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Wednesday, May 19, 2021

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Martin Kraus

Oh, I noticed that the first VRChat World Jam is going on currently. See here: https://itch.io/jam/vrchat-sketchbook-jam

It will be interesting to compare the submitted worlds of that jam with just the winning worlds of Rec Room's latest creator contest: https://recroom.com/hiddenworlds , which will be announced this weekend. (There are so many submissions to Rec Room's creator contests that trying to visit all of them would be a serious time committment.)

But maybe that's not a fair comparison because these creator contests in Rec Room offer more time for development and are now highly competitive contests where many of the best creators in Rec Room show off what they can do, while VRChat just started with their World Jams.

Maybe a better comparison is between the VRChat World Jam and Rec Room's game jam in March: https://recroom.com/gamejam . The submissions to the latter can be found by going to rec.net and searching for #gamejam2021 .

Martin Kraus

For anyone who is interested in learning more about the submissions to the latest creator contest in Rec Room (see https://recroom.com/hiddenworlds ), here are the top 10 rooms in each category from the first round of judging (you can look them up on rec.net or with the Play menu inside Rec Room):

Entries are alphabetical and not in scored order.

#Art
Falling_From_Above
HiddenMinecraftRealms
HiddenWorldsTours
HollowEarth
KONG-SkullIsland
OmegaMart
ProjectFinalFrontier
PT_Silent_Hill_2
The_UnFOreSEEN
Vestige

#Game
DeepSeaDiscovery
GraveyardRiddler
MiningMadness
Olivanders.wandshop
RetroRealms
RollingRoulette
SlideSurfer
TheCashCanalCasino
Unseen.
WhenSirensScream

#Hangout
ChallengersDeep
CozyMysticPortraits
Creative
GodsDomain
MOULIN_REC
Nebesa
RyuguTemple
Starfall
SurrealStudies
ToyboxTown

#PVP
ArmyAntz
BermudaSkies.
GroundedPvP_
Hiddenwar
KONG-SkullIslandPvP
PlanetUltramaPVP
PvP.Japanese.Castle
SummonersVill
Trollge_Incident
ZasonsBattlegrounds

#Quest
-The-Lost-worlds-
IntoTheBallPit.
LostWorldCruise
MarioMisadventure
RecCrisis
Seventh-Heaven
The-Dark-Descent
TheBackDoor
TheHeartOfWerahuri
TheLostLandofSkyWorlds

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