This jam is now over. It ran from 2020-04-07 01:00:00 to 2020-04-28 04:59:59. View results

Submissions Extended until Midnight!!


Make a real game based on a fake cartridge!

Inspired by the amazing "A Game By Its Cover" game jam, but with community submitted cartridges! And now, open to the internet for the first time! 

What we're doing:

  1. Make fake video game cartridges
  2. Choose someone else's fake cartridge
  3. Make it into a real game! In 3-weeks!


cartridge submission

Before 6th APRIL - MAKE FAKE CARTS

Cartridge templates here

Upload your custom cartridge here 

Upload as much as you like, as often as you like. This is your time to shine. The only rule is to keep it radically appropriate. Have fun. Get funky. 

  • You don't have to submit a cartridge to jam.
  • You don't have to jam if you submit a cartridge


Jam Start

6th APRIL - PICK A CART, MAKE GAME

Choose a cartridge from all the submissions (not your own!). Make a game!




Jam Wrap

27th APRIL - UPLOAD YOUR GAME

Game Submission Rules:

  • Keep it appropriate
  • Use a cartridge you didn't submit, include it in your submission
  • Include instructions for installation and controls
  • Extra credit if it works on our arcade cab (really, we'll put it on our touring arcade cabinet)!


Society of Play usually has IRL kickoff and wrap-up events in Dallas Texas 🤠.

But not this time (for obvious reasons). 

Hosted By...

Society of Play UTD SGDA

Submissions(42)

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Do you like MegaMan? So does SaltMan!
Action
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An Interactive Digital Guide
Action
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Ba and friends are stuck in a Dungeon where he cant stop digging, only way to escape is to get the Gem Stones.
Puzzle
Play as Glube on a quest to get the mystical number 5 dice
Puzzle
Uncover the twisted conspiracy and fight for survival on an island of strange birds.
Shooter
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That's a lot of dudes!
Platformer
Endless dogfight-em-up for Cartridge Jam 3
Shooter
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GRAB and CHOMP all the wacky demons that have been released by... PANDORA'S LUNCHBOX
Action
Download for early access!
Shooter
The 3rd of the classic Salt Man franchise!
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"It could use a little more salt.."
Platformer
This is my first game jam.
Strategy
Shooter
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Game for the DSoP's Cartridge Jam 3
Action
Explore outer space with your ship and your IA
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Can you find the polar bear?
Puzzle
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Made for Cartridge Jam 3
Racing
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Simulation
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AaAAAaAaaaaAAaa!
Action
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Made for Cartridge Jam 3 Game Jam
Sports
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An endless falling simulator.
Bounce off the walls and take damage to rack up a High Score...but don't die!
Simulation
1-4 player split screen colorful racing madness
Racing
A game about falling into the abyss.
Defend your house from awful, nasty, annoying, undead pigeons.
Action
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This game made for Cartridge Jam 3!
Shooter
The infinite gang war has happened, and it's your job to stop it.
Action
A prototype for the "Cartridge Jam 3"
Role Playing
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Submission for the Cartridge Jam 3
Survival
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Falling Simulator
Simulation
Committing crimes with both direction and magnitude!
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Crab with a knife.
Platformer
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Endless Fall Sim
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First game jam entry I ever did. This is for the Cartridge Game Jam 3! Lots of bugs x)
Adventure
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oddventure on the secluded archipelago
Adventure
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A fun game about shooting salt into snails!
Platformer
Pick up passengers! Drop off passengers! Nitro boost your way to employee of the month!
Action
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