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The St Louis Game Developer RoundUp is a semi-weekly news aggregator for the St Louis Game Development community. It is a collection of news, events, and other items of interest to the community.
It’s a new year! New Games! We had a bunch of games that were made last year - and even more made this last weekend at the Global Game Jam! Want to participate in a Game Jam or hang out with others in the community? Keep your eyes on the RoundUp for announcements about upcoming Game Jams and other events in our area!
🤹♀️ Global Game Jam 2024
- The 2024 Global Game Jam was January 26-28 at Washington University, St Louis. The theme was Make Me Laugh There were 19(!) games made at our location over the course of the jam! Try them all out!
- Catapult Categories
- The Situation is Grim
- Sidewinder
- HaPotato!
- Heavy Laugh
- Ratamari
- JokeBox
- Typing of the Beans
- Only Me
- Ship of Fools
- Cat Nap
- My King was in Mourning. So I Recruited the Kingdom’s Funniest Jester to Cheer Him Up
- Hilarious Hijinks: a tale in cards
- Capitalism Carnival
- The Best Medicine
- The Friendship of Percival
- Student Simulator
- Tickle Monster
- Cat Game
🐇 2024 Games
- There were a lot of games made by members of our community in 2023!
- Carol Mertz & Rob Santos: The Art Handler
- Terrifying Jellyfish: Nour: Play With Your Food
- Colin Schulte (Miniscule Entertainment): The Road Jess Traveled
- Graphite Lab, Joytick Games, Sonamu Games: Hive Jump Survivors
- Graphite Lab: Mr. Run and Jump & RollerCoaster Tycoon Adventures Deluxe
- Athakaspen: Rainbow Escape
- Michael and Tony Wojnar: Sk8-R-Treat
- Tom Sandbrink: Milites Fortunae
- Tim Hely, Elliot Hely, TimConceivable: Treats & Shrieks
- Tim Hely (Axol Studio, LLC): Yule Duel & The Long Road to Fresno
- Tim Hely, Michelle Zhou, Fé Mendoza, Elliot Hely, Eyulia Mendoza, Gabriel “Snazziful” DeGuire: The Root of the Problem
📝 Update
- Here’s an update to Machination from Machine Box
🖼 Showcase
- Meepalasheep released a trailer for their upcoming platformer double feature, GingerSnap!
🎮 Releases
- v0.14 of Bring It On! was released which adds Level 7: The Icy Tundra to the game (along with more characters, weapons, and items!)
There are no events coming up between 1/31/24 and 3/2/24.
Check out our Upcoming Events page to see how to add an event or to check for events that might be further out!
🧑💻 Check out this featured developer from our Community!
- Meepalasheep
- I like to make stuff! Check out my website to see some things I've made!