RoundUp № 29
November cooked up a heaping helping of games, music, and events including our third Share and Play: Game Showcase/Playtesting event this year! 🍗🥧
Let’s keep the snowball rolling as we head into December! ☃
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- 🎮 Global Game Jam 2026
We are excited to announce Global Game Jam 2026 will be held at UMSL January 30th - February 1st, 2026!
Come team up with local creators and make a game over the weekend! This event is open to ALL (even remote friends)! Students from any campus are also welcome. Online and in-person participants are both welcome!
Registration is Required!
The official GGJ site registration is now up! REGISTER HERE!
✨ Major Releases ✨
Celebrate these exciting new releases from members of the St Louis Game Development community!
Gravesweeper
by Wes Ehrlichman
Navigate through haunted dungeons as a brave skeleton, using Minesweeper-style logic to avoid deadly traps and find your way to freedom! On iOS & Android!
Claire a la Mode
by Colorgrave
Team up with a friend or go it alone in a sugar-high adventure! Bake your dessert masterpiece and collect new bakers as you rise through a high-stakes bake-off full of cheaters. Fend off their decadent lackeys and against all odds, come out on top in a worldwide baking frenzy!
🎼 Releases
- Daniel Christmas is the composer and lyricist of Death by Denial, a dark melodic metal transformational experimentation
- Fat Bard created the sound design for Kingdoms of the Dump, a SNES styled JRPG set in a fantasy world of garbage, created by two janitors. Join Trash Can Knight, Dustin Binsley, as he fights his way through the Five and a Half Kingdoms of the Dump!
- Austin Miller posted a demo of the main theme for DIONYSIA, a photography boomer shooter
- Fat Bard co-composed Cross Blitz, a unique RPG deckbuilder featuring fast-paced tactical combat with loads of cards to collect and synergies to wield. Explore, level up, craft new cards and build the perfect decks as you carve your own path to victory!
🧑💻 Dev Updates
- Tony Wojnar continues work on Dribble 2 with the new Toxic Tavern level. a pub of pollutants where the Bizbots like to spend time getting oil and chemical drinks!
- Fairlii posted a comprehensive Devlog about their work thus far on Gelli Fields: “6 Months Progress On My Slime Farming Game!”
- meepaleepsheep showcased the chaindashing in Ginger Snap!
- Butterscotch Shenanigans have been hard at work on their next game How Many Dudes? and sharing some unexpected but hilarious results, like… vampires infinitely farting themselves back to life. If that kind of thing makes you chuckle, give How Many Dudes? a wishlist now on Steam!
🎮 Releases
- Jigokuro created a variant of sudoku, called “Twisted Arrows in Fog 1”.
- James C. Kane released The Shadow of the Czar, available for mobile or desktop browser. ‘Shadow’ is an action-packed, jazz-infused narrative web game in film noir style, designed to push both my storytelling and World Labs’ incredible technology to the limits.
📢 News
- Blender 5.0 has been released! View the changelog and get up to date here.
- Rockstar Games fired unionising developers following Discord conversations about Slack policy changes, report claims
📚 Resources
- Eddie built the Bevy Collider Editor, a free online tool for creating and editing colliders for the Bevy game engine, and services it for free!
🕹️ Game Jam Releases
- Ziyanthus released May the Rain , a game jam made in Godot. Explore the surreal, foggy peak of a lonely tepui mountain, in this short 10-15 minute long narrative. What has brought this lonely soul to a place where none belong?
📆 Upcoming Events
Participate in these events from our community!
DEC 11
07:00 PM
December GameDev Social!
Come chat with fellow creators about making, playing, and admiring games! Talk about your game ideas and get inspired! Make friends and find collaborators.
DEC 27
04:00 PM
Game Audio Club: Music Share
If you’re into making video game music or sound design (or just curious) come hang out with us once a month! Doesn’t matter if you’re a pro or just starting out— everyone’s welcome. Just bring your love for game audio. We’re a chill group where you can share your work, get feedback, or just vibe with people who love game audio.
DEC 29
06:30 PM
December Game Club: TBD
Game Club is like a book club except we pick a game to play each month and then meet up to discuss it with a focus on game design. We're voting on our game for December right now! Jump into our Discord to vote in the Game Club channel.
JAN 30
05:00 PM
Global Game Jam 2026
We are excited to announce Global Game Jam 2026! Come team up with local creators and make a game over the weekend! This event is open to ALL (even remote friends). Students from any campus are welcome!
Online and In-Person participants are both welcome. We will be using our community-run Discord server to handle announcements and online participation. Join here!
Registration for Global Game Jam is now open!
Online and In-Person participants are both welcome. We will be using our community-run Discord server to handle announcements and online participation. Join here!
Registration for Global Game Jam is now open!