Jampus is a casual, end of year jam with a twist on the prompt- It's a secret Santa jam with individualized prompts. Sign up early, submit a prompt of your own and get one at random submitted by another participant! Make games for your fellow community members! Wrack your designer brains in an attempt to fulfill the the true potential of these prompts! Games will be streamed one week after the jam ends on December 22nd over on the Indie City Games Twitch channel, followed by community Webfishing.
To submit a prompt (to be sent to another jam team) please use this form before the jam start time! If you only want to receive a prompt and don't want to submit one, you can still use the form to ensure that you get sent a unique prompt at jam start.
Optional Prompts
If you're joining late and didn't get the chance to sign up to receive a unique prompt, or simply opted out, feel free to use one of the following!
As voted on by our ko-fi supporters, your optional prompts (or modifiers!) for this jam are:
- Gingerbread House Controversy
- A Midwestern Goodbye
- Mall Santa Catastrophe
Prizes!
This jam is also sponsored by GX.games- First place in community voting will receive GameMaker Pro licenses and a GX.games feature on the site's front page! To qualify for prizes, submitted games must be submitted and published on GX.games- make sure to tag it with Jampus24, and should also fill out the Jam Entry
Form. PLEASE NOTE that GX.games currently only supports games made in Unity, GameMaker, and Godot.
Team size is limited to four people for this jam.
Schedule:
- December 5th - Deadline to submit prompts!
- December 6th, 12:00 pm CST - Jam Starts, kickoff stream on the Indie City Games Twitch
- December 15th, 11:59 pm CST - Jam entry deadline
- December 22nd, 7:00 pm CST - Jam entries streamed on the Indie City Games Twitch (Webfishing after)
Quick Links
PRIZES
Games made in GameMaker, Godot, or Unity are eligible for the GX Games Award; the chosen game will be featured on GX Games front page! To enter your game for consideration, upload your game to GX Games and tag it with Jampus2024 and ICG.
More info can be found at create.gx.games/help
Legal / IP Rules
- Developers hold all rights to the games they make.
- Developers grant Indie City Games the permission to use their game's name, screenshots, and video footage in promotional materials for Indie City Games and future events.
- Indie City Games reserves the right to not display and / or remove any uploaded games if the game content is broken, offensive or unsuitable as determined by Indie City Games’ sole discretion. This includes but is not limited to: games with harmful or prejudicial themes related to gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, appearance, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, socioeconomic status, or religion. Indie City Games reserves the right to disqualify any entry from prize qualification for any reason.
About Indie City Games
Indie City Games is a Chicago-based non-profit working to provide local independent game developers and artists with space to create, share, meet, collaborate, and showcase their work. Our mission is to foster an intentional, mutually supportive community around multimedia, interactive art.
If you want to support us in bringing more jams, events, and resources to Chicago and midwestern indie developers, consider supporting us on ko-fi! You'll get access to our extremely rad zine we publish monthly as part of it! Your dollars goes to help us bring you events like this.
For info on Indie City Games, check out our Discord!