the big list of new games. I favorited this author so I will know what compelling stuff he submits in the future; otherwise he might submit something else a year from now and I could totally miss it. A lot of really interesting stuff doesn't win daily awards and slips by under the radar. FAVORITE often and your feed will be EXCITING!

At 6/19/12 03:01 PM, TomFulp wrote:

Exciting news, looking forward to seeing all the awesome games made in the game jam.

Also, you should check out this animation Tom.

http://vimeo.com/41219207

I was going to message the artist and tell them it would be a great addition to Newgrounds now that there is the video player, but I wasn't sure if it would be too intrusive.

BearBound was pretty fun and creative.

Game of grief is real good.

At 6/19/12 03:03 PM, Rocinante wrote: Also, you should check out this animation Tom.
I was going to message the artist and tell them it would be a great addition to Newgrounds now that there is the video player, but I wasn't sure if it would be too intrusive.

I'll pop them an email!

cant wait to animate for game jam!

Well that Game of Grief was different, which is what we want! :)

Game Jam 7, tis gonna be awesome!!

This sounds awesome, i could definitely get used to this.. :D

Well you asked for it Tom, so here's all the game jam games I've made (that aren't in collections already):

Ludum Dare 22:

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  A Weekend Alone

  by NoLanLabs

  Survive a game development marathon in this Ludum Dare entry!

  Game

  70,156 Views

  (Ages 13+)

Mini-LD 32:

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  Tim's Time Travels

  by NoLanLabs

  Help Tim travel through 32 classic games in this crazy adventure!

  Game

  44,667 Views

  (Ages 13+)

Mini-LD 30

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  Adapt1

  by NoLanLabs

  Resize and move a box to fit through walls. Made for Mini-Ludum Dare #30.

  Game

  9,011 Views

  (Everyone)

7DFPS (i don't know if that counts)

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  Vectricity

  by NoLanLabs

  Blast aliens in this retro vector first person shooter.

  Game

  15,031 Views

  (Ages 13+)

Can't wait for Game Jam 7, should be awesome!

At 6/19/12 03:47 PM, NoLanLabs wrote: Well you asked for it Tom, so here's all the game jam games I've made (that aren't in collections already):

I'll leave out 7DFPS for now but I added your LD stuff... Hopefully those pages will flesh out over time.

Well hopefully they'll get back on the kickstarter horse and I'll refund myself.

Looking forward to the Game Jam, and its gonna be awesome.

QG

I'm excited about the game jam, I always try to check out the games that are submitted for it whenever possible.

Game of grief was quite interesting. I love art games.

Shame we couldnt get the kickstarter... :(

At 6/19/12 04:20 PM, TomFulp wrote: I'll leave out 7DFPS for now but I added your LD stuff... Hopefully those pages will flesh out over time.

Thanks, there must be more LD games out there, I just can't remember right now... ESCAPE was originally a Ludum Dare game, but it's probably been updated since then, same with Take Care of The Trees... I think Austin Breed made some LD games too.

Cool I totally care

Looking forward to it

Very sick, seriously can't wait for GJ7 Tom :]]]]

Glad to see your always looking on the bright side of things Tom. Keep being classy!

As much as I would love to participate in the game jam, I really don't have any skills as of yet that I could contribute. I'm only beginning to learn how to program. Not to mention, I'm not much of an artist (unless you call a few pixel art-pieces here and there), nor do I believe that writing should be considered a skill for Wild Card. I would more love to have a voice actor or a musician on the team than someone writing a short story that could just be whipped up in less than an hour without a little bit refining to it.

This will be my first gamejam!
Atleast if i get picked, there's so many artists.
PICK ME PICK MEEEEE!!

Alright Game Jam is Back!

At 6/19/12 03:01 PM, TomFulp wrote: Yes, it's a big bummer that Forsaken City didn't reach its Kickstarter goal. Hopefully this isn't the last we hear of this project; I like to think everything has a way of working out and I know Studio Firelight is serious about making it happen.

I love that we showed it can be done. A few more donations here and there and we will be able to help them put this all together. Perhaps if I get a better job, I'll be able to donate more money, who knows?

Any updates coming soon, Tom? Would be nice... this site needs refreshments!

Goodness am I excited for the game jam! Just remember children, my birthday is the 28th... hint hint :}

At 6/20/12 08:57 AM, uglybetty wrote: Any updates coming soon, Tom? Would be nice... this site needs refreshments!

Agreed; I really want to know when I get a new review on one of my submissions, who/how many people have favourited my submissions, etc... This page was put down for maintenance months ago when it was at least serving to show me my favourites on each track and if I got any new reviews.

No pressure, but I'd love to hear how things are going with that.

At 6/19/12 03:01 PM, TomFulp wrote: stuff

Cool game jams will be archieved another cool options for the grounds.

~X~

At 6/20/12 10:31 AM, Step wrote: Agreed; I really want to know when I get a new review on one of my submissions, who/how many people have favourited my submissions, etc... This page was put down for maintenance months ago when it was at least serving to show me my favourites on each track and if I got any new reviews.

Sorry for the delays on things like submission favorite stats, new reviews and the whistle system... Things have been in a state of flux this past month but should be back on track in July. Basically Rob is in the process of moving to San Fran, Goldfish is making a game for Robot Day, and liljim is addressing some concerns that came up in Google Webmaster Tools, namely improvements / fixes to help Google better index and rank NG.

In other news the Ludum Dare collection is a lot more fleshed out today.

At 6/20/12 12:55 PM, TomFulp wrote: In other news the Ludum Dare collection is a lot more fleshed out today.

I can't seem to get into the list of all the Ludum Dares from that page, I have to actually find a LD game and get to the collection from there... am I missing something?

Anyway it's really cool that you're doing this.

This post that you made is very FUN!

At 6/19/12 03:01 PM, TomFulp wrote:

ALSO

When you see something cool or unique from an unknown artist, click the heart next to their name and FAVORITE the artist! It will encourage them and prevent you from missing out on their future stuff.

YES PLEASE!

I enjoy having an audience to make my nonsense for. :)