There has been talk here about things like quality in fangames, how it is a lot more involved than in 2003. More standards, more quality.. This means fangames don't get made that often. Nobody makes games like Marioquest now, and only good games game filtered onto the site. So what do you do? Well I had an idea... recently I realized... [b]we need to have a Mario Game Jam. [/b] What is that you ask? It's a game making event. The goal of the game jam is to... make the game. Nothing too involved, cause you have a certain timeframe. This would be a really good thing for MFGG. Games would be made, you can make them however you want, no giant project that takes months, just games! There could even be voting categories for the games. Maybe a badge for entering. These things have certain timeframes, like a month or a couple of weeks maybe. But this can be chosen. Everyone can just make things, and they can be put in a zip or rar. Do you have any thoughts? I really think this would be a great thing for MFGG to do. If we do this, should we decide on a theme? And how long would this take? Is a month sufficient?

Got a trillion things on my plate these days, but I'd be down for that, sounds like a fun idea. At the end of it, get someone to make a custom launcher UI with all the games packaged in.

Sooooo, just a glorified minigame competition? I dunno, for me it depends on when this is going to happen as I'm gonna be (and currently am) incredibly busy with other projects for a few months.

It could be an interesting idea, but how would it be different from a regular Minigame Competition?

I'd be in favor of a Mario fan game jam. To expand on the idea of that, maybe a branch from MFGG, like a separate webpage would be super cool. It would seem official and streamlined if it was it's own URL (like the wiki.mfgg.net), instead of in a generic topic format. Some shortcuts can work (like making a separate child forum here for discussing submissions?) to attract users to MFGG and the community. Though, it sounds similar to NCFC... and it does sound like a glorified mini-game comp... I still would like it though.

I do like this idea, but I would also like to know how it's different from Minigame Comps. And is the goal to make it feel like a 2003 fangame (except perhaps a bit more playable), or is it to actually make a high quality game in a limited timeframe?

That sounds fun! Unfortunately, I'd probably need loads of time

I guess the idea was that the scope of the games would be more than just a minigame. One of my favorite things to come from a Game Jam is a fanmade sequel to Yo Noid, which I really should make a thread about. It's fun looking, funny, and well made. That took a month. Though that was made in a real expert way or so. But things like that gave me the idea that there could be a Game Jam of Mario games, and not have to be so focused on things that would takes months or years.

Time zones would be the biggest obstacle, but if you add streaming to the mix it could be a fantastic time.