What if there was a game about an ancient civilization, but instead of controlling its people, you controlled the landscape? This idea led Peter Molyneux to create Populous, a title that would go on to influence gaming for years to come.
Now the year is 2013, and the video game industry is in a creative drought. We need new ideas to reinvigorate and reinvent video games as a medium. How? Molyjam, of course!
Make a game based on a tweet! Take a page from Peter Molydeux, self-proclaimed doppelganger of Peter Molyneux, or from anyone else!
Molyjam takes place during the weekend of July 5th - 7th. You'll get 48 hours to make your game. Note: Do NOT go by the Glorious Trainwrecks event time! Since Molyjam is a global event, the jam starts and ends on midnight in your own timezone! Don't forget that vital bit! Start jamming once your calendar hits the 6th, and stop when it's no longer the 7th on your end!
Molyjam will feature a number of physical locations worldwide. You can jam on site, or jam from home! And if you can't join your fellow jammers in person, remember that there's always virtual reality!
Our IRC is at #glorioustrainwrecks on irc.freenode.net.
A list of game development tools is here.
You can submit your game to Glorious Trainwrecks here, or the official Molyjam website once submissions open.
Here are some entries made by trainwreckers for last year's Molyjam event:
"This Game Always Tells The Truth" - SpindleyQ
"There Is A Monster at the End of this Game" - Noyb (as part of a team)
"These Automatic Arms" - nobody
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FANTASY / REALITY | 07/27/2013 - 16:37 | spiral | 10 | |
Sierpiński's Tomb | 07/08/2013 - 02:09 | mcc | 6 |
Comments
Oh thank god. I was getting
Oh thank god. I was getting tired of having no interesting events. Thank you EffBee. You've blessed us all.
Now if only I had any creative ideas...
Peter Molydeux will be the
Peter Molydeux will be the source of your ideas. That's the point.
I just realised a few
I just realised a few seconds after I posted that.
I am an idiot.
**EDIT**
"Game where you play as youtube and become self aware. You must cleanse yourself of banal cat videos or face a life of hopeless ennui."
I am doing this. I hope.
**DOUBLE EDIT**
You are a sad lonely firework in a dusty shed on 4th July, what if you could use ghosts to sneak you into big display in New York?
Or this.
Ooh, very good sounding
Ooh, very good sounding event!
OH MY GOD CAN WE JAM IN
OH MY GOD CAN WE JAM IN DIGITALSPACE TRAVELER CAN THAT BE A REAL THING
OH MY GOD YES YES YES
OH MY GOD YES YES YES
I would play Danny the
I would play Danny the Street Fighter. (Although really this just makes me wanna make a Flex Mentallo game.)
EDIT: ahahaha oh man. Someone here needs to make this.
This is a reminder that
This is a reminder that reminder emails are still a thing that exists.