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Work prior to gamejam start?

A topic by TheodorosBalasis created Oct 28, 2018 Views: 506 Replies: 5
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Are we allowed to work on our submission prior to the start of the gamejam?

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Not an official but I'm certain you can. I am so I hope that statement is true. 

You must know the topic for the jam, so, What will be your game about?

That topic is revealed the day the jam starts

I mean stuff like generic loading screens, menus etc.

Submitted

If I remember correctly from last year, work isn't supposed to start until the jam begins and the theme is announced.

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As with all game jams, the spirit of the event is that you do all your work during the jam. Obviously if you have a library of code that's generic enough to be used or boiler-plate type components from previous games, that makes total sense to use for a jam game: you'd be doing the same thing in an actual project, no reason it shouldn't be used in a jam.