F**k This Jam!

EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS IS LIKELY TO BE OLD NEWS BY THE TIME YOU HEAR THIS!!!

There is likely going to be a genre, sub-genre or convention you absolutely hate. And the Fuck This Jam (pardon all the swearing) forces you to make a game based on a genre, sub-genre or game convention you hate. Great fun?

You can use the chat here by the way: http://fuckthisjam.com/chat.html

The jam starts at the 9^th of November at 18:00 (6:00) but they haven’t decided on a time zone to use so they say that you should just start at 6:00 in your time zone until otherwise told. It ends on November 17^that 6:00. The Beautiful Mess Organizer (BMO) is being developed for people to share their f-ing games and stuff of that nature:

http://brettchalupa.com/bmo

If you want to use a program just for the jam, GameMaker Studio and Unity are both confirmed to be giving temporary licenses out and if you contact the people running the jam they say they will try and get licenses for the other programs you want. If that isn’t enough, the people running it are setting up jam-spots for fellow jammers to meet up at all over Europe and the U.S. but unfortunately Canadians are left out. They encourage you to set up your own jam-spots though.

http://fuckthisjam.com/locations.html so maybe that will change. twitch.tv is also finalizing a partnership with the jam so stay tuned to that.

At the time of writing, nearly 1300 people have joined in this creative conquest. I may join myself. Maybe. Sign-up for the newsletter or follow them on Twitter.

Link: http://fuckthisjam.com/index.html

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Have you joined? What are you doing?