History

Jamsouls was initially started for the Dream Build Play challenge competition organized by microsoft.

After the contest the team decided to continue and polish the game, to make it a full title for the Xbla.

One of the very first character designed

The team originaly wanted to create something that was similar to multiplayer arcade classics such as Bomberman and Joust. Games that are simple but have addictive mechanics that provide a great multiplayer experience, and make you want to play over and over with your friends.

The very first level concept of jamsouls

Jamsouls is inspired from Jump 'n Bump, an emailware where you stomp cute rabbits to make them explode, after playing hours to this game the team decided to make something a multiplayer game of this kind and applying their own twist to this style of gameplay.

Initially all the characters in Jamsouls were made out of sweets like Jelly Babies but in the end it looks like jam sounded better, and that's whhere the invented the story with Pandora's box being a jam pot.

Jelly Babies concept

A story mode playable in single player was originally planned, the player would have controlled the hope and fight against all the other evils. However the team lacked of time and decided to focus on polishing the multiplayer instead because it was the original aim.

World map designed for the solo mode

Boss designed for the abandoned solo mode