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Looking forward to your games!

A topic by Boris_K created 55 days ago Views: 77 Replies: 5
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Hey everyone,

glad that so many people again decided to join JagJam and create some new great games for the Atari Jaguar this year! It is much appreciated! I have also seen some of you have posted about their ideas, development and what they think can be done, and I already had a great time reading that. Makes me want to fast forward and see the games now, but that's not how it goes :-D Thanks to those of you who dared to share :-) ! 

With "Where is it?" and "Shape Shooter 2000" this year will also see at least two (maybe even more? :-) ) physical game releases from JagJam 2024, published by Songbird Productions. For me personally, it's very rewarding to see these games actually come to life in a sense that lets me put them into my shelf and for others to discover when browsing for Jaguar games and see what's out there. After all, the more people discover the Jaguar and actually start to like it because of creative and nice games being made for it, the better it will be received. And hopefully the scene will grow a bit more, little by little, thus making it more interesting for you to program games for it, and so on. But the Jag scene is still a very niche one, no doubt about it. Having said that, thank you all again very much because you did and still do this! You rock!

Take care everyone!
- Boris

Boris, thank you for providing the opportunity to be part of this. I'm looking forward to finishing my submission (I'd love to do two, honestly, but yeah, time...) and I can't wait to play the games made by the other people participating. The Atari Jaguar has always held a very special place in my heart and the community is winning me over, as well. 

To the wider jam community: If you're new to the Jaguar but you're used to BASIC programming on older computers, check out JagStudio. The documentation is a bit sparse, but there are tons of examples (and an extra set from the RAPTOR API) so you can get up and running quickly. Sprites can be imported from BMP files, you can do animation, etc. It's very neat and I'm enjoying it a lot.  https://reboot-games.com/jagstudio/

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Cheers, glad you're part of it. And if you have another idea, well, I guess that's a good reason to join next year as well 😄.

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"Go Lucky" is another JagJam 2024 game which has a physical release, this time from Reboot: https://www.reboot-games.com/rebootnews/product/golucky/

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Right, thanks for adding that, I totally forgot that physical release! Cheers to pps and Reboot!

I only just realised this was here! I'm in  a SNES Jam now, which I think will absorb all my time for the next month or two.

Does JagJam happen every year?