GDL Anniversary Jam!

Welcome to the 15th GDL Game Jam!

I cannot believe how fast these 2 years have passed by. On the 24th of August GDL will officially be 2 years old!

So to celebrate we are running a big jam! that's right!

Double Length, Double Prizes and Double Voting time! get involved and have some fun and learn to make a game quickly!

Theme

The theme is double trouble! and the number 2, Make a game relating to the number 2 in any way you like. Maybe there are 2 players, maybe 2 weapon types, maybe you have to keep subtracting numbers from each other until you end up with the number 2.  Make the best game you can!

Rules

• Contestants will have 6 Days of development time. (Friday 4th August 2017 12:00am => Thursday 8th August 2017 23:59pm) UTC Time (This is +0, Check the current time here > What is UTC TIME
• All Game engines are welcome!
• Teams are allowed (prize will be split)
• You have full creative freedom to make what you wish, However the spirit of the jam is to follow the theme and make the best game you can, If you don't you probably won't get disqualified but people tend to vote for the best game true to the theme.
• You can use any artwork or audio that is open source and free for all to use.. Free assets, paid assets and open source art is ok, Previous projects are not.. reusing previous made games is not.
• Voting is handled by Itch on a 1-5 star scale in 4 categories. (Fun, Creativity, Polish, Theme)

Submissions

• Submit your game to Itch.io and to the submission page and be sure to fill in all fields.
• Submissions must be made available to Violent Crumble (Upon request) before prizes will be awarded.
• Submissions must be either playable online eg. WebGL(Preferred) or downloaded via a zip file.
• Please be sure to link your Discord Username as that is where i will pm you!

Prizes

Since it is our special 2 year Jam all prizes are doubled!

Top 3 places will be rewarded awesome special roles in the Discord Server! As well as: If there are more than 10 Submissions Prizes are:

• 1st – Steam Game (Valued up to $30) + Special Role!
• 2nd – Steam Game (Valued up to $15) + Special Role!
• 3rd – Steam Game (Valued up to $7.50) + Special Role!

How Do I Enter This Amazing Jam?

Simple!, Join the discord and get hyped! - Or simply go to http://discord.gg/gamedev

#gamejam-chat is where you are able to ask any questions, or talk with other participants.

type !gamejam subscribe in chat to register for gamejam notifications

How do i begin?

When the GameJam starts, Tiny Rick (The discord server bot) will change his message to let people know the theme, and i will update the details on the Itch page (Here).

How do I win it?

All submissions will be posted to Itch and open to public vote for 6 days and the top 3 || 4 will be chosen.

Good luck! "May the odds be ever in your favor"

Note: The game jams are self funded, If you would like to donate and help out, You can do so below. Donate