Sounds interesting. Minecraft has started from a very simple concept and evolved into a very complex game even if the overall look didn’t change that much. I’m sure everyone has a different idea about what Minecraft should be and how it should continue to evolve. It would be interesting to have a theme be something like: The Minecraft Experience
The goal would be to boil down Minecraft to what you feel is (or should be) the core of the Minecraft experience and share it with others.
Shooters. We need to make a jam about shooters. Pew pew pew-
Late october, early december sounds good to me. One week duration is reasonable.
Theme has to be simple, concrete and stripped-down; you can’t have something too abstract or overblown with complexity as guideline for game concepts in a jam when participants have a day at most to brainstorm. My suggestion is people take this paragraph in consideration before making suggestions.
Those all sound like good ideas, some might be difficult for the logic brick only people like me, but I am up for a challenge I have always been partial to open world. Space theme could be fun.Though I don’t know what the most recent BGMC have included. I would prefer that we do it sooner than December, because that will be a hectic month, October sounds fun to me. (Or even the end of this month.
Make a game so ridiculous that it becomes a meme on youtube. Make it weird and try to get the most possible. Make an intro cinematic which tries to make feel the game will be serious and very badass… then show the ugliest, stupidest with disastrous gameplay game ever possible to imagine . Make our ears cry with over-sampled sounds and total has-been background music