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The winner is StellarShooter, congrats @unbroken_unworn@mastodon.tedomum.net
https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-6/rate/1591286
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cross-posted from: https://fapsi.be/post/97225 > Making foss games for a week with Fedi people. Any skill level. > Propose themes on masto, matrix, or here. > Masto: https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator/108585787757481316 > Matrix (say hi, find team): https://matrix.to/#/#fedijam:m.wfr.moe > Previous winner (Stellar Shooter by unbroken_unworn): > https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-6/rate/1591286 > Previous jams: > https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-5 > https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-6
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cross-posted from: https://fapsi.be/post/97225 > Making foss games for a week with Fedi people. Any skill level. > Propose themes on masto, matrix, or here. > Masto: https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator/108585787757481316 > Matrix (say hi, find team): https://matrix.to/#/#fedijam:m.wfr.moe > Previous winner (Stellar Shooter by unbroken_unworn): > https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-6/rate/1591286 > Previous jams: > https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-5 > https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-6
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Making foss games for a week with Fedi people. Any skill level. Propose themes on masto, matrix, or here. Masto: https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator/108585787757481316 Matrix (say hi, find team): https://matrix.to/#/#fedijam:m.wfr.moe Previous winner (Stellar Shooter by unbroken_unworn): https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-6/rate/1591286 Previous jams: https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-5 https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-6
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Games and rating: https://fapsi.be/post/12042
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Game list and rating: https://fapsi.be/post/12042
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Submissions and rating: https://fapsi.be/post/12042
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Hi, so, FediJam V had a record yield of foss games made by fedizens.
Please enjoy, rate, and comment. Rating (needed to know the winner and to quantify things) unfortunately requires Itch acc for now, but playing does not, and commenting (masto) does not.The theme of the jam is SELF-REFERENCE (proposed by @TheAndSys@lemmy.ml)
Submission list
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Berated (MIT)
by @armen@fosstodon.org
Play and Rate: https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-5/rate/1305432
Source: https://gitlab.com/armen138/berated
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Portal Rooms (AGPLv3)
by @unbroken_unworn@mastodon.tedomum.net
Play and Rate: https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-5/rate/1306391
Source: https://forge.tedomum.net/unbroken-unworn/minetestportals
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dailyrat (GPLv3)
by @waifu@waifuism.life and Gentoo(youtube)
Play and Rate: https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-5/rate/1306409
Source: https://github.com/wafumelon/dailyrat
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Random Person Generator (MIT)
by me
Play and Rate: https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-5/rate/1306410
Source: https://codeberg.org/houkime/RandomHumanGenerator
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Also boosting the overall rating call helps:
https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator/107397261139433682
cross-posted from: https://fapsi.be/post/12042 > Hi, so, FediJam V had a record yield of foss games made by fedizens. > Please enjoy, rate, and comment. > Rating (needed to know the winner and to quantify things) unfortunately requires Itch acc [for now](https://fapsi.be/post/8310), but playing does not, and commenting (masto) does not. > > The theme of the jam is SELF-REFERENCE (proposed by [@TheAndSys@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/TheAndSys)) > > ## Submission list > (in the order of submission) > > ### Berated (MIT) > ###### by [@armen@fosstodon.org](https://fosstodon.org/@armen) > Play and Rate: https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-5/rate/1305432 > Source: https://gitlab.com/armen138/berated > [Post to boost and comment](https://fosstodon.org/@armen/107395119406462926) >  > > ### Portal Rooms (AGPLv3) > ###### by [@unbroken_unworn@mastodon.tedomum.net](https://mastodon.tedomum.net/@unbroken_unworn) > Play and Rate: https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-5/rate/1306391 > Source: https://forge.tedomum.net/unbroken-unworn/minetestportals > [Post to boost and comment](https://mastodon.tedomum.net/@unbroken_unworn/107397156897625593) >  > > ### dailyrat (GPLv3) > ###### by [@waifu@waifuism.life](https://waifuism.life/users/waifu) and [Gentoo](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_9rJ1mcNI1TCeZLmPjnt5w)(youtube) > Play and Rate: https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-5/rate/1306409 > Source: https://github.com/wafumelon/dailyrat > [Post to boost and comment](https://waifuism.life/objects/2df0dac9-adb6-492f-8882-47ca00ec77e2) >  > > ### Random Person Generator (MIT) > ###### by me > Play and Rate: https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-5/rate/1306410 > Source: https://codeberg.org/houkime/RandomHumanGenerator > [Post to boost and comment](https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator/107397452829332294) >  > > > Also boosting the overall rating call helps: > https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator/107397261139433682 > >
Hi, so, FediJam V had a record yield of foss games made by fedizens. Please enjoy, rate, and comment. Rating (needed to know the winner and to quantify things) unfortunately requires Itch acc [for now](https://fapsi.be/post/8310), but playing does not, and commenting (masto) does not. The theme of the jam is SELF-REFERENCE (proposed by [@TheAndSys@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/TheAndSys)) ## Submission list (in the order of submission) ### Berated (MIT) ###### by [@armen@fosstodon.org](https://fosstodon.org/@armen) Play and Rate: https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-5/rate/1305432 Source: https://gitlab.com/armen138/berated [Post to boost and comment](https://fosstodon.org/@armen/107395119406462926)  ### Portal Rooms (AGPLv3) ###### by [@unbroken_unworn@mastodon.tedomum.net](https://mastodon.tedomum.net/@unbroken_unworn) Play and Rate: https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-5/rate/1306391 Source: https://forge.tedomum.net/unbroken-unworn/minetestportals [Post to boost and comment](https://mastodon.tedomum.net/@unbroken_unworn/107397156897625593)  ### dailyrat (GPLv3) ###### by [@waifu@waifuism.life](https://waifuism.life/users/waifu) and [Gentoo](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_9rJ1mcNI1TCeZLmPjnt5w)(youtube) Play and Rate: https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-5/rate/1306409 Source: https://github.com/wafumelon/dailyrat [Post to boost and comment](https://waifuism.life/objects/2df0dac9-adb6-492f-8882-47ca00ec77e2)  ### Random Person Generator (MIT) ###### by me Play and Rate: https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-5/rate/1306410 Source: https://codeberg.org/houkime/RandomHumanGenerator [Post to boost and comment](https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator/107397452829332294)  Also boosting the overall rating call helps: https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator/107397261139433682
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Just leaving it here.
Server vs server tournaments.
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Gamejolt has a so called Fireside for gamers to stream to each other, and I planned to redesign it for peertube-like or actual peertube streaming.
A sort of a virtual family TV place with players deciding who will stream next.
Yes, art jams and art assets are an absolute must. I also think there should be a possibility for devs to indicate that they need help with art or artists to indicate that they are available for help games. And that this needs to be right on the front page.
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Atheneum looks cool, they are currently too tied to flatpaks though. One could have a special place on the game page for flatpacks, but then one could just upload a game directly to flathub. I can try to make cute slots for package repos links though so that devs are properly encouraged.
The thing with itch and other store games is that they are supposed to be portable and run from the folder.
So, maybe it is also about atheneum supporting portable games.
lib.reviews looks alright. They will need to federate though. so that reviews are auto-applied to game pages.
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Firebase here was used to store user client settings.
I disabled this (It is using defaults) and also deleted this from package deps.
The value of the game being stored on the server is that games are usually big (100+ mb) and for example git forges tend to have strict limits on file size. Unlike with peertube though, the headcount of games is way smaller than the count of videos, so largish uploads at game stores are totally ok, and also torrenting might be unnecessary, at least at first.
It is also used to count downloads. This sort of harmless analytics i plan to reenable in the future. Views and downloads. Maybe browser plays.
It is everything i use on itch, and it should be enough for gamedevs to roughly measure interest.
It will also be used if there will be payments eventually, or at least download tokens that you purchase from the dev manually.
The scheme with manual download tokens can be wider than just monetary payments. It can also be about promotion or even code contributions (not neccessariy to the same game! A dev can just say: Contribute to Godot in a nontrivial way and i will give you a token).
Or just manual handout of the game to people the dev knows/decides to give access. Like with follow requests on masto.
I believe that sort of schemes could be especially popular with LGBTQA+ communitites, just as locked accounts are.
I do however think that it might be benefitial to separate the services of storage and jamming, if only just to allow parallel evolution. It can be done on protocol level so that for example gamejolt like servers can federate with more lightweight jam servers.
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if itch app supported making game pages, participating in jams and organizing them, i would totally go for it. But it does not, and making this right takes a lot of time because it needs a lot of feedback. It is a human thing.
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Not really.
They have an opensource desktop/mobile client for downloading and managing games but it has a severely limited functionality and does not support jams.
The full-featured web frontend on itch.io is closed.
I would actually like to fork itch's frontend more because it is almost js-optional, but nope.
I organize Fedijams. Like this one https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-5 These are foss jams and they try to use fediverse and Matrix for promotion and coordination, but they still have one proprietary tool in the loop: itch.io, a game store. This is a problem for jams not only by being an ideological incoherency: it is practical too. People seem to be uncomfortable/shy to even hit the join button there (it requires an account), often opting in to just join our [matrix chat] (https://matrix.to/#/#fedijam:m.wfr.moe). And other people who see the low count are less interested as a result. So, i thought, that for federated game developers, at least for jammers, something much better needed, safer to use and adaptable for specific needs and culture. ## A Federated Gamestore ### What is the bare usable minimum? * Ability to upload games. * Ability to host jams (event scheduling, submitting games and rating) * No federation. Yes, for FediJams even just a self-hostable gamestore would be useful. But just that will be very poor and unappealing. ### Self-respecting minimum: * Decorating game pages * Decorating jam pages * Not being spartan The last one is very important for games and gamestores. The concept of game is about joy and having a good relaxed time. Also, by looking at non-spartan Misskey, i have noticed much more mainstream people. On federated foss network. ### Basic federated configuration: * Jam federation: between servers, with Mobilizon, and with Masto/Pleroma/Misskey * Federated game and jam comments * Federated game search ### QoL: * Search by license * Jam tagging * Explore better jam interest gauges that just 'joins'. federation might help with that. ### Life: * Payments? * Donation integration? ## Making this happen Some days ago i started a fork of Game Jolt game store. https://notabug.org/Houkime/gj-fedifork-frontend Upstream Game Jolt (MIT license) has a ton tracking built in and i also temporary curbed realtime communication/streams that will be the hardest thing to support (after potential payments?) and will need a lot of redesign anyway. Using Game Jolt frontend as a base provides a lot of visual polish, page editing and anti-spartancy out of the box, and those things seem to be the most difficult and most limiting to get for foss projects. But Game Jolt does not provide the server, so this one i need to write myself (I am looking at peertube as a reference/template). The frontend does provide though database models ^_^
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cross-posted from: https://fapsi.be/post/7288 > Making games in a week, using federated spaces to organize. > Failing, recovering, learning to game design and to use network in games (of course, focusing on federation and fediverse). > Join for fun, exp, teammates and feedback \^-\^ > (one can join up until Dec 5 when submissions close. 1-day or 3-day submissions are ok!) > > Our Matrix room: > https://matrix.to/#/#fedijam:m.wfr.moe > Masto announcement (boosts are welcome!): > https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator/107344021497719229 > Vote for a theme! (vote closes on jam start): > https://framadate.org/1wpeiobJnJcNyyTn
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cross-posted from: https://fapsi.be/post/7288 > Making games in a week, using federated spaces to organize. > Failing, recovering, learning to game design and to use network in games (of course, focusing on federation and fediverse). > Join for fun, exp, teammates and feedback \^-\^ > (one can join up until Dec 5 when submissions close. 1-day or 3-day submissions are ok!) > > Our Matrix room: > https://matrix.to/#/#fedijam:m.wfr.moe > Masto announcement (boosts are welcome!): > https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator/107344021497719229 > Vote for a theme! (vote closes on jam start): > https://framadate.org/1wpeiobJnJcNyyTn
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Making games in a week, using only federated spaces to organize, so +-100% fedizens. Failing, recovering, learning to game design and, optionally, to use network in games (of course, focusing on federation and fediverse). Join for fun, exp, teammates and feedback \^-\^ You can join up until submisson closes Dec 5. Since your plans are expected to crash several times during the week anyway, it is perfectly possible and acceptable to submit 1-day or 3-day works. Our Matrix room (~30 people): https://matrix.to/#/#fedijam:m.wfr.moe
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Making games in a week, using federated spaces to organize. Failing, recovering, learning to game design and to use network in games (of course, focusing on federation and fediverse). Join for fun, exp, teammates and feedback \^-\^ (one can join up until Dec 5 when submissions close. 1-day or 3-day submissions are ok!) Our Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#fedijam:m.wfr.moe Masto announcement (boosts are welcome!): https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator/107344021497719229 Vote for a theme! (vote closes on jam start): https://framadate.org/1wpeiobJnJcNyyTn
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results: https://fapsi.be/post/2921/comment/10467
This time no federated projects made it in time, but 2 non-federated did, including one team project coordinated via Matrix.
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Rating has concluded with 4 ratings per game (open voting).
https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-4/results
Battery Street
Fun: 3.75
Originality: 5.0
Creative Use of the Theme: 4.0
Overall: 4.25
https://houkime.itch.io/battery-street
https://notabug.org/Houkime/BatteryStreet
Surge!
Fun: 3.0
Originality: 3.25
Creative Use of the Theme: 3.5
Overall: 3.25
https://armen138.itch.io/surge
https://gitlab.com/armen138/surge
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cross-posted from: https://fapsi.be/post/2920 > Made for https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-4 in 1 day. > Jam theme was Power Saving (proposed by https://nerdica.net/profile/bkil) > Source code: https://notabug.org/Houkime/BatteryStreet > Also rate it at https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-4/rate/1278396 > > 
cross-posted from: https://fapsi.be/post/2921 > FediJams are gamemaking competitions that span Mastodon-federating networks, Lemmy, Matrix, and at times Mobilizon. > The theme for Fedijam IV was Power Saving, proposed by https://nerdica.net/profile/bkil > > This time around we have 2 entries that are to be rated until 2021-11-18 18:00:00 UTC: > > ### Surge! > by a team of 3 people: > * https://fosstodon.org/@armen > * https://bsd.network/@iarebatman > * @unbroken-unworn:tedomum.net (matrix) > > https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-4/rate/1277300 > https://gitlab.com/armen138/surge > >  > > ### Battery Street > by me, https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator > > https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-4/rate/1278396 > https://notabug.org/Houkime/BatteryStreet > >  > > There was also one that was not submitted. > > ### Wolf Game (not submitted) > by [@stemid@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/stemid) > https://gitlab.com/stemid/wolfgame > This one uses Mastodon API > > ## Boosts Are Appreciated > https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator/107278347685726489 >
FediJams are gamemaking competitions that span Mastodon-federating networks, Lemmy, Matrix, and at times Mobilizon. The theme for Fedijam IV was Power Saving, proposed by https://nerdica.net/profile/bkil This time around we have 2 entries that are to be rated until 2021-11-18 18:00:00 UTC: ### Surge! by a team of 3 people: * https://fosstodon.org/@armen * https://bsd.network/@iarebatman * @unbroken-unworn:tedomum.net (matrix) https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-4/rate/1277300 https://gitlab.com/armen138/surge  ### Battery Street by me, https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-4/rate/1278396 https://notabug.org/Houkime/BatteryStreet  There was also one that was not submitted. ### Wolf Game (not submitted) by [@stemid@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/stemid) https://gitlab.com/stemid/wolfgame This one uses Mastodon API ## Boosts Are Appreciated https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator/107278347685726489
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Rate here https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-4/entries
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Made for https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-4 in 1 day. Jam theme was Power Saving (proposed by https://nerdica.net/profile/bkil) Source code: https://notabug.org/Houkime/BatteryStreet Also rate it at https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-4/rate/1278396 
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Allows to connect to Matrix servers from inside Godot games, be it for chat or for multiplayer. Was refurbished for 3.x godot branch to use it in https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-4
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Allows to connect to Matrix servers from inside Godot games, be it for chat or for multiplayer. Was refurbished for 3.x godot branch to use it in https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-4
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A foss gamejam for federated people is held once again! \^_\^ We will make games during a week and compete. We now make more focus on the possibility to federate games - there was a relatively successful, even if simplistic case. So, especially if you want to try fedi-focused game development or even to federate with some other participants on spot, come along and join - no other place to try this sort of stuff currently. (Federation is not a requirement, it is ok to just make a game, learn and receive feedback.)
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From the perspective of Fediverse Futures, this is a more practical brainstorming on the theme of federated gaming and just fedi-aware game development. (see abstract discussion here https://lemmy.ml/post/87083) Practical meaning: we go and try make simple prototypes in a week. Stupid, too simplistic, absurd, anything. We also make a competition out of it. So come join and make some of the fediverse futures a reality. \^_\^
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Yes. We are doing this again. Coding foss games in a week. Haven't ever done a game? Will be your first one! Never coded? Game coding is easy to learn! (also look GDevelop) This time we are more leaning into federated gaming because we now have a better idea of how to make simple federated games, even the ones with graphics.
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Has a matrix client inside, so can use standard Matrix servers for multiplayer: local or remote. Dead simple. Creates a chat. Post 'boom' to it - triangle spawns. Source: https://notabug.org/Houkime/triangle
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Masto: https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator