Announcing the 4th Clockwork Game Jam Event
- Alex
- Nov 29, 2019
- 2 min read
We are now happy anncouncing our 4th Game Jam event of 2019. This time, let’s try to allow open public voting, we hope more people will participate in this event.
Theme: Robot
Which is your favorite robot? Astro Boy, Arale, Doraemon, Transformers, Bender, Marvin, D2R2, Baymax, WALL-E or the Iron Giant? It’s time to bring your dreams into reality. You can build a robot world, have an adventure with your robot friends, or even fight against the evil robot overlord. Please feel free to blow us away.
This time, many thanks to C9 and M.T Law, we are providing some character designs that you can use in your games if you want.
C9 and M.T Law are great independent artists who created the “Tin Town”. We welcome other artists to contact us to be featured in our future Game Jams.
TIN TOWN
Tin Town was once a quiet and happy place where Senior Courier Robert has been living in for years until the dark force, Bubble and Iron Ball, infiltrated in. Robert and his assistant Bob have been fighting against the dark force since then. Things are different now. Can they kick the dark force out of town like super hero movies? Or the dark force wins eventually?
Development Environment: any language that runs on GameShell
Specification of the ClockworkPi GameShell device could be found on clockworkpi.com.
Deadline: must submit your game 4 by Jan 12th, 2020; open public voting ends on Jan. 31th, 2020
Game Jam website: https://itch.io/jam/gameshell-19q4 4
Reward: CPI points * (based on Ethereum)
TOP1: 2000 points
TOP2: 1600 points
TOP3: 1000 points
Every 200 CPI points can exchange one GameShell kit. (CPI points are not redeemable for cash)
Here are the TIN TOWM™ characters that you may use for this Jam:
Robert
Senior Courier of the postal service of Tin Town.
Likes to build stuff in spare time.
Now is leading the rebellion against the dark force.
Bob
Robert's Senior Assitant.
Custom ordered by Robert.
There are plenty of Bobs in town for different uses.
Bubble
A spy sent by the Evil Lord.
Bad. Very bad. Also unreliable.
Extremly tough on the outside.
Iron Ball
Bubble's pet cat.
Built and sent by the Evil Lord to assist Bubble.
Tail is the weak point.
And here are some real deal pics of them
DO SURPRISE US！
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