Welcome To Snowshino's Community Game jam!

_____THEME_____

"Light and Dark"

This Game Jam has a main "genre" Participants will be judged on!

That being a Souls-like!

There will be themes participants can vote on and that will determine the main theme on the game jam Start date. 

Now...

What Makes a Souls-like Game?

1. Core system:
   • Skill-Based Gameplay
   • Stamina Management (or something relating to conserving a replenishable stat)
   • enemies or bosses (optional!)
2. Level Design:
   • Interconnected Levels
   • Exploration
3. Punishing Yet Fair Difficulty:
   • Meaningful Death: Death is a significant part of the experience, often involving the loss of resources but providing an opportunity to learn and improve.
   • Checkpoint System: Checkpoints (like bonfires in Dark Souls) that serve as safe havens and save progress.
4. Character Progression:
   • RPG Elements: Players can level up, improve stats, and customize their characters through equipment, abilities, and skills.
   • Varied Playstyles: Different weapons, spells, and combat styles to cater to various playstyles.
5. Combat Mechanics(optional):
   • (optional)Parrying and Dodging: defensive maneuvers like parrying, blocking, and dodging to avoid enemy attacks.
6. High Stakes and Rewards:
   • Risk vs. Reward: balancing the risk of exploring further with the rewards of valuable loot and progress.

The Direction of your game can vary and you can be as creative as you like! 

Here is what we will judge on:

1. Base mechanics:

• Stamina Management (or something similar to this)
• checkpoint system
• leveling or some progression-based system by collecting rewards from anything (it does not have to be combat!)  
  • being able to lose these collectibles on death or failure
• Punishing Yet Fair Difficulty

 2. Level Design/ambiance creativity:

• Interconnected Levels
• Exploration

3. Creativity with the theme and Main Genre!

• Uniqueness
• fun
• out of the box
• simple yet done well!
• theme

_____VOTE FOR THEME HERE_____

https://strawpoll.com/poy9kQX8QgJ
(you can vote for more than one!)










Myself and a couple of other judges will go through your games and give $100 cash to the winner! It is enough for the Steam page or whatever else you want to pursue with the reward!

Rules:

- Max Team Size: 5 people

- No NSFW (there could be younger submitters participating)
- AI-generated content IS allowed as long as you have the rights to use the content. ***Double check with your sources before committing as these games will be judged as a commercial project because it could potentially become one!

- You can use ANY engine!

- Any asset packs, fonts, artwork, and models are allowed as long as you have commercial rights.

- Please do not work on this game jam until the jam starts. You can brainstorm of course from the main theme or set up git repo in advance but keep it fair for everyone <3