This jam is now over. It ran from 2024-05-24 07:00:00 to 2024-06-14 07:00:00. View results
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1st - "Without a Way Out" by Alex Santos
2nd - "Without-Time" by D.P.L.D.S
3rd - "Without Movement" by ojas biswas
Future Inspire Academy (FIA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people learn game development in a way that's fun, convenient, and flexible. We offer services like Daily Unity Challenges, Weekly Game Creations, One-on-One Mentoring, and Beta Platform Access combined with our gamifying leaderboard system. What makes our jams unique are our upgradable prize pool where you can redeem higher rewards by using points you gain from our program. https://futureinspireacademy.com/
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"Welcome to the UModeler X Game Jam!
We're excited to support this creative journey by introducing UModeler X, empowering developers with efficient, real-time 3D asset creation within Unity. With features like Rigging, Painting, AI Texturing, and 3D Modeling, UModeler X transforms your imagination into immersive experiences seamlessly.
Our mission is to provide intuitive tools that help you focus on creativity rather than complexity. Join us and explore how UModeler X can speed up your game development process while unlocking new possibilities.
Learn more and take part in this exciting journey with UModeler X! Visit our website - (https://www.unity.umodeler.com/) and Discord community (https://discord.gg/FJDUYpjRPu) for more insights."
Our main sponsor of this month, UModeler, is a Unity Verified Asset and one of the most popular tools in the Unity Asset Store. We are collaborating with them to promote their beta product, UModeler X, and provide valuable testing and feedback to help them improve.
ALL PARTICIPANTS WILL BE REQUIRED TO USE UMODELER X TO CREATE A 3D GAME! When talking about requirements, we are only looking for participants to create the majority of their base 3D models with UModeler. You may use other software for painting, materials, textures, etc. Submitters must provide a public GitHub repository containing the project so that the UModeler team can ensure everyone followed the rules. Art for the game must either be created with UModeler X or constructed out of built-in Unity objects and tools (i.e. basic shapes, pro-builder, etc.). We won't mind minor usage of other 3D assets from the Unity Asset Store or other websites, but the majority should be created through our sponsor's platform and suspicion of violating this rule can result in a disqualification. For this specific game jam, you will need to use the Unity game engine because that is what UModeler supports.
If you have any questions if your specific situation is allowed, you can ask us in the discord server. Use the link above to get UModeler X for free. Questions about UModeler X will be answered on their main server as well as ours. Thanks UModeler!
125 points in our program will guarantee that your team can maximize the cash prize.
1st Place:
- $150 ($125 guaranteed split among team)
- 3 Asset Creator Picks
2nd Place:
- $100 ($75 guaranteed split among team)
- 1 Asset Creator Pick
3rd Place:
- $50 ($25 guaranteed split among team)
3 Random Discord Members:
- Odin Inspector + Validator
This jam's point to cash conversion is: 5 POINTS = $1 PRIZE UPGRADE
The winning teams don't automatically get all the awarded cash; they are only guaranteed a portion. Our game jams reward our active members that contribute to our community. Members can use points from our program to earn more cash, up to the total prize value. For the cash prize pool, your team's guaranteed amount is shown above for each placed winner. Instead of a calculation that we have done in the past, we are just holding $25 of the prize pool behind our point system to give our winners more even without points. We are allowing teams to collectively gather the required amount of points to upgrade the cash prize (before it was individually), which makes it a lot easier to be awarded the max amount.
Each member of the winning team will be guaranteed a copy of each Unity Asset. We are planning to partner with several Unity Asset creators for this game jam. Instead of stacking all of those prizes for only the first place winner, we will allow teams to pick which creators' tools they want to redeem. The first place winner can pick their asset creators first, then the second place winner, then the third. Note that each team has to agree on the asset creator pick; members of the same team can't pick different creators. The prize section above will change as we funnel in all of our new partners in the coming weeks.
Disclaimer: The advertised prize pool value refers to the total cash value of all of our available prizes combined. The entire prize pool value cannot be attained by one singular individual and the prize pool value may not be distributed in its entirety because of team size and potential inability for some to upgrade their prizes. In other words, we will keep all leftover cash to save for future game jams. The prize value that an individual person receives is dependent on their team size (referring to the cash prize because each member will receive our assets).
This is the list of assets winners can obtain from our sponsors. Some sponsors limit the options while others keep it more open to the winners:
Each team will have a "team captain" that will submit the game on behalf of the team and will receive the cash prize from FIA. The team captain will be responsible for distributing the cash to their entire team however they want to.
We prefer using PayPal. That is our primary option. For international developers, we will prefer using Xoom because it is very simple to send money to any country. If there are issues with these platforms for your country or situation, we can talk about it; we WILL get you the money you deserve no matter what.
Disclaimer: The cash awarded to the winning team may be deducted to pay for international transaction fees. FIA is not required to use extra funds to account for international fees.
Thank you to all of our partners who help fund our game jams for the community! Let's hear a word from all of our additional sponsors:
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By submitting a game to our competition, you can become eligible to request a trial extension!
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It's our pleasure to sponsor Future Inspire Academy. Best of luck on your game jam. Go out there and make great games!"
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For this game jam, because it is smaller in submissions, we are removing the rule that you must submit a WebGL version. We will accept either WebGL or Windows because these are the platforms we can play your game in.
The first three days after submissions close will be open to public community voting. Public voting will not determine the winner of the jam as that will be from the judges, but it will engage our community, hence why we are incentivizing it. The games will be judged by the two founders of the organization. Judging will commence after the community voting period is over and the results will be released the following Friday. Participants are encouraged to rate each other's games and give constructive feedback. We hope that you will use a portion of our cash prize to invest in your game development journey. The categories we will judge are the following, we also look at which game has the most potential to be expanded upon and become successful:
Future Inspire Academy claims no rights or ownership to submitted games, but, by submitting a game to our competition, you give permission for your game to appear on videos or other promotional materials that we may create in the future.
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