Events

I produced Game Jolt's Pride Month events in 2022 and 2023.

In both, we gave users the ability to show their support for the LGBTQ+ community by completing gamified challenges to unlock Pride collectibles.

In 2023, we also added a new set of premium Pride collectibles to the Game Jolt Shop. (All proceeds from the sale of these collectibles were donated to The Trevor Project at the end of the month.) We also celebrated LGBTQ+ characters from across gaming history in a series of posts.

In producing this event I:

• Collaborated with the art team to create the new premium collectibles.

• Wrote every post highlighting a LGBTQ+ video game character. (I heavily consulted GLAAD's lists.)

• Created all social assets and scheduled all posts.

• Created all quests (which are gamified, time-limited challenges.)

Produced for Game Jolt in collaboration with Re-Logic, the event ran from Nov 14 to Nov 21, 2022.

I coordinated with Game Jolt's art, development, and marketing teams on this event. 

Skeletron Prime is a boss from the game Terraria and on November 18th, it attacked Game Jolt in a live stream. In that stream, users could attack the villain by placing stickers of weapons from Terraria including the Star Cannon, Golden Shower, Megashark, and Light Disc. Every time a user defeated Skeletron Prime, there was a chance that "Rick Prime" (aka Rick Astley) would appear instead.

Users could get these weapon stickers by fulfilling quests or placing "ingredient stickers" on "crafting station" posts to craft them. 

Our goal with this event was to increase KPIs relating to engagement (which is why we used the mechanic of placing stickers to fight the monster) and it was a huge success.

My work on this event included:

• The initial conceptualization of the event.

• Coordinating with developers to set scope and timeline. Made sure all needed development happened on schedule.

• Coordinating with our in-house artist on static image assets both for the event and for promotional materials.

• Coordinating with the marketing team

• Coordinating with Re-Logic

• Animating Skeletron Prime in Adobe Character Animator. The puppet was made using in-game assets provided by Re-Logic.

Produced for Game Jolt. Happy Joltidays was Game Jolt's celebration of the holiday season in 2022! The event featured live streams, giveaways, and more! 

The event's live streams include:

• My interview with Beesechurger_73

• A maker fireside with AugmentedArtist

• A holiday cakemaking stream with Caketastic Cakes

• A holiday concert with WiseDrums

• A Roblox gameplay stream with BeardedMuscle

• A crocheting stream with Chrisis.Art

• A live animating stream with Kronos Studios

• A live art-making stream with Erbmaster

The event's giveaways included a Steam Deck, gift cards, Game Jolt merch, and more! 

My work on this event included:

• The initial conceptualization of the event

• Booking streams

• Assembling promo assets for giveaways

• Coordinating giveaways

• Coordinating with developers

• Coordinating with our in-house artist

• Coordinating with the marketing team

Produced for Game Jolt. This was our international quest completion tournament! The event ran from November 21st through December 12th. 

At the start of the tournament, we randomly placed users onto teams led by one of Game Jolt's mascots. It was a bracket-style tournament that lasted through three rounds. Each round lasted a week. At the end of each round, the teams that scored the least points were eliminated.

It was really cool seeing how excited our users got! They even cheered on their team with posts and fan art.

My work on this event included:

• The initial conceptualization of the event

• Picking which mascots were included

• Coordinating with developers

• Coordinating with our in-house artist

• Coordinating with the marketing team

• Creating and updating the bracket image

Produced for Game Jolt, this was our special Halloween-week event! It featured live streams, art challenges, quests, and more! Some prizes Game Jolt gave away include Sims game codes and gear from Alienware. 

Streams included live horror art making by Erbmaster, live FNaF art making with Ultimate Ink Trash, Horror cake-making with Caketastic Cakes, and an It Follows gameplay stream with Planet Drewpiter! 

The final stream of the week was our Cursed Concert featuring BMX Escape, WiseDrums, DEFENSE MECHANISM, and Marc Spence. 

My work on this event included:

• The initial conceptualization of the event

• Booking streams

• Drawing some of the art assets

• Walking our musicians through their tech checks

• Hosting the concert stream

• Coordinating with developers

• Coordinating with our in-house artist

• Coordinating with the marketing team

A concert featuring the most prolific musician of all time, Matt Farley! It took place on September 30, 2022.

My work on this event included:

• Booking Matt

• Walking Matt through using Game Jolt's livestreaming set up.

• Coordinating with the marketing team on promotional assets and strategy.

• Monitoring and moderating chat during his livestream.

Produced for Game Jolt. Starting in July 2022, we worked with our friends at PlusMusic to host a monthly concert series on the last Friday of each month! Artists featured as part of the concert series include Cujo Moon, Tre Aces, Love X Stereo, Nite, Devours, and Waterflame. 

My work on this event series included:

• Booking artists from Game Jolt

• Introducing the musicians to Game Jolt's livestreaming platform.

• Helping tech check all of the musicians

• Hosting the concert streams

• Coordinating on the day of

• Editing each musician's set into individual videos

• Coordinating with the marketing team

• Coordinating with our in-house artist

Produced for Game Jolt. Girls in Games was a concept game jam celebrating women who work in the Games Industry! 

It kicked off with a day-long live stream with presentations and panels by over 20 games professionals including 2022 Game Award winner Mila Pavlin who told us about how God of War approached accessibility. 

My work on this event included:

• Coordination on the day of

• Tech checking the presenters

• Troubleshooting presenters' technical issues

Produced for Game Jolt. This was an art challenge where we challenged our users to make their best, worst art! 

The winner's art was turned into a sticker on Game Jolt!

Produced for Game Jolt. We celebrated the birthday of Sonic the Hedgehog with two days of special streams! (We also raised money helping folks in Ukraine.)

The event featured a Sonic cake-making stream by Caketastic Cakes, a Sonic speedrun by JoeyBaby69 and dTraitor1, and an art stream by PxlSenpai.

My work on this event included:

• Conceptualizing the event

• Booking streams

• Tech checking all streamers and troubleshooting any tech issues

• Setting up the Tiltify for the charity component