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game jams

game jams is the plural of game jam.

Meaning of game jam

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

Questions about game jams

What is game jams the plural of?
Game jams is the plural of game jam.

Words near game jams in the dictionary

  1. game fowl
  2. game is game
  3. game jam
  4. game jammer
  5. game jammers
  6. game jams
  7. game keeper
  8. game keepers
  9. game laws
  10. game manager
  11. game managers

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