Okay, I’ve played around with doing game jams the last year-and-a-half, even doing one with a prize (though something glitched and I gave everybody prizes). I think I want to up the importance of my game jams and focus more on stuff near and dear to me, disability and mental health awareness. I need any ideas how to make this one a really good (and much LARGER) game jam.
Most of my others draw in maybe a couple dozen people.
I think I might make a prize (again, like last time) for the winner (or winners if it’s too close to call): Maybe winners split a $30 prize and get a free web hosting account (that went okay last time)?
But how do I get a big number of contestants to enter? Should I make it a month-long jam or a three-day weekend jam? Even with my previous experiments, I haven’t found out any info on stuff like that, except that retro games usually do better as jams.