Make a game with Defold and win rewards!

Annual community online event and 2-week long jam for making a game with Defold!

Twist on a Classic

Treat it like a helper for initial idea, theme can be stretched to fit your game, in the end - it's 2025 - we already have a ton of classics!

+ places 1-5 can select each one additional reward from the pool sponsored by the organisator: The Complete Defold Course Bundle by Zenva, Aseprite, Tilesetter, Immortals of Aveum, The Thaumaturge, Nobody Wants To Die

Also you can use the hashtag #madewithdefold in social media ;)

1. Your game(s) or asset(s) should be made with Defold, fit the theme and be submitted in the jam period, to be eligible for rewards.
2. Your game should be playable on PC or in a browser (HTML5). It should not require additional external hardware or software to run.
3. Please be mindful and respectful of your peers! The game should not contain: pornography, racism, hate speech, nothing illegal etc.
4. You must be aged 13 or older (otherwise your parent/guardian needs to submit your creation).
5. There is no limit on the number of people per team, and people can be in multiple teams. Only one person needs to join Itch and submit the game. However, if others on the team also join Itch, they can be tagged as contributors. (On your game's itch page, pick "Edit", "More", "Admins", and follow the instructions).
6. You can submit more than one game/asset.
7. You can use whatever art, audio and code assets/libraries you have the legal right to use.
8. Your game belongs to you! We claim no rights or ownership of your game. We do request the right to use your game only for purpose of publicizing the game jam. Any game submitted to the jam may show up in a Unfolding Gamedev YouTube video without your express permission. If you take part in the game jam and submit your game, it means you agree to this and all Rules.
9. Your game can participate in other game jams as well (if those are fitting given jam rules of course).

Scores and Rating

1. After jam period is over, everyone is invited to play the games and rate games in Overall category, which will be revealed at the end of the voting period and which ranking determines winners. There are additional categories "Presentation" - for best audiovisuals and art style and "Game Design" for best game design, feel and gameplay!
2. Winners will be announced after voting period. If you will be a winner, host of the jam will be trying to contact you in order to get you a reward, so please leave a contact info and be responsive to make it quick! ;)
3. Steam Gift Cards are rewards from The Defold Foundation - please add Defold to the friends on Steam to make the process faster.

It's an unofficial Game Jam driven by a community, however the Defold Foundation support it! ;) Things shouldn't, but may change, for example by requests of peers, to suit the community as best as possible and we will inform you every time it does.

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Organized by Paweł Jarosz since 2020.
Design and artworks by Selim Anaç.
Thanks to The Defold Foundation for sponsoring the rewards and Q&A!
Thanks to Crazy Games for presenting CG for developers and Q&A!
Thanks to Colyseus's creator Endel Dreyer for presentation and Q&A!
Thanks to rest of the speakers from our community for their valuable presentations and workshops: Eugene Mozok, Maksim "Insality" Tuprikov, Asatte Games and Schlista.

Defold Assets Portal
Games made with Defold
Ben James' list of games + source
Bjorn Ritzl's (Defold team) examples
#MadeWithDefold Jam 2020
#MadeWithDefold Jam 2022
#MadeWithDefold Jam 2023 
#MadeWithDefold Jam 2024
Unofficial Defold Game Jam #1
Unofficial Defold Game Jam #2