The very first Underscore Jam will start on November 18th, the official one month-a-versary of the forum! These jams will be bimonthly occasions to find moments of creativity and won’t be limited to games. I’d like everyone to feel like they can participate, so the focus will be on free and accessible and easy to use software, tools, and assets.
Seeing as we’re a fresh community and this is the very first jam, the rules are not set in stone, but they are a good guideline to keep everything fun and groovy. The prime rule above all is do not overwork yourself. The secondary prime rule is no generative AI allowed. The Underscore is a no gen AI zone, and you will only be robbing yourself of life force by using it. The goal of these jams is to come together, have fun, maybe learn something new, and express ourselves. To that end they will not be ranked and there will be no voting or prizes. Participation is the greatest reward!
Here’s how it’s structured:
The jam will have a prompt, i.e. the general idea of what you should make and in what medium, and constraints, the limitations you’ll have to abide by.
The jam will have a start date and end date. The idea is to submit your entry before the end date, but there will be a grace period of, idk, let’s say three days?
When the jam starts this post will be updated to reveal the prompt and the constraints.
Use this thread to discuss the jam and submit your entries. Put the word SUBMISSION in bold and all caps in your post so I know to look for it.
Upon completion of the jam I’ll start a new thread with a nice big post to showcase all submissions.
Feel free to collaborate if you want!
[Watch this spot for the prompt and constraints soon!]
I think for future jams that are focused on a specific piece of software or whatever I will announce this beforehand so people can at least familiarize themselves or look up some tutorials or whatever
quick question, does bi-monthly mean 2 per month or 1 every 2 months? english is a very complicated language.
Also, I believe it’s better for the medium to be either revealed now, or selected among a list of possible mediums. Like I wouldn’t want to get hyped for a jam and then realize as soon as it starts that I can’t participate because I know nothing about the tool(s) being used. I know jams are good learning experiences, but they’re not good for learning an entire new software during the limited jam time. If the tool is irrelevant here, then maybe also announce beforehand that we may use any tool we’d like.
How do you feel about a generic no-genAI rule for all those jams? More like a gentleman’s agreement at this point, and since the prime rule is to not get overworked, some participants might resort to using the prime “no work at all” tools. I know that I wouldn’t be happy spending several days on a project and be compared with someone who entered a chatGPT prompt or something.
english is a very complicated language.