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Dogecoin has seen quite a few headlines over the past few months and recently, the cryptocurrency’s original creator, Billy Markus decided to put together a Dogecoin-inspired game jam where developers could hop in and share their love for the doge through gaming. Well, the Dogecoin Game Jam has officially come to an end and Markus has announced the winners. A screenshot from Story of Shiba, just one of 35 entries made in the Dogecoin Game Jam. As mentioned in our PSA earlier this week, the Dogecoin Game Jam had a few different merits for voting winners for its different categories. The cate...

Remembering Grußau is perhaps to call it a guided reflection on a piece of artwork — specifically, the 1925 painting of the same name by the Jewish surrealist painter Felix Nussbaum — and its meaning within the greater context of history, and the artist's life and eventual murder in the Holocaust. The game is simple, focused, and highly effective in prompting the player to meaningfully engage with the subject matter in a deeply personal way. A big part of how it accomplishes this is by inventively bridging the gap between digital and physical engagement. The game itself is built in Twin...

Both games were obvious contenders for the category, and ultimately it proved too difficult to choose one over the other, because they are so intriguingly similar yet completely different. Both could be described as "art puzzles", and both remix multiple public domain works, but neither clearly rises above the other. Art Apart is the more straightforward of the two: it's just a plain old jigsaw puzzle game using a series of paintings from 1925 and a fairly unpolished interface. But while this meant our judges didn't expect much from it at first glance, it proved to be a very pleasant surprise...

We recently announced the winners of our third annual public domain game jam, Gaming Like It's 1925. Now, just like last year...

Last week, we took a look at ~THE GREAT GATSBY~, one of the recently-announced winners of our public domain game jam, Gaming Like It's 1925. Today, we're moving on to our second spotlight, and looking at the winner of the Best Adaptation category, Best Adaptation is always an interesting category in these jams, because every entry is on some level an adaptation, but that doesn't mean they are all truly good candidates for the prize. Some make use of elements of a public domain work in a way that detaches them from their source, others focus so closely on the source that it is more like a ...