Welcome to the third edition of the microStudio game jam! Once more let's have fun making games together :-)

This game jam is open to everyone ; whether you are a beginner or experimented dev, no matter how much time you can reasonably spend during the official 9 days of the jam, do not hesitate, join and make something! All participants get a special Game Jam Contender achievement in microStudio. After the jam, the 3 top rated games get a unique achievement for their rank too. 

The game must be made with microStudio. There is a theme which you will discover below. There are optional requirements for bonus points too.

Theme

Because it is our 3rd jam, because we are in September and 9 = 3 x 3, because it is 2022 and number 2 appears 3 times in it, because all this can't be a pure coincidence... The theme is:

3

THREE, like in 3 powers, 3 elements, 3 skills, 3 potions, 3 pieces...

The gameplay you will create has to be strongly connected to the number 3.

Requirements

You should create your microStudio game poster and itch.io game poster as a microStudio cartridge, using the cartridge design created by Vampirics (big shoutout to Vampirics!)

Game Poster on microStudio.dev (only if you publish on microStudio.dev, that is not required):

Your game visual with title goes into the dark grey area of the cartridge. The image must be set as project poster (drop the template above in the sprite list in microStudio and rename it to "poster").

Example game poster on microStudio.dev

(Please Vampirics forgive me, and to everyone: this is just to illustrate, you can do better than that!).

Game "cover image" on itch.io (required): template ; use right-click and Save Image As ; your design goes in the dark gray area:

Game cover image on itch.io: example:

Optional Requirements

There are optional requirements for bonus points. They are not mandatory, but each one of them will provide one bonus point:

• self created assets
• color cycling animations
• couch multiplayer
• palm trees
• a dog

About color cycling (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_cycling): you can fake the color cycling using a standard animated sprite in microStudio, it will be accepted.

Dates

The jam officially starts on September 17th at 0:00 CEST, for 9 full days

Submissions can be made until the jam ends, on September 25th at 23:59:59 CEST

The rating period opens as soon as the jam is ended and will last 7 days.

Submissions

Games must be submitted here on itch.io, during the jam time. You may submit updates of your game during the whole jam time. You can also publish your game on microstudio.dev, but you are not required to. Whenever you publish on microstudio.dev, make sure to mark the game with the tag "jam3".

Rating and results

The rating period opens as soon as the jam is ended. 

Links

microStudio engine:

• Downloadable on itch.io: https://microstudio.itch.io/microstudio
• Online: https://microstudio.dev

Official Discord: https://discord.gg/BDMqjxd

microStudio Forum: https://microstudio.dev/community

Thanks

Special thanks to Vampirics for designing the cartridge visual, to HomineLudens for his help and feedback on the theme and setup of the jam. Also special thanks to TinkerSmith, initiator of the microStudio jam events!