Today marks the start of a fun community activity in the puzzle-game scene: the Thinky Puzzle Game Jam is an annual reason to come together with some like-minded people and make something fun. Or just hang around and play a bunch of new free games! This is just a short announcement that the gates have opened, but I recently wrote up an intro/overview about the jam in my previous post here.

Over the next week, find a handful of free hours to join a crowd of indie devs making small puzzle games. If it’s your first time and you want to try making something simple and small, great! It’s a very relaxed event with no rankings or prizes. The theme for this year has just been revealed: Extreme Sports. Submissions are due by July 5th — here’s all the info you need from the game jam page on itch.io: