Welcome to Game Dev Network / CFN mouth-wateringly enticing Cherry Jam!

Theme -- Dungeons!

Help! What is a game jam?

Game jams are all about creativity, teamwork and experimentation! Don't be afraid to fail, as long as you enjoy yourself and create something, you're a winner and you have a new tale to tell.  Maybe you'll stumble upon the next viral hit, maybe you'll create a buggy mess that's still entertaining as hell to play, either of those outcomes results in you creating something.

Why participate? 

As a huge game jam advocate and having run multiple jams in the past, I am never not asked "why?".  Not only does participating in a game jam give you the chance to flex your creativity and build on your portfolio, you get the opportunity to talk to other jammers, get feedback and make connections. Everyone from AAA studios to students regularly participate in jams for a reason, be part of that group going the 🌟 extra mile🌟

Oh, and winners will receive some cool prizes, see below

Who are we?
Game Dev Network is a community of game programmers, artists, sound engineers, any role remotely related to games really.
Whether you're looking for an extra teammate for a project, need help squashing that pesky bug or just want some feedback on your latest pixel art masterpiece, we're here! (Link to GDN's Discord channel: http://discord.gg/gdn ) Feel free to follow us on Twitter too https://twitter.com/GameDevNetwork_

CFN or Computerfiguur's network is a multi-person indie game review network. We work with very small indie developers to help provide their games with critique and exposure. We work in reviews primarily, but also do previews on occasion and will provide pointers and critique from a game journalists perspective. CFN consists of the Computerfiguur.com website, the CFN youtube channel, where we post daily content of all sorts of indie game material, and "The Indie Spot" podcast, where ChocolatierGames and Warsong take a look at promising indie games every other week. We like to shed light on small-scale projects to help indie devs get exposure while building up our own scale and exposure. We have a passion for what we do and work our best to ensure maximum quality in everything we create. (Link to CFN's Discord channel: http://discord.gg/cfn )

The process
1) Join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/gdn
2) Say hi! Or don't, and lurk in #gamejam and keep up to date with all the jammy news
3) ???
4) Games!

You'll have from Saturday July 22nd 00:00 GMT until Sunday July 30th 23:59 to create and submit your game.
You hold all rights to anything created during the jam. You may upload the source of your game,  this is optional and participants are under no obligation to do so.

Rules

• No NSFW content - Q: Can we still have blood splats? A: Hell yeah!
• No stolen content - Everything must be created from scratch
• Even royalty free D:? - Within reason; You're welcome to use any public domain assets, though if you stumble upon an RPG framework and reskin it, that's a bit far.
• No engine restrictions, whatever you feel comfortable with!
• Max team size: 4

Prizes

(http://www.gopublix.com/)

We are thrilled to announce that the winning team will receive a 3 hour PR Planning and Consulting session with the fantastic GoPublix Game Media Relations.
* She will help you coordinate your press kit, explain the important key collateral and information you need to have.
* A full review of your game positioning, along with advisory on how to pitch the press.

(http://trello.com /)

It's our pleasure to be partnering up with Trello for Cherry Jam! They are generously sponsoring our event by giving  three months  of Trello Gold to  ALL participants ! 

In addition, members of the winning team will each receive a high-quality die-cut GameDevNetwork sticker, we don't do that cheap stuff here! Postage is free! Winners will also receive a fancy role on the server to celebrate jam prowess.

BUT WAIT! There's more

The biggest reward for participating in jams is the fact that you have created something, in recognition of all of you wonderful people, we'll be giving away three of our highly prized stickers to random participants!

If you've made it this far you've already met any requirements to take part. Now get out there and make something awesome you crazy dev you!