After participating in a number of weekend game jams over the past few years, I happened to hear about one that spanned a longer time period – two weeks – and although it was a smaller jam hosted on itch.io rather than a large community like Ludum Dare, it seemed to be getting a fair amount of interest. Read more...

After participating in two Ludum Dare game jams (#42 and #43), and then sitting out the following two for different reasons (#44 due to wanting to work on finishing my first mobile game, and #45 due to the timing overlapping with some pre-existing travel plans), I decided to get back into it with Ludum Dare #46, which ran from April 17 to April 20, 2020. Read more...

After participating in two Ludum Dare game jams, I decided to expand my horizons and try out an Alakajam! I’d been curious to try out other game jams in general, but Alakajam in particular seemed to have a really nice website, plus lots of neat community stuff like tournaments where people competed for high scores in previous game jam games. Read more...

At the beginning of December, I participated in my second game jam: Ludum Dare #43. The previous Ludum Dare (#42 in August) was my first game jam ever, and I wrote up a long-winded postmortem dev blog post about how it went. Read more...

This August, I completed a submission for my first game jam. It was intended as an exercise in fully finishing a game, and learning from the experience… With the goal of applying that wisdom toward the bigger, more ambitious game I wanted to create. Read more...