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HAGJ13: Celebrating Halloween with a historical twist!

HAGJ14: A regular HAGJ with an updated ruleset!

Learn more about it and keep up with future jams on our Discord Community. This will be the last update on this jam page’s community board from us! Thanks once again, for joining in.

The Theme for HAGJ12 is World War II !

The jam has now officially begun! Good luck! 🥳

Some things to keep in mind:

• Refer to the HAGJ Rules and Code of Conduct, or browse the Jam Page whenever there is a doubt on the constraints related to your submission, and don’t hesitate to ask us questions if anything is unclear!
• As you submit your game to the jam, you will be given an opportunity to briefly describe the historical accuracy and theme relevance of your game, as well as disclaimers around any free assets that you may have used to create your game. Take advantage of this to help yourself stand out!
• While late submissions won’t be possible, if you have valid issues related to submission, feel free to create messages on the community board, or head over to our Discord community.

P.S. Here’s some detailed voting round stats for those interested in the data.

We’ve gathered the verified 57/70 votes! The jam will begin as soon as the The Final Theme is revealed tomorrow on 23rd of January, 16:00 GMT+1 !

As we wait for the theme-drop…

Here are some related jam wiki posts that you can browse through, that may become relevant during the jam:

• How Historically Accurate Does My Game Need To Be?
• How Do I Get Reliable Material on my Game Topic?
• How do I Submit My Game?
• How Do I Rate Other Submissions?

P.S. REMINDERS ON CODE OF CONDUCT/DISQUALIFICATIONS

• Shorter and Long Versions of HAGJ Rules and Code of Conduct
• What Kind of Games am I Allowed to Submit?
• Can I get Disqualified/Banned from Participating in HAGJ?

Here’s the Top 11 Voted Themes List:

We had to add one to the list, as there was tie for the least voted “top” themes.

• Uncensored History of Your Country
• The Fall of Empires
• The East India Company
• The Invention of Printing
• Saints’ Mental Health
• Microhistory Case Studies
• Survival during the Stone Age
• Tower Wars between Rival Factions in medieval Bologna, Italy.
• World War 2
• Unsuccessful Betrayals
• Timekeeping

Please vote for up to two themes that you like, here.

You have until the 22nd of January, 16:00 GMT+1 to decide! HAGJ12 will begin as the Final Theme is announced, on the 23rd of January, 16:00 GMT+1.

A small reminder that if you haven’t signed up already for the jam, please do so, here.

We’ve gathered 52 votes!

The Final Theme Voting Round will be begin tomorrow on 16th of January, 16:00 GMT+1!

IMPORTANT NOTE:

We will be turning email address collection on during voting rounds from now on, due to some signs of faulty/spam voting patterns that have emerged.

Community activities like voting are built on trust. Please refrain from trying to hijack the system.

All set for HAGJ12? If you’re still looking for a teammate, join us in our Discord Community to post in #looking-for-a-team. We have some people there looking for teammates, maybe you’ll find yours there!

For the upcoming HAGJ12 theme voting rounds, we need your theme suggestions by the 8th of January, 16:00 GMT+1.

Please use the Google Form attached, here.

The official and unfiltered theme suggestions lists will released for the Top 10 Themes Voting Round on the 11th of July, 16:00 GMT+1.

Having Trouble?

Here are some related jam wiki posts:

What Kind of Themes You Can Suggest?

How is the Game Jam Theme Chosen?

How Do I Research The Theme For My Game?

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

Join us on our Discord Community for HAGJ, if you would like to discuss with other history enthusiasts and prepare for the jam!

The jam’s itch page has been updated with the winner announcements and jam summary!

We’ll be releasing more news and updates about future HAGJs on our Discord server, and would love to hear any constructive thoughts you may have on the HAGJ11 Feedback form.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the jam!

Great job everyone! You’ve made it to the finish line. For those who weren’t able to submit this time, Feel free to share the work that you did manage to complete in #self-promo on our Discord Server!

For those who got their submissions in before the deadline, 👏 👏

Now is the time to show off your analytical skills and leave constructive feedback, or just kick back and enjoy a few games. Don’t forget to leave honest ratings for the entries you play!

Here’s our two-cents on the topic: How Do I Rate Other Submissions?

Like every HAGJ, you have an extra hour to get the game properly submitted.

Good luck!

As long as you can connect it logically and historically to Norsemen - i.e. Normans being descendants of Norsemen, I would say so!

The Final Theme for Historically Accurate Game Jam 11 is: Viking/Norsemen !

The jam has now officially begun! Good luck!

Some things to keep in mind:

• Refer to the Rules and FAQ of the Jam Page whenever there is a doubt on the constraints related to your submission, and don’t hesitate to ask us questions if anything is unclear!
• As you submit your game to the jam, you will be given an opportunity to highlight historical accuracy, theme relevance, as well as disclaimers around any free assets that you may have used to create your game. Take advantage of this to help yourself stand out!
• While late submissions won’t be possible, if you have valid issues related to submission, feel free to ping a Trustee or Guardian.

The Final Theme Voting Round for HAGJ11 is Over!

We’ve gathered 46 votes! The jam will begin as soon as the The Final Theme is revealed tomorrow on 25th of July, 16:00 GMT+2 !

As we wait for the theme-drop…

Here are some related jam wiki posts that you can browse through, that may become relevant during the jam:

• How Historically Accurate Does My Game Need To Be?
• How Do I Get Reliable Material on my Game Topic?
• How do I Submit My Game?
• How Do I Rate Other Submissions?

P.S. REMINDERS ON CODE OF CONDUCT/DISQUALIFICATIONS

• Shorter and Long Versions of HAGJ Rules and Code of Conduct
• What Kind of Games am I Allowed to Submit?
• Can I get Disqualified/Banned from Participating in HAGJ?

All set for HAGJ11? Share your pre-jam thoughts in our Official Discord Server!

Here’s the vetted HAGJ11 Theme List!

• Chinese Dynasties
• Film History
• Natural Disasters Which Impacted Your Country
• Journeys and Road Trips
• Laissez-Faire Era
• First Humans and Hunter-Gatherers
• The North American Fur Trade
• Secessionist Leaders
• The Era of the Silver Screen
• PEPCON Disaster
• Food History
• Vikings/Norsemen

Certain grammatical amendments were made, and two were adjusted by removing “historical” from the theme, and swapping out a word for better diction.

Check out the Complete List of Suggestions and How They Were Vetted

Please vote for up to two themes that you like, here . You have until the 24th of July, 16:00 GMT+2 to decide! HAGJ11 will begin as the final theme is announced, on the 25th of July, 16:00 GMT+2.

What themes excite you the most? Are there any that you don’t like? Do tell us in #jam-discussion! P.S. A small reminder that if you haven’t signed up already for the jam, please do so, here .

All set for HAGJ11? If you’re still looking for a teammate, don’t hesitate to post in #looking-for-a-team on our official discord server for HAGJ.

We’ve gathered up 12 Themes (unfiltered/ungrouped). Thanks to everyone that sent in a theme suggestion!

Since the number of theme suggestions are fairly close to 10, we have decided to skip the next voting round, which would have helped us choose the Top 10 Themes, and will resume voting on the 18th of July, 16:00 GMT+2!

The vetted and unfiltered lists of themes will be released then, in order to vote for HAGJ11’s Final Theme. See you then!

For the upcoming HAGJ11 theme voting rounds, we need your theme suggestions by the 10th of July, 16:00 GMT+2.

Please use the Google Form attached, here.

The official and unfiltered theme suggestions lists will released for the Top 10 Themes Voting Round on the 11th of July, 16:00 GMT+2.

Having Trouble?

Here are some related jam wiki posts:

• What Kind of Themes You Can Suggest?

• How is the Game Jam Theme Chosen?

• How Do I Research The Theme For My Game?

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

Join us on our official discord server for HAGJ, if you would like to discuss with other history enthusiasts and prepare for the jam!

It’s going to be that time of the year where we all share some historical themes to see if ours get picked!

• Do you happen to have a cool idea that could be the next HAGJ’s theme?

Do share with your friends, and encourage them to give history-focused game development a try!

Check out the jam page for HAGJ11 for details on the upcoming events, and do consider signing up!

P.S. We’re still open to adding prizes for winners, so if you’re interested in becoming a Patron for HAGJ, do reach out to tuile on Discord, or send us an email at historicallyaccurategamejam@gmail.com!

Hello Daniel! We’ve noticed that you’ve essentially sent the same message to a number of our jam submissions spanning across several Historically Accurate Game Jam events. Could you please reach out to us through Discord (username: tuile) or via email (historicallyaccurategamejam@gmail.com) in order for us to verify the authenticity of your research project?

Incidentally, I’m also one of the creators for one of the submissions you’ve reached out to (this one), so either way, would like to know more. Looking forward to hearing back from you. Cheers!

The results of the HAGJ10 is up on the jam page! Thanks for participating, everyone, it was a great run!

And with that, we wrap up HAGJ10! Please do fill out the HAGJ10 Feedback Form by the 2nd of April, so that we can make HAGJ a better experience for everyone going forward.

More updates from us, coming soon!

Get those ratings in, if you haven’t already, before the 16th of March, 16:00 GMT+1! Results will be out on the 17th at the same time.

May the most accurate, win!

Great job everyone! You’ve made it to the finish line.

For those who weren’t able to submit this time, feel free to share the work that you did manage to complete in #self-promo!

Now is the time to show off your analytical skills and leave constructive feedback, or just kick back and enjoy a few games. Rating each other is important in order to find our overall and category winners! Don’t forget to leave honest ratings for the entries you play!

Related Post: https://itch.io/blog/866687/how-do-i-rate-other-submissions

Like every HAGJ, you have an extra hour to get the game properly submitted.

Good luck!

We’ve had quite a number of queries about the rules on paid assets, tools and engines this week.

The jam’s rules are clear that we do not generally allow paid game engines or assets: we don’t want HAGJ to be a pay-to-play field. However, we recognise that a number of people have missed these rules, or found edge cases such as paid add-ons to software or cases where software was obtained for free but is not usually.

We’ll be working to improve the visibility of our rules for the next jam, but we don’t want people to be unable to submit their hard work for this one. As such, if you think an aspect of your work is borderline or might raise questions regarding the paid asset rules, or if you’ve unintentionally broken the paid engines rule, we recommend that you submit your entry anyway, with a clear disclaimer as to what materials you used. For the purposes of determining jam winners, we as the HAGJ team then reserve the right to impose post-hoc scoring penalties, variable depending on the scale of the infraction, on entries that have broken or skirted the rules in this way. This will avoid us having to fully disqualify such entries but retain the overall spirit of the rules as written.

We hope that this will allow us to be fair to everyone: we don’t want to stress people out over a misunderstanding of the rules, but it’s also important to us that people who did follow the rules as written aren’t unfairly disadvantaged for having done so. We’ll of course be working to update and tighten up aspects of our rules for HAGJ11 to avoid this problem recurring in future and clarify edge cases.

Thank you all who are taking part in HAG10, and we hope this update helps. Good luck with getting your entries finished. 🙂

The Final Theme for Historically Accurate Game Jam 10 is:

Arctic Exploration !

Some things to keep in mind:

• Refer to the Rules and FAQ of the Jam Page whenever there is a doubt on the constraints related to your submission, and don’t hesitate to ask us questions if anything is unclear!
• As you submit your game to the jam, you will be given an opportunity to highlight historical accuracy, theme relevance, as well as disclaimers around any free assets that you may have used to create your game. Take advantage of this to help yourself stand out!
• While late submissions won’t be possible, if you have valid issues related to submission, feel free to ping a Trustee or Guardian.

P.S. Here’s some proof related to Voting Rounds: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nO7c6UOMmKpxrs57Y_Lzjii4BVP1zTwXjb3mOiSRGkw

P.P.S. Here are the Splash Screens for HAGJ10: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-Qr7C0LMj8ADSCRlsQY_CvBJs3JBeQ-4 !

The voting rounds are now over! We’ve gathered 98 votes! The jam will begin as soon as the The Final Theme is revealed tomorrow on 21st of February, 16:00 GMT+1!

All set for HAGJ10? Share your pre-jam thoughts on our official discord server!

One more step, and we can finally announce the final theme for HAGJ10!

Top 5 Themes

• Samurai
• Your Country’s Colonial History
• Arctic Exploration
• Culinary History
• Victorian England

The third and final voting round begins now, so please vote for up to two themes that you like, here: https://forms.gle/qctojbbKbM6EbBh29 . You have until the 20th of February, 16:00 GMT+1** to decide! HAGJ10 will begin as the final theme is announced, on the 21st of February, 16:00 GMT+1.

A small reminder that if you haven’t signed up already for the jam, please do so here: https://itch.io/jam/historically-accurate-game-jam-10

All set for HAGJ10? If you’re still looking for a teammate, join us in our official discord server to post in #looking-for-a-team.

We’re getting close! The Top 17 Themes List is here!

• Film History
• Samurai
• Your Country’s Colonial History
• Murder Mysteries in the Early Modern Era
• Arctic Exploration
• Famous Last Stands
• Vikings
• Witchcraft
• The 1970s OPEC Oil Shock
• Interwar Period
• Culinary History
• Mysteries of History
• Great Depression
• Female Intelligentsia
• The Wild West
• Falklands Wars
• Victorian England

We’re voting for the Top 5 Themes next, using this form: https://forms.gle/jGFWAidDawHh9hJo8! - Vote for up to two themes that you like, and want to see being used as the final theme for HAGJ9! The 2nd voting round ends on the 13th of February, 16:00 GMT+1.

The results of the 2nd voting round will be released at the same time as when the 3rd and Final voting round begins, on the 14th of February, 16:00 GMT+1

(We couldn’t do the Top 15 as planned, as there was a big tie between half the voted themes. All the stats for voting rounds will be released after the jam begins.)

All set for HAGJ10? If you’re still looking for a teammate, don’t hesitate to post in #looking-for-a-team on our official discord server for HAGJ.

Without further ado, here’s the vetted theme list, an impressive list of 32 themes out of the original 34!

HAGJ10 THEME LIST

• Film History
• Samurai
• Monastic Orders in the Middle Ages
• The 1970s OPEC Oil Shock
• Love in Ancient History
• Your Country’s Colonial History
• Battles/Wars With No Winners
• Famous Last Stands
• Rise of the Roman Empire
• Murder Mysteries in the Early Modern Era
• Arctic Exploration
• Vikings
• Interwar Period
• Culinary History
• History of Mobility
• Crusades Against the Ottomans
• Middle Eastern History
• Roman Roads
• The Renaissance
• Mysteries of History
• Peninsular War
• Great Depression
• The Wild West
• Medieval Courts
• Falklands Wars
• Dictatorships
• Roman Sports
• Victorian England
• Female Intellegentsia
• Witchcraft
• Family Legacy
• Haunted History

Certain grammatical amendments were made, and two were combined with others.

Check out the Complete List of Suggestions and How They Were Vetted

See anything that catches your eye? Vote for up to two themes that you like, during the 1st voting round, and help us choose the Top 15 Themes for HAGJ10, here!

The 1st voting round ends on the 6th of February, 16:00 GMT+1. The results of the 1st voting round will be released at the same time as when the final voting round begins, on the 7th of February, 16:00 GMT+1

What themes excite you the most? Are there any that you don’t like? Do tell us in #jam-discussion on our official discord community for HAGJ!

We’ve gathered up 34 Themes (unfiltered/ungrouped) - thanks to all those who contributed to that!

Both the filtered and unfiltered list will be released tomorrow on 31st of January, 16:00 GMT+1!

Join us on our official discord server for HAGJ, if you would like to discuss with other history enthusiasts and prepare for the jam!

For the upcoming HAGJ10 theme voting rounds, we need your theme suggestions by the 30th of January, 16:00 GMT+1.

Please use the Google Form attached, here.

The official and unfiltered theme suggestions lists will released for the 1st voting round on the 31st of January, 16:00 GMT+1.

Having Trouble?

Here are some related jam wiki posts:

What Kind of Themes You Can Suggest? How is the Game Jam Theme Chosen?

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

Join us on our official discord server for HAGJ, if you would like to discuss with other history enthusiasts and prepare for the jam!

• The jam page for HAGJ10 is up! Check it out for details on the upcoming jam, and to sign up!
• Maestro Cinetik will be sponsoring HAGJ10 - giving each teammate from the winning team a free copy of their game, Cauldrons of War - Stalingrad!
• A shoutout to Cabbitat for their artistic support, and to Tuile for coordinating with them. We’ve got some new cover art!
• The first 4 community-driven wiki articles for the jam are up - they’re things you may already know from the FAQ, but we’re aiming to build it up sufficiently for newer participants to benefit from by the beginning of HAGJ10. Check them out on our itch profile for HAGJ. Shoutout to Sam Scribbler and Tuile for getting the ball rolling there.
• Shoutout to JubalBarca for putting together some interesting posts, with links and discussion topics in #history-in-games. Feel free to check them out on our Discord Community, or create some posts there yourself!
• We are looking for a new co-host to join us, who would proactively handle community engagement and social media responsibilities for HAGJ. Do reach out to us on Discord if you’re interested in that role!

• The jam page for HAGJ10 is up! Check it out for details on the upcoming jam, and to sign up!
• Maestro Cinetik will be sponsoring HAGJ10 - giving each teammate from the winning team a free copy of their game, Cauldrons of War - Stalingrad!
• A shoutout to Cabbitat for their artistic support, and to Tuile for coordinating with them. We’ve got some new cover art!
• The first 4 community-driven wiki articles for the jam are up - they’re things you may already know from the FAQ, but we’re aiming to build it up sufficiently for newer participants to benefit from by the beginning of HAGJ10. Check them out on our itch profile for HAGJ. Shoutout to Sam Scribbler and Tuile for getting the ball rolling there.
• Shoutout to JubalBarca for putting together some interesting posts, with links and discussion topics in #history-in-games. Feel free to check them out on our Discord Community, or create some posts there yourself!
• We are looking for a new co-host to join us, who would proactively handle community engagement and social media responsibilities for HAGJ. Do reach out to us on Discord if you’re interested in that role!

The jam’s itch page has been updated with the winner announcement!

Please do take the time to fill out our HAGJ9 Feedback Form by the 2nd of September!

We will be releasing more news and updates for future jams on this itch profile, as well as on our Discord community. So feel free to follow us or join our community if you want to keep up to date with our activities!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the jam, we hope that you had a great time!

The winner will be announced tomorrow at 16:00 GMT + 2! May the most accurate, win!

Great job everyone! You’ve made it to the finish line. For those who weren’t able to submit this time, Feel free to share the work that you did manage to complete in #self-promo on our discord server.

For those who got their submissions in before the deadline, :clap clap:

Now is the time to show off your analytical skills and leave constructive feedback, or just kick back and enjoy a few games. Don’t forget to leave honest ratings for the entries you play!

The one-hour last minute grace period activates now! Good luck for the final stretch!

The submission period for HAGJ9 will be over in a 24 hours!

Please reach out to a Trustee/Guardian on the official discord server if you have any questions, or need advice around how to manage expectations on your submission.

Don’t hesitate to share an incomplete game with us! Looking forward to the final listing of submissions tomorrow at 16:00 GMT+2.

Your game has been disqualified from HAGJ9 for not following the rules.