game jam

noun

An organized competition lasting a few days wherein people create a game from scratch (especially a video game), often having a set theme.

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Meanings

noungame jam (plural game jams)

plural game jams

  1. An organized competition lasting a few days wherein people create a game from scratch (especially a video game), often having a set theme.

    “It’s been very hard to keep this one a secret,” he [Edmund McMillen] wrote in the announcement post for Mew-Genics, as it was then known. This was in October 2012, just weeks after the game jam [Ludum Dare 24].

    2026 July 29, Alex Spencer, “The Making of Mewgenics”, in Edge, number 424, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 81
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