Sacramento Developer Collective would like to present our next Game Jam! Now that we've got our monthly Game Jam series, here's our #VoyagerJam for this Sept 2020 to celebrate the 43rd anniversary of the Voyager I!

September 18, 1977 – Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together

We’ll be marking this as a ranked Game Jam and since it will be a week long Jam, we'll set up voting to take 2 weeks to give people time to play other people's games as well!

In order to add onto this as a new and different challenge, we'll even be releasing the theme a week before the Jam to see how people will brainstorm and prepare until it's time jam. You could even consider it an unofficial 2 week jam if you start early!

Judging Criteria:

• Best Use of Theme
• Gameplay
• Presentation
• Creativity

The theme is "Life Form"

Every life form represents a different way to view the world and universe around us. Your game can be about one life form that you choose. This can be ANY life form. Ex: your best friend, a dog, a tree, anything. All you have to do is make a game or experience surrounding the life form you choose. Study life around you. Any tools allowed, all disciplines and skills welcome.

The spirit of a jam is to make a game by any means necessary, including assets from say the Unity Asset Store, so premade assets are okay, or say if you’re an artist then it would be encouraged to make from scratch or remix your past work or remix art found online and so on for other disciplines!

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If you'd like to create teams, come join us in our Discord and we have some Game Jam channels for you to work in :)

Some of the core functionalities of every game has: programming, art, audio, and/or design. Some games don’t need all of them, which is still just as doable, like tabletop games that don’t need code or audio.

After submissions, we’ll be openly voting and browsing through our games for about 2 weeks until results are in!

Never made a game before? Sometimes trying to even start a game is the hardest (best!) part! 

A good way to get started is to follow a tutorial to get a jumpstart and after that, you can add all the other elements to really make it your own creation!

2D Game in Unity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on9nwbZngyw&feature=emb_title

3D Game in Unity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlKaB1etrik&feature=emb_title

Don’t know how to code, create art, or sounds? That’s totally fine as there’s lots of free art and audio assets available in all game engines. 

Here’s a list of example Engines, Tools, and Add-ons that don’t need coding: 

• Unity Tools
  • Bolt - Visual Scripting Unity Tool (Now Free!)
  • Playmaker - Visual Scripting Unity Tool
  • Fungus - Make story games with next to no code in Unity 3D
  • Ink - Story game tool, integrates with Unity and Web Games
  • Ink-Fungus Gateway - Tool that combines Fungus and Ink
  • Shader Forge - Make beautiful shaders with no code

• Twine - an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.
• PowerPoint Presentation Software
• Ink - Story game tool, integrates with Unity and Web Games
• Puzzlescript - an open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine
• Bitsy - a little editor for little games or worlds
• GBStudio - Make gameboy ROMs with visual scripting and drag n' drop
• Sok-Stories - a fun and accessible way to make, play and share games
• BuildBox - No-Code mobile game development
• GDevelop - An open-source, cross-platform game engine
• TyranoBuilder - Visual Novel engine, drag and drop
• Stencyl - Make iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Mac, Flash, HTML5 games with no code
• GameFroot - HTML5 No Code game engine
• GameMaker Studio- drag and drop game development
• RPG Maker - RPG game creation software
• Unreal Engine - AAA game development using visual scripting
• GameSalad- drag and drop, with an amazing behavior library  
• Godot - a 2D and 3D, cross-platform, free and open-source game engine
• eko.com - a choose your own adventure platform with videos
• Clickteam Fusion - drag n’ drop game engine functionality
• Construct 2 or 3 - HTML5-based 2D game editor using visual scripting
• CopperCube 6 - Create 3D games without programming
• Scratch - MIT No Code Game Tool
• TTRPGs and other Digital Table Top Games
• Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup

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