Drawfee Jacond Draws Caldwell Trees
Logo for The Drawfee Game Jam
CrunchyRoll presents: The Drawfee Game Jam was a 3-day event in which five teams of game developers turned dumb Drawfee ideas into real videogames.
It took place on the 15th, 16th and 17th of December 2017.
The Idea [ ]
On February 13th, 2017, game developer Rami Ismail jokingly proposed the idea of a Drawfee Game Jam in a tweet[1] which caught the Drawfee crew's eye. They were big fans of Rami's games and started to discuss the idea with him more seriously.
The Drawfee Game Jam was primarily organised by Adriel Wallick - who had introduced Rami to the Drawfee channel in the first place. Adriel had experience with Game Jams, having organised the Train Jam series of events. She helped to gather game developers for the Jam, whilst Dorky's Tony Wilson organised the event on the Drawfee end.
The Game Jam would take place over a 48 hour period, starting on the Friday night and ending on Sunday. The event would be hosted by Nathan, Julia, Jacob and Caldwell (who would fly out specially).
Funding for the Jam came in-part from a CrunchyRoll sponsorship.
The Teams [ ]
Adriel Wallick assembled game developers from across the globe to make up the five teams at the Drawfee Game Jam.
Team logos for Lip Service Games, Play Nice and Wub Dub Cubs
Lip Service Games [ ]
- Jo Fu and Conrad Kreyling, co-owners of Pillowfight Games
Play Nice [ ]
- Jarryd Huntley, game developer and software engineering instructor (Team Leader)
- Steph Frank, artist and animator
- Zac Pierce, game developer
Wub Dub Cubs [ ]
- Jerry Belich, independent game designer and professor of game design (Team Leader)
- Carol Mertz, independent game designer
- Gabrielle Genevieve, artist and animator
Team logos for The World Trees and Highly Visible Ninjas
The World Trees [ ]
- Teddy Dief, creative director at Square Enix Montreal (Team Leader)
- Jenny Jiao Hsia, game developer
- Ethan Redd, independent designer, artist and developer
- Akash Thakkar, composer and sound designer
Highly Visible Ninjas [ ]
- Jolie Menzel, lead narrative designer at Ubisoft San Francisco (Team Leader)
- Johnny Oh, senior game designer at Ubisoft San Francisco
- Akshay Balakrishnan, engineer at Ubisoft San Francisco
Concept Videos [ ]
In the week leading up the Game Jam, each of the Team Leaders was a guest on a concept creation video. In each video, two Drawfee hosts would make a drawing to act as inspiration for the game that the teams would then make at the Jam.
| No. | Video Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Designing the Ultimate Kissing Game | December 11, 2017 |
| Caldwell and Nathan designed a game about kissing with Jo Fu and Conrad Kreyling from Lip Service Games. | ||
| 2 | Designing the Most Stressful Tower Defense Game | December 12, 2017 |
| Nathan and Jacob designed a tower defence game with Play Nice team leader Jarryd Huntley. | ||
| 3 | Designing The First Video Game for Old People | December 13, 2017 |
| Nathan and Jacob designed a video game set in a retirement home with the Wub Dub Cubs team leader Jerry Belich. | ||
| 4 | Designing An RPG (That's Actually Good) | December 14, 2017 |
| Caldwell and Julia designed an RPG with Teddy Dief, team leader of The World Trees. | ||
| 5 | Designing The Most Epic Game (About Feet) | December 15, 2017 |
| Julia and Jacob designed a video game about feet with Jolie Menzel, team leader of the Highly Visible Ninjas. | ||
The Jam [ ]
Drawfee streamed on Facebook throughout the Jam to keep the audience updated on the progress of each of the games. During the weekend they drew game assets and box art and even snuck in a few audience suggestions along the way.
Day One [ ]
| No. | Stream Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crunchyroll Presents: Drawfee Game Jam - LIVE! | December 15, 2017 |
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| 2 | Crunchyroll Presents: Drawfee Game Jam - LIVE! - Friday Night ... | December 15, 2017 |
| Caldwell, Nathan, Julia and Jacob resumed the stream to draw more audience suggestions. | ||
Day Two [ ]
| No. | Stream Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Crunchyroll Presents: Drawfee Game Jam - LIVE! - Saturday Morning | December 16, 2017 |
| Caldwell, Nathan, Jacob and Julia started the second day by drawing some audience suggestions. | ||
| 4 | Crunchyroll Presents: Drawfee Game Jam - Julia Draws Game Assets | December 16, 2017 |
| Julia drew game assets for Kickin' It: Shoes Your Destiny. | ||
| 5 | Crunchyroll Presents: Drawfee Game Jam - Julia Draws Game Assets | December 16, 2017 |
| Julia showed Nathan and Jacob what she'd been working on as she continued to design assets for the Highly Visible Ninjas. | ||
| 6 | Crunchyroll Presents: Drawfee Game Jam - Illustrating Game Pos... | December 16, 2017 |
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| 7 | Crunchyroll Presents: Drawfee Game Jam - Illustrating Game Pos... | December 16, 2017 |
| Caldwell put the finishing touches on the Kiss Planet box art. | ||
Day Three [ ]
| No. | Stream Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | Crunchyroll Presents: Drawfee Game Jam - LIVE! | December 17, 2017 |
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| 9 | Crunchyroll Presents: Drawfee Game Jam - LIVE! | December 17, 2017 |
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| 10 | Crunchyroll Presents: Drawfee Game Jam - LIVE! - FINAL PRESENTATIONS | December 17, 2017 |
| The teams revealed their finished games! | ||
The Games [ ]
Box art for the games (L-R, Kiss Planet, Wiggle Jiggle Blocks, Final Retirement Saga, Zodiac Mall Ball, Kickin' It: Shoes Your Destiny)
All of the finished games were made available for free download on the old Drawfee website.
Kiss Planet [ ]
You play as a KISS SHIP, which needs to collect the correct emojis to flirt with a KISS PRINCE and give them the ultimate kiss, making them the KISS KING (or Dukems of Smoochems).
- Developed by Lip Service Games (with additional music by Akash Thakkar)
- Mac and PC
Wiggle Jiggle Bocks [ ]
You're an older sibling who wants to stack blocks of gelatin in peace – but your annoying little brother keeps coming around to knock over your wiggling blocks. If your stress meter gets too high, you'll fight with them and your mother will enter and tell the two of you to "play nice."
- Developed by Play Nice
- Mac and PC
Final Retirement Saga [ ]
You are Brandon, an elderly chameleon janitor at a retirement home for animals – and you must collect all of the Wub Dub Cups (cups of gelatin that are highly sought after in the retirement home)
- Developed by Wub Dub Cubs (with music by Akash Thakkar)
- Mac and PC
Zodiac Mall Ball (Demo) [ ]
A 4-player rollerskating brawler, where players compete to collect coins that they can use to appease the Zodiac Mall Gods and win their favor, and also collect cool pins.
- Developed by The World Trees
- Mac and PC
- The free download version was a timed demo. The full version of the game was released on itch.io for $2.99.
Kickin' It: Shoes Your Destiny [ ]
You have three feet, which you must outfit in a variety of shoes, to combat the evil feet of a shoe factory. Defeat all of the feet, collect new shoes, and take over the factory.
- Developed by Highly Visible Ninjas (with music by Akash Thakkar)
- PC only
Aftermath [ ]
Recap [ ]
On December 28th, 2017, Drawfee uploaded a video where Nathan and Julia reminisced about their memories of the Jam.[2]
Let's Play [ ]
On December 29th, 2017, Drawfee recored a Let's Play video with the makers of all the games.[3] They discussed the things that they were proud of and the things they'd have done differently if they'd had more time.
- Caldwell and Nathan played "Kiss Planet" with Lip Service Games.
- Nathan and Julia played "Wiggle Jiggle Blocks" with Play Nice.
- Nathan played "Final Retirement Saga" with Wub Dub Cubs.
- Nathan played "Zodiac Mall Ball" with Teddy Dief, Jenny Jiao Hsia and Ethan Redd from The World Trees.
- Julia played "Kickin' It: Shoes Your Destiny" with the Highly Visible Ninjas.
Documentary [ ]
On December 29th, 2017, Tony Wilson hosted a documentary about the Drawfee Game Jam on the Dorkly YouTube channel.[4] The video featured footage from the weekend and interviews with the developers and all of the Drawfee crew.
References [ ]
- ↑ Twitter: Rami Ismail's Tweet
- ↑ YouTube: We Accidentally Helped Make 5 New Indie Games (Game Jam Recap)
- ↑ YouTube: Let's Play! - Drawfee Game Jam Games!
- ↑ YouTube: 5 Games in 48 Hours: Drawfee Game Jam!
Source: https://drawfee.fandom.com/wiki/The_Drawfee_Game_Jam
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