When you are at home all the time, the days seem to just blur together, so I thought it would be great to participate in a game jam with someone. Initially planned to do it in a team of three. Sadly others couldn’t make it, but I’ve still decided to participate.

Game jam games have really interesting gameplay and visuals that can sometimes never be seen in the full releases, plus, they often get to the good stuff right from the start and you can get through a bunch of different experiences in a short amount of time. I’ll list some examples below, but there are a lot of new …

Coming up with ideas when you are on a tight schedule can be hard. But the thing is that you need to be able to complete it during the game jam and still have time for polish. In a lot of cases, it must fit the theme as well. Theme A lot of game jams have a rule that your game should fit into a theme that is revealed …

Game Jam is an awesome opportunity to improve your skills and even more. Here I wanted to show some of the reasons to participate in a game jam yourself.

I want to write a series of posts on a topic of game jams helping to make better games in this short amount of time that game jam gives you. But let us start from the beginning.