Overview

Welcome to the annual GDFG Team Jam!

 You have the full month to complete your game, but you are not required to use any particular amount of it. You could make a game in a few hours, or the full month and anything in between. 

Voting will open for a week after the jam period and we encourage everyone to vote, even if you don't complete this month's challenge.

Rules

Pre-Existing Work - You are free to work with any existing assets. This includes store-bought or self-made assets. If you have permission from the creator to use it, you have permission from us. The only requirement here is that production of the game itself must start and end within the jam period.

Teams - Hopefully You have been matchmade into teams already via the community discord. Feel free to add members to your team at any point during the month.

Content - Hate speech and bigotry will not be tolerated. Any submissions found to contain these will be removed and the author will not be afforded an opportunity to resubmit. Beyond that, any submissions containing mature content should be flagged as such. Failure to flag mature content will also result in removal of the submission.

Exclusivity - Unfortunately, the volume of spam submissions has been causing some trouble for our moderation. In an effort to curb these types of submissions, we're requiring that submissions be exclusive to our jam. I understand why someone might want to do that, but we don't really feel that posting your game in multiple jams really fits the spirit we're trying to cultivate.

Theme

One Time Use

**The theme is not mandatory. It's simply a suggestion to help your creative process.** 

**This goes doubly for the modifier, which is intended as an additional challenge for those looking for one.**

Modifier

Speed Run Friendly

Shoot for a 5-10 min play experience with high replayability.

Community

This jam is brought to you by the Game Dev Field Guide community. The Game Dev Field Guide is a podcast with the purpose of educating beginner to intermediate game developers on the finer points of game development. Where most podcasts tend to focus on the broader strokes of game development as a career and hobby, the Game Dev Field Guide puts a focus on praxis and practical theory. The community around this podcast can be found here.

Participation in the Discord is optional, but it's an easy way to improve your experience with the jam and collaborate with other developers.