I’ve been doing a lot of live-streaming on Twitch.tv, doing various 5- and 15-minute game-making challenges recently. There’s a nice bunch of people that hang out and take part in the chat room, and they mentioned it would be cool if we all got together and jammed at the same time.
Well… Let’s DO JUST THAT!
FRIDAY, JUNE 8th: The first ever JAM O’CLOCK is being held globally! It’s happening at 1pm PST (4pm EST, 9PM London, 8AM Auckland), and we’ll all get together and make a game for exactly 1 HOUR (Hence the name! See, I’m clever!).
That’s Friday, June 8th, from 1pm->2pm PST. Just set aside one hour in your day! That’s all!
I’ll be doing a LiveStream of my 1-hour game on my Twitch.tv account, and we’ll have an official IRC channel up and running too: irc.afternet.org, #JamOClock. (PS: I’m at that IRC channel right now! It’s my normal hangout spot!)
The fine fellows over at Ludum Dare are donating the abuse of their website for our cause, and allowing us to submit any games we choose through their interface. When the time comes, this is the link we’ll use.
I’ll send out some more updates as the date gets closer, and if it’s a success I’ll make it a regular thing (maybe with it’s own website, even!). SEE YOU IN TWO WEEKS!
Fantastic fun idea! LOVE IT! Some devs have been using google hangouts recently to have 1 hour video streaming jams. I’ve tried two one hour jams so far and have to say getting anything playable was a huge challenge… But it was definitely possible! I made a horrible little zombie shooter and a one screen platformer. I can’t wait to see what you make! If I’m able I hope to join you in the fun! Good luck!
After my last #LD48 fail, I’m well up for a 1 hour jam. This time I’ll actually prepare!
I’m totally down with this idea! Count me it!
I’m in for this :) Great idea.
Count me in. I’ve got an hour to spare on Friday, might as well make something. :)
I’m sorry that I didn’t enter this competition, I really wanted to, in fact I started preparing for it a day before and decided I would practice an art style whilst in bed. Turns out that it looked pretty good but the response when I posted it online was crazy and the character ideas were more inspiring than I’d originally intended. One thing led to another and I had a complete game idea in my hands that would take more than an hour to complete but felt that I should run with. There is a teaser of the artwork here . I’m about 40% through the game design so I thought I’d let you know that you guys also inspired a game that didn’t get entered into the competition. :D Thanks