🎮Jam of the Month Cour 1

✨ Theme: Home Alone 🏠

🕹️ UPLB GDS! Ready to craft your own game? Dive into the debut Jam of the Month  (JOM)  from the Project Department (A.Y. 2025–2026)!🔥

JOM, short for Jam of the Month, is an internal month-long game jam held for all members of the UPLB GDS. The JOM is a low-stakes, non-competitive game jam held strictly to provide a conducive and open learning environment for its members in the field of game development. In it, participants can learn from workshops, collaborate with other members, learn new skills, and unlock their creativity.

Schedule

The December JOM Event will officially start at December 13, 2025 to January 12, 2026

Registration - Dec 01 to Dec 12, 2025

Workshops - Dec 13 8PM and Jan 03 8PM

Unveiling of Theme - Dec 13

Milestones

Milestone 1 - Dec 20 (GDD, Concept Art, and Paper Prototype)

Milestone 2 - Jan 05 (Working Game Loop Prototype)

Milestone 3 - Jan 10 (Near-fully Polished Game)

Submission Date - Jan 12 11:59PM

Voting Period - Jan 13 to Jan 18

Milestones

Milestones are a new feature in this JOM. Every few weeks, teams are required to submit products that ensure each team is on schedule. Teams are awarded bonus points for punctuality when submitting milestones on time. 

The requirements are:

Milestone 1 - GDD, Concept Art, and Paper Prototype

A GDocs template of the GDD can be found here: JOM GDD Template. Teams may compile their outputs on their own Google Drive, and send it to any of the Project Department members. 

Milestone 2 - Working Game Loop Prototype

Teams will submit in this jam a prototype version of their game with a working core gameplay loop as described in their GDD. Each team can check out the other teams' games.

Milestone 3 - Near-fully Polished Game

Teams will now submit a version of their game incorporating most of its art, sound, and other polish elements that make the game feel alive. This version may not necessarily be the final version.

The final version of the game will be submitted on January 12, 2025, 11:59 PM.

Awards

Winners will be voted on according to these categories:

🥇 1st Place

🥈 2nd Place

🥉 3rd Place

🎨 Best Visuals

📖 Best Storytelling

🎵 Best Audio

🎮 Best Gameplay

Teams with the highest points in punctuality will be given another award:

⏱️ Most Punctual

This award contributes to the final placing of all teams.

For the slides presented on the Unveiling of Theme held last December 13, 2025, kindly visit the following Canva link: DECEMBER JOM SLIDES