Halcyon Frequency Invites You
to our
2023 Summer Game Jam!
Dates: July 28 - July 30
We are Halcyon Frequency, a team of content creators over on Twitch. Since the team's creation in 2019, we've been hard at work building a community with a common interest in gaming. We strive to bring unique content and opportunities to our community, such as the weekly Halcyon Frequency Podcast and annual Hot Potato charity events. We are thrilled to now have the opportunity to invite you to our 2nd ever Halcyon Frequency Game Jam!
This event follows our first game jam hosted here on itch.io, which featured 8 wonderful and creative submissions! We want to continue giving you opportunities to showcase your talents, no matter where those may lie. At the end of the Jam, we will showcase your game over on Twitch (see the Guidelines for more info)!
Jammers will have 72 hours to produce a viable game concept for submission! Once the submission period has passed, the audience and other participants will have the opportunity to rate your submission, and you may rate other projects.
This time around, the theme is: Out of this World
Follow Halcyon Frequency: Discord Twitter Official Website
Halcyon Frequency Podcast: Stitcher Spotify YouTube
Guidelines
📝 General Info
- Be sure your submissions adhere to Twitch Terms of Service and do not contain offensive material.
- Please ensure that you have the proper permissions to use assets and sounds in your creations. Look for Creative Commons licensing, copyright-free licensing, or licenses that grant free personal/commercial use.
- There are no restrictions for which assets and engines you use (apart from the above requirement). Feel free to use tools and packs, but we ask that all of the game development is completed during the jam period.
- Digital card games and board games are permitted for submission, but we cannot guarantee that these final products will be showcased.
- For this Jam, the use of generative AI tools (ChatGPT, Midjourney or Github Copilot) during the development process is permitted, but you must disclose which tools were used in your submission.
All submissions will be reviewed before showcased on stream - any submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines will be skipped or removed.
🤝🏼 Teams
All members of the community are invited to participate, no matter your respective skill level(s). Even if you are a complete beginner, we want to give you the opportunity to shine!
Always wanted to Jam, but feel that you aren't able produce a viable product on your own? We have provided a space in the Halcyon Discord intended to help others locate potential Jam partners, as well as plan and coordinate with others. At this point in time, there are no restrictions on group size (subject to change, depending on interest and participation).
Group coordination: Discord
⚙ Accessibility
A few of us on the team suffer from simulation sickness, which is a form of motion sickness experienced while playing video games. People suffering from simulation sickness may feel discomfort, dizziness, headaches, increased heart rate, fatigue, sweating, or nausea while playing games that include possible triggers - see below. If you have questions about this or want to confirm if your game is simulation-sickness friendly, feel free to reach out to 2DKiri or FGsquared.
- Motion blur
- Screen shake
- Moving backgrounds
- Weather effects like snow or rain
- Smooth camera movement
- First-person perspective
- Any kind of movement that the player has no control over or which is too fast and jolting
We would also like to draw your attention to other accessibility features, such as color-blind options, subtitles/closed captioning, on-screen visualizers, and controls remapping. While inclusion of these features may not necessarily be within the scope of a weekend game jam, we would like to encourage would-be developers to be cognizant of these features even beyond the jam setting.
🎮 Judging
As for judging, anyone can leave a rating. We'll encourage our audiences to play the games and leave constructive feedback. We will also be watching as the games develop.
After the jam, we'll be playing the most popular and complete projects on our streams and providing live feedback. If you prefer us not to play your game publicly, please specify so in your submission.
Thank you for participating! We look forward to seeing what you create.
Submissions(11)
No submissions match your filter
