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game jam

game jam noun: an organized competition lasting a few days wherein people create a game from scratch (especially a video game), often having a set theme.

game jam: an organized competition lasting a few days wherein people create a game from scratch (especially a...
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Noun

game jam (plural game jams)

  1. An organized competition lasting a few days wherein people create a game from scratch (especially a video game), often having a set theme.
    • “It’s been very hard to keep this one a secret,” he [Edmund McMillen] wrote in the announcement post for Mew-Genics, as it was then known. This was in October 2012, just weeks after the game jam [Ludum Dare 24].2026 July, Alex Spencer, “The Making of Mewgenics”, in Edge, number 424, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 81

Forms of game jam

pluralgame jams

Questions about game jam

What does game jam mean?
Game jam means an organized competition lasting a few days wherein people create a game from scratch (especially a video game), often having a set theme.
What part of speech is game jam?
Game jam is a noun.
What is the plural of game jam?
The plural of game jam is game jams.

Words near game jam in the dictionary

  1. game faces
  2. game fish
  3. game fishes
  4. game fowl
  5. game is game
  6. game jam
  7. game jammer
  8. game jammers
  9. game jams
  10. game keeper
  11. game keepers

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