The theme for this year is...
Christmas!
This is your Challenge. Ṭo create a game between now and December 1. Even if the theme is used a couple of times its ok, the only rule is to have that theme incorporated in your game. The Winners will be announced on December 2rd or 2rd.
Interpret the theme however you want...
- How to participate in the Jam
- Create a game based on the theme that's announced by Us
- Sign up for a GitHub account if you don't have one already.
- Join the BJG 2021 Game Jam.
- Create a new public GitHub repository to store the source code and any assets you’re able to share for your entry and push your changes before December 1
- Submit your game on itch.io.
- Add the tag #bgj2021 on your game and on Twitter (if you have one)
- Voting
Voting will open shortly after the jam ends and is open to everyone who’s submitted a game. Entries will be rated on the following categories: Overall, Gameplay, Graphics, Audio, Innovation and Theme Interpretation. Voting will end on Jan 1st at 13:37 PT.
As always, we'll highlight some of our favorites games on the GitHub Blog, and the world will get to enjoy (and maybe even contribute to or learn from) your creations.
- Never created a game before?
- JavaScript? You might be interested in Phaser.
- C++ or C#? Look at Godot, Unity and Unreal Engine.
- Proficient with Python? Check out Pygame or Godot (Godot uses GDScript, which is similar to Python).
- Dangerous with Java? Take a look at libGDX.
- In love with Lua? Check out LÖVE or Defold. Like retro games too? Drop everything and check out LIKO-12!
- Fond of Flutter? Take a peek at Flame.
- Gearing up with Go? You might want to look at Ebiten.
- Dont know code? then you can look at GDevelop (Web version & Downloadable version).
- Never used version control GitHub before!
- Git Documentation: everything you need to know about version control and how to get started with Git
- GitHub Help: everything you need to know about GitHub