NOTE: Adherence to the theme is NOT mandatory for this game jam. We prefer if you incorporate it in some sense, but in the end this game jam is about making great games together with DayKnights. 

Have you ever told yourself “I’ll do it someday” and later realized that someday may never come unless you make that day today? Want to clean out your garage? Get in shape? Learn a new skill? Write a story?

DayKnight 30 day projects provide a place to commit to a personal project and share your goals, progress, and delays with a supportive community. Get started today! That link goes to a website where you can list your goals, plan your tasks, and show off progress. We also have a friendly community on our Discord server where you can find an accountabilibuddy in #30-day-projects.

The event will run officially from October 19th to November 18th to help keep the community on the same page but you can sign up at any time at the above link!

Some practical information:

Who can enter? 

 The game jam is open to anyone from the DayKnight community. You can either work solo or join as a team.

What is the theme? 

The theme is "Rise of the Machines"

This game jam's theme is all about exploring the various ways that artificial intelligence is increasingly important in game development. Submissions must somehow use artificial intelligence, or feature AI in the characters or theme. 

- Use Midjourney or Stable Diffusion to generate art for your card or board game

- Use procedural generation, behavior trees, or genetic algorithms 

- Create large simulations involving entities with simple AI behaviors that might even result in emergent complexity - Create a game about intelligent robot(s) 

- If you're feeling adventurous you can even look into machine learning. Please note this is extremely challenging and we recommend that you keep expectations very low if you go this route. For example using Unity's ML Agents https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/ml-agents and basing something off of one of their examples (e.g. using the crawler, walker, and worm demos to teach your own creature creation how to walk)

What platform can my game be on? 

 You can make your game in any engine you want, as long as it can be executed on a Windows machine.