GDD Bear Jams – Fall 2024

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This jam is now over. It ran from 2024-11-02 01:00:00 to 2024-11-03 23:25:00. View 10 entries

✍️ DETAILS ✍️

Welcome to Game Design and Development at Berkeley's Bear Jams!

This event is an online game jam, where all submissions will have a live playthrough!

You can participate remotely on our Discord server: https://tinyurl.com/BearJamsDiscord.

There will also be an optional in-person kickoff for brainstorming and theme reveal on the UC Berkeley campus!

And after the main jam is over, we will have a full Stream Week, where you can see your game played live, ending things off with our Finale on Friday.

Participation is open to everyone, not just Berkeley students! There is no difference between teams with and without students, however, there is a team size limit of 5 people! We're so excited to see all your wonderful games!!

🙀 COLLAB W/ SUPER JUMP GAMES 🙀

This semester we are collaborating with Super Jump Games! They are a game studio developing games in UEFN and they are kindly sponsoring Bear Jams prize pool, awarding $400 across the top 3 UEFN entries for the Jam.

Please join Super Jump Games server for technical support for UEFN during the jam (they will set up a dedicated channel for that): https://discord.gg/QaV6n8yJ All UEFN submissions will be judged by UEFN creators and studio founders, ranked separately from other submissions. Please join the Bear Jams Discord server for more details.

A recorded UEFN workshop will be released later in the week. For pre-workshop setup, please 1) install Fortnite and 2) UEFN (https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/fortnite--uefn).

👫 TEAM FORMATION MIXER 👫

Our Team Formation Mixer will be on 10/27 from 2-3 PM on Discord (in Mixer Main) If you're interested in participating but don't have a team, or just want to check out the vibes, come along and we will make sure everyone leaves with a team in time for the jam!

😁 IN-PERSON KICKOFF 😁

The jam will start with an in-person kickoff from 6-8 PM PST on Friday, November 1st, where we will announce the theme and provide a space for people to form teams and work together. We will also stream the beginning of the kickoff on Twitch. The location for the kickoff is Wheeler 120.

🗓️ TIMELINE 🗓️

(All times are PST)

JAM

[10/27] Friday

2 PM: Team Formation Mixer (on Discord)

[11/1] Friday

6 PM: In-person Kickoff + Kickoff Stream on Twitch

~6:30 PM: Theme Announcement

[11/2] Saturday

All day: Make your games! If you need help, ask in the "Talk to Staff" category of the discord. Make sure to tag one of the hosts!

[11/3] Sunday

3 PM: ALL SUBMISSIONS DUE

STREAM WEEK

[11/4 - 11/7] Submission Playthroughs

7-8 PM: Streaming playthroughs of submissions on Twitch

[11/8] Finale

7-8 PM: Doing a retrospective of all submissions and announcing winners! Streamed on Twitch

✨ SCORING ✨

Bear Jams scoring is handled by a panel of judges from the GDD Staff. We judge based on the following 5 categories:

Fun: How enjoyable is the gameplay/game design
Theme: How unique/creatively the game interprets the theme
Art: All visuals, color scheme, cohesion
Sound: Any SFX, music, or other audio
Judge: A final category for judges to give their overall opinion on the game, considering it as a whole

We only judge based on the assets made by the team. Using assets from other sources is okay, but they MUST be credited. Any game with uncredited work will be disqualified.

Heavy reuse of assets made before the event is highly discouraged and may affect judging scores.

We will NOT be releasing our raw scores. However, feel free to ask judges for feedback on your game!