We are excited to bring back our Spring Game Jam for 2025! 

The jam will last for a whole week, giving participants ample time to submit some kind of completed project. Submissions will be accepted until March 22nd, 12:00pm EST, and voting ends March 24th at 5:00pm EST.

You are welcome to take on the jam as a solo-dev, but we encourage all participants to find teammates and showcase their games on the official UMBC GDC Spring Jam Discord!

THEME

Now You See Me 🔦

This theme can be interpreted in several different ways: imagine games featuring detection/revealing mechanics, games with hidden features, or even story games where the characters have unseen and surprising motives! Can you SEE where we are going with this?

Your Spring Jam project must have some kind of connection to this theme to be considered for judging/prizing. As long as you can make a compelling case, we'll consider it fair game. Feel free to get creative and come up with outside the box interpretations as you see fit!

Happy jamming! We look forward to SEEing your awesome games 🫡

RULES

• This jam is intended for current Maryland university students
• AI-generated assets are not allowed
• All engines/development tools are allowed
• Give credit to any pre-existing asset packs used
• Content must follow UMBC's Student Conduct and Community Standards
• Teams can have a maximum of 4 members

VOTING

Voting will begin once the submission window has closed and will be based on four categories:

• Gameplay: How enjoyable your game is to play
• Design/Art: How the visuals are
• Complexity: How complex/involved the design/implementation of the game is
• Creativity/Connection to Theme: How creative the game is and how it uses the main theme

PRIZING

Members of the winning team will each receive a $10 Steam gift card and one key for the full version of the pixel art program Aseprite!

If you have any questions, please contact umbcgamedev@gmail.com or message an officer on Discord.