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  • Comment: There are way to many primary sources, and references to YouTube are almost certainly inappropriate. Moreover, the table of contests is not encyclopedic information. The screenshot is missing too. The Average Wikipedian (talk) 12:49, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
YouTube citations seem necessary to prove the relationships involved, as the YouTubers in question didn't give any other kind of official indication of the respective partnerships. User:Honno 2, September 2016
Game Jolt
Screenshot
File:Game-jolt-homepage-screenshot.png
A screenshot of GameJolt.com from December 2015
Type of site
Freeware video game hosting service
Available inEnglish
OwnerDavid 'CROS' DeCarmine
URLwww.gamejolt.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional

Game Jolt (also reffered to as GameJolt or GJ) is a freeware video games hosting service (in browser and a downloadable client) with social functions. The inital site was launched on 1st January 2004[2] and was founded by David 'CROS' DeCarmine.

History

2003 - 2007

Development of Game Jolt started in 2003[3]. The site publicly launched on the 1st of July 2004[2] and included a public account system, forums, a chatroom and games, uploaded with the respect creators' permission. In 2007 the site was taken down due to inactivity.[4]

2008 - Present

In December 2008, David launched a second version of the site with Game Jolt becoming a game portal. The site was completely redesigned and introduced an automated uploading system for downloadable, Flash, Unity and Java games.[5]

Ad revenue sharing was publicly released in September 2009 from its closed beta[6][7] which gave users a 30% cut on advertising revenue on their game pages, profiles and blog posts.[8]

File:Game-jolt-mar-2014-homepage.png
Game Jolt's homepage in March 2014

The site had a lot of automated spam from mid 2011 to early 2012, which resulted in inactivity of the community as well it's owner.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]

The Game Jolt API came out of it's beta in July 2012[16][17] allowing games to integrate with the site.

Game Jolt started accepting browser-based HTML5 games for upload in February 2013.[18][19][20]

David DeCarmine announced on 8th August that he was working full-time on Game Jolt's development[21], leaving his job at Zulily in the process.[22]

Indie Statik, a now defunct[23] indie games-related news aggregator and blog, announced it was 'partnering' with Game Jolt in October 2013.[24] This brought an article stream on the front page and articles of Game Jolt hosted games show up on the said game's profile, with a game portal congregated by Indie Statik and served by Game Jolt planned[25] but never came to fruition.

Game Jolt Jams released in early 2014 as a service to allow users to create their own game jams that integrated with the main site.[26][27]

A beta for a new site overhaul was made public in June 2015 and was released later that month, with Game Jolt advertising a responsive design, automated curation for both games and game news articles which weighs how recent a game was uploaded and how popular it is ("hot") and filtering options on game listings for platform, maturity rating and development status.[28][29]

An online marketplace was announced in April 2016[30] and released the following month in May, allowing developers to sell their games on the site.[31]

Let's Player partnerships

In November 2014 Game Jolt announced the "Indies vs PewDiePie" game jam, partnering with the popular Youtuber Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg [32][33]. Developers were given a weekend (21st-24th Novemeber) to create a game with the theme of "fun to play, fun to watch" to suit the Let's Plays entertainment style.[34] Users could rate entries afterwards until the 1st of December when the scores were counted up. The prize to the top 10 rated games was Felix playing the games on his channel as a means of promotion for the developers.[35], although later he played other entries[36]

Game Jolt partnered with Felix, Sean McLoughlin (jacksepticeye) and Mark Fischbach (Markiplier) to host "Indies vs Gamers" in July 2015.[37] The requirements for entries were arcade games using the GJAPI highscore tables, to be made between the 17th-20th of July[38] and the top 5 games were played on the partner's YouTube channels.[39][40][41]

API

The Game Jolt Application Programming Interface (usually known as the GJAPI) allows any developer using a game development platform that supports HTTP operations and MD5 or SHA-1.[42][43] Game Jolt advertise that the API can:

  • Create multiple "scoreboards" which collect high scores from players made publicly available on the game's profile and give user accounts EXP[44]
  • Award player's trophies which give user accounts EXP[45]
  • Store game data on Game Jolt's data servers[46]
  • Log whether a user is currently playing a game they're logged into via the GJAPI

References

  1. ^ "Game Jolt.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2016-09-02.
  2. ^ a b Game Jolt Main Page, archived from the original on 2004-01-01, retrieved 2013-11-30
  3. ^ Game Jolt Main Page, archived from the original on 2003-07-23, retrieved 2013-11-30
  4. ^ Index of /, archived from the original on 2007-10-13, retrieved 2013-11-30
  5. ^ Game Jolt Main Page, archived from the original on 2008-12-25, retrieved 2013-11-30
  6. ^ Rose, Michael (2009-09-07). "Game Jolt Ad Revenue Sharing Goes Public". IndieGames.com. Archived from the original on 2013-11-30. Retrieved 2013-11-30. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ DeCarmine, David (2009-06-12). "Ad Revenue Sharing and Contest". Game Jolt. Archived from the original on 2013-11-30. Retrieved 2013-11-30. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  9. ^ "Holy mother of Mary..." 2011-07-17. Archived from the original on 2013-11-30. Retrieved 2013-11-30. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  12. ^ "Spam?". 2011-05-05. Archived from the original on 2013-11-30. Retrieved 2013-11-30. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  13. ^ "So much spam". 2011-07-07. Archived from the original on 2013-11-30. Retrieved 2013-11-30. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  14. ^ "Making Money Through Ads". 2011-08-13. Archived from the original on 2013-12-01. Retrieved 2013-12-01. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ "Vest Trials: Approaching Dawn Released!". 2011-08-08. Archived from the original on 2013-12-01. Retrieved 2013-12-01. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  16. ^ "Game Jolt Achievements now open". 2012-07-08. Retrieved 2016-09-01. {{cite web}}: Check |archiveurl= value (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  17. ^ Gwinnell, Ashley (2012-07-17). "Achievements System Released!". Game Jolt. Archived from the original on 2013-11-30. Retrieved 2013-11-30. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  18. ^ "Newgrounds now accept HTML5 games". 2013-09-24. Archived from the original on 2016-09-01. Retrieved 2016-09-01. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  19. ^ "GameJolt Html5". 2013-02-13. Archived from the original on 2016-09-01. Retrieved 2016-09-01. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  20. ^ DeCarmine, David (2013-02-11). "Distributions and HTML Integration". Game Jolt. Archived from the original on 2013-11-30. Retrieved 2013-11-30. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  21. ^ DeCarmine, David (2009-09-07). "Game Jolt is now indie!". Game Jolt. Archived from the original on 2013-11-30. Retrieved 2013-11-30. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  24. ^ Priestman, Chris (2013-09-17). "Thank You: Indie Statik, Kickstarter and Game Jolt". IndieStatik. Archived from the original on 2013-11-30. Retrieved 2013-11-30. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  25. ^ Mattingly, Josh (2013-10-02). "We're funded, but it's not over yet!". IndieStatik. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  26. ^ Wawro, Alex (2014-07-16). "Run your own game jams with Game Jolt's new manager". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on 2016-09-01. Retrieved 2016-09-01. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  28. ^ "Gamejolt Next :: Nuevo diseño, nuevas posibilidades". 2015-07-09. Archived from the original on 2016-09-01. Retrieved 2016-09-01. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  29. ^ "We Launched the New Site - Fireside by GameJolt". 2013-10-13. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  30. ^ "Selling Games on Game Jolt". 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2016-09-02. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  31. ^ Francis, Bryant (2016). "Gamasutra - Gamejolt announces indie games marketplace". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on 2016-09-02. Retrieved 2016-09-02. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  32. ^ Dimopoulos, Konstantinos (2014-11-13). "Indies VS PewDiePie: The Game Jam". Gamasutra#IndieGames.com. Archived from the original on 2016-09-01. Retrieved 2016-09-01. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  35. ^ "DANCE PEWDIEPIE DANCE! // INDIES VS PEWDIEPIE JAM WINNERS! - YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved 2015-12-31. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  37. ^ Rad, Chloi (2015-07-08). "Game Jolt Prepares to Launch Indies VS Gamers Jam". Gamasutra#IndieGames.com. Archived from the original on 2016-09-01. Retrieved 2016-09-01. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  43. ^ "Game Achievement System". 2013-10-13. Archived from the original on 2013-11-30. Retrieved 2013-11-30. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  44. ^ "Scoreboards Guide". Retrieved 2015-12-13. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  46. ^ "Data Storage Guide". Retrieved 2015-12-13. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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