This is a 48 hour game making marathon, focused on design, mechanics, and clever ideas. The jam runs from March 1st 2021 at 10:00 AM, to March 3rd 2021 at 12:00 PM.

Voting period will run from March 3rd 2021 at 12:00 PM to March 11th at 11PM.

Teams

Participants must form teams of 2 or 3. If you don't have a team, all participant that have no teams will be grouped in teams on random at the start of the jam.

Sign up for the jam: https://forms.gle/oQantRpdBhwaRodj6

Theme

Theme will be announced at the start of the jam! Stay tuned!

The theme will be picked on random from the list below:

• 3 Choices, No More, No Less
• Indirect Interaction
• Growing things
• Oubliette
• Never-ending forest
• Death may never die
• Death Begets Life
• Only 2 buttons
• Pain Gives You Power
• Genetics

Non-game submissions

You can upload your non-game submissions to the Snapshot Gdrive:

Shared Drives/GameJam/Snapshot YearOneEdition - Q1 2021/

Voting

After submission period the entries can be voted in several categories:

• Enjoyment - How much you enjoyed playing a game. Did you look up at the clock, and found it was 5 hours later?
• Theme - How well an entry suits the theme. Do they perhaps do something creative or unexpected with the theme?
• Art -  How well is the art depicting the design? Is the game aesthetically pleasing in regards to visuals, models, lighting, VFX etc?
• Audio - How good the game sounds, or how effective the sound design is. A catchy soundtrack, suitable sound effects given the look, voice overs, etc.
• Originality - How unique and interesting the game is.
• Animation - How well the animations are depicting the character of the Units? How readable are the animations and how well they support the gameplay?
• Usability - How easy it was to interact with the game? Did you struggle with the UI and couldn't interact with the game? How well was the game explained,
• Miron factor - You know what this is...
• Humor - How amusing a game is. Humorous dialog, funny sounds, or is it so bad it’s good?

The voting period will run from March 3rd 12PM to March 11th 1PM.

After the jam’s voting period is over, all the entries in the jam are ranked by the average scores in each criteria. Overall rank is also calculated from the average of all the criteria results.

Tech

No constraints on engine, tools and libraries.

Usage of current codebase and tools from Phoenix Point is allowed!

If you want to make board game, here are some tools that may help you: https://www.boardgamedesignlab.com/tools-resources/

Assets

You can use whatever art and audio assets you have the legal right to use.

Usage of Phoenix Point assets are allowed!

Diversifiers

Diversifiers are a great way to add a little more fun or challenge to your jam weekend. Sometimes they can be very helpful to limit your scope or refine your ideas. They are totally optional constraints you can choose to add to your game alongside the main focus of the theme.

• Game lasts exactly 1 min.
• Don’t touch my Dice - some of the story path of the game must be decided by entering the results from rolling a number of a real life D20s.
• A-Party - Make a game that can be played during a video call.
• Moving the goalposts - The win condition of the game changes in some way each time it is played.

For any questions please contact Ned or Kalin.