Eggplant Game Jams

The Eggplant podcast community hosts a casual game jam on alternate months, you can find information about the current jam, and all previous jams on this page.

Themes

In keeping with A Year of UFO 50 the game jams are following suit and will be inspired by the games covered by the podcast.

Prior that, each month three themes were randomly selected from Eggplant podcast episode titles.  An emoji vote on the #eggplant-gamejam channel of the community Discord server determined what theme will was chosen for the next jam.

What is the Eggplant podcast?

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games is a podcast that features candid conversations with game creators that dive deep into the art, craft, and process of making games. Check it out here!

The Eggplant Show podcast community takes place on Discord. Join us at discord.gg/eggplant!

Current jam

The current game jam is Eggjam #26 which runs from March 10th to April 11th 2025. In keeping with A Year of UFO 50 the eggjams are following suit and will be inspired by the games covered by the podcast, for this jam it's the games Waldorf's Journey through to Vainger.

Previous Jams

• #25 Eggjam: Devilition to Waldorf's Journey
• #24 Eggjam: Barbuta to Attactics
• #23 Fighting Words 🥊
• #22 Nurturing a Spark ✨
• #21 Just One (Hundred) 💯
• The Eggplant 50 🍆 🛸 Ⅼ
• #20 Rhythms and Layers 🎶 & Loving Mondays 🌕
• #19 Expanding Your Universe 💗🪐
• #18 Sourcing Locally 🏡🌱
• #17 Designing Around Language
• #16 Falling Deep
• #15 Finding the Right Words
• #14 In-Flight Entertainment
  
• #13 Finding Your Own Path
• #12 Fun with Hexes
• #11 Learning to Let Go
• #10 Scoping & Scaling
• #9 Reinventing Basketball
• #8 SNAKE CLONES
• #7 Small Games
• #6 The Joy of Shipping
• #5 Making Generous Games
• #4 Making Magic
• #3 Keeping It Short
• #2 Good Times with Bad Robots
• #1 Going Into The Void
  

All entries

You can see every entry from every previous jam listed below.