TechRaptor
Go Ahead And Jump! - A Week With An Indie Game Subscription
TechRaptor
Jump provides gamers with 60+ games for a low subscription fee. Read on to see if it lives up to the hype and delivers on its potential!

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UPROXX
Eddie Vedder Is Busking Like He's A Random Street Performer To Celebrate A Cubs Win
UPROXX
What do you do if your favorite baseball team blows out their long-time division rival at home on a joyous Friday night? Well, apparently if you're Eddie Vedder you go to the street and find a random street performer and start rocking out to a classic ...

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Call goes out for games developers | IT-Online
IT-Online
The Goethe-Institut is looking for seven games developers from South Africa and eight from sub-Saharan Africa to join this year's Game Mixer programme in...

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Grapple Gum out on iOS on September 14th
Develop
... experience across all creative and technical fields by the Tunisian Game Awards 2017 with a jury composed by Susan Gold (founder of the Global Game Jam), Leevi rasila (GDWC Event Producer) and Moacyr Alves Junior (ESL Brasil Partnerships Director) ...

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Durango Telegraph
Derby is my jam
Durango Telegraph
Perhaps I too could appreciate their sculpted frames if I weren't so invested in the nuances of skating, strategy, and whatever the hell else is going on out there during the game-jam-competition thingy. Tim wanted to know how I enjoy this sport ...

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Yale Daily News (blog)
The “Bakery”: Exploring Yale's New Media Center
Yale Daily News (blog)
Meanwhile, an affiliate faculty member through the music department, Andrew Schartmann, is conducting a Co-Lab workshop on video game sound design, which will culminate in the international Global Game Jam event in January. Finally, CCAM will host ...

Digipen, iThrive Games host free digital game jam
Redmond Reporter
Redmond's Digipen Institute of Technology and iThrive Games, a nonprofit that aims to facilitate the use of video games to enhance social and emotional skills, will host a 48-hour free digital game jam from Sept. 15-17 in support of empathy-focused ...

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Pocket Gamer.Biz
From Commodore 64 to hyper-casual: David Darling on the resurgence of simple games based on elegant ideas
Pocket Gamer.Biz
For those who've spent any amount of time at a game jam, or developed their own quick and easy games, the idea of honing in on a simple fun mechanic is likely to be very familiar. At Kwalee, we've jumped into this process with both feet - creating ...

DuneWorld releases new PC game
TheChronicleHerald.ca
The group initially met at Global Game Jam 2014 hosted by Volta Labs in Halifax in January 2014. Following that first experience, the founding group went on to form the DuneWorld Collective with a focus on developing experimental games. DuneWorld uses ...

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Jam City pushes into interactive fiction with soft-launched choose-your-own-adventure game Twist
Pocket Gamer.Biz
Jam City appears to be entering the interactive fiction space with a newly soft-launched game Twist. The game was first soft-launched on September 6th 2017 on Android. It is unclear which countries it is currently available in. Twist is a ...

Cornwall Live
Meet the gamers taking video gaming to the next level in Cornwall
Cornwall Live
Truro and Penwith College recently took part in the Global Game Jam event, which saw 36,000 Game Makers worldwide collaborate and challenge themselves to make as many games in 48 hours as possible. A college spokesman said: “This allows them to ...

Cinema Blend
You Can Finally Play Half-Life 3... Sort Of - CinemaBlend
Cinema Blend
Valve's Half-Life 3 has reached mythical status. It's a meme for the ages, and its legacy is built on the fact that it's likely never going to officially release. However ...

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PCGamesN
How a Twitter joke inspired 1000 fictional game pitches
PCGamesN
Among these concepts, there are some inspired ideas for mechanics that might just as easily have been cooked up at a game jam. In fact, one of Crowley's followers made a Pico-8 version of one of his fictional games: No Frog Left Behind, in which you ...

Semispheres Brings its Meditative Gameplay to Nintendo Switch ...
DualShockers
Semispheres, which launched on PC and PS4 earlier this year, will be coming to the Nintendo Switch on September 14.

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Pocket Gamer.Biz
Rovio reveals first ever MumJam to take place November 11th-12th
Pocket Gamer.Biz
Rovio has launched a new game jam specifically aimed at experienced women looking to get into the games industry called MumJam. As reported by GamesIndustry.biz, the event is designed for mothers who have struggled to return to work after having ...

Gamezebo
Invaders… From Space Review: Doesn't Quite Rocket
Gamezebo
But as it stands, this feels a little bit more like a game jam experiment than an actual finished product. There's entertainment to be had, and it's not going to cost you anything to pick it up and give it a go. Just don't expect it to sink its teeth ...

Only Single Player
Alice 3 Proposal Being Drafted by American McGee
Only Single Player
Similarly, a development company for the proposed project remains unconfirmed, as McGee's studio, Spicy Horse, was shut down in 2016, with the creator shifting his attention to the online shop, Mysterious, and a movable game jam project called Pirate Jam.

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Pocket Gamer
Invaders... From Space review - Google Earth meets nuclear annihalation
Pocket Gamer
Invaders... From Space feels like the product of a weird game jam where someone messed around with Google Earth and turned it into an arcade score-chaser. The result is a curious game of contrasts. It's simultaneously fresh and familiar, immediate and ...

Only Single Player
Indie Highlight Reel – September 3, 2017
Only Single Player
Beginning development as a happy accident during 2013's Ludum Dare 26 game jam, Lost Words is an adventure platformer that takes place both within a girl's journal and the fantasy world that she envisions. The game is being developed by Sketchbook ...

Vibe
SZA's “The Weekend” Got The Florida A&M University Marching Band Treatment And It's Great
Vibe
Aside from FAMU's feat, bands have a known knack for memorializing the year's most popular tunes and flipping them into football game jam sessions. Take what Southern University's Human Jukebox band and Dancing Dolls did with Drake's “Controlla” last ...