TOJam 10!

Hey fellow players!

TOJam 10 is just around the corner. Are you ready for the most epic Jam of 2015? It's going to be one hell of a party.

Right now, as I type this, the TOJam website continues to tease us with a giant 10 on the page, staring back at us. Staring into our souls.
Because we are creators, we stare back at it and think "What is that 10 thinking?" "What will the new theme be?" "Who will I work with this year?" "What language am I going to code in?"...
The questions keep coming and swirling around and around.

But let's take a moment to think about the past.

Name one thing you're proud of doing at a previous Jam.
Someone you've enjoyed working with.
Something you've learned.

I'll start.

I'm proud that in 2013 I went solo and created a hilarious (and still unfinished) text-based adventure (with pictures) using Twine. Hey, Listen! That was my first time programming a game with anything other than BASIC since I was 7-10 years old. (Normally I do the artwork and story for our Jam games. Sometimes I work on level design too.)

I have enjoyed working with my friend Mike, every year besides 2013.

At my first TOJam (Sixy Times, aka 6 or 2011), I learned that all the people doing art in front of me and making me feel completely inferior were all professionals. Once I had learned that, I was able to breathe again and get going. I learned a new system (Twine) in 2013. Since 2011, each year I've been getting better and better and managing just how much of a game is physically possible to create in 48 hours. (I still haven't gotten as far as I've planned - yet.)

See, that was pretty easy, right?

You still have plenty of time to come up with (or wait for) the answers to all the other questions. Feel free to think about them, but try not to worry about them, okay?

To make that a little bit easier, I'm going to countdown to TOJam 10 with some reviews about last year's games from Party Like It's 19 TOJam 9!, starting this Friday. So keep your eyes on this here blog as well as TOJam.ca for the big announcement (the date, and registration, of course!).

Happy creating!