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Potluck Jam
Just riffing off of the meta jam and cake jam ideas here.
Thanks Michijan28 @ Wikimedia Commons
Before the start, everyone submits 5 "foods" (English words) into a common "buffet".
At ...
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Trap it!
Base Game: Pathery, Max and the magic marker
Platform: jsfiddle?
twist: way too much to explain!
Source Code, Licensed under CC-BY-NC-4.0
I've started developing this game, based on grids, ...
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Panda Replay
In this puzzle / platformer game, you control a panda. The goal is to collect the yellow token to advance to the next stage. The panda can push the light brown crates and bombs, but can ...
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The 2014 GDSE Summer Game Jam
Participant: Kevin van der Velden
Platform: Python 3 and libTCOD
Based on game: Magicka from Paradox Interactive
Hey people, my first game I made for a game jam! :D
I liked the mechanic in Magicka ...
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Skippy Fish
Play Now
Base Game: Flappy Bird
Concept Used: Tap to stay in the air? Punishing, but quick
Twist: Instead of obstacles, well-timed taps are required to stay up
Source Code, Licensed ...
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Community building exercise?
This is less of a theme and more of an idea. Recently a few of us in the GDSE chat took an adventure into Graphic Design Stack Exchange's chat, The Ink Spot.
I hoped to ...
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Anniversary Game Jam 2014
Bohr automaton
Theme-words: Heights, Automation, Destroy
It's a web-based puzzle game; inspired by Niels Bohr's electron energy level theory.
Play it | Browse code
(Works best in Chrome/Chromium ...
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The 2014 GDSE Summer Game Jam
The Dungeon
Click to play!
Game Description
The Dungeon is a 2D Action RPG taking after the 2D Zelda Games. This game is but a fraction of what I actually wanted to do but I bit off more than I ...
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Should we be running the game jams on meta or elsewhere?
Meta fails the jam in the following ways:
New users, or lurkers can't post a game or vote on the jam entries unless they get 5 or 10 rep respectively
Voting on completed games commences as soon as ...
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Dishes, Please
Concept: My concept is based off of the processing of passport documents under a time constraint in Papers, Please.
Implementation: In Dishes, Please, you process dirty dishes by ...
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Aes0p
Core game: Frogger
Twist: Time manipulation
Description: You play as a hare trying to make your way through as many levels of roads and rivers as possible. Along the way, you'll be able to ...
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One button game
In honour of the one year anniversary, make a game that is limited to accepting input as if it came from a single button.
You may accept input from any device (keyboard, mouse, ...
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Anniversary Game Jam: Meta
Make a game about game development. You can even include users from the community as playable characters!
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Resident Zombies
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXgVbNnlb7s
PC Installer (Source Code)
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Base Game: The Binding of Issac
Concept Used: I've always felt the game-play in BoI was sluggish/clumsy and ...
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Super Bounce
Play Now (download)
Use the following email to register Coherent when it pops up:
registercoherent@superbouncegame.com
Core Concept and Game: Halo 2, Super Bouncing. Land on a mesh ...
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Bond That Atom
Concept: SpaceChem and Solar. It started off as reverse SpaceChem (let's make everything chaotic instead of logical!), and picked up Solar's concept of a floating entity picking up ...
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Flap To The Future (click here to play)
Concept : one button "flappy bird" flying game.
Twist : Right mouse button now undos your action; you can rewind back.
All the art assets, except the main ...
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The 2014 GDSE Summer Game Jam
Participant: joapet99
Platform: Unity Web Player
Based On Game: Goat Petting Simulator on GameJolt.com
Open Source License: CC BY 3.0
Hey Guys! I wasn't really aware of this jam before just some ...
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"Continuum" - PLAY NOW
This learning exercise was based on the time travel concept from the game Braid.
Built using the unity2d game engine and C# scripting (both firsts for me)
My ultimate goal was ...
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Cow War
Play Now! | Browse Source
5 Words: Wind, Power, BBQ, Gear, Cows
Selected Words: Wind, Power, Cows
COW POWER! Make your cows work for you by sending them to the mill where they will increase ...
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Traces
Play Now! (online)
5 Words: Meats, Lasers, Deep, Blink, Void
Selected Words: Meats, Lasers, Blink
Traces is twin stick shooter (currently only mouse and keyboard) with a pseudo-3D aesthetic. ...
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Time for pancakes!
Given words: Mustard, Pancakes, Warp, Fruit-tree, Detective
Used words: Pancakes, Fruit-tree, Warp
You have 2 minutes and 30 seconds to grab fruit from a stubborn tree that ...
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Homebound
Guide your crew home by programming your spaceship to reach that distant wormhole. Don't get too close to the planets or their gravity will crash you. Try to win with the fastest time, ...
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Should we be running the game jams on meta or elsewhere?
In my opinion, there are two main issues, and a secondary-level issue:
Rep needed on Meta. This restricts entry.
Someone needed to manage the second site.
Restricting entry is undesirable, but ...
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Diamond in the Rough
A lone ship defending the planets.
Play Online
For best results, download the entire src folder from Github, unzip it, and open index.html.
My Five Words: Space, Floating, ...
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Should we be running the game jams on meta or elsewhere?
Personally I prefer bigger jams, even if it means opening it up to non-meta and even non-GDSE users.
I argue that this is already the case for the GDSE jams: take a look at past entries, you'll find ...
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The anniversary gamejam theme
Anniversary Game Jam: the random tip-top
Take the top 3 themes.
Choose one randomly.
???
JAM!
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