xkcd Game Jam (Nov 17-20) - winners announced!

[XavierKCD]

Hey everyone!

I'm hosting xkcd Game Jam from November 17-20 2017, where you create a game in a weekend based on your favourite xkcd comic or 'what if?' article!



EDIT:

Results are out!

You can go play all the winning games here (for free!): https://itch.io/jam/xkcdgamejam/results


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[XavierKCD]

This starts in less than a week! There should be some really interesting xkcd-inspired games for you all to play later next week

[raudorn]

Are you promoting this anywhere else? The forums are almost dead nowadays, so I'm not sure how many people you can reach here.

Generally I'm interested in participating (as it is a nice warmup for Ludum Dare two weeks later), but maybe not. University schedules are always so fickle. *sigh*

[XavierKCD]

Are you promoting this anywhere else? The forums are almost dead nowadays, so I'm not sure how many people you can reach here.

Generally I'm interested in participating (as it is a nice warmup for Ludum Dare two weeks later), but maybe not. University schedules are always so fickle. *sigh*

Yup! I'm promoting it all over the place, and we've got over 200 signups so far so it seems to have worked

Would be great to see you join in, even if it's just something short and simple!

[chridd]

Don't start working on the game prior to the game jam, as it isn't fair to other participants starting from scratch. However, you may use publicly-available assets if you have permission and mention this when submitting (there'll be a textbox).
You can use any engine, including one you made yourself.

• If I have some code from other games that isn't game-specific (e.g. some keyboard handling and code to keep a constant framerate) does using that count as using an engine or starting early?
• Do I need/have permission to use xkcd comics themselves? (My current idea has almost all of the art taken directly from xkcd.)

(Edit: Hope it is allowed, since I've already started.)

[XavierKCD]

Don't start working on the game prior to the game jam, as it isn't fair to other participants starting from scratch. However, you may use publicly-available assets if you have permission and mention this when submitting (there'll be a textbox).
You can use any engine, including one you made yourself.

• If I have some code from other games that isn't game-specific (e.g. some keyboard handling and code to keep a constant framerate) does using that count as using an engine or starting early?
• Do I need/have permission to use xkcd comics themselves? (My current idea has almost all of the art taken directly from xkcd.)

(Edit: Hope it is allowed, since I've already started.)

Yeah it's fine to use any previous non-game-specific code!

RE: using xkcd comics, according to xkcd.com's about page it seems like that'd be fine, as long as it's non-commercial.

[chridd]

RE: using xkcd comics, according to xkcd.com's about page it seems like that'd be fine, as long as it's non-commercial.

Wait, I think I may have misinterpreted something. When it says "if you have permission" did you mean from the person who made the asset? (That would probably make more sense than how I interpreted it. I thought it meant that we had to get your permission in order to use any assets...)

[XavierKCD]

RE: using xkcd comics, according to xkcd.com's about page it seems like that'd be fine, as long as it's non-commercial.

Wait, I think I may have misinterpreted something. When it says "if you have permission" did you mean from the person who made the asset? (That would probably make more sense than how I interpreted it. I thought it meant that we had to get your permission in order to use any assets...)

Yeah, of course you should have permission to use any assets you use

By the way, the jam is over and there are over 90 entries which you can all play here: https://itch.io/jam/xkcdgamejam/entries

[XavierKCD]

Results for the game jam are out! https://itch.io/jam/xkcdgamejam/results

Let me know if you try them out!