Sacramento Developer Collective would like to present our next Game Jam! As part of our monthly Game Jam series, here's our #RetroJam for this Feb 2021 to come together and celebrate our differences.

On February 27, National Retro Day takes us back to a time before smartphones and the internet.

Every generation looks back and asks, “Remember when?” This celebration indulges our love for the good ol’ days while remaining in the present.

No matter the decade, pick a point in time where people talked more face to face than text to text, had dinner at home around the table and the kids played games that didn’t require the internet.

What’s your retro? On National Retro Day, swoop the hair into a mile-high beehive or strut those eight-inch bell bottoms. Can you maximize the curls for a stellar Afro? Don’t hesitate to break out the old roller skates and see if you still have those mad skills. Tie the hair up with a polka dot bandana and strike muscle pose like Rosie the Riveter. Maybe you prefer a moonwalk, a leather jacket, and a single glove.

With no smartphones, internet, and social media, we spent more time focused on each other when we were together. Each moment recorded in memory for us to look back retrospectively and not for the whole world to see.

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This won’t be a ranked jam, so it’ll be a free-for-all for any and all submissions! 

This is a jam where you're welcome to take on your backlogged and/or unfinished games, and finish your game within this 24 hour Game Jam! If you participated in our Global Game Jam 2021 event, then you’re more than welcome to work on that project and expand it however you like, and use that game to publish in this jam! 

This game jam will be running for 24 hours (with time for sleep of course, or no sleep at all) with additional resources being shared through our social media and more! So stay tuned!

Our theme will be announced on the day of the jam! 

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If you'd like to create teams, come join us in our Discord and we have some Game Jam channels for you to work in :)

After submissions, we’ll be openly voting and browsing through other people’s games throughout the week until the following weekend until results are in!

Would this be your first? Sometimes diving headfirst is the best way!

A good way to get started is to follow tutorials online. Experimenting with the tutorials you find is a great way to make something your own.

2D Game in Unity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on9nwbZngyw

3D Game in Unity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlKaB1etrik

Don’t know how to code, create art, or sounds? That’s totally fine as there are lots of art and audio assets available in all game engines and online. 

Here’s a list of example Engines, Tools, and Add-ons that don’t need coding: 

• Unity Tools
  • Bolt - Visual Scripting Unity Tool (Now Free!)
  • Playmaker - Visual Scripting Unity Tool
  • Fungus - Make story games with next to no code in Unity 3D
  • Ink - Story game tool, integrates with Unity and Web Games
  • Ink-Fungus Gateway - Tool that combines Fungus and Ink
  • Shader Forge - Make beautiful shaders with no code

• Twine - an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.
• PowerPoint Presentation Software
• Ink - Story game tool, integrates with Unity and Web Games
• Puzzlescript - an open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine
• Bitsy - a little editor for little games or worlds
• GBStudio - Make gameboy ROMs with visual scripting and drag n' drop
• Sok-Stories - a fun and accessible way to make, play and share games
• BuildBox - No-Code mobile game development
• GDevelop - An open-source, cross-platform game engine
• TyranoBuilder - Visual Novel engine, drag and drop
• Stencyl - Make iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Mac, Flash, HTML5 games with no code
• GameFroot - HTML5 No Code game engine
• GameMaker Studio- drag and drop game development
• RPG Maker MV (And Other RPG Maker Variants) - RPG game creation software
• Unreal Engine - AAA game development using visual scripting
• GameSalad- drag and drop, with an amazing behavior library  
• Godot - a 2D and 3D, cross-platform, free and open-source game engine
• eko.com - a choose your own adventure platform with videos
• Clickteam Fusion - drag n’ drop game engine functionality
• Construct 2 or 3 - HTML5-based 2D game editor using visual scripting
• CopperCube 6 - Create 3D games without programming
• Scratch - MIT No Code Game Tool
• TTRPGs and other Digital Table Top Games
• Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup

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