A few of us who'd met through the LD community had always loved the idea of creating a new jam that built on all the bits we loved most about game jams. We started to slowly work together to plan and build the jam, but when the news came that LD56 got cancelled - we accelerated our efforts and created the jam. We wanted a community-centred game jam which welcomes anyone looking for that sense of community spirit found in LD. It's previously felt uncomfortable for us to promote another jam to the LD community - but feel Mike's call to "Make Your Own LD" is a blessing for us to do so. So we'd like to introduce Down2Jam (D2Jam)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs12AxUIh5s

What is D2Jam?

We wanted a jam which celebrated post-submission events, encouraged discourse and reflection, and provided tools for developers to find and share games. We know that making games isn't just about the creation, but also about engagement! Our website has been built especially for the jam, helping jammers share their games and engage during the event. We're adding more features for every new event ❤️

We've just finished our third jam which had 40 games submitted. The jam offers different ways to take part, whether you're solo, a team, or need a bit longer than a weekend to make something awesome. The quality of the games have been awesome on the whole, and seeing discussions in the comment sections and a whole load of streams of people playtesting games has easily been the best part of the jams to date.

Down2Jam offers familiar features that we think the LD community will enjoy:

• Twice a year, 3 days long (longer-form format available too, similar to Extra of LD)
• Solo or Team (similar to Compo vs Jam of LD)
• Theme Suggestions > Theme Voting > Jam > Submissions > Feedback & Rating > Results.

There's an official D2Jam Discord which is where most of the community chatter takes place at the moment. This is also where you can give feedback and help shape this jam to be a community you're proud to be a part of. There's no one single caretaker at the helm, instead we are a collection of 10 people who work together to build the best jam we can.

You Down2Jam?

We would love to keep growing the D2Jam community, to continue to evolve the event based on feedback and have more and more games submitted each jam. We'd love to welcome you, so please join the discord and take part in our next jam in September 2026 at https://d2jam.com/