Game Jolt

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Game Jolt
Distribution platform for computer games from indie developers
languages English
operator Lucent Web Creative, LLC
editorial staff David "CROS" DeCarmine
Registration Optional (comment, publish games ...)
On-line July 2004 (currently online)
http://gamejolt.com/

Game Jolt ( GJ ) is a distribution platform for free and commercial video games (accessible via browser or downloadable client) with social functions. The initial page was accessible for the first time on January 1st, 2004 and was created by David "CROS" DeCarmine.

history

2003 to 2007

The development of Game Jolt started in 2003. The site was made accessible on July 1, 2004 and contained a public account system, forums, a chat room and games that were uploaded with the permission of the respective creator. In 2007 the site was taken offline due to inactivity.

Since 2008

In December 2008, David DeCarmine started a second version of the site, which became a gaming portal . The site was completely redesigned and offered an automatic system for uploading Flash , Unity and Java games.

Participation in advertising revenue was officially introduced in September 2009. Before that, it was only available as a closed beta . This feature gave users 30% of the advertising revenue the site received from advertising on their game pages, profiles, and blog posts.

The site had a major problem with automatic spam from mid-2011 to early 2012, resulting in inactivity from both community and owner.

The Game Jolt API was presented to the general public for the first time after a three-year beta phase. The API allowed users to create games with Game Jolt connectivity.

Game Jolt started accepting HTML5 games in February 2013 .

David DeCarmine announced on August 8 of the same year that he was developing Game Jolt full-time. As a result, he quit his job at Zulily .

Indie Statik , a feed reader and blog with a focus on indie games , announced in October 2013 that it received a considerable "partnership" with Game Jolt. This placed an article feed on the homepage. Articles about games hosted on Game Jolt were also planned to show the profile of the user who wrote the article. In addition, a games portal was to be created from the combined catalog of the two portals. However, it never came to fruition.

Game Jolt Jams was launched in early 2014 as a service that allowed users to create their own game jams . The service is integrated into the main page.

A beta for the overhaul of the site was made public in June 2015 and replaced the old site a month later. Game Jolt advertised with a responsive design , automatic curation for both games and articles. The procedure was based on how new and how popular (“hot”) it is. In addition, filter options were introduced. You could filter by platform, rating and development status.

In January 2016, the source code of the client and the front end of the site was published on GitHub under the MIT license .

A marketplace was announced in April 2016 and was available online a month later. The marketplace allowed developers to sell their games on the site.

Partnerships with let's players

In November 2014, Game Jolt announced the "Indies vs PewDiePie" game jam , for which they entered into a partnership with YouTuber Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg . The developers were given a weekend (November 21–24) to develop a fun to play, fun to watch theme that would do justice to the entertainment style of Let's players. Users could then rate the submissions up until December 1st, the day the points were counted. The award for the developers whose games were in the top 10 was that Felix played the games on his channel. The videos were, in turn, advertising for the developers. However, he later played all the other games.

In July 2015, Game Jolt again partnered with Felix, Sean “jacksepticeye” McLoughlin and Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach to promote “Indies vs Gamers”. The requirements for the arcade games that wanted to get an entry in the list of games were that they use GJAPI high score lists and were created between July 17th and 20th. The top 5 games were played on the partners' YouTube channels.

API

The Game Jolt Application Programming Interface (usually known as GJAPI ) allows any developer to use a game developer platform that supports HTTP operations and MD5 or SHA-1 . Game Jolt touts that the API can:

  • Create several “scoreboards” on which the high scores of players are collected and made public on their profiles. In addition, EXPs can be given to player accounts.
  • Award players with trophies that give them EXPs.
  • Save game data on the Game-Jolt servers.

Contests

Game Jolt has hosted many official game development competitions with many different requirements and rewards. “Contests” are not the same as “jams”. A Game Jolt competition leads to a competition in which the developers have a single theme that their game must match in order to be able to attend the final competition. After the last competition, an independent employee picks a game that wins, or, as in the last "Indies vs. … “, The community chooses the winner. In a jam, on the other hand, there are no prerequisites and there is an optional topic that may or may not matter. But there is still no prize for the winner.

Competitions

date theme space
1 2 3
13.-21. June 2009 Shocking ShockMaze Infidels Shocker: The Electrifying Hero
1. – 31. August Basics Raimond Ex Paul Moose In Space World No Longer Apart
1-7 November 2009 Minimalistic Spectrum Wing Saut fetus
24.-25. January 2010 Villain Super space rogues Tower climb Flood the Chamber
1-8 July 2010 Indie game Demake Warning Foregone Sulkeis Saucelifter 8-bit
January 16–14. February 2011 Invention competition Fire with a riot Bun Dun Monica
August 20–24. September 2011 Music interpretation Je Suis Le Diable Rhythmical Jeremy
11-19 August 2012 fear The room Fragments of Fear Nyctophobia
1. – 11. March 2013 chaos Void rogue Blues for Mittavinda Stellar Zero
9-18 March 2013 party Quantum Party Crashers Super clean clean Party run
21.-24. November 2014 Fun to play and watch (Indies vs PewDiePie) Lord of the Horde Kid VS School DANCE! DANCE! PewDiePie
17th to 20th July 2015 High scores (Indies VS Gamers) Racket Boy Sushido Super Nanny Sleepytime Ultra HD Alpha Omega

Jams

Jams take place on weekends. Unlike the competitions, there is no issue - we only work on new games or WIPs . Developers are encouraged to live stream, screenshots are uploaded, and there is tweet about whatever they're programming. In the end there is no choice of who is the winner.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Game Jolt Main Page ( Memento from July 23, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Index of ( Memento of October 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Game Jolt Main Page ( Memento from December 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Michael Rose: Game Jolt Ad Revenue Sharing Goes Public , IndieGames.com . September 7, 2009. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013. 
  5. ↑ David DeCarmine: Ad Revenue Sharing and Contest , Game Jolt. June 12, 2009. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013. 
  6. ^ Ad revenue sharing . Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  7. ↑ Holy mother of Mary… . July 17, 2011. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  8. ↑ Why is Game Jolt so dead? . November 11, 2011. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved on November 30, 2013.
  9. ↑ Game Jolt… brainstorming . February 18, 2012. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved on November 30, 2013.
  10. ↑ Spam? . May 5, 2011. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved on November 30, 2013.
  11. ↑ So much spam . July 7, 2011. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  12. ↑ Making Money Through Ads . August 13, 2011. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved on December 1, 2013.
  13. ↑ Vest Trials: Approaching Dawn Released! . August 8, 2011. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved on December 1, 2013.
  14. ↑ Game Jolt Achievements now open . July 8, 2012. Archived from the original on September 1, 2016. Retrieved on September 1, 2016.
  15. ↑ Ashley Gwinnell: Achievements System Released! , Game Jolt. July 17, 2012. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved on November 30, 2013. 
  16. ↑ Newgrounds now accept HTML5 games . September 24, 2013. Archived from the original on September 1, 2016. Retrieved on September 1, 2016.
  17. ↑ GameJolt Html5 . February 13, 2013. Archived from the original on September 1, 2016. Retrieved on September 1, 2016.
  18. ↑ David DeCarmine: Distributions and HTML integration , Game Jolt. February 11, 2013. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013. 
  19. ↑ David DeCarmine: Game Jolt is now indie! , Game Jolt. September 7, 2009. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013. 
  20. ↑ David DeCarmine's LinkedIn . Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  21. ^ Internet Archive Wayback Machine . Archived from the original on May 8, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
  22. ↑ Chris Priestman: Thank You: Indie Statik, Kickstarter and Game Jolt , IndieStatik. September 17, 2013. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved on February 2, 2017. 
  23. ↑ Josh Mattingly: We're funded, but it's not over yet! , Indie statics. 2nd October 2013. 
  24. ↑ Alex Wawro: Run your own game jams with Game Jolt's new manager . Gamasutra . July 16, 2014. Archived from the original on September 1, 2016. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
  25. ^ Internet Archive Wayback Machine . Archived from the original on August 4, 2014. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
  26. ↑ Gamejolt Next :: Nuevo diseño, nuevas posibilidades . July 9, 2015. Archived from the original on September 1, 2016. Retrieved on September 1, 2016.
  27. ^ We Launched the New Site - Fireside by GameJolt . October 13, 2013. Retrieved December 13, 2015.
  28. ↑ Game Jolt is open source! by @CROS on gamejolt.com (January 12, 2016)
  29. ^ Selling Games on Game Jolt . April 21, 2016. Retrieved September 2, 2016.
  30. ^ Bryant Francis: Gamasutra - Gamejolt announces indie games marketplace . Gamasutra . 2016. Archived from the original on September 2, 2016. Retrieved on September 2, 2016.
  31. ↑ Konstantinos Dimopoulos: Indies VS PewDiePie: The Game Jam . IndieGames.com. November 13, 2014. Archived from the original on September 1, 2016. Retrieved on September 1, 2016.
  32. ↑ INDIES VS PEWDIEPIE . Accessed December 31, 2015.
  33. ↑ Indies VS PewDiePie . Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  34. ↑ DANCE PEWDIEPIE DANCE! // INDIES VS PEWDIEPIE JAM WINNERS! . Accessed December 31, 2015.
  35. ↑ VIDEOGAME: THE GAME . Accessed December 31, 2015.
  36. ↑ Chloi Rad: Game Jolt Prepares to Launch Indies VS Gamers Jam . IndieGames.com. July 8, 2015. Archived from the original on September 1, 2016. Retrieved on September 1, 2016.
  37. ↑ Indies Vs Gamers | Game Jolt Jams . Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  38. ↑ BEAT UP KIDS! | Indies Vs Gamers Gamejam - Top 5 Winners . Accessed December 31, 2015.
  39. ↑ Fans vs PewDiePie (Indies vs Gamers) . Accessed December 31, 2015.
  40. ↑ BEATING SMALL CHILDREN !! | Super Nanny Sleepytime Ultra HD Alpha Omega . Accessed December 31, 2015.
  41. ↑ What is the Game API? . Retrieved December 13, 2015.
  42. ^ Game Achievement System . October 13, 2013. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved on November 30, 2013.
  43. ^ Scoreboards Guide . Retrieved December 13, 2015.
  44. ^ Scoreboards Guide . Retrieved December 13, 2015.
  45. ↑ Data Storage Guide . Retrieved December 13, 2015.
  46. ^ Shocking Contest . June 12, 2009. Archived from the original on December 1, 2013. Retrieved on December 1, 2013.
  47. ^ Axiom Contest . July 25, 2009. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  48. ↑ Minimal Contest . October 28, 2009. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved on November 30, 2013.
  49. ↑ Minimal Contest Results . November 19, 2009. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved on November 30, 2013.
  50. ↑ Rogue Contest . January 10, 2010. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved on November 30, 2013.
  51. ^ Rogue Contest Results . January 31, 2010. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  52. ↑ Indie Game Demake Contest . June 28, 2010. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  53. ↑ Indie Game Demake Contest Results . July 17, 2010. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  54. ↑ Invention contest- Hosted by NAL . January 16, 2011. Archived from the original on December 1, 2013. Retrieved on December 1, 2013.
  55. ↑ Invention contest- Hosted by NAL . March 12, 2011. Archived from the original on July 20, 2014. Retrieved on December 1, 2013.
  56. ↑ Music Interpretation Contest with… . August 13, 2011. Archived from the original on December 1, 2013. Retrieved on December 1, 2013.
  57. ↑ Music Interpretation Contest with… . June 27, 2012. Archived from the original on July 19, 2014. Retrieved on December 1, 2013.
  58. ^ Fear Contest . August 7, 2012. Archived from the original on December 1, 2013. Retrieved on December 1, 2013.
  59. ↑ GameJolt Fear Contest . Archived from the original on December 1, 2013. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  60. ↑ Chaos Contest . February 22, 2013. Archived from the original on December 1, 2013. Retrieved on December 1, 2013.
  61. ↑ Game Jolt Chaos Contest . Archived from the original on December 1, 2013. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  62. ↑ GameJolt Contest 10 . Archived from the original on November 6, 2013. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  63. ^ Game Jolt Weekend Jam . January 31, 2010. Archived from the original on December 1, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  64. ↑ Game Jolt's Second Jam! . July 26, 2010. Archived from the original on December 1, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  65. ↑ GameJolt Weekend Jam # 3 . November 28, 2012. Archived from the original on December 1, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013.