When our interactions come first
Welcome to the May Rainbow Jam! This one is a little shorter then others as many of you lovely folks are busy being worker bees at tackling finals. We hope you still have fun together and making games that are by us for us.
Find a Team today! Head over to our handy dandy Crowdforge page to find teams for this jam and future ones.
PS - Don't forget to join us on our fabulous Rainbow Jam discord server for some good old community building and fun times. Or grab the Rainbow Jam Google Calendar to keep up with all the jamming happening!
Theme : Social Interaction
Our world is full of social interactions, both forced and chosen. But we rarely think about how many of them we actually have. Or how they affect us, change our courses, and shape our futures. Social interactions are one of the things we all have to deal with and learn to navigate. We do this without any real instruction from our parents but instead through observation of others, learning social cues, and unfortunately alot of trail and error.
Rules of Rainbow Jam
So therefore there are only two rules to Rainbow Jams :
1) Your game must focus on Queer and/or minorities OR the experiences of those groups.
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2) All games submitted have to be created during the current Rainbow Jam. You can do prep work leading up to it, in fact,I encourage it. Prep away! HOWEVER you may not start work on the actual design or the game itself until the jam starts.
You don't have to finish the game to submit it. Unfinished works or demos are allowed, encouraged, and accepted! Completing the work for the jam isn't a requirement just creating one is.
What are Rainbow Jams?
Well that's a fair question. Rainbow Jams are my answer to being annoyed at not hearing Queer and minority stories. Its my answer to wanting to see more games created by those same people. We do exist out there even if people whisper about our mythical and magical unicorn powers. And I'd like to see more of us reflected in games, and as game creators. So from now on I will be hosting a Rainbow Jam a month to help fuel that avalanche of creation through games that better reflect our community. Its time for some games #ByUs4Us !