A game jam is where a team attempts to build a videogame from scratch in a ridiculously short deadline (say 48 hours). The goal is to come up with a concept, design it, program it, and finish as much as you can do before time runs out (and is often accompanied with a lack of showering/sleep and an excess of drinking).

The outcome of this type of activity can be quite inventive, creative games, as well as buggy, incomplete disasters.

To kick things off (and get the two of us working on something), we decided to play with the idea of a Game Jam, and transform it into what we call a ‘Game Jam: Gold Coin Edition’ wherein we not only build a game within a short timeline, we also put it up for auction (on a flash auction site) to see how much it will go for.

As far as I know this has not been attempted before- if it has, please let me know, and you will have severely disappointed me.

So this weekend starting tomorrow (friday), Sunshower will give this a shot. The start time will be whenever we wake up and get to the office tomorrow. The end time will be this sunday-ish.

Could this fail horribly?
Yes.

Will it?
Probably.

Are we going to try anyways?
Seems likely.

Will keep you posted.

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