This event will give you 9 days to create games using GDevelop, the free and open-source game engine. Once the submission period is over, your game will get rated by other participants, and you will also get to rate other games.

The GDevelop Game Jam promises to be an exciting, diverse, and inclusive event where you can challenge your skills. Participants from around the globe will join, giving you the chance to connect with fellow developers, share your games, and most importantly, create a game from scratch to completion!

You need to register for the event right here on itch.io in order to participate. Please also join our Discord server for all informations and notifications regarding the jam, and to meet the other participants. 

Whether you finish your game or not, you'll have an amazing experience, learn tons and meet cool people from around the world!

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Here are the rules for participating in this event:

• You must use the GDevelop game engine to make your game. The engine is free and open-source. You can find it on our official website.
• The games must not include offensive, discriminatory, or NSFW content of any kind. This is an event for anyone and everyone! So don’t be rude. 
• Games must be submitted through itch.io for rating as well as gd.games (see videos below for instructions).
• Games must be published to be played on browsers, without requiring extra hardware.
  
• Any text must be in English.
• You may team up! And we encourage it. You can find teammates on our Discord server. The maximum number of team members allowed is 4. 
• The game itself must be made within the jam time period, and you may not submit any work or updates during the community voting period, nor during the judges' voting period. (Three days after community voting ends)
• You may use pre-made, publicly available, and purchased assets, as well as GDevelop's built-in asset library, or other assets you have the legal rights to use. Just remember to credit properly. 
  
• You can use pre-existing events and extensions. But do not write events specifically for this jam, ahead of time.
  

Creating games with other people is a fantastic experience and is also very helpful to reach the end of the jam with a finished game, so do think about teaming up if you haven't. And if you're new to making games, we've created a page to help with Best practices and How to Make a Good Game: 5 Tips & Mistakes to Avoid.

All games will be rated in the following categories:

• Fun & Game Design: Do you want to continue playing? How enjoyable is the game? Is the interface usable?
• Audio: How nice does the game sound? Does it implement cool music and sound effects?
• Graphics: How nice does the game look? Is the art nice to look at?
• Originality & Innovation: How often did you say "Wow! That's unexpected and clever" when playing?
• Theme: How relevant is the game to the jam's theme?

Don’t worry about this too much, though. The most important thing is that you participate, have fun, and stick to the jam’s theme! Once the submission period is closed, you will have one week to rate other people’s games.

We'll look at the community's highest rated games to decide the winner - though if there is a hidden gem in the rest, we might pick it to be in our winner list!

The 10 games with the highest overall scores will be declared Community Winners.
All developers involved in creating these games will get the opportunity to be considered for the Judges’ Awards.

Community Winners

Teams behind the top 10 community-voted games will receive 1,000 in-engine credits (Read the FAQ for distribution), and each team member will receive a special Game Jam Winner Discord role.

The Judges’ Awards

All 5 games picked for the Judges’ Awards will be featured on gd.games for 7 days. Each team member will receive the special Game Jam Winner Discord role, and each team will be given the following prizes (Read the FAQ for the shares).

1st Place:

• €400 Cash (From CrazyGames)
• CrazyGames distribution deal
• 6-Month Gold subscriptions
• Spine Professional License
• 2 Copies of Aseprite
• 1 Copy of Kenney Game Assets All-in-1
  
• 1 Copy of Asset Forge Deluxe

2nd Place:

• €250 Cash (From CrazyGames)
• CrazyGames distribution deal
• 6-Month Gold subscriptions
• 2 Copies of Aseprite
• 1 Copy of Kenney Game Assets All-in-1
  
• 1 Copy of Asset Forge Deluxe

3rd Place:

• €150 Cash (From CrazyGames)
• CrazyGames distribution deal
• 6-Month Gold subscriptions
• 2 Copies of Aseprite
• 1 Copy of Kenney Game Assets All-in-1
  
• 1 Copy of Asset Forge Deluxe

4th Place:

• €100 Cash (From CrazyGames)
• CrazyGames distribution deal
• 6-Month Gold subscriptions
• 1 Copy of Aseprite
• 1 Copy of Kenney Game Assets All-in-1
  
• 1 Copy of Asset Forge Deluxe

5th place prize:

• €100 Cash (From CrazyGames)
• CrazyGames distribution deal
• 6-Month Gold subscriptions
• 1 Copy of Aseprite
• 1 Copy of Kenney Game Assets All-in-1
  
• 1 Copy of Asset Forge Deluxe

This jam is sponsored in part by CrazyGames, Aseprite, Spine, and Kenney!

CrazyGames is a website with a variety of awesome free online games playable directly in your browser!

Aseprite is a pixel art and animation software used by creators all around the world.

Spine is a 2D animation software primarily used to create skeletal animations for video games.

Kenney is an asset creator and game developer known for creating thousands of free, high-quality game assets used worldwide.

How to Submit a Game?