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Game Development Society is hosting a epic collaboration with CSESoc for first years to experience a fun and exciting competition involving skillsets across different disciplines! From first years all the way to experienced individuals, we will be hosting multiple workshops to bring your skill into the world of creating video games. From there, form groups (or be a lone wolf) and participate in this 6 day game jam where you create a video game following a theme (to be released) to win some prizes! Whether you win or not, the whole experience is purely just a fun one, to bring people together. We'll showcase your games right after the game jame ends in Week 1 on Friday where we will enjoy pizza and hand out awards (more info in the section below). So come onto our Discord and enlighten yourself into the world of creating video games and meeting new and diverse people!

Showcase Night

After the game jam has finished, the next day on 18th February (Friday Week 1), we'll be showing off all the games in-person in the Electrical Engineering Building Room G03 (on level G) from 6PM to 9PM. Pizza will be served free for Arc members and winners will be announced with prizes handed out. You'll also be able to socialise with fellow game developers and enthusiasts and play the games submitted to the game jam! All attendees must wear a mask before entering the room.

Each submitted game will be allocated with its own section in the room. As food is not allowed in the room, pizza, drinks, and snacks will be served directly outside the room (but still indoors). For those who plan to join the game jam, it is also highly suggested to attend this event 15 minutes (5:45PM) early so you can set up a laptop for other students to play your game before the event begins. Wipes will be provided so you can regularly clean your keyboards and mouse. 

Theme

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M4PE09oOmbU8wM_Why7QjYUoaZ35J-eG99Sm2PHuYhI/...

Meet The Judges

Bradley Lin is the more neutral judge giving constructive feedback and an analysis on the games.

Gian Cornale is the nice judge looking into more of the creative side of your games.

Rules

1. Have a sporting attitude; respect other contestants and the people around you.
2. In the interests of fairness; you are not allowed to use your own prior work, it MUST be made available to other contestants.
3. Using FREE third party resources, such as frameworks, templates, free asset packs, and game engines, is perfectly fine. PAID resources, such as asset packs that cost money, are NOT ALLOWED.
4. If you work with other people, you must register as a single team. Monetary prizes MUST be distributed equally among all members of that team. If your team consists of non-UNSW students, the UNSW students must collectively contribute to at least 50% of the work. We do not encourage teams beyond 3 people.
5. Only one game entry can be assigned per person. This means you can only be in one participating team and must choose which game entry to go with before prizes are announced.
6. Entries must be obviously related to the theme.
7. Entries that are submitted past the deadline may not be counted.
8. Your game submission must be free to download and cannot require downloading other third party software (.NET Framework is fine but Roblox isn't).
9. Your game submission must be able to run on Windows 10.

Prizes

First Prize: $50, 1 GDS Retro T-Shirt
Second Prize: $30, 1 GDS Retro T-Shirt
Third Prize: $15, 1 GDS Retro T-Shirt (Only Medium Size guaranteed)
Fourth Prize: $5, 1 GDS Retro T-Shirt (Only Medium Size guaranteed)

By submitting your work to the game jam, you agree to allow UNSW Game Development Society to share, in part or whole, original or modified copies of your entry, for any and all purposes, including but not limited to promotional use, demonstration, exhibition, and education. You agree that you cannot retract this agreement after you have submitted your entry. You agree that by submitting you have full rights to redistribute your entry and that any licenses relevant to your work are included.

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