Registration Form
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In addition to joining the game jam through itch, please fill out the registration form linked above so we can properly award prizes should you or your team win!
About This Jam
Melanated Game Kitchen is a collective of BIPOC game creators focused on the creation and curation of unique interactive experiences revolving around culture while growing in our craft. Their growing collective of artists, designers, programmers, music creators, producers, and more skilled creators can help you take your creative work to the next level.
Challenge (Must Use): "Narrative Challenge"
Is it possible to make a simple game experience, within just ONE ROOM?
Bonus Points: Use Unreal Engine Fortnite (UEFN) to create your game.
Theme Ingredients (Optional):
Ingredients are additional ideas related to the Creative Theme to help focus your creativity.
- Pomegranate: Cliffhanger
- Ginger: Environmental Plot Twist
- Onion: Character Relationships
- Chili Pepper: 4th Wall Breaks
- Persimmon: 2nd Person Perspective
- Star Anise: World Order (Unique World System)
Food Dish:
None this time.
Forming Teams
You do not need to form a team before the jam starts. During the Kickoff event on June 1st, there will be opportunities to mingle with fellow jammers in the Discord server and form teams then. However, if you do have a team in mind already and want to form ahead of time, that's totally fine!
Rules & Key Info
What Platform Can I Use?
Unreal Engine is the preferred platform, as we're focused on using and learning the UEFN platform.
Important!
- All games submitted to the jam are required to be made within the time frame of the jam. We will not accept games made prior.
- All participants must follow our Code of Conduct (see below)
Who Can Participate?
This jam is for creators of all relevant skills and experience levels, regardless of whether you have made interactive experiences before or not. Writing, art, design, music/sound design, programming, playtest expertise, etc. There will be mentors in the discord that can help out when you need.
We highly recommend submitting your in-progress game even if you don't finish over the course of the jam, as you can always submit a more complete version later. And we love to learn more about what everyone worked on! We hope to share everyone's progress, regardless of full game completion, during our closing showcase stream.
How to Participate?
- We highly recommend you join our Discord to find team members, work together, share resources, and discuss the theme! Collaboration is a key part of our culture. Most community conversation for this jam will happen via the MGK Discord
- We encourage you to jam with new people or on a team, but it is not required. We will be providing resources for team forming at the jam Kickoff and throughout the jam timeline.
- During the Showcase/Feedback Session, constructive feedback and positive reinforcement will be the focus. Building for the future and collaboration are about lifting everyone up together.
Discord Link: https://discord.gg/cbVpD5mkrd
Code of Conduct
We will not tolerate sexism, racism, or discrimination of any kind. This means, in our community and in the games you create.
Theme Works/Resources
Readings
- TBA
Videos
- TBA
Works (Non-Games)
Works (Games)
- TBA
General Cultural Works
- https://thewagaduchronicles.com/ - An upcoming Afrofantasy Online RPG & DnD Setting by Twin Drums
- https://motherlandsrpg.com/ - POC focused sci-fi RPG on twitch
- https://www.organizingforpower.org/ - In-Depth site with resources, tools, and readings for anyone that is interested in creation positive social change.
- https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics - The National Museum of African American History and Culture’s site detailing in-depth learning resources related to the history of race in America and how that affects our society now.
- www.knarrative.com - Web platform for the largest African Studies courses in the world. A great resource for learning history through an Pan-African lens.
Recommended Tools/Engines/Platforms
Digital
- Turbo
- Unreal Engine 5
- Game Maker
- Godot Engine
- Unity
- RPG Maker
- Twine
- Storyspace
- Bitsy
- Pico-8
Analog
- Tabletop RPG
- Board Game
Resources
Visit our Game Jam Guide to find even more tools, resources, and free assets. See a sample below as well.
Game Jam Guide + Resource List
Art
- OpenGameArt (2D + 3D)
- Kenney (2D + 3D)
- Game-Icons (2D)
- Textures.com (Textures)
- Poly.pizza (3D)
- TheBaseMesh (3D)
Audio
- Incompetech - Royalty Free Music (Music)
- Free Music Archive (Music)
- lmms
- Freesound (SFX)
- OpenGameArt (Music + SFX)
- Kenney (Music + SFX)
- Soniss (SFX)
Tools
- BitFontMaker2 (Fonts)
- Photopea (Art)
- Paint.NET(2D Art program)
- Asesprite (Sprite Creator)
- Krita (2D Art Program)
- Blender (3D Art Program)
- sfxr (SFX Generator)
- Chiptone (SFX)
- Tiny Tools (More!)
Previous Jams
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