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I don't normally ask for boosts, but I have just LEAPED out of my comfort zone and set up my own gamejam, specifically for users of the Fediverse, and I'm scared shitless that nobody else will join, turning this into one giant embarrassment for me.

So if you want to do me a giant favor, please boost (and even better: join!) this: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@fedi_jam/113035512940511485 PLEASE! 🥺 🙏

FediJam (@[email protected])

Hello everyone! 👋 The FediJam is the world's first (?) game jam exclusively for users of the Fediverse. During September, team up with others and... CREATE - A - GAME! Analog or digital, using whatever (non-AI) tools you feel comfortable with. ➡️ Join now: https://itch.io/jam/fedi-jam Boosts VERY appreciated! ❤️ Spread the word!!! #GameDev #GameDesign #GameJam #Fediverse #Mastodon #Introduction

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jmelesky Aug 27, 2024

@njamster Can I suggest adding “post about it with the hashtag” to the “rules” section?

@jmelesky Yes! Good idea! :) We plan that for submitting a game, people have to provide a link to a Fediverse post about their game. But can't harm to clarify this in the rules section as well, I guess. Thanks for the suggestion!

Gina Häußge Aug 27, 2024

@njamster Done of course, and I'll do my best to also participate, which is much more possible given the month long time for that 😊 Might just set myself my own time limit to not make it too much on top.

Love seeing this! 👍

samf Aug 28, 2024

@njamster I’m hoping to join! But no guarantees that my participation will be LESS of an embarrassment. 🤓

@samf In Germany, we say: "Dabei sein ist alles" (which roughly translates to "Taking part is everything") – so, in my eyes, you're already a winner! 😉

Stefan Bohacek Aug 28, 2024

@njamster Nice, I'm sure this will be a success! Good luck!

kevin Aug 28, 2024

@njamster Sharing as a fellow dev:

@kmmfoo Mhm? Is that an error message from itch? After you tried to join the jam? If so, that's very unfortunate... 🙈

kevin Aug 29, 2024

@njamster It’s prolly just opening day jitters. all‘s copacetic now.

Mike Aug 28, 2024

@njamster boosted and joined. I like the idea of both doing a smaller and longer jam after placing ~3400 in GMTK 😂

@Kurzweil Congrats on hitting the upper 50% of the GMTK jam. :) No easy feat!

Mike Aug 28, 2024

@njamster Thank you! :)

Martijn Vos Aug 28, 2024

The rules say it can be digital or analog, but the rating criteria sound like they strongly prefer digital. A boardgame is unlikely to have music.

@mcv That's true! We haven't thought of this. 🙈 But we'll figure out a solution! Just take my word for now, that I have no intention to punish people that go for an analog game – on the contrary, actually!

cagibidev Aug 28, 2024

@njamster Joined! Though I already have a game idea in mind (currently stuck in the ever-reborn new prototype phase, so I guess it qualifies).

@cagibidev Honored to have you in! I love your games. :)

@njamster nice idea! I can't join it right now because I'm focusing on Rebound, but I want to participate in some next one.

Arto Koistinen Aug 28, 2024

@stephann @njamster Hmm not sure how much time I'll have but it might be a nice opportunity to give PixiJS a go!

lopta Aug 28, 2024

@njamster I'll have to ask my son for ideas.

@lopta Excellent plan! Settling on a good idea is one of the hardest parts in a jam (for me at least).

Tom Schultz Aug 30, 2024

@njamster I'm in! I will publish one of two things for it - my Vulkanized game of life project, or a little platformer in Godot b/c I haven't made one yet.

OR MAYBE if I get really ambitious I will do a 20 Games Challenge anthology in Godot!

https://20_games_challenge.gitlab.io/

The 20 Games Challenge

The 20 Games Challenge

nazgum Aug 31, 2024

@njamster this is the most boosted post ive seen on mastodon - 649 boosts! nice job, hope it goes great for you =)