Showing posts with label Mojam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mojam. Show all posts

Monday, 20 February 2012

Mojam - My thoughts.

In case you've been living under a rock or have an equally as boring excuse then you may have missed out on the phenomena of "Mojam". www.humblebundle.com is a website that once every so often has indie packs which users can literally pay what they want for, however this "bundle" was very different from the last.

'Mojam' was a 60 hour Gamejam which basically means there aim was to create a game within 60 hours and others were welcome to join them. Before the event began you could tell it was going to special because Mojang allowed their fan-base to decide on the theme and genre of the game, which of course is very risky on the Internet (especially when one genre is "Peter Molyneux"). Oddly enough the fan-base chose the real time strategy genre and the theme of steampunk...good luck Mojang.

The reason this is impressive is because they couldn't even plan any aspect of the game beforehand because they only just found out what the games genre was hours before. The first night of the stream contained a party like atmosphere as they slowly began working on the project. By the second day they had decided on a name "Catacomb Snatch" which was of course followed by "Thats what she said" and "lolwat" because lets face it... it does kinda sound like a euphemism.