#winterjam

[mysticmermaid108]

I don’t geek out over many things, but the WINTERJAM lineup? Nah I’m CONSPIRING that

They’re holding a challenge, and the winner gets two free jam nation passes, they just have to guess the lineup…

SO

Enjoy my ramble:

So WINTERJAM has created a formula for their shows: they need to check all the boxes for genres of artists

They need:

A huge artist to be the headliner

A rapper

A rock band

A worship artist

An EDM/Dance/hype music artist

And a more country/gospely kinda artist

So considering all of those things, here’s my lineup predictions based on THIS IMAGE they gave us:

So knowing this formula, and seeing very faint but still photos of the artist, here’s my predictions:

HEADLINER:

That’s obviously Crowder. Which kinda sucks, since everyone requested Skillet, but I love Crowder, though I wish they’d change it up once and a while

RAPPER:

The big hair? Obviously Lecrae. Plus, he’s on the rise with not only winning a Dove Award recently, but also staring in the upcoming movie “Journey To Bethlehem”

EDM/DANCE/HYPE ARTIST:

From the looks of the third image, I’m able to tell that it’s more than one or two people, it’s a group. So this is a band. Two of the biggest hype band groups are Elevation and Hillsong Young and Free, but after looking at two of their cover photos back to back and comparing it to the blurred out image, I believe it’s Hillsong Young and Free. They’re a great pick for this type of festival.

WORSHIP ARTIST:

This is the fourth image, and from what I can make out, it looks like one artist, and a girl one. So who’s a popular worship artist who’s a girl and would do super well at an event like this? Katy Nichole. Just won a dove award, just performed on the dove awards, has several radio hits on Christian Radio, she’s on the radar.

ROCK BAND:

Now, even though I hoped they would change it up, this looks like it’s gonna be Red. They just released a new album last month, and their popularity is growing a lot. Plus, Red is always WJs go to rock band when Skillet can’t attend or Disciple is off the radar (which, they should NEVER be off the radar because they are INCREDIBLE, but whatever)

COUNTRY/GOSPEL ARTIST

Ok, even though they don’t necessarily fall into this catagory, but they kinda do, here’s my prediction.

The blurred out image looks like 3 people, and this band was requested quite a bit…

It’s Cain!

PRE JAM:

Ok, now this is where things get hard. The pre jam usually brings under the radar, obscure, new artists to get their names out there. Here’s my predictions solely based on the images:

First image is Social Club Misfits, since it looks like a duo.

Second image, I have no idea, but I know it’s one dude.

Third image looks like a band, and I know an awesome band (that I really hope comes) that not only is still pretty little known but is ever so slightly becoming known, follows ALL of Winterjams socials, and even commented on the EXACT LINEUP GUESS POST with a fire emoji: that band is called Ignescent!

Don’t believe me? Here’s my proof:

Anyway rant over wooooo

[sunshinegearbox]

[little-bunny-in-space]

one of my evangelical friends should draw Fr. Mulcahy at WinterJam. Having a seizure

[aziraphales-library]

hello 👉🏻👈🏻 look i ship aziracrow as much as the next person but… the crowley obsession in me needs to know… do you know any good self insert/readerXcrowley fics?

We have a #reader insert tag and specifically this post with Crowley/Reader fics. Hopefully you'll enjoy these as well...

Stranger by winterjames (G)

While having a few drinks at a bar, you meet a very intriguing stranger.

Isolation and Messes by dont_psychoanalyze_me (NR)

When you isolate yourself without warning, Crowley and Aziraphale aren't taking it. Crowley, with prompt from Aziraphale, stops by to check up on you. To say your frustrated is the least, but the demon has his ways as always.

Crowley's Hissy Fit by eiressofinspiration (T)

You and Crowley have been dating for a few months now and it’s his first time visiting your flat. He’s surprised to find he shares a few qualities with your pet…

Gentle Sin by ShortInsomniac98 (E)

Mesopotamia!Crowley x Fem!Reader // Just a self-indulgent little reader-insert fic because I really liked Mesopotamia Crowley.

we have not touched the stars (nor are we forgiven) by rosesinmars (G)

Crowley is sad about the fate of his beloved Bentley, and you are quite done of watching your demon friend all gloomy, so you decide it's time for you to do something about it, and as you do so, some feelings you have been trying to hide for a while now becomes quite obvious at Crowley's eyes.

Understanding Who You Are by JustAnotherNarrator (T)

He wanted to talk. At least, that’s what he told you once the two of you had stopped glowering at one another. You’re still not quite certain why you thought bringing him back to your apartment was a good idea though. The trail of reasoning had been something along the lines of whatever he might want to talk about might not be fit for human ears, but it doesn’t make this moment any less awkward, because as of now, neither of you is, in fact, talking.

- Mod D

[pumpkin-spike18]

✨Weekly Progress #46-50✨

I can't keep putting this off else it'll be 2024 before I write my updates. 😓

Sketched 14.5 SYVNH CGs

Revised BWOBK script (2nd draft)

Lined 4 SYVNH BGs

Eek, when you consolidate it like that, it really seems like I didn't do much, huh... B-But, allow me to present my case! And show some proof too!!

The .5 CG comes from me realizing I can cut a corner and just use a sprite for + new BG for storytelling purpose.

Wait, I said 14.5 CGs! There's only 7.5 here, where's the others?

This time, I think I zoomed in enough that you can't tell much of what's going on.

...Huh? There should be a total of 14.5 CGs, I think there's only 13.5 here...?

...

Well, future pumpkin will deal with that in about a month when programming starts!!

And here's four... Okay, since I don't know what happened to that last CG, have a bonus preview of the other 3 BGs I lined this week...! Totally not due to me opening and setting everything up then feeling sad I'd have to redo it to only show four. I've also started using the help of CSP models for some items in BGs. It's been a real life saver.

And for folks who played my other games, perhaps you recognize the figurines in this BG? :)

Additional to that, I've been alternating to also work on writing for our WinterJam VN project. I don't really know how to properly show that off so here's the script's outline + wordcount...?

I'm pretty excited to help put together and bring what I've written to life!! I mean, look at all the pretty art @akuakourin has made already!!

(I hope tumblr doesn't eat those twitter posts links...)

Alright, that's it for now! I'll work hard in the remaining two... (uh, 1.5) weeks of 2023 so I can bring some great stories for everyone to enjoy in 2024!

[cb-writes-stuff]

And now the question that made me think of the good question,

Headphones or earbuds? Wired or Bluetooth?

Or just been to any good concerts

Earbuds, Bluetooth. Headphones and glasses don’t agree. And we move around a lot and usually stray from our phone, so wires are a no.

The only concert we remember was WinterJam, or something. Don’t even know when it was, or if we liked it.

[maxxmaxxing]

Read the winterjam oneshot and me not being able to win any challenges and slowly going insane was so funny

Added Tails comforting us

nooo!!! we are unbeatable what happened :(

[harbor-princess]

The chariot for winterjam this year

[papaiyatree]

reading the winterjam and HELLO??? HEKDNSNDNSJSN

[mothpile]

but we stay silly we keep going because New idw soon And also idw winterjam and it will have omega and rouge And we're almost done it all juuust a little more and Free please . please.

[thomasstaples]

It was one of the years he was part of Winterjam, I believe as the headliner.

So idk if you like or heard of Crowder, but I think you’d like this song

Lord of All - Crowder

I have actually seen him in concert. I believe this song is on one of my playlists.

[mysticmermaid108]

1000/10 WOULD WINTERJAM AGAIN

[coghive]

Winter Jam 2023 Reveals Artist Lineup & Tour Routing

World Vision presents Winter Jam Tour, hosted by Newsong & produced by Premier Productions, Christian music’s biggest tour, is back for 2023 with headliners We the Kingdom and Jeremy Camp and a solid lineup of acts including Andy Mineo, Disciple, Austin French, NewSong and featuring for the first time Dove Award-winning new artist of the year Anne Wilson. “I can’t wait for Winter Jam 2023,” said Eddie Carswell, Co-Founder of NewSong Ministries & Winter Jam. “I’m so excited about the lineup this year. I think it’s one of my all time favorites. I’m excited to have some people we haven’t toured with as much like We The Kingdom, Anne Wilson, and Disciple. Also, it’s always great to be back with long time friends like Jeremy Camp, Austin French and my ping pong buddy Andy Mineo. Bring your youth group, your family, your friends; these will be nights you don’t want to miss!” We The Kingdom will join Winter Jam following their Fall 2022 tour and the release of their new namesake album We The Kingdom. The band received the awards for Contemporary Christian Artist of the Year and Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year for Holy Water at the 2021 GMA Dove Awards and is known for #1 songs like “Holy Water” and “God So Loved.” “We are SO incredibly excited to announce that we are going to be a part of Winter Jam 2023,” said We the Kingdom. “Several of us grew up going to Winter Jam – what a powerful time to unify together and let the love and hope of God be poured out in the room over every heart each night. We are so looking forward to getting to play some new songs off our new record as well as some familiar ones. Every single artist or band on this roster is incredible and we are so excited to get to partner together with them. Thank you, Winter Jam, for having us – we could not be more grateful. We’ll see YOU out there this winter! Let the party begin!” Jeremy Camp is a chart-topping, Grammy-nominated artist with 40 number one hits. He is known for songs like “I Still Believe,” “Walk By Faith” and current hit “Keep Me In The Moment” and is the subject of the 2020 inspirational biopic I Still Believe. Jeremy joins the tour following the release of his 2021 album When You Speak and his Fall 2022 tour.

“I always look forward to touring with many of my favorite bands on Winter Jam,” said Jeremy Camp. “The community that Winter Jam provides and cultivates is always encouraging to my group and I love that their heart for the Gospel and reaching people are always front and center of what they do!” Winter Jam kicks off this year’s tour on January 13th in Tampa, FL and will hit a total of 40 cities around the country including, Columbus, OH; Nashville, TN; Oklahoma City, OK; St. Louis, MO; Atlanta, GA; Charlotte, NC; before heading to the northwest for the first time in five years with stops in Boise, ID; Tacoma, WA; Portland, OR, and Spokane, WA. Winter Jam’s Pre-jam party will be led by Thrive Worship, Sean Be and RENEE. Pastor and author Zane Black will be the speaker. No tickets are needed and admission is $15 at the door. Created and hosted by one of Christian music’s most beloved bands, NewSong, Winter Jam exploded from a single show in 1995 to become Christian music’s benchmark tour. Throughout two decades, Winter Jam has helped provide a powerful platform for the Gospel in major arenas nationwide, consistently showcasing the genre’s top artists.

Read the full article

[niiotoge]

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiii!

Is good be back. So, right now I'm working in sprites for my long game. (Really I need find a name for it).

So, I did this little game for X-mas. This is more a friendship game with space for developing something more. I did like because i put together two things that I wanted for a long time, a friendship game and a X-mas story. Do a little game alone is hard sometimes, but do it within a month is a good experience for you develop your organizing skills. Well I think. You know, when we idealize the game in our mind this runs smooth, but get all it out is another thing. So, If you wanna understand this feeling I propose that you do this challenge. Hey, this no need be in a jam. Anyway, Good luck and see you next time! I got a few news thing for show, and a universe for explain.

Game: https://otomerama.itch.io/until-christmas

[allons-y-to-hogwarts-713]

So excited for Winter Jam 2019 and especially pumped to see LEDGER perform! 🤘😝

Here’s some nail art inspired by the Winter Jam 2019 theme and LEDGER’s EP album art.

[pumpkin-spike18]

✨Weekly Progress #22-25✨

Hello. I'm sorry about missing a month of updates 🙇‍♂️I'm not sure how it became a month, but better late than never...??

Weekly Progress #22

Worked on BAF jam stuff

Some marketing discussion/planning

Sketched EKL game page

Messaged about OtomeJam work

Finished all EKL pages linearts

Finished 3 EKL pages

It feels a little silly to talk about EKL now when the game's fully released 😂 But here's a WIP shot for one of the comic pages.

Yo, I hate accidentally ctrl+z on a tumblr post, this is my second time writing this.

lineart -> final

Ta-da, this is how one of the pages look altogether!

At this point, the handwritten word bubbles was for anything I wanted to animate. The other text was written in my sketches and all word bubbles were added via GUI + programming.

Screentoning has been my savior this whole game. I cannot tell you the relief of just blocking out a single color, going to CSP and setting the layer to screentone mode 😅

Weekly Progress #23

Finished all EKL pages

Checked some shipping costs…

Downloaded some new gamedev programs

Coded SAiD sprite

Wrote 2.9k words for SFB (Draft 1 finished!)

Rendered and programmed all EKL sprites

Programmed EKL scenes 0 & 1

Updated EKL GUI

Sky of Falling Birds (SFB) will be my next big project after SYVNH. You can read a bit more about it here, but I'll talk about it in detail another time. I'm happy the first draft has been finished at 21k+ words though!

Saintess Alasdair is Dead (SAiD) is an otome jam project I'm working on with @akuakourin and Amiralo as a programmer. ...I'm not sure how much I should be sharing here, but... back in Week #23, this was how my progress looked.

(Art by Akua)

The demo for SAiD is almost complete now and will be available for dark otome players June 30th!

Weekly Progress #24

Finished EKL programming

Finished and programmed 2 more EKL sprites

Programmed all SAiD sprites +updated GUI

coding week.

Another project where I pretend to know what I'm doing!

Weekly Progress #25

Worked on EKL gamepage

Finished +Programmed EKL main menu art

Started scripting SAiD

Built, published, and submitted EKL!

OtomeJam assets discussion

Future Projects discussion

Updated BGs, fonts, music, and SFX for OtomeJam

Updated OtomeJam gamepage

Started WinterJam project outline

A lot of indie gamedev is about meetings! ...I forget that because it usually feels like I'm just chatting with friends in discord and suddenly we're working on a project together.

Game page and main menu planning for EKL. The idea was to make the game page look like the back of a manga, and the main menu like the cover, spine, and back of a manga book.

Some elements didn't necessarily make it into the final cut.

And as I mentioned before, most of the SAiD demo is done!

(Art by Akua)

Okay, that's everything!! 💦Can you believe half the year is now over... Next week is a holiday so I should finally have time to get some proper devwork done and answer some comments and questions! (I read them all and I appreciate every one, I'm sorry I often can't always answer them;; )

I'll be scheduling my time for my ongoing projects. Thank you everyone, for sticking with me and playing all my projects!