Well if that happens, then at least my efforts effected some good in the world. A worthy, just mod being selected, and the Game Jam going on through more capable hands.

I think we should put someone important, like a moderator, in charge of it and make it one thread that's a sticky. Or do like the others do and have a subforum dedicated to it.

I'm not insulted. I was just discouraged. Anyway, you're right. I've always known that one of my most annoying personality quirks is being too aggressive and proactive, not really thinking things through. Anyway, because I'm new I didn't know people, I didn't feel comfortable asking Ashley of all people for help, and I was hoping to get it up and running before February since I'm on vacation right now and I had the time to set things up. I went all in but I should've asked for help and taken my time.

You live and you learn. In any case, maybe the best thing that could come of this is that someone more equipped with experience and connections around here might be inspired to try their hand.

EDIT: For the record, I just checked. all my links work.

Well, like I said. I tried. I had a professionally made rubric, a facebook page, a website with an example of how it was going to work... it would've been find. The behind the scenes stuff wasn't the issue.

True, I'm not known. I'm new, but I didn't see anyone else doing it so I thought I'd try. I'm a doer, not a talker.

This doesn't have to be my baby. In fact I'd rather someone else do it so I could just participate. But I didn't see any successful tradition so I tried to do a service for the community. It's just not going to work out, especially if as you say, the community feels entitled to fancy landing pages and expects this to be on par with the Ludum Dare.

The Game Maker communities have a game jam. They don't have a website at all. It's a sticky in the forum. That's it. They made do.

Stencyl has the StencylJam which is a big event hosted by the developers of Stencyl that has prizes, but it's also just hosted on the forums and blogs. I don't know.

I'm sorry, I guess? I didn't expect to be criticized for trying to do a service for the community, but I guess I see your point. I don't know, maybe I should just keep my head down from now.

And I see someone +1ed the comment. Message received, I guess. My sincere apologies, community members. I didn't mean to create such a debacle.

Sad. Well I don't know. I think someone like Ashley would need to endorse and publicize such an event and then it could take off. Most game jams don't really have many prizes. Most of them are just for fun.

Yep, that's precisely why I'm doing this jam. I found that Game Jams are the best motivators.

SpeedyShare doesn't require you to download the downloader. The correct link is at the top of the page, not the bottom. The bottom one is trouble. Stay away from that. Just click "Rubric For Game Jam.doc" at the top and it'll work with no downloader.

Although if you can't figure it out, then probably a lot of people will make the same mistake, so I'll take that under advisement.

The only thing I worry about is not having enough people join. If we even have like 5 though, I think that's OK for the first month.

Hello everyone,

We're having a minor event! This is the first attempted (by me) Construct 2 Game Jam. I have seen others attempt this before, but for whatever reason those projects seem to have faded. I thought I'd give it one more go.

Please check out the website: c2gjam.blogspot.com

Read the example post and the rules!

Also, please keep this post bumped! Maybe sound off if you think you'd like to participate. It starts on the first of February and ends on the last day of February.

EDIT: Facebook Link

facebook.com/pages/Construct-2-Game-Jam/583741881703156

also another little suggestion with the rules on the site--maybe it would be good to simplify and remove the requirement to post "proof" video or screenshots (it's just another barrier to entry for lazy people like myself ;)). It's easy enough to look at html/javascript source code to tell if a project is Construct 2 or not

Well, I suppose, since it is monthly. Making it less complicated might be better for getting more participants.

Now how do we publicize this thing in time?

teacherpeter Maybe we should not have judges. I kind of like the way the GameMaker contest is run, I think each entrant has to judge like 5 other entries (or be disqualified), and you could also open up judging to anyone on the scirra forums to get people involved and interested. Google forms are good and easy to set up for voting. Plus I'd probably want to enter myself :)

I think what you have on your website is a good start. It might be good to rethink categories and rating system a bit, the GameMaker contest gets a lot of people into it and they have a good example to look at

OK , I'll look into it. I need to figure out how the voting will work, though. I'm thinking polls on the blog's page for each game.

Would you care to say which categories that I've suggested that you don't like? I'm pretty happy with that selection. I think it covers all the bases, but if there is something specific you think should be included/scrapped, please let me know ASAP because this thing is starting in like a few days.

Well in any case, the site is live: c2gjam.blogspot.tw/p/contest-rules.html

I even made a fancy rubric for the judges.

Russpuppy, I'm drafting you. Kyatric, you seem like an obvious choice too. Help me find at least one more judge if you can!