How Crazy Web Game Jam with Unity is a creative and business opportunity for web game developers
Game jams have always brought people from different disciplines and experiences to collaborate and design, develop, test and make a new game, whether that sows the seeds for a full game, a new partnership, or to simply develop creatively. The Crazy Web Game Jam, sponsored by Unity, is an online event that won’t just be a creative opportunity for developers from around the world but one that unlocks the potential of making games for the web.
Organised by CrazyGames, the week-long jam runs from November 1 to 8. While the event will require participants to create their projects using Unity, the latest features in the recently released Unity 6 make it perfect for developing web games and any idea developers can come up with based on the theme, which will be revealed at the start of the game jam.
“Unity 6 is the first version where we have a new graphics backend, WebGPU, the next-generation standard for rendering on the web,” explains Ben Craven, staff technical product manager at Unity. “It's still experimental, but it is really exciting for us because it allows folks to do really high-end modern rendering techniques in a browser, for example, Compute Shaders. To really showcase how powerful the web is, we’ve partnered with CrazyGames to do this game jam to focus on web.”
"[WebGPU in Unity 6] is really exciting for us because it allows folks to do really high-end modern rendering techniques in a browser"
“We’re at an interesting point in the industry where, with all this advancement Unity is making, we’re seeing the quality is much higher for web games,” says Rafael Morgan, VP Marketing and Partnerships at CrazyGames. “I personally think that in the next year or two, we will start seeing more of these graphically intense games.”
As a taste of that future, last month’s Unite 2024 keynote in Barcelona teased the next generation of web graphics with Project Prismatic, a sci-fi first-person shooter all shown running with in-browser footage, the visual quality looking
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