Back in October I hosted a web jam that I never posted about here because I guess I don't love you guys anymore. But I'm here now and that's the important thing, right?
Let's take a look at 14 entries on this website:
jamming.goeshard.org
What is a Web Jam?
It's an excuse to make an esoteric web page in a relatively short amount of time. If you need more information there are two threads about the subject.
How Did it Go?
Various people from Agora Road and hardcord got it started. A few random people from Melonland and neocities jumped on.
I honestly put more effort into making the jam page than on my actual entry. When I came up with the idea I had a lot of time off work, and during the week we planned to do it, I was working a lot of extra hours for reasons I didn't anticipate. So I almost feel like my entry is the jam page and the system for displaying over a dozen iframes at once, giving them all ability to execute scripts, but only the one currently visible can execute. It also handles audio coming from multiple sources and makes only one active at a time. Although no one really pushed that ability to the limit, it was an interesting technical thing.
We never judged the entries. You may find some context in the Agora Road thread. For my part, I'll say the most technically impressive one was by myspacetom. The one by shinobu was probably the most fun to dig into though. It's like piecing together fragments of ancient manuscripts only the fantasy is that the Internet is gone and someone far in the future is doing that with the web. I really enjoyed that fantasy timeline that unfolds as you explore the pages.
Everyone did a great job and I appreciate everyone who submitted anything for making it a full jam experience.
Do We Want to Go Again?
Does someone else want to be the host, maybe?
I know this idea and format could be improved upon to have a better jam experience. Someone could iron out an actual process for judging. You can maybe make a better jam page than I did. Or you can feel free to steal any code from my site to do yours if you want.
If no one else takes up the responsibility, I might eventually call for another round.