TIGJammin’

By: Derek Yu

On: March 16th, 2009

Our first TIGJam was a hell of a lot of fun, but unfortunately, it only happens in one spot (the Flashbang Studios in Phoenix, Arizona), once a year (September). If we had our way, it would take place in an orbital space station, and we’d come and beam people up right from their bedrooms once a month. Alas, the coffers are running dry these days – not because of the economy (manhugs and womanhugs are recession-proof), but because we spent a lot of money on research and development of a reasonably-lifelike android of Jeff Lindsay that will be attending GDC this year in his absence. (Look out, the routines we wrote to manage waste removal are slightly buggy.)

But enterprising game makers have found truly indie ways of extending the jam to new places and new times. Those jolly Brits put together a hell of a TIGJam in London last October, and earlier this month, the Dinowaurs team hosted their own jam in the midwest (despite my ultimate FAIL in not properly promoting it on the front page).

Now Matt “YMM” Thorson (FLaiL, Untitled Story), ChevyRay (SkullPogo), and the Canucks want to throw a jam in western Canada (Edmonton, Alberta, specifically) in May. Interested parties should follow the link and sign up, so that Matt and gang can decide whether there are enough takers (and when the jam should take place, exactly). MAKE IT HAPPEN.

If you’re interested in hosting a jam, or proposing a jam, or just want to talk about jams (please, no jelly lol), hit up the TIGJam forums. So that until we get that space station operational, the spirit can live on, all frickin’ year. One love.