Yello! Could I make a game that was mouse only?

Judges are only required to evaluate 1 hour of gameplay - meaning that they are required to evaluate ONLY up to 1 hour of gameplay, or if the game is longer than an hour, they are required to evaluate that 1 hour but have the discretion to factor in any additional time played?

Can you submit more than one game? :o

Are we allowed to stuff like downloadable content from steam if you aren't certain how to make something but you wish to have it?

Can we use an existing framework such as the SRPG Gear MZ from steam?

is there a discord for finding team members?

How strict is the theme? I'm trying to think of concepts right now, and I'm wondering if a concept with a part that is the opposite of what most people normally expect would work? Like a commonly held belief that turns out to be the opposite. I don't know if that works as going "beyond" expectations.

Hello! I never participated in a jam before. I could contribute to a game by making original music :) do I just join? do I then join forces with someone? How does it work? Sorry - never done this before :O

Hi, what about a plugin that we commissioned before the game jam started? Can we use it, or is it considered a pre-existing asset?

Hey there! I think i won`t be able to join the jam for this year, is it going to repeat for 2026 and the incoming years (or months)?

Hi, first time jammer here! What amount of planning/writing is allowed before the jam starts? Would stuff like dialogue planning or pseudo event coding be acceptable beforehand? 

Hello! Will the jam accept games in development / early access titles? (As long as they're playable of course!)

I have some questions. Can I make a game that references a game I am currently or have developed? I mean, some of the content references other games I am currently developing.

Sorry I'm from outside the US and just wanted to double-check: Would a monster catching/breeding game be acceptable? (ie: Monster Legends etc)

So we can use commissioned plugins created before the jam, then what about commissioned assets like art and sounds?

I have some quite good art assets made for my original worldview, and Ive started creating game demo a while ago. But the demo is far from complete and doesn't fit the theme. Is that ok for me to participate with a new game project made by those ready made assets?

I understand sometimes concept art/sketching out ideas is acceptable in jams so long as it's not used as is for the jam in some past events. What is the stance for this contest?

Hello! This is my first time entering a Game Jam, so I have several questions. Sorry if there are a lot.

1. How does the prize payment work?
2. I'm from another country. Does that make things difficult?
3. If I use assets (music, sprites, tiles) that were not made by me, does that affect my rating?
4. Do I need to make a cover for the game?
   If I have any more questions, I'll ask later. Thanks in advance.

i went use anouther game engine (godot engine)

I just realized I should ask my question here. I have a pre-existing world for a DnD project I am working on and I just want to know if I could use it legally for my entry in this game jam. I don't have a plot written up for the game already but I do have more lore then what some people would start with in this jam. I figured it would be wise to ask permission to use in when the jam starts before I get too attached to the idea. sorry if this is a stupid question I just never tried a game jam before or even made a complete game with any engine I just really like RPG Maker Engines and wanted to join in the jam to see if I can spark something in me. Thanks.

Hello! Is maniac's patch allowed for Rpg Maker 2003 games?

Would it be within the spirit of the event to be creative with the definitions of the theme words?

Example that I’m considering: interpreting “beyond” as a noun, like “the beyond” as in the afterlife or similar (as mentioned here), and so the phrase “Beyond Expectations” would be twisted to mean “expectations about the beyond” (and the subversion thereof).

Hello there! I already know that we can use pre-exsisting plugin and art assets. Then what about map and events from previous project?

Like, if I want to reuse an event-only pac-man mini game that I made earlier, do I have to create a new map and redo those events 1 by 1? Or it is OK to copy paste the whole mapfile?

Thanks for the reply!

Hello! Maybe a stupid question, but I didn't understand the rule "The game must be able to load on Windows". Is it possible to make a Web game that will work on a PC without a download file, or will the game be estimated by download file?

Hello! I have a question. Are we allowed to use original assets from our previous games or we have to remake everything?

have a question, Are we to only use RPG mechanics?

Do we need to credit default rpg maker assests? If so how would i go about doing that? Planning on a mix of default and fully original assests.

Hello!

I have a game concept for the jam that relies on simulated gambling as main theme of the game.

The ESRB website mentions simulated gambling in TEEN rated games, but I don't see this descriptor on the Wikipedia page linked on jam's Home Page, so I wanted to ask here if it's okay to use that theme.

Any limits to what Unity plugins you can use for a Unite game? Just the default build plugins or anything I have license to use (and credit)? Can we modify the RPGMaker Unite app itself if the mods are made during the jam? I suppose a unity plugin for building assets isn't much different than using aseprite or mspaint but wanted to check.

Good luck everybody

I see RPG maker Unite available in Unity asset store, how does it integrate with Unity? Can I use Unity to work on systems I'm familiar with and use Unite for things like map editing? Will it still be valid for the game jam? Thanks

Hello, I have another question. A few jams ago I modified a publicly available plugin (which is allowed by the plugin maker as long as I don't share the modified version) for my previous games. Since the modified plugin is not publicly available,  do I need to remodify the original plugin for the jam or am I allowed to use the one I have now?

If I made a free game for this competition where there is the potential to win some money, that counts as commercial use right?

1. If winning a prize requires commercial license for assets, if I decline the (potential) prize money, can I use assets with only free license? At least according to my logic, it has nothing to do with 'commercial' then.

2. The rules on your front page say that pre-existing assets are acceptable and for 3 weeks you've replied to all questions in the FAQ that 'previously commissioned assets are acceptable', but now I saw that you've written in this thread that you can use previous assets from your games only if you've shared the assets with the community? What's the deal with that?

Can I use non-commercial use assets?

Hi!  I checked the ESRB Teen rating which says that "aggressive depictions of violence with minimal blood" are okay, if I have an accidental death where the scene cuts off right before any blood or anything would happen but the person obviously died (as in via context, not through graphic imagery), is that okay?

Also, I saw someone say psychological horror (without strong violence) with an unsettling atmosphere and dark themes is fine - is a surgery situation where you don't see any of the parts and are just going off of vague text descriptions okay?  Thx in advance!

hello there ggg_gamejam

I wanted to ask if we can use the easy rpg player instead of the rtp.exe on rpgmaker2000/2003 games, thank you! 

Hi! Is it okay to submit the game I make for this jam into another game jam? The themes will be there for both and they both jams run the same time frame.

Hi there, just wanted to clarify something that somebody else already asked sort of. I was planning on making a game showing off the mechanics of my main WIP for the jam, is it okay to do that so long as I, for example, use my other WIP's common events as a template rather than copy-pasting? Also just in general is it okay to do a game that is sort of a showcase of mechanics for a future game? It has a separate story and characters, it's just based around the same farming system and world.

Hello, it’s my first time participating in this sort of event and I just want to ask about the development rule for the game jam. Since the game must be developed within a one-month period, how will that be monitored. Are participants required to create a game page early in the jam to track progress or is it acceptable to create and upload the game only once it’s finished. 

Hello. Where can we see the games submitted for this jam? I usually see them on the jam's page and was just hoping to see the works of others. its fine if they wont be displayed here until the end. Thank you for any answers

Are you allowed to submit one part of a whole game? If it was the first "Chapter" of the game, would that be breaking any rules? Or would a demo for a game be more acceptable?

Is the use of MKXP allowed?

Hello, i have few question about the rules

• I'm not native English, and my English it's a bit rough, i can use chat gpt / or other websites  to help me for the translation?
• I can use a free plugin for my jam project? I must credit them? Even though they are super simple and do not change the gameplay of the game?

Thanks :)

Hello! I have a question:
Will the judges give priority to the windows version if there is a browser version?

I want to add a browser version ON TOP of the windows one, but RPG Maker is hard to optimize for browser (my last browser project sometimes crashed at launch), so I'm worried the experience might get compromised a little.

If I don't win the prize or have any monetary gain, my game is considered non-commercial, right? If so, can I use assets that only allows non-commercial use?

Hello! Just to confirm, are mods that overhaul quite a bit of RPG maker (such as yanfly) allowed (assuming that we follow proper ToS rules)?

Hello! My team is using RPG Maker 2003, and we were wondering if the use of RPG Maker patches such as the Maniac's Patch or DYN RPG is allowed.
We want to use certain features of the patch to simplify eventing. Would that disqualify us from the Jam?

Hello! 2 questions: 

- Can I use http://charas-project.net/charas2/index.php for my 2k3 submission?

- Will the judging process be livestreamed or recorded somewhere? I would love to watch along and see all the submissions in one go!
(I have seen game jam submissions be livestreamed in Discord group call, for example)

Thanks!

Hi! I also wish to ask regarding the ESRB Teen rating: Are swear words okay? Not excessive, but occasional F words here and there, cursing, or any obscene language for aggressive expressions and such? Of course, nothing that's meant to be derogatory or discriminatory to any group of people.

Is it okay to make the art with limited colors like the gameboy?

It says a windows compatible version is required... 

Does this mean a downloadable windows versions,
or is a HTML5 game that can be played on windows also allowed? 

Another question GGG_Gamejam

When we submit our games, should the text file(credits) and the folder of our of rpgmaker game be included in some sort of zip or compressed file? Do you have any preference on how these should be packaged?

Are we allowed to use prexisting assets that we made ourself such as visuals and music? :0

Just wondering: considering everyone has different tastes in games and would judge things differently, are each of the games going to be played and scored by multiple judges? Or is the score given by one judge going to completely determine the outcome for a singular game?

Another question, just wanted to make sure it's okay if I have someone help test the game before I submit it other than myself. It would only be one person helping with debugging, so I figure that counts as someone on my team, but I just wanted to make sure since we aren't supposed to distribute the game before judging begins.

Hi. Or did I miss it or is it not written, as I understand it, the development of the game should be strictly based on the RPG Maker engine

hi

how can see the other submissions

Do judges start playing entrees before the end of the period? 

I just fixed a quite important (visual) bug, and hope the judges will see the updated version, instead of the bugged one.

Hello! Was just wondering if using ChatGPT with helping create my plugins ok? The biggest use I had of it was creating a template of what I wanted and then going from there. Most of the time though it's for debugging, like if there are undefined errors and whatnot. Thanks!

I see that in ESRB Teen rating, partial nudity is part of it. So I have a question regarding this: Is it okay to have a character who's supposedly naked in an art, but his private parts are covered/censored/blurred out?

Hello,

I have never submited before, do we have to zip the file? Send it as it normally is when hitting Deployment?

Thanks!

WIlliam 

Hi, just wanted to check something. I submitted my game early. If I updated version of my game that's up on itch.io to fix some bugs that came up after I submitted the game to the jam, do I need to resubmit? Or do the games get pulled from the current page at the time of judging?

Oh yeah, a suggestion: can you ask the judges to write the scores per category when people get their results? Like in the rpg maker forums someone said that in one of these jams they got the points per category, but in some other jam only the total score. I think seeing the results per category would be fun and if the judges are anyway giving them per category, writing them down takes just a moment.

Will there be community voting in addition to judges? Jams without community voting end up being alot less fun cause there's no engagement after submission.

Thanks

Hello, is this too much for ESRB Teen? 

What's the time expectancy for evaluating the submissions and announcing winners?

This isn't exactly a question related to the jam process itself, but is using the banner art of the jam for YouTube thumbnails allowed? I was thinking of playing some jam games on stream, so I wanted to make sure first.

Are we allowed to make new devlog posts (not new file uploads) on our project pages now that the deadline has passed, or do we have to leave the project page “frozen” until after the judging period is over? :)

Hi,I have already delivered my game and I have already been notified of a possible fatal error, I wanted to know if it was allowed to make this kind of changes

Leaving aside that the error affects a frequent mechanic in the game (thought among other things on the Game Jam Theme) and that from the tests its execution is arbitrary so the worst kind of error to solve (I don't think I can solve it quickly) sometimes there is almost immediately, others only very rarely (as of now the error happens to me 1 time out of 7)

So I also wanted to understand if this would make the game invalid according to the criteria (I already made sure that it is also possible to finish it)

P.S. English is not my native language, when I can for my projects I get people who know it better than me to supervise me, but this message was made with an automatic translator, so I don't know how clear it can be

I'm using someone else's assets in my game. I have them credited in the end credits but do I need to credit them elsewhere? Should I make a dev post or upload a text document?

I put my credit info into a game event, is that mandatory to have an independent credit file? If so, is there any chance I can upload credit info, or posting credit on game page to meet the requirement?

Hi there! Quick question about publishing rights. Say I decide against selling the game jam version of my game, but I do want to make an expanded, longer version of it, with better graphics and an enhanced story, do I still need to reach out to Gotcha Gotcha first before trying to sell the revised version?

Specifically, is it the game we submitted that is under contract, or the IP of the game itself?

Sorry if this has been addressed, but am I still able to update this project, or do I need to make a new game page to continue its development?
I just want to make sure I wont be DQ'd if I keep updating the game while its being judged now that the deadline is up. I have no issue waiting until judging is over or even making a new game page and keeping this "Game Jam Edition" untouched.

Is there a chance to get a list of the twitch streams and what games are played in those twitch streams? 

I see some judges mention a “round one”. Is the process going to be divided in rounds? Any details that you can disclose how that works?