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Welcome to the SoloDevelopment Game Jam #8!


VOTING PERIOD

Post-jam patches allowed for critical fixes!

You can patch game-breaking bugs or add minor QoL updates (mute button, UI fixes, etc.) after submission. Just add patch notes to your description explaining what was fixed.

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This 72-hour jam challenges solo developers to create something cool, weird, or experimental over one focused weekend. Hosted by the SoloDevelopment community, it's a great chance to sharpen your skills and share what you've made.

⏳ Schedule:

  • Start Time: August 8, 2025, 3:00 PM EDT (7:00 PM UTC)
  • End Time: August 11,2025, 3:00 PM EDT (7:00 PM UTC)
  • Duration: 72 Hours
  • Voting Period: One week after the jam ends

🎨 Theme: Chaos 

The Theme Is Chaos!

suggest themes here

Rules:

  • Solo Developers Only: This jam is just for solo devs—show off what you can do on your own.
  • Pre-made Assets: Allowed if you have the legal rights to use them.
  • No AI-Generated Assets: Keep the work your own.
  • Game Engines: Use whatever engine you like.

Prize:

The winner will receive the "Jam Winner" Discord role and enter our Hall of Fame

Judging Criteria:

  • Creativity: Unique ideas or unexpected twists.
  • Gameplay: Is it fun, interesting, or engaging?
  • Theme Interpretation: How well the theme was used.
  • Polish: Overall feel and finish of the game.

Community and Support:

Join our Discord to chat with other participants, share progress, and get feedback. Explore past jams and submissions here.

Get Started:

Mark your calendars and get ready to build—72 hours of focused solo dev begins Friday, August 8.

Submissions(62)

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Browser playable (46)
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Windows (22)
macOS (3)
Linux (4)
Android (1)

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A minimalist 2D shooter with gravitational anomalies. Survive, shoot, adapt.
Action
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Survive the bedlam in the grid for as long as you can. It's Gridlam!
Survival
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Card Game
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Bullet hell where you immediately fight god themself
Shooter
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Astrophant is a game where you gather stars and rebuild galaxies to save a universe lost in chaos.
Adventure
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Simulation
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Just a lil multiplayer PVP Collector Platformer
Platformer
It's pit time ! Shake the crowd, make it POGO, make it MOSH ! But be careful not to exhaust the crowd!
Fighting
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Pump his heart and spin his legs to go!
Sports
A short Visual Novel about a girl trying to escape a weird Laboratory.
Visual Novel
Today needs to be the day at the Snail Exchange
Strategy
The only way to survive the chaotic work life is to provide the wrong answers.
Adventure
You wake up and everything is alredy going wrong.
Puzzle
Serve food to your customers and protect your restaurant from bandits
Shooter
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Double that Dubbler!
Action
Fight hordes of enemies!
Action
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Dispara y muevete agilmente
Shooter
Cause maximum structural damage
Action
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Its a game for game jam
Physics based Claw Machine like you never played! get all the prizes... if you can
2D arcade/reflex game
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Game about clicking a button.
Action
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Vampire Survivor style game with a chaotic twist.
Action
Drive, Pass, Crash
Puzzle
A typing game
Educational
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Create chaos by smashing into other particles and racking up a high score
Action
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Racing
One intersection. Four directions. Endless chaos
Strategy
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Globs are Chaos
Adventure
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The kids are playing something.. but what?
Puzzle
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Indirect control creates butterfly effects.
Action
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A short game about cleaning up...
Role Playing
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Drone guinea pig wrangler - Made in 72 hours
Action
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Fight against your computer to try and get some work done!
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Strategy
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Chaos ensues the puppet show
Action
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uber-pop shooter roguething with a dumb soundtrack
Shooter
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The Ultimate City PopSim Nightmare
Simulation
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A button that does stuff
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A chaotic game where you switch roles
Action
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Move the mouse.
Platformer
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Game made for SoloDevJam Theme: Chaos
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Garden Chaos is a short game about keeping a flower garden from erupting into chaos.
Survival
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Action
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Go through all the paper work chaos to build your house!
Role Playing
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Traverse the maze, avoid the edges!
Platformer
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This little piggy wants to play in the mud, but avoid the other pigs, chickens, and hay bales that come your way!
Action
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GAME JAM
Survival
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A submission to SoloDevelopmentSummer 72hr Jam #8
Action
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Only you, with your superpower to stop chaos, can save the world. Find all the serum ingredients as quickly as possible!
Adventure
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The morning after a crazy tea party...
Platformer
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Unravel the chaOS before it crashes!
Puzzle
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In the midst of chaos, your only salvation is your reflexes.
Action
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