September 2, 2024 – Lieke Bremer |
This year’s theme of LXDCON was Let’s Play! Therefore, we couldn’t resist hosting a game jam. Participants only had 4 days to create a game! These are the results.
What is a game jam?
A game jam is a collaborative event where participants create video games within a short, fixed timeframe, often centered around a specific theme. These events encourage creativity, innovation, and rapid prototyping. Everyone can submit a game and it can be in any shape. After submitting, everyone can vote on their favorite based on several parameters.
The theme
As game jam needs a theme. We chose: Closer together. As the conference was hosted virtually, we were curious to see what kind of experience people would create while people are physically apart.
The winners!
As the submissions were done by people from outside of LXDCON as well, we got some great winners:
First place: (voted by everyone, also outside of LXDCON): Duoescape by zombicycle
Second place and the winner of the LXDCON Game Jam: Closer Together by Stephanie Hart
Third place: Faraday-Henry by The_Yures and SrPinwino
Honorable mention by an LXDCON participant: Call Sign by Tom Cruz
All the submissions show that you can create a game in just a couple days. We had participants stating they had never even thought about creating a game. For example, Stephanie (second place) had never used Articulate Storyline for this purpose! We hope you play some of the games and see you at LXDCON next year!
Rewatch LXDCON’24
The rewatch for LXDCON is live until the end of September 2024. For only €55 you can rewatch all the sessions, including a workshop by Maarten van Broekhoven on Construct 3. A tool that you can use for free to create a game. He created this game – the Museum of Games – and gives you all the assets to recreate it yourself in his workshop!
