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The 2nd ever React Jam is on and poppin’, so Jerod & Nick invited the previous winners to the pod to tell us all about the 10 day online game jam. Turns out React and video games are like peanut butter and jelly, after all!

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Featuring:

• Jason McLeod – GitHub, X
• Gustavo Vituri – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• React Jam
• React Jam Summer 2023 winners
• Chop Chop game
• The Rune platform
• [Inspiration: Pipe Dream game](https://classicreload.com/win3x-pipe-dream-1991.html_
• The Phaser game framework
• Their Brave MMO game

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1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Convex (00:00:39)

https://www.convex.dev/?utm_source=changelog&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=changelog-news

3. Hello, world (00:03:15)

4. Intro to React Jam (00:04:01)

https://reactjam.com

5. Winning React Jam (00:05:39)

6. The Rune platform (00:09:20)

https://rune.ai

7. Rune x React (00:11:48)

8. Why build games with React? (00:15:40)

9. This Jam's theme (00:19:57)

10. Changelog Beats! (00:20:39)

https://changelog.com/posts/introducing-changelog-beats

11. This Jam's Pipe Dream (00:22:12)

12. The React pipe dream (00:26:44)

13. The most challenging parts (00:30:30)

14. Sponsor: Caisy (00:34:59)

https://caisy.io?utm_source=changelog

15. Nick built a game in 2 days (00:37:22)

16. Jerod built a game in 2 days (00:39:13)

17. The power of constraints (00:46:34)

18. Changelog + React Jam (00:49:00)

19. Closing thoughts (00:50:43)

20. END GAME (00:51:36)

21. Next up on the pod (00:52:54)

https://changelog.com/posts/introducing-changelog-beats