A game jam for folks in the midwest, and those who are crossroaders at heart. Come have fun making games with folks who live in the forgettable states, but make an unforgettable impact. (For us Indiana folks, Kurt Vonnegut put it well: "I don't know what it is about Hoosiers. But where ever you go there is always a Hoosier doing something very important there." )

Lets have some fun.

Optional Compilation

Games submitted to the game jam can opt into an itch.io and limited physical release compilation, similar to the ones on Indiepocalypse, with profits shared amongst the developers in the release. 

(join our community https://discord.gg/hzjaxzBk6K )

Guidelines

• You may work as a team with other participants or as a solo developer
• One member of the team must be a midwesterner
• Projects that have already been conceptualized or are in early production that follow the themes are welcome. Please make and note new contributions developed during the jam
• Properly attributed Creative Commons, similarly licensed free-to-use, or paid assets that are available for other developers to legally obtain are allowed
• AI-generated assets are only allowed if you own the training data. (e.g. Photoshop's content-aware fill, training an entirely separate instance of AI on exclusively your work, using ML to remix art with permission from the artist, etc.)  Systems in which the training data is not owned by the dev (ChatGPT, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and similar) are not allowed at this time.
• Demos are allowed
• Entries that promote bigotry and hateful conduct, or are otherwise made in bad faith will be banned
• Have fun
• Help others have fun

Participants may release their source code for their games but aren't required. If you do release your source code please include a license of your choosing via https://choosealicense.com/.

Timeline

• June 6th - Theme suggestion and voting begins ( on our Discord, which is the link you passed above )
• June 11th - Theme winnowing begins
• June 20th 6:30pm (eastern time) - THEME ANNOUNCEMENT  In person kickoff @ Books and Brews Indianapolis ( online discussion to follow on Discord )
• June 21st - Post ideas on Discord, optionally form teams
• June 24th 7:30pm eastern time - Progress show and tell on Discord (round 1)
• June 27th 7:30pm eastern time - Progress show and tell on Discord (round 2)
• June 29th - submissions due
• July 6 - Gameplay live stream of all submitted games

Feedback guidelines

Rate on aesthetics, game play, and  engagement. Try to identify in an early phrase in your feedback the core goal the designer was going for, and then offer suggestions on how to improve on those elements. End with one positive thing they should keep doing in this or other projects.