Here's the competitive, ranked version of the second practice jam of 2025.

The same rules/theme apply as in the non-ranked version, so please be sure to read the rules for that jam completely!

You can join the non-competitive version of the jam here if you'd like as well (the link is at the top of this description).

You are allowed to enter the same game for both the ranked and non-ranked versions of this jam. You can enter both, or just one or the other if you'd like.

Theme: This time, there are two possible themes for this jam. You can choose to use one or both of them. Feel free to come up with some interesting combinations!

Theme 1: Steam

Theme 2: Glitch

Bonus Objective: We are also adding a new, optional bonus objective to the jam. The objective this time is to incorporate the game design principle of triangularity to your game.  Basically, find a way to offer your player the option between a low risk/low reward path in your game, versus a high risk/high reward path.

Hopefully, this bonus objective will help you learn about a (perhaps) new aspect of game design that you might not have heard of or considered before!