WELCOME

Ersatz Jam is ... only kind of a game jam. In that way it's suitably named.

GOALS

The goal here is for some SLS folks to brush up on skills likely relevant to our upcoming production. It nominally runs 5/23 until 6/2 but if TGO kicks off before we'll probably wind down early so as to not steal energy from the main attraction.

ORGANIZING

There will be a discord server -- https://discord.gg/4qVkDQafMd -- to isolate the noise from folks who aren't involved. Everybody has perms to manage channels so if we have enough for multiple teams segment off as appropriate so as to not confuse everybody!

In theory this is SLS focused but bring friends if they're interested.

SUBMISSIONS

Embrace breadth! This is about getting creative muscles warmed up and any type of submissions are acceptable.

If you traditionally do concept art and want to practice environmental pixel art for a challenge: join in! If you're narrative and want to try art, welcome aboard! Dev that wants to try narrative and write some lore? Fuck yea!

For those teams submitting games please provide at least a windows+mac build or html5 export. Both is even better.

THEME

Shameless lifting the theme from the most recent Godot Wild Jam: Void!

Additionally we have three extra modifiers that you can take as inspiration/challenge: Think inside the box, Roshambo, and Unspoken Stories.

The wildcards that I thought might be more viable with submissions that aren't programming centered so I grabbed them from previous jams. Also they seemed like fun.