Welcome

Welcome all developers, artists, and designers to our Summer Rhythm Jam, a 7‑day game jam hosted by Bezi that celebrates the pulse‑pounding joy of rhythm games! From Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero to Beat Saber, matching actions to the beat has kept players hooked and grooving for decades.

Your game must be rhythm‑based at its core: gameplay should synchronize with music or a steady beat. Beyond that, it’s your stage - 2D, 3D, VR, side‑scrolling, top‑down, first‑person, anything goes. Feel free to weave in puzzle timing, narrative adventures, or unexpected twists. Just make sure the tempo drives the challenge and rewards players for staying on the beat as the intensity builds.

Theme

The theme is: Summer Adventure! This can be sunset drives and beach-town boardwalks to rain-soaked campgrounds and passport-stamped adventures. Let your last roadtrip, beach day, vacation, or backpacking experience fuel your creativity for this jam and kick us off into this summer season!

About Bezi

Bezi is a development assistant for Unity designed to help with the repetitive and boilerplate parts of building a game. Bezi has real-time context of your project - codebase, assets, scene graph, components, and more - to provide the most accurate and customized assistance. It can help with coding and script writing, debugging and optimization, and technical explanations. You can download and use Bezi here.

Join our Discord

Join the #bezi-game-jam channel in the Bezi Discord to find teammates, share progress, get feedback, and more! If you have any questions, issues, or feedback on Bezi, please share them in the #bezi-product channel.

Prizes

The winners will all receive cash prizes and 3 months of Bezi for free.

1. 1st Place - $300
2. 2nd Place - $200
3. 3rd Place - $100

Participants who submit feedback on Bezi as part of their game jam submission will receive a $10 Steam gift card. The optional feedback form will be a part of the game submission process.

Rules & Requirements

1. You must use Unity. Other programs, such as Blender or Photoshop, are allowed.
2. You must use Bezi in some capacity as a part of the development process.
   1. You can download Bezi here.
      
3. Games must be built for this jam. This means templates and duplicates of existing games are not considered. Games made for other jams will also NOT be considered— if you have an idea that you used for another jam that you think would fit well, you must rebuild it fully for it to be considered.
4. Teams are not required, but are capped at 3 members.
5. You must submit your game by the submission deadline. No late submissions or editing after submission are allowed.
6. The primary game language must be English.
7. Games cannot include offensive, discriminatory, or NSFW content.
8. You may use pre-made, publicly available, or purchased assets. Please credit the original creators in your submission.

Determining Winners & Criteria

We will be using a rating system. All submitter and contributors will be able to vote and rate, but will be subject to a rating queue of 3. This means that you will have to rate 3 random submissions before rating other submissions to keep the voting fair. You will be voting the games based on the following criteria:

• Fun & Replayability: Is the core game loop addicting to play? Is it challenging without being impossible?
• Visuals & Theme: Is the art style unique? Are there visual bugs? How well does it adhere to the theme?
• Music & Audio: Does the game sound good? How well are audio and music used?
• Unique Mechanics: Does the game bring something new to the rhythm game genre?

Timeline

• Submission Start Time: June 5th at 8:00am PT/11:00am ET (3pm UTC)
• Submission Deadline: June 13th at 11:59pm PT/ June 14th at 2:59am ET (6:59am UTC)
• Voting Deadline: June 16th at 11:59pm PT/ June 17th at 2:59am ET (6:59am UTC)