Game jam organizers, take heart: indie game hosting site Game Jolt has developed a game jam hosting platform and made it available for public use, potentially making the business of managing jams a bit easier and bringing a bit of healthy competition to current jam-hosting heavyweight
itch.io.
The
Game Jolt Jams platform is free to use and seems to offer a fairly robust set of tools for running your own game jam, including a simple website creator with community-friendly optional features like a voting system, an activity feed and Twitch integration for participants to livestream their work.
Game Jolt's jam hosting platform is still evolving, and its existence as a public tool should help foster more small-scale events like the
7-Day FPS Jam and the
Tower Jam.
If you take part in one and end up falling in love with your jam handiwork, it's worth taking a moment to watch Capy's Nathan Vella speak at GDC Next 2013 about
how to turn a game jam game into a 'full' game.
