This morning when I woke up I realized that I had been in the midst of a dream about a presentation some college students were giving me. It had been quite an interesting presentation.<\/p>\n
They had put up a big chart on the wall, structured like a set of comic book panels. The panels progressed, step by step, through an idea for a kind of weekend game jam.<\/p>\n
Except this was a game jam with a twist. The plan was that each of the participating students would enlist their mom to implement their game for them.<\/p>\n
It was an interesting constraint: What sort of game could your team make in a weekend game jam, if all of the actual game creation would be done by your moms?<\/p>\n
At the top of the chart, in big letters, there was a name for their proposal: “Mom Jam”. I distinctly remember thinking, just before I woke up, that I thought this might be a brilliant idea.<\/p>\n
Now that I’m awake, I’m not sure I’ve changed my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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