What is GJL Game Parade?
It's the official Game Jobs Live game jam! A week-and-a-half long marathon to showcase your talent and to have fun together building short experiences or tiny, fun, games. As usual, we're partnering with many industry veterans and famous studios who are graciously providing feedback to help you reach the next level:
Theme - FEEDBACK LOOP!
Schedule (UK Time) NEW TIMINGS
1️⃣ 12th June 7PM Theme Reveal livestream
2️⃣ 22nd June 11.59PM Submissions Uploads Closure
3️⃣ 22nd - 4th July Projects Playthrough Livestreams (intermittent)
4️⃣ 3rd July 11:59PM Community Judging Closure
5️⃣ 4th July 4:30PM Awards livestream and showreel
Any questions? Please refer to the F.A.Q. below, post on the Game Parade's community page or the official Discord server
Previews of some of the games created at the last Game Parade jams here!
FAQ
Who can join?
Anyone! From every part of the world, of any age. We allow teams and solo developers: show your skills, have fun, enlarge your portfolio! We suggest teams to have no more than 6 members, it may become tricky to manage larger ones.
Tools and Shortcuts
There are hardly any restrictions on tools, software, asset/sound packs you can use during the jam; as long as you ensure yourself the legal right to use them. On submission, you'll be asked to declare and list any packs you may have used. We encourage teams to build as much from scratch as they want, that's the fun of a jam!
Avoid Generative AI, please
The only restriction is that we ask that you do not use generative AI to create assets, such as art or writing your dialogue. There will be other people without teams in these disciplines who can greatly benefit from working in a team with you, and professionally created assets that already exist if you are solo!
This way we can ensure a consistent and accurate quality bar for our judges.
What do we mean by "generative AI"? ChatGPT etc is - game AI such as pathfinding, enemy logic etc is not.
If in doubt, get in touch, the moderators are happy to provide clarity and workarounds.
Submission
The projects need to run on Windows or browser. You can support other platforms, but ensure one of the two above to make the wider audience play your game! On submission, you'll be asked to provide a link to download and inspect your project's source code. That's not part of the evaluation process, but we may have some judges wishing to do it.
Rating & Judging
The Community plays and rate games to assign the "Best Game Award". Moreover, we will have specific "Judge's pick" categories:
| Best 2D Art | Best 3D Art | Best Art Direction | ||
| Best Game Design | Best Itch Page | Best Level Design | ||
| Best Narrative | Best Original Audio | Best Solo Game | ||
| Technical Accomplishment | Most Fun | Best Use of Theme | ||
| Best User Interface | Most Commercially Viable |
Ownership
Every game and content you will submit to the jam page is yours/your team property. Game Jobs Live will never claim any ownership. But by taking part you give permission to Games Jobs Live to show any submission in YouTube etc videos and livestreams.
Official Channels
We created an official Game Parade Discord server you may want to join to look for teammates or have confrontation and support during before and during the jam. Here's the link: Games Jobs Live Discord . You'll find channels for Devlogs and Post Mortems: we highly encourage teams to write a daily progress report to underline the challenges and the solutions your team applied, sharing how your team works and how it overcomes any obstacle or issue. Let's make this a shared experience so we can all grow together!
Thanks for joining us. If you have any doubt or question join our Discord server: we're eager to solve and answer! Take your chances to expose your talent to the industry, you'll never know! We hope everyone will have a lot of fun!
Game Jobs Live Staff