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unique mauve Mar 7, 2026, 8:30 PM

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First of all, a game jam is a competition where games (in this case it would be servers) are created during a brief period of time with a prompt (to help keep the games similar to each other). They are then submitted and judged by other people. A Skunity game jam could be really fun for knowledgeable skripters and new skripters alike. Knowledgeable skripters would enjoy being in a competition against other great skripters and would also benefit from feedback to their game. New skripters would also benefit by being forced to work within a limited time (thus not getting trapped in a project too large for them) and would also receive feedback from other people.

This could be organized by Skunity staff members alongside other trusted community members (I fully understand whether this is hard or impossible to practically pull off this event based off people's availability). This could be done quarterly, annually, or any other times decided by the organizers (with community input of course).

A problem understandably could be security. Malicious individuals could try to steal people's IPs by making them join servers that allows them to see the IPs of the joiners. A solution could be to only allow the submitted servers to be on trusted free server providers, such as Minekeep or Minehut (though not a perfect solution, it is one solution nonetheless). Feel free to comment on this problem below and anything else around this idea!

drifting basin Mar 7, 2026, 9:26 PM

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that's something that requires management

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ion think so son

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maybe not here

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maybe as another 3rd party

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what would they even give? A golden sticker from sovde?

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lowkey might be glorified #showcase

unique mauve Mar 7, 2026, 9:32 PM

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drifting basin that's something that requires management

That's why I specifically said that it may not be possible to do as I totally understand people here have lives.

unique mauve Mar 7, 2026, 9:35 PM

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drifting basin what would they even give? A golden sticker from sovde?

An event doesn't have to have a large reward or anything. People can do it just because it's fun and because they can receive feedback on their creation.

modest compass Mar 7, 2026, 11:13 PM

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the main problem is that people aren't all that interested in participating

drifting basin Mar 7, 2026, 11:32 PM

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rustic zinc Mar 7, 2026, 11:47 PM

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modest compass the main problem is that people aren't all that interested in participating

I would be interested and I think some other nerds like brian or promasterio would too

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all you need is like 8 people competing

unique mauve Mar 8, 2026, 12:16 AM

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rustic zinc all you need is like 8 people competing

yeah that's what I thought too

wheat shore Mar 8, 2026, 3:22 AM

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don't minekeep and minehut already host events like this

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i feel like the demand isn't that high

rustic zinc Mar 8, 2026, 3:46 AM

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wheat shore don't minekeep and minehut already host events like this

they do not sadly

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I think they used to

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but don't right now

unique mauve Mar 8, 2026, 4:07 AM

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only Minekeep hosts gamejams quarterly

edgy marlin Mar 8, 2026, 7:45 AM

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for context last time we hosted a competition we got, i think, 3 submissions

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and then like 8 people who wanted to host another one for like 2 months despite not having a topic or even participating in the first one (which was a month long! they had time!)

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