Issue #85
PUBLOG
The Game Jam
Two jams so far. Over 500 entries between them, thousands of votes, and a handful of little gems we never would have seen otherwise. It started as an experiment. It's now a thing that people continuously ask us about.
Patch Notes v2.0 runs October 9 to 12.
Why?
When we started, it was a cool little way to give back. Support indie from the ground up, get people building together.
Now that we're a publishing house (still wild to say that), we look at it differently. The core goal is the same: help people at the inception of an idea. But now those ideas don't have to stay prototypes. We can pick out the ones we love and help take them further.
Full disclosure though: Zero of the games we've signed came out of the jam. We'd like to change that.
There may not be a game in every jam. But this is the purest version of what a publisher is supposed to do. Find it early. Back it.
Patch Notes 2.0
We promised that once Scorchpot was out the door, the jam would come back.
We're going back to 72 hours, one theme. The sprint.
Flock (our Discord mod, judge on both previous jams) is running this one. We'll be around, but it's his show.
Sign up for the jam here. Kicks off Friday October 9, midday PDT. That's Saturday morning if you're with us in Australia.
Josh & Clem