Welcome!

Every year, AeLa takes a few days off of our usual production schedule to make whatever we want - a game or otherwise! 

As the name implies, this jam was initially created with the intention of lasting 48 hours. And while we still believe that 48 hours is a really great amount of time for a game jam to last, it leaves little flexibility for participants to fit it into their schedules. For this reason, we’ve expanded the window of exprmt48 to a whole week, so you can choose when and how you work on your project! Set aside two days and jam it out Ludum Dare style, or work on it a little bit each day.

Theme

This year's theme will be announced on September 5th at 12:00 pm Eastern Time. 

...but ultimately, please use this jam to work on whatever game/project you've been wanting to make for other jams, but haven't because you aren't sure if it'll come together! The "exprmt" in exprmt48 is all about getting experimental!

When is it?

This year, the jam will be open from 12pm ET on September 5th until 12pm ET on September 12th, at which point submissions will close. 

Then, at 6pm on the 12th, the team will be playing through all the submitted games on stream! 

As usual, after the jam has ended and all submissions are entered, a random participant will be selected to win an AeLa Merch Prize!

To join in the community before, during, and after the jam - as well as to watch the play-through stream on September 12th - join the Aesthetician Labs Discord server!

Check out the entries to jams in previous years! (2022 / 2023 / 2024)

Rules/Other Details

• Feel free to work solo or on a team
• Non-games are allowed, so long as you're able to make an itch.io page to submit it
• Above all, the jam is meant to be fun and experimental!
• Projects that in any way harbor mean spirit aren't fun, and aren't in the spirit of exprmt48. Keep it kind. 💗
• If you don’t keep it kind / keep to spirit of jam, AeLa retains right to pull your project.