Best Viewed in 800x600: webjam running from 10/18 to 10/25

[nobo]

As of today, there's still nine days left to join. We already have 14 applicants.

what is a jam?

You might have heard of a "game jam" before. It's a contest of sorts where people usually get a weekend to prototype a game as fast as they can and on the deadline everyone judges the entries. Well I thought it would
be fun to do a "web jam", which is the same idea except we make web things.

where is this happening?

https://jamming.goeshard.org

format and theme

The format being "Best Viewed in 800x600" and the theme will be announced on the 18th. This is to make sure everyone is starting at the same time.

The theme will be something that neither tells you what to make or assumes what your skills are or how much time you will have to work on it. Rather it will be something you can creatively interpret, that way I won't be prescribing a scope or requiring you to know how to do something you don't know how to do.

The entries could be content focused, design focused, programming focused, or art focused.

The current view is that any submission adds value. Even if all you have time or skill to do is put a background on a page, center an image, and put a caption, that's something.

The current applicants all have "waiting pages."
You're welcome to create one of those as well.

what about people that abuse the scripting?

I have it set up to where the scripts of the currently in view iframes are the only ones that will run, so if someone does something annoying, you can tell whose window the code is coming from and "hide" it. I will remove entries that try to abuse scripting to be disruptive but I've provided this to make it easier to handle someone like that before I get to it.

It's worth noting that while everyone has had the ability to attempt being disruptive for several weeks now, no one has. So I think we're good but be ready to close the window of someone you don't like what they're putting out there is all I'm saying.


how do I join?

All you have to do is give me the link to a page online somewhere that you have the ability to edit and I will give you an iframe. That's it, then just wait for the announcement of the theme on the 18th and get started.

As of now you only have 9 days to register your iframe! So get a blank page online and send me the link ASAP, you can work on your waiting page after registering if that's going to slow you down.

[froggynights]

may i join? i'm still a beginner at web design but this looks fun!

here is the page!

[nobo]

may i join? i'm still a beginner at web design but this looks fun!

of course you can join!

although it's looking like you might be the only Melonlander. 

It's my fault for not posting the thread here sooner.

But I am grateful that at least someone here wanted to do it so thank you.

I added you to the page.

[froggynights]

Thanks so much for adding me!! Looking forward to it! Hopefully other people here see the thread in time. a bunch of entrants so far i'm excited to see what everyone comes up with and i'm looking forward to learning stuff too

[Rubbereon]

I made the page and I'm submitting it to the jam. Can't guarantee I'll make anything for it during the week period because I'm not really fast and I'm kind of busy irl too.

Here it is:
https://rubbereon.nekoweb.org/jam.html

[nobo]

I made the page and I'm submitting it to the jam. Can't guarantee I'll make anything for it during the week period because I'm not really fast and I'm kind of busy irl too.

Here it is:
https://rubbereon.nekoweb.org/jam.html

Awesome, I'm heading to work, but I'll add you when I get home before I post the announcement of the theme at midnight my time.

If you don't have something ready by the 25th, I would strongly encourage you to just submit a background, an image, and a caption. But whatever works. I'll probably remove entries from the final page that are completely empty at the end of the jam though. But there's no pressure. It's just a jam and we can always do another one.


@chxshire22 @jayecifer @mall-made manners @froggynights

Friendly reminder to jammers with Melon accounts that I'm going to announce the theme tonight/tomorrow.

[nobo]

the announcement is dropped early because I'm too tired to wait until midnight after just getting off work.
Feel free to start early. I'm too tired to stay up much longer so I'll see what everyone thinks of the theme tomorrow lol.

If you would like to be a late addition, I'll accept that also as long as its not past the end date.

https://jamming.goeshard.org