We’re hosting a Digital Art Gallery built inside a simple 3D explorable game: a virtual space where participants can walk through different rooms to view creative exhibits. 

This is an open invitation to all clubs and individuals on campus (not just game developers) to contribute digital content and showcase their talents in a unique interactive format. We encourage students from other schools to participate as well!

The gallery will feature art, writing, music, 3D models, game assets, minigames (made in Godot 4), animations, and more. This will be a short digital experience organized into themed rooms and linked with brief interactive or narrative elements to bring everything together. CSUMB Game Dev Club will take care of the software engineering and production, and we will showcase the gallery at the end of September. 

Our goal is to:

• Celebrate creativity across disciplines.
• Make game development accessible and collaborative. Encourage club-wide and cross-club collaboration.
• Showcase everyone's work in a shared, walkable game world.

  
  

  
  

  OPTIONAL THEME

  Beneath the soil lies the potential for growth, connection, and imaging better worlds. Let’s celebrate by making art about the things we like in this world and how we can make it more kind. 

  This year’s digital art gallery invites you to explore the theme of potential like seeds to bloom, not just as individuals, but as a community. Like roots beneath the soil or networks of mycelium underground, we are quietly connected, nourishing and supporting one another in ways both seen and unseen

  This theme is totally optional — participants are free to submit any work they like. But we hope this framing inspires contributions that reflect the kinds of worlds we want to grow together.

Through this theme, we encourage you to create and share work that reflects:

• Growth and transformation (personal, collective, artistic)
• Community and collaboration (especially unexpected or hidden)
• Imagined utopias or better futures
• Care, empathy, and interconnectedness
• Nature, cycles, seasons, ecosystems, symbiosis

Here are some possible ideas clubs or individuals could use as inspiration:

• A room themed like a forest, where each tree represents a different member’s work
• A garden at night, where glowing mushrooms hold audio logs
• A network of underground mycelium, each strand leading to a new club or voice
• A greenhouse of utopias, where different windows show alternate, better futures
• A seed archive, storing the hopes and ideas of each group involved
• A communal table, set in a clearing, with offerings from each contributor

How to play: 

• Each participating club or individual:
  1. Chooses or is assigned a room or section of the gallery.
  2. Submits digital work to be featured in that section.
  3. Optional: Adds short text, audio, or interactivity to enhance the experience.
  4. The game dev club will handle integration, scene design, and development.
  Examples of what you can submit:
  • Digital art (PNG, JPG)
  • 3D models (OBJ, GLB, etc.)
  • Short audio/music pieces 
  • Short video clips 
  • Small Godot mini-games
  • Written pieces (poetry, stories, zines)
  • Club promotional material
  • Interactive jokes or secrets
  What You’ll Need to Provide either as a submission to this jam page or via email to the club (gamedev@csumb.edu)
  • A title and short description of your submission 
  • Your submitted digital asset(s)
  • Any special requests (e.g., sound triggers, specific layout ideas)
  • Optional: one or two members to attend the showcase event
  • Optional: collaborate on room design (we’ll help!)
  We are open to weird ideas, serious work, experimental pieces, and anything creative.
  
  NSFW material is not permitted. All work must be family friendly, no depictions of violence, gore, nudity or sexual activity.
  
  By submitting to this Jam, you agree to allow your work to be used in the gallery that will be produced for this event. The game file will be available as a free digital download after the event and playable in browser. You also allow for your work to be shared and published/reproduced by CSUMB Game Dev Club's social media. All work will be credited and links to your profile/portfolio will be included if provided with your submission.