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Yeah you might be able to update it; I think I did that for a game jam before. But I would just submit one time with the finished product just in case

There's plenty of games that look great with just basic shapes. I'm not that great in art either but I can make it work with some post processing and stuff. There's still a chance you can get a high rating in the presentation category so don't sweat it, do your best!

yup, that's totally fine with me. Sorry for the late reply. You can join our discord server to get faster replies.

And if you want to join a team, you should probably join a more popular and well known game jam (like the featured jams) that have a large community of participants also looking for teammates

Update:

If you are using Unreal Engine 5 (or any version of an engine where the latest version does not support WebGL), start a new project in Unreal Engine 4 (or any version of your chosen engine that does support WebGL) then port your assets over and go from there.

$960 PRIZE VALUE. That means we are giving out $960 worth of prizes. This can be both actual cash and other assets and tools. Winner can get $100 cash + other cool assets that are useful for game dev. Read our disclaimer too, $960 is an advertised prize pool but its entirety is not attainable

You must submit your game to this itch jam page and have a web-based build for people to play without needing to download anything. Hopefully that answers your question.

Yes, it's totally fine to use any pre-made assets. Sorry, we hoped that "any software, tool..." rule in the description answered questions about using assets but it probably wasn't clear enough. We appreciate all the feedback and we'll clarify better in future jams. 

If you need any help, come join the discord server because it's easier to do instant replies there

Update:

Our game jam has launched! The theme is MEMORY

Make sure to join our server to get updated on the latest info. Our community chat on the jam page works too but you'll get your answer much faster on our server

Go to our discord server (our second server) and there's a jam devlog channel. All the instructions are there

Great question to ask in our discord server where we have a large community!

What part do you not understand?

Yup that's totally fine. That's why we're giving all the money to the "team captain" and letting them distribute it to the team however they see fit. So if your members don't want the money and you guys agree that you'll just take the money, then that's a perfectly valid thing to do and that will just be handled between you guys and I won't get involved with it.

Reminder that our game jam starts this Monday, so we have one day left to join! Make sure to pair up with your friends!

You are right about our intentions for requiring web-based games. We are not really worried about the technicality of whether you are creating a WebGL build or not; as long as your game can be played on the web and be submitted to itch's jam page, we are totally fine. The point is to not require anyone to download games for our jams if they prefer not to. Hopefully that answers your question 😁

New Update:

We have added a new sponsor to our game jam: Kubacho Lab, creator of popular assets vTabs, vFolders, vHierarchy, and vFavorites! They are generous enough to provide vouchers to the winning team so each member can choose a free copy of Kubacho's tools. We are now at a prize pool of $960 (+$120). Thanks Kubacho Labs! Make sure to join our jam if you like what we do. 

Hello community,

Future Inspire Academy is back, hosting our fourth game jam with a prize value of $840 for the winning team. We don’t just offer cash, but we offer up personal licenses from our partners that are some of the top Unity Assets in the market. This time, we are featuring Odin Inspector and Dialogue System, two popular assets that are constantly on the store's front page! Unless a solo developer wins, we add a gimmick to attain the full cash prize. This is because we value our community and want to reward members of our organization that help push us in the right direction. After all, we would never hope to host game jams with amazing sponsors without them! Join our game jam now right here and check out all the prizes you can win: https://itch.io/jam/future-inspire-jam-4-840-value-prize

Future Inspire Academy is a non-profit organization that strives to teach game development in a fun, convenient, and casual way through our gamifying point system. What makes our game jams unique are our upgradable prize pool where you can redeem more rewards by using points you gain from our program. We offer tons of benefits like daily challenges, weekly game creations, mentoring, beta access, and more. Read about us here on our dedicated website: https://futureinspireacademy.com/ 

Join our discord server now to start learning and stay updated on the game jam: https://discord.gg/rnpUYpkABa This is our initial advertisement promotional message but we'll be keeping this post active with new updates and clarifications

If you are a solo developer, you will get all $100 without needing to spend any points. That's the benefit of winning solo, but we also make it easier for teams to collectively gather the points to afford the entire prize pool too. Congrats on being first, thanks for the support

The results were announced on the discord server. You got third place and we tried to contact you on discord but you didn't respond. Please check the discord we do all announcements there

Last day to vote. Looks like we are changing it to top 20 games being played by moderators to decide the three victors. 

FYI it's much easier to reach our community if you join our server

sure if u don’t have to resubmit 

Community voting is right now and it's open to the public! The top 10 games will be played by the moderators to see which 3 teams will win the prize. Go vote if you haven't already, ends in two days

Those are most likely just the fake submissions from the people who hope theirs would be the only submission to win. The first 3 days are voted by the community so you guys can send bad ratings to those if you want. If they somehow still make the top threshold I'll eliminate them on the score chart but I won't disqualify to remove their game from the list because we want to keep our numbers high. Basically, in short, those games won't win so don't worry about it

yes

we can use Paypal

More news: We've just surpassed 250 members which puts us at 90+ joins just from this game jam (it's usually only 60+)! It's not too late to join, but might want to join soon to have a chance to rack up points in our server for a chance at upgrading your prize

We've surpassed our previous jam's join count thanks to you guys. We are at 127 right now

It's a one week jam

Theme is announced: NOT ACCORDING TO PLAN

For any new comers joining make sure to join the discord. You can say things in the community forum too, but our server is the best way to find teammates

If you’re looking for a team, join our discord there’s a bunch of requests there

Can you feature Future Inspire Jam #3. I tried contacting support and was ignored :|

Last chance to join our game jam. We also just announced on our server that our sponsor, Hot Reload, has been nominated for "Best Development Tool" Unity Award so you guys can go vote for them over at Unity 

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We just hit 50 joins. We're expecting a lot of joins in this last week!

We are close to 190 members! Invite your friends and have them participate on your team. We are planning giveaways in November so stay tuned

We are currently at 30 joins and we're expecting about 200 joins in the next two weeks so join up

This game jam is still unrestricted in software and allows teams maximum 4 people, but we're also letting our community vote for the qualifying round for the first time. In the past our judges have gone through and scored all games, but as we now have a larger audience, it's more convenient for us to let you guys pick the top 25 games that you guys think are worth our judging. We're hoping that this new feature will engage our community even more and continue our huge growth.