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Thank you all for your hard work & support this school year!
Because of you, we reached some amazing milestones, including adding 2D assignments, building our most ambitious game mode (One Way Out), and releasing our biggest update ever (Gimkit Creative).
You can see everything we added this school year here!
We love working on Gimkit alongside you all and we’re already looking forward to next school year. Have a fantastic summer! 😎
- Team Gimkit 💜
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What’s Gimkit Creative?
Unleash your creativity like never before with Gimkit Creative, which allows you to build your very own games within Gimkit! Construct maps, architect your own game modes, battle against students & friends, design unique creations, let your imagination run wild!
Gimkit Creative allows you to build your own maps collaboratively with others! Hop in with up to 60 other players (no Pro subscription required) and work together to design and play your own creations!
No Code, No Problem
With Gimkit Creative, you can build your own games, no coding knowledge required! Gimkit Creative’s editor is similar to working in PowerPoint/Google Slides. Instead of dragging different elements to build a presentation, you’ll drag in different elements to build a game!
More To Come
Gimkit Creative is new and exciting, but not final. It's currently in early access, which means there may be bugs or issues. We'll continue to add many new features and improvements based on your feedback!
Plus, behind the scenes, all of our 2D game modes have been built with Gimkit Creative! As we create new game modes ourselves & introduce new gameplay mechanics, Creative will get those updates too!
Get Started!
To get you started, there’s a short interactive tutorial you can play to learn the basics of Gimkit Creative. It takes about 10 minutes to complete. From there, you’ll be well on your way to designing & engineering your own maps, worlds, and game modes!
From your dashboard, click the “Gimkit Creative” tab to get started. We can't wait to see what you construct!
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Gimkit celebrated its 5-year anniversary earlier this school year because of you. Your creativity and drive to engage your students inspire us every day.
Thanks so much for all of your hard work and support, this school year and every other. 💜
- Team Gimkit
✨ Unleash your imagination.
Over two years in the making, we’re excited to share our biggest update EVER: Gimkit Creative!
Build your own maps. Your own game modes. Your own worlds. If you can think it, you can build it.
Gimkit Creative is coming soon…
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One Way Out is here, our newest game mode! This mode is our first-ever PvE (Player versus Environment) mode!
In this mode, students start on a spaceship that has unfortunately been taken over by evil plants!
Together, they'll have to traverse the spaceship, defeat the evil plant enemies, collect new gear, unlock gates, and avoid traps!
The only way to win is to get everybody off the ship. They'll need to strategize, communicate, and learn from their mistakes to make their way through the ship, fight back, and get everyone to safety.
It won't be easy, but we know you can do it. Take a deep breath, work together, and find the one way out.
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In Snowy Survival, your goal is simple: survive as long as possible.
At the start of the game, one player is randomly cursed and given a Snowball Launcher to knockout other players. Everybody else must run and evade the curse. If they are knocked out, they become cursed too!
The game only ends when everyone is cursed!
As you play, you'll discover relics from other game modes. Something strange is happening, and there are secrets to uncover.
Best of luck to you in this strange new world!
", "url": "https://announcekit.app/gimkit/news/snowy-survival---new-game-mode-1tWo7e", "title": "Snowy Survival - new game mode!", "summary": "Worlds collide, try to survive! Snowy Survival is here, our newest game mode! In Snowy Survival, your goal is simple: survive as long as pos...", "date_modified": "2023-02-27T06:19:31.639Z", "tags": [ "game update" ] }, { "id": "324979", "content_html": "We launched Snowbrawl in December and it allowed you to customize the number of snowballs earned per question. You all loved this feature as it allowed you to customize the balance between answering questions & gameplay.
Well, I've got some good news. We've brought this level of control over to every 2D game mode!
In Fishtopia, you can now customize the number of bait per question. In Tag: Domination, Capture The Flag, & Farmchain, you can now customize the energy granted per question. You'll find it in the game options when you go to host a game.
This gives you full control over the game balance in all 2D modes. Not enough progression? Give students more reward per question. Too much gameplay and not enough learning? Lower the reward per question.
Your game! Your rules!
I hope you and your students enjoy this new update! Let us know what you think!
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Math teachers, we've been plotting something just for you!
You can now add equations in Gimkit. Select from hundreds of symbols to build math questions and answers in your kits.
Get ready to divide distance and time, too. Our equation editor has keyboard shortcuts so you can type in things like \"pi\" to quickly pull up the Pi symbol.
When it comes to math questions, there are now 11 things you can always count on. Your fingers and Gimkit!
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With this mode, we’re introducing a brand new mechanic: combat! Students can now launch snowballs at each other! This changes everything for 2D modes.
Since there's a whole new mechanic in this mode, we kept the rest simple. Students run around a beautiful-but-perilous winter wonderland answering questions and trying to knock out other players. Oh, they’ll want to avoid getting pelted too!
Bundle up & have a blast! ❄️💥
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If you'd like to join, be in-game at 1pm EST. The event will start then, so make sure everybody gets into the game ahead of time. You’ll load into the event by hosting any of our 2D game modes.
Here are some tips:
So excited - see you later today!
To increase server capacity & help ensure everything runs smoothly today, Gimkit will be slightly different. Here's what you need to know:
As winter approaches, prepare yourself for Gimkit Frostbite, a one-time-only in-game event! Attend the event with your students and experience a storm that will cause Gimkit to change…forever.
This is a one-time event, so make sure to be in-game on December 5th at 1pm EST. The event will start then, so make sure everybody gets into the game a few minutes before. You’ll load into the event by hosting any of our 2D game modes.
Here are some tips for the day of the event:
We’re super excited for you all to experience the event. Stay warm & we’ll see you soon!
To increase server capacity & help ensure everything runs smoothly on the day of the event, Gimkit will be slightly different. Here are some changes you might want to know about.
Welcome to Farmchain, our new collaborative 2D game mode!
Here on the farm, everyone has a role to play. There’s a lot of work to be done. To keep things running efficiently, students will need to make a plan, communicate, and keep up with their jobs.
Best of luck and see you out on the farm! 🚜
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This or That is a trivia battle game that makes for a great icebreaker to help your students get to know each other.
This mode is perfect for Would You Rather Questions, Polls, Does This Apply To You, and (of course) Trivia.
Unlike other Gimkit game modes, you won’t connect a kit or even add questions inside of Gimkit. Instead, you’ll use your own trivia or icebreaker questions with this fun 2D voting system.
Once the game is started, just share a question and assign a color, red or blue, to two possible answers. Ask Students to move their Gims to one side or the other.
Use the Freeze Players button to lock students’ answers. The award & ghost buttons give you the option to eliminate incorrect answers and reward students who nailed it.
This Or That is available for a limited time until November 4th. Have fun getting to know each other and testing your knowledge!
", "url": "https://announcekit.app/gimkit/news/this-or-that-Qj90Q", "title": "This Or That!", "summary": "<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embe...", "date_modified": "2022-09-06T23:41:54.713Z", "tags": [ "feature" ] }, { "id": "199703", "content_html": "We hope you had a wonderful, relaxing summer.
We're excited to share some big updates to help you make learning fun & engaging this year. Watch the video below or keep reading to see what's new!
We rebuilt assignments from the ground up! You can now assign 2D game modes as homework, making assignments more dynamic and engaging.
There's a lot that's different with the new version of assignments. Read about everything we changed here.
Over the summer, we added our most-requested product suggestion of all time. Now, your students automatically see the correct answer for 3 seconds when they miss a question. This improves content mastery by slowing them down and giving them some time to soak in the correct answer.
We’re working on a new game mode we think your students will dig. We’re not ready to say too much yet. Just planting a seed to see if any ideas sprout up…
From new assignments to new modes, we can't wait to see what you do with Gimkit this school year!
Gimkit is free! — In case you missed it, we made Gimkit free last November. You can play Gimkit for free with as many students as you want and there are no limits on the number of kits you can create.
Nickname generator — You can now enable a nickname generator when hosting a live game, forcing students to use a classroom-safe nickname. Learn more here.
Practice Mode — Want students to be able to practice content whenever they want? Send students a practice link for any of your kits! Upon visiting, students can practice answering the questions for as long as they’d like! Learn more here.
Cosmetics are back! — The Item Shop and earning XP/GimBucks returns August 23rd. We’ve got some awesome new Gims coming your way, as well as a new kind of cosmetic!
GiveKit — We donate $500 every month to help pay for your school materials, first aid kits, tech tools, furniture, and anything else you may need to do your best work. Learn more and apply here.
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We’ve got a few things lined up to celebrate your incredible work this school year:
We also wrote an annual letter recapping the year. If you have a minute, check it out here.
Thanks so much for all of your support and inspiration, this school year and every other. Here’s to you. 👏
- Josh & Jeff
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Later this year, we’re going to be releasing a brand new version of assignments rebuilt from the ground up to work with 2D game modes.
Ever since we first launched Fishtopia, one of the most popular requests has been to allow students to play Fishtopia for homework. And our latest Cosmetics update allows students to earn XP in 2D game modes. But assignments don’t take place in a 2D game mode, meaning XP is not obtainable right now when completing homework.
Because of this, it makes sense for us to work on adding 2D game modes to assignments — and that’s what we plan to do.
Making 2D game modes work with assignments is going to be a huge technical challenge. But adding even more is having to support both types of assignments at once: the ones we have today, and the ones in the future that will take place in 2D game modes.
We’re a super small team. In terms of developers, it’s just myself and Jakub. I made the decision that instead of sinking a ton of extra time into supporting what will be the old version of assignments, we’re going to fully remove it and start over.
Starting on July 1st, we will no longer allow the creation of new assignments. On July 12th, we will fully delete all assignments on Gimkit, making way for the new version which will come out shortly after.
Your kits and all other content will remain exactly intact. Only assignments that you've created will be deleted.
I’m sorry for any disruption this might cause — I’m hoping that by making this switch over summer break, it won’t impact most of you. And hopefully, if it does, this advance notice will give you enough time to prepare.
Making this switch is a bit like ripping off a band-aid. It will sting a bit at first, but after, we’ll end up with a brand new version of assignments that will be miles better than what we have today.
Thanks for reading, send us an email at hello@gimkit.com if you have any questions!
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Earn XP by completing actions in 2D game modes like Fishtopia & Tag: Domination. XP can be earned by answering questions correctly, or completing actions specific to each mode. For example, you’ll earn XP when tagging a player in Tag: Domination or catching a rare fish in Fishtopia. Once you earn enough XP, you’ll level up and get 100 GimBucks!
Save up your GimBucks to purchase Gims in the Item Shop! Once you purchase a Gim, you’ll be able to wear it in-game.
For more information, check out our cosmetics blog post.
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The battle for dominance between two competing organizations will be decided by a game of tag. But this isn’t the same old tag your students are used to. They’ll need to adapt, strategize, and work together to dominate.
Stretch out your legs and get ready to run, Tag: Domination is available to everybody (Pro & free) now!
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