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Game Development Society is hosting our biannual game jam for existing members and first years to experience a fun and exciting competition involving skillsets across different disciplines! As an individual, participate in this 10-day game jam where you create a video game following a theme (released on the commencing day) to win some prizes! Whether you win or not, the whole experience is purely just a fun one, to bring people together. We'll showcase your games after the game jam ends in Week 1 on Thursday where we will enjoy pizza, hand out awards (more info in the section below), and announce our plans for the year. So come onto our Discord and enlighten yourself into the world of creating video games and meeting new and diverse people!

Showcase Night

After the game jam has finished, on 15th February (Thursday Week 1), we'll be showing off the game jam submissions in-person in the Electrical Engineering Building Room G03 (Ground Level) from 6PM to 9PM. Pizza will be served free for Arc members and winners will be announced with prizes handed out. You'll also be able to socialise with fellow game developers and enthusiasts and play the games submitted to the game jam!

You must submit your game title and associated logo by Week 1 Wednesday 6PM so we can print out for the showcase night. Failure to do so and you will not have your game poster provided and may not be allocated a booth.

Each submitted game will be allocated with its own section in the room. As food is not allowed in the room, pizza, drinks, and snacks will be served directly outside the room (but still indoors). For those who plan to host their own game during this event, it is also highly suggested to attend this event 15 minutes (5:40PM) early so you can set up a laptop for other students to play your game before the event begins. Wipes will be provided so you can regularly clean your keyboards and mice.

Theme

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AxM8JT9d-LANlXbKi-5xrbJe3erpgIGp4sfL5QNqVAk/edit?usp=sharing

Rules

1. Have a sporting attitude; respect other contestants and the people around you.
2. The submission must not contain any adult (NSFW) content nor endorse or intend to endorse extremist beliefs or ideologies. Use your common sense. (e.g. If your video game intends to be part of a greater plan to overthrow the Australian Government, you should probably look at another society instead of a club for game developers.)
3. Submission must be a playable video game with a reasonable amount of effort to be eligible for a prize (so if your submission is just a Unity character controller on a square platform it does not count).
4. In the interests of fairness; you are not allowed to use your own prior work, it MUST be made available to other contestants.
5. Using publicly available third party resources worth less than <$300AUD total at full non-discounted price, such as frameworks, templates, free asset packs, and game engines, is allowed. Music and SFX are excepted from this rule.
6. You must be a current UNSW student to participate.
7. Only one game entry can be assigned per person. This means you can only be in one participating team and must choose which game entry to go with before prizes are announced.
8. Entries must be obviously related to and follow the theme.
9. Entries that are submitted past the deadline may not be counted.
10. Your game submission must be free to download and cannot require downloading other third-party software (.NET Framework is fine but Roblox isn't).
11. Your game submission must be able to run on Windows 10 and 11.

Prizes

First Prize: 1 Gigabyte branded laptop bag, 1 Wargaming water bottle, 1 shirt
Second Prize: 1 MSI mousepad, 1 Wargaming water bottle, 1 shirt
Third Prize: 1 Wargaming mug, 1 diary, 1 shirt
(Prizes may be added to this list, but these are guaranteed.)

By submitting your work to the game jam, you agree to allow UNSW Game Development Society to share, in part or whole, original or modified copies of your entry, for any and all purposes, including but not limited to promotional use, demonstration, exhibition, and education. You agree that you cannot retract this agreement after you have submitted your entry. You agree that by submitting you have full rights to redistribute your entry and that any licenses relevant to your work are included.

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