Boris Posted January 22 Report Share Posted January 22 (edited) Well, as far as I've seen, there does not seem to be any Jaguar game jam or whatever you want to call that kind of thing. Saw that for the Lynx and I wonder (for quite some time now): Wouldn't that be a nice thing to start? Sure, there are not that many Jag devs out there, but maybe this will give them and others an incentive to make some games? Prices (money for sure and other stuff maybe) would be necessary. I'd be willing to throw some money in the pot for this and get things going. Maybe you have some thoughts regarding the criterea of the games? So far, I've come up with: Every type of game is welcome No 1:1 ports of existing games from other platforms The cartridge image must run on a GameDrive (submittable ROM types should probably be mentioned) Include instructions on how to play the game (.txt file) The game will have a free public release at least in form of a playable demo after the contest (to not exclude people who'd like to get their stuff published by Songbird or AtariAge) If this Jam starts in February, the deadline will be close to the year's end, probably in November I wonder if there should be some kind of bonus for people who actually try something with vector graphics or polygons? Edited January 22 by Boris DegasElite and alucardx 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted January 22 Report Share Posted January 22 I think this would be a cool idea. I think the focus should be on original games, though using established gameplay of existing games may not be entirely avoidable. Boris, Justin, DegasElite and 1 other 4 Quote 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 31 Author Report Share Posted January 31 I guess so, too. But originality might be a good point for the voting chart. Currently reading about how to start a Game Jam on itch.io and if it would be allowed to give out prices there. Would not know where else to start something like that other than itch.io, or maybe @Justin would be interested in doing this via atari.io? alucardx, DegasElite and TrekMD 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alucardx Posted March 2 Report Share Posted March 2 This is a very cool idea. I wonder how many participants would enter. DegasElite 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted March 6 Author Report Share Posted March 6 Good question, we will see. I am still on it and the jam will start in May, thought the info about it will probably be available online earlier (in April, I guess). It will be done via itch.io and I hope there will be some participants and some interesting games. DegasElite 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7800 Pro Gamer Posted March 6 Report Share Posted March 6 Have you reached out to anybody? I can try to help promote it for you. Idk how effective it would be but I can just throw it out there on my YouTube channel and try to get more hype and involvement. DegasElite 1 Quote Watch 7800 Pro Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAtariNetwork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted March 6 Author Report Share Posted March 6 @7800 Pro Gamer Yes, I did. And that is a great idea, please send me a private message here with your mail address, I'll gladly contact you. I'll disclose more info as soon as more details are fixed, probably around early April. DegasElite 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7800 Pro Gamer Posted March 8 Report Share Posted March 8 You can email me at 7800progamer@gmail.com that's my public email given in the description of all my videos so it's out there already Boris and DegasElite 2 Quote Watch 7800 Pro Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAtariNetwork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted Tuesday at 08:32 PM Author Report Share Posted Tuesday at 08:32 PM So now the JagJam 2024 is online: https://itch.io/jam/jagjam2024 Hopefully some people will participate. ( @7800 Pro Gamer I wrote you, but am not sure my mail got through, probably not, I guess. Maybe you want to push this news anyways now that it's online. @Ballistik If you'd be willing to cover this as well, that would be awesome.) TrekMD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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