Nitrome Jam

The Nitrome Jam is an upcoming game jam scheduled to take place from June 2 to June 6, 2014. During the event, the staff will be divided into teams of two and create a game based on a community voted theme over the course of five days. Other developers are open to participation and can notify Nitrome of their interest via email.

Establishment
The idea of starting the jam was first mentioned in the February 14, 2014 Friday update blog post. About two weeks after, programmer Aaron Steed revealed the jam's tentative date to be around the month of June. A date was not finalised until Monday May 12, where the details of the jam's structure as well as the event dates were set. Theme suggestions also opened, allowing Nitromians to give ideas in the blog comments.

Structure
Prior to the jam, the community is provided the opportunity to suggest theme ideas and vote on them. Each competitive team then has five days to create a game inspired by the chosen theme. Fans evaluate the games and decide on a winner by voting.

Theme
The community is allowed to suggest themes in the blog comments. Over the course of two days, the jam announcement post gained over five hundred comments, making it one of the most commented posts in the Nitrome blog.

Two days after the official announcement date for the jam, Nitrome followed up with another post restating and emphasising guidelines for suggesting themes, particularly the fact that theme suggestions were not to be grounds for Nitrome game related requests.

Blog images
Each post entirely concerning the jam pictures a jam jar with Cuboy's face on the front in front of some fruit. The first post with the announcement date used a fuschia background; the subsequent post used blue.