The Games of JAGJAM2024 (Atari Jaguar Homebrew)

The JagJam2024 took place from April to October of 2024 and was a digital game jam similar to others that take place. Ultimately 5 games were submitted and are now available for people to try and play, with the winner getting a SongBird Productions cartridge release.
You can find the official JagJam2024 page here
itch.io/jam/ja...
You can find Songbird Productions here for many Jaguar, Lynx and other rare cartridges and discs for retro consoles!
songbird-produ...
Here are links to the five games so you can download and try them for yourself!
Operation Followthrough
stormplay.itch...
Announcement about Operation Followthrough!
forums.atari.i...
Shape Shooter 2000
21twice.itch.i...
WhereIsIt?
ricco59.itch.i...
GoLucky
ppsberlin.itch...
Witch
kanedafr.itch....
Learn more about the Polaris (by Maker) Game Jam 2014 Fiasco below
www.gameqol.org...
www.polygon.co...
www.eurogamer....
Find out more about the Judges from the JagJam2024 by following the links below
Karl Kretzinger Book Clipped Claws
archive.org/de...
Ctrl-Alt-Rees Webpage and KZbin Channel
ctrl-alt-rees....
/ ctrlaltrees
Carl Forhan Information and Arcade Attack Interview
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www.arcadeatta...
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[@cyrollan]

Jag!!!! 🎉🎉

[@TheAtariNetwork]

@@cyrollan I love the jag!

[@kNeczpal]

Fun video man, I had no idea this contest happened, I will definitely check them out 🕹

[@cyrollan]

Nobody is gonna dislike your good work.

[@TheAtariNetwork]

@@cyrollan well thank you I appreciate that!

[@Tolbat]

Thanks for covering these! Hope we can encourage more Jaguar Development. Especially outside of any AA involvement imo. There is a Jaguar console only on ebay - I know it is a lot or probably will be when it sells, but maybe you can find a replacement, or someone to repair your system.

[@TheAtariNetwork]

@@Tolbat absolutely! I plan on trying to figure out what's going on as a replacement is extremely expensive now a days in my opinion. But maybe I can get some friends to look at it! I really hope more people learn to develop for the Jaguar and that these games get fleshed out. The Jaguar is such a cool console and I would love to see it get it's day!

[@DaveMoorland-zv3tn]

Operation Followthrough is being developed into a full game (and will be released for modern platforms using BigPEmu). It's looking to be a great year for the Jag in 2025. Reboot's releasing Livewire, Phobos has new games coming this year, and many other games are in development, icluding a port of TOKI.

[@TheAtariNetwork]

Thanks for the update I appreciate it!

[@ronm6585]

Thanks.

[@TheAtariNetwork]

Dude, you're so polite I always appreciate it!

[@_sjc_]

Thanks for playing the games. "Witch" and "WhereIsIt?" are definitely worth checking out in BigPEmu. Just goes to show what a finicky beast the Jag is to code for.

[@TheAtariNetwork]

@@_sjc_ absolutely! I haven't messed with emulators in years but I'll have to in order to give these games their due in the future

[@ecdhe]

I took part of a couple of gamejams on really obscure systems, and they can be fun! The main downside is that you generally get feedback on the gameplay after it's done (sometimes way after)

[@TheAtariNetwork]

@@ecdhe yeah I'm sure it's one of those things where people learn about them way down the road due to the obscurity of the consoles or just information being difficult to find. Looking up stuff on the JagJam was similar

[@Jolt7800]

As a Gen-Xer who played board games well before the Atari 2600, I really like the idea of Go Lucky. Especially since it’s difficult to get enough friends to gather to play a board game.

[@TheAtariNetwork]

@@Jolt7800 I always enjoyed board games on consoles. Monopoly on the NES, Risk on the PlayStation, Scene It on Xbox 360 and a few others through the years. I always get excited for those kinds of games on Atari consoles!

[@revenge1205]

The Atari Jaguar will always be the best console ever for me.

[@braillynn]

Would have been awesome if you shouted out the creators.

[@TheAtariNetwork]

@@braillynn I thought I said their users names but I forgot. Either way they can be found in the links in the video description

[@cyrollan]

I have spare controller ports if you want one.

[@TheAtariNetwork]

@@cyrollan I'm not sure what's going on with the console. This might be a job for Hugo ...