About

UT Game Jam is UT EGaDS!'s annual fall game jam during which anyone can join and work on a team under the mentorship of an industry professional. The Electronic Game Developer's Society (EGaDS!) is an interdisciplinary student organization open to all UT students with a passion for game development.

Visit the EGaDS! itch.io profile to see games made by EGaDS! members, both in game jams and out.

Schedule

The UT Game Jam 2020 is from Thursday, September 17th at 6:00 pm to Sunday, September 20th, 12:00 pm

Kick-Off and Theme Reveal: Thu, Sept 17th 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Jamming Starts!: Thu, Sept 17th 7:00 pm
Jamming Ends!: Sun, Sept 20th 11:00 am
Submission to itch.io Page Closes: Sun, Sept 20th 12:00 pm
Game Jam Showcase: TBD
Judging: TBD
Closing and Awards Ceremony: TB

Theme

Diversifiers 

1. Fine Literature - Include 2 poems written by the team that the player can find and read
2. Is Something Behind the Waterfall? -- Include a secret reward/passage only accessible by moving behind a waterfall
3. Frog - Include a frog in the game
4. Is that a JoJo reference?? - Make everything in your game a reference 
5. Rock, Paper, Scissors - Include a type of weapon triangle
6. Can you pet the dog? - Include a pettable dog
7. UnSilent Protagonist - include a player character who talks constantly
8. Character creator - Allow the player to customize their character’s physical appearance
9. Fashionista - Include several equippable outfits for a character
10. Super Hexagon - Make a 2D game with a hexagonal tile-map
11. In the future… -  Include dialogue that is randomly generated
12. Check out the enclosed instruction book - Create a physical instruction book for your game (or digital if we’re online)
13. It’s a feature! - Make your game crash intentionally (when the player fails, etc.)
14. You cheated not only the game, but yourself - Add cheats/modifiers to your game that players can unlock/find codes for (outside the game?)
15. Isometric Exercise - Make a 3D game with an isometric camera
16. ‘Tis the season - Make your game based off of a holiday
17. DeviantArt: Resurrection - Make the main character based off of an old OC by one of your artists
18. I never learned how to reeeeead! - Make a narrative-driven game with no (legible) dialogue
19. It’s at least a C+! - Give a ranking on how well the player did at the end of your game
20. MIDIeval Times - Make your music in the classic windows MIDI soundfont (for this, we recommend downloading musescore 2 for composing, exporting your song as a MIDI, and then recording the playback using audacity/any DAW).
21. Don’t say a word - A multiplayer game that requires communication between players, without relying on text or voice. 
22. Praise the Sun - Implement a roll.
23. Sick beats - Have beatboxing in your game
24. Art…? - make the majority of your assets in MS Paint
25. Chaotic Kinda Good - Make a game where you help people by doing something bad.