Overview

Welcome to the annual GDFG Team Jam!

Participation in each jam is voluntary, there isn't a special reward or even expectation to complete consecutive jams. Your level of participation is also completely optional. 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. 

This specific iteration of the monthly game jam is focused on working in teams, feel free to organize your own or use our matchmaking service in our community discord here.

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. If you use pre existing art, music, code, etc please leave a note about that on the submission page so others know what is original and made within the jam and what is not.

Teams - You can work with up to 1,000 people on your entry. That is a firm limit, no exceptions will be made for a 1,001st collaborator. I apologize for the inconvenience, but this requirement is based on previous bad experiences with teams of over 1,000. You can also work solo. You can work with your spouse, your kids, your dog. If you're a AAA studio with fewer than 1,001 employees, you can all join.

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 to the Monthly Game Jam 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.

Community Clause - Another safeguard to protect against spam and malware is the requirement for submitters to be a part of the discord community. We reserve the right to remove any game that was not made by at least one dev from the official Game Dev Field Guide community.

Theme

Making A Mess

Often fun to make, rarely fun to clean up

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

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.