Game Jam 2025: 

Welcome to the 2025 Game Jam, where creativity meets competition! This event is all about bringing developers together to craft unique games under a tight deadline. Whether you're a seasoned coder or a first-time jammer, we can't wait to see what you create!

Theme

The theme for this year's game jam is:

Hidden In Plain Sight.

Rules

1. Team Size: Solo or teams of up to 3-5 members are recommended, due to the Hassel of leading a team in one 72 hours, BUT there is no limit on how many people can participate in one team.
2. Be Nice: If you do Leave comments about what someone did wrong, make sure it's constructive criticism, and be kind and nice to everyone including your team. 
3. Time Limit: This is 72 hours game jam, from September 19th, 2025, to September 22nd, 2025.
4. Submissions: Submit your game via Itch.io by 9/22/2025 at 18:00:00 UTC. Include a short description and gameplay instructions.
5. Originality: All game assets (code, art, music, etc.) must be created during the jam, except for publicly available or pre-licensed assets (e.g., open-source libraries or Creative Commons assets).
6. Theme: Games must align with the theme in some way, even if it's very small.
7. Safe Content: Keep it friendly and PG-13, PLEASE — no offensive or NSFW content, none at all, thank you.
8. Tools: Use any game engine, programming language, or tools you prefer (e.g., Unity, Godot, HTML5, UREAL, etc.).
9. Artificial intelligence: No Generative AI for making Audio (This includes Music, Sound effects, etc.) and Images, you may use AI for writing code but keep it minimal, try your best to code it yourself, but you may use AI to code.

Any Breaking of the rules can lead to you being Disqualified from the Jam and banned from future jams.

Social Media

Stay connected and share your progress with the community!

• Discord: Join our Discord https://discord.gg/jfTHFWCYmm, to chat with other jammers, find teammates, and get Support.
• YouTube: We'll be streaming and making updates on my channel KickStart Studios - YouTube.

Prizes

• The top 10 General Winners, the top 3 in every other category, and the Judge's Favorite will be featured on my YouTube channel, while the Judge's Favorite and the Top 1 of every category will also be shared on my Instagram.

Judging Criteria

Games will be evaluated based on:

• Gerneral: The Overall rating of how good the game is.
• Creativity: How creatively does the game take a Twist on the Theme.
• Narrative: How well is the Story of the game.
• Visuals: How does the Art Style of the game fit the game, and how good does it look.
• Audio: Does the Sound Effects, Music, and Vocals match the atmosphere of the game.

Tips for Success

• Plan Ahead: Sketch your ideas and talk to your team, beforehand.
• Make your team the best: I know from previous experience; teams can have tension based on conflict of intrest and other topics, so please just avoid this.
• Limit the Scope: You're not making a AAA game in 3 days, stick with a simple topic and follow through with it.
• Collaborate: Use our Discord to find teammates, talk about your games, and promote.
• Double Check: Make sure your game works before you post it, and have others review it before submission.

Why Should YOU Join?

This game jam is a chance to:

• Showcase what you can do if it's making games, art, music, sound effects, etc.
• Connect with this ever-expanding great community of game makers.
• Try something new, instill new things, and make history.
• This is history in just 72 hours!

Contact

Got questions? Reach out via:

• Discord: https://discord.gg/jfTHFWCYmm.
• Email: I'm not posting my email on here, and if you have it, please DO NOT post it.

I can’t wait to see your games and see who makes it out on top!