Registration:

Ready to dive in? Here's what you gotta do: 

• Join the Jam.
• Fill out this form:  https://forms.gle/usk1msLXWSe7oSxj9
• Find Your Squad: Need a crew? Hop onto our Discord server and hit up the Game Sprint 2024 Game Jam category and connect with fellow gaming enthusiasts in the #Find-Team channel.

Links: 

WhatsApp , VRGC discord

Eligibility:

Students and working professionals with up to 5 years experience.

Theme/Problem statement:

Game Design must incorporate at least 2-3 of the following themes:

1. Sacrifices must be made
2. Everything's breakable
3. Elementary

Rules:

• Each team can have a minimum of one person and a maximum of 4 people.
• There are no restrictions on Game engine or Assets being used as long as there are no repercussions related to licensing etc.
• Game can be 2D or 3D.
• You're free to make a game from scratch using any tools of your choice, as long as they don't restrict the sharing or distribution of your published project.
• Final deliverable can be in any executable format, preferred is either an exe for win64 or apk for Android or even browser.
• The platform the game is built for should be secure, generally accessible, and should not require any payment, subscription, purchase of hardware or software, or any kind of additional collection of data for advertising or other purposes.
• You may build and upload the game on itch.io or GitHub for example, but don't upload it to a cloud service that requires users to have an account or subscription in order to download.
• Participants or Participating teams must also prepare a brief presentation or video to go along with the build of the game. This presentation should be an overview of the process that went into creating your game and the learnings from it. Try not to make it too technical, and instead discuss the goals you set for yourself and your experience in their pursuit.
• The presentation should not be too lengthy, i.e. less than 10 slides. In the case of a video, it should be under 2 minutes.
• The presentation and/or video MUST contain the names of the game and the team, and the link or instructions to access the build of the game from where you have uploaded it.

Prizes:

• Participation and Winner Certificates from IGDC.
• Winners will get entry tickets to IGDC 2024.
• Internship opportunities with leading game studios in the country.

Result:

• 1st Place - "The Smell of Rain " by SoulSpiller from NID Bangalore!
• 2nd  Place - " Equation Expedition " by Team Ghost from Artemisia College Indore!
• 3rd Place goes to " Elemental Escape " by Team Labour Union from Artemisia College Indore!

Submission:

• You should upload your game to itch.io like it was any other game. From there you can upload the files, and provide additional details. 
• You should make the game free (or let the person pick “any amount”), and you must set the game as "released", not "draft".
• If you're submitting a Unity game and want to provide a version that works in browsers, you should set compression type to Gzip from Unity's WebGL Player Settings.
• Then, you should come back to this page on itch.io, click submit game, and choose your game from the dropdown box. Answer the required questions to complete the submission!
• If you are facing any difficulty while submitting the game. Please reach out to us via Discord or WhatsApp. 

Other information:

• If you don't want to use a game engine and you're up for making a game using your own libraries or SDKs, go for it!
• There are many resources available online for acquiring scripts, artwork, models or animations etc. OpenGameArt.org, freesound.org,   cgtrader.com and Poly Haven an excellent resources. Feel free to use any resources you like, just make sure that you have all the necessary  rights to use them and distribute the content made with them.
• For creating artwork and 3D assets, there are plenty of options. For 2D you can use Krita, Gimp, Photoshop etc and for 3D you can use Blender, Maya, Cinema4D etc.

For Further Queries: 

 Contact:

• Himank Agarwal - 7878778124
• Saarthak Srivastava - 97714 59110

 Email: vrgc@vitbhopal.ac.in