The global game Jam has started in Newport! Follow our adventures through the next 43 hours on the live stream above (I'm probably on the far left, in the hat, almost certainly doing something stupid), and via my Twitter feed. You can send us messages through Twitter too! And we'll read them!

If you're working hard at another jam site, good luck and have fun!

This weekend, there are no less than THREE indie game jams going on simultaneously, and guess what? I'll be doing my darndest to enter all three.

This week sees the Experimental Gameplay Project (1-31 Dec, theme: "Drawing"), Game Prototype Challenge (13-20 Dec, theme: "Immortality" and "Thin Ice") and Ludum Dare 19 (18-20 Dec GMT, unknown theme) coinciding in the same 48-hour period. Making one game to fit all of them in two days can't be that hard, can it?

Credit to Chris Kaitila (Breakdance McFunkyPants) for getting this idea into my head. If I die during this, it's his fault!

For the last month, Alec Stamos of Ultimate-Nerds.com and I have been locked in an epic game-development battle for indie honour.

• The contest ran from 5th-30th November.
• Only 30 hours were allowed to be spent on anything going directly into the game.
• Publicly licensed materials (graphics, sound, code libraries, etc.) were allowed, as long as they were declared in a readme file with the game.
• No bleeding on the furniture.

The development stage is over, but now I need you! Voting has begun to find November's winner!

How do I Get the Games and Vote?

Go to the game announcement posts on IndieKombat.com to download both games: About Turn (my game) and, if you must, Ninja Art Game (Alec's game). If then you think my game's the best, vote for me in the poll on the right-hand side of the page! If you like Alec's game better, erm... there's no need to vote. Your votes really do count - as I write this, there are only 2 votes between us! The winner will be announced at the end of December.

I'll be continuing to work on my game, adding more levels and gameplay elements, and generally making it better. You can track the ongoing development now at Indie DB or Mod DB.