On behalf of the team, apologies for the lack of Ham and Jam news lately. I know a lot of people have been wondering whats been going on especially as the forums have been pretty quiet. We’d planned a small update about three weeks ago but most of us got snowed under with other things.

So what exactly is going on with Ham and Jam?

Well to be brutally honest, not a lot. As we’ve mentioned in previous updates we’ve hit a bump in the road with coding which is making it hard to go forward. Basically, the “core” of our gameplay code (the part which makes Ham and Jam what it is) is stuck in production. We have a design brief for it and planned it all out but we’ve reached the skills limit of our current (novice) coding team and can’t make much progress. We’ve looked around for another couple of coders who can maybe join the team for a month just to push this part through, but so far, no-ones stepped up. For the team this is incredibly frustrating.

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