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2 days of gaming
November 13th(Wednesday) and November 16th(Saturday)

We're planning to push and share the games page from this jam on our socials on 2 specific days during the voting period, those days will be when we hope most of you sign online and play/rate/enjoy the games from the jam. Community voting will also be open to the public for this jam and so feel free to share a link to your game on social media and post your game on other sites to make sure your lobbies are full on those two days.

So block those two days off on your calendar and join the community in playing/rating the games!

It is. 👍

Any method of connecting two players across the internet is allowed for this jam.

That's been the case for a while now.

We had a smaller weekend jam over the summer, a BIG jam in the spring, we hosted an online site for Global game jam in the winter, sponsored and worked with Scream jam in the fall, had another BIG jam in the summer last year, held the 3D jam in the spring last year, held a BIG jam in the winter of last year, and so on and so on. 😅

We have basically hosted or been apart of a jam every season, but the BIG jams are usually the ones that get the videos made about them.

Some of the games will probably be shared in shorts, but there's no plan for a long form showcase video for this jam currently.

You can definitely win. If I remember correctly... the trick is to get away from coal as fast as possible and not put anymore points in it, but you might also need to focus on the higher levels of energy too. 🤔

A few important things to note for this jam:

1. There will be no late submissions for this jam for any reason.
        -Do not submit at the last minute, submitting a rough version early is less risky.
        -If you run in to trouble submitting a web build, submit a .exe and provide your gd.games link.

2. You are required to have a gd.games link ready when you submit your game.
        -Upon submission, there will be a required field asking for your gd.game link.

The multiplayer modifier prize will go to the highest rated community voted game in the jam that happens to have online multiplayer built in to the game.

This is not limited to the new built-in multiplayer systems in GDevelop, you can add multiplayer to your game using any framework, like THNK or any other method of networking games.

Best of luck with the jam. 👍

This is one of my favorite games that I've made, it can be pretty brutal with the rng, but I think that fits the post apocalyptic theme. 😅

Thanks for playing. 👍

I'm currently working on a steam version, and that will have a windows .exe version. 😅

The results will be announced in this video and will then be unlocked after the video finishes playing so you can see your results here on itch.

Go to your game dashboard and add the gamejam tag while it's still available.

If your game is on gd.games, you're fine, the tag is only so you're added with all of the other games on the site.

Thanks!

Hey there. 👋

I can't find your game on gd.games in the "GDevelop game jam 5"  jam category,  could you please send me a link to your game uploaded to gd.games, or add it to your game's itch page in the description and reply to let me know. 👍

As long as you're game is still in the jam, you're good. With itch, if you update the game file during the voting period of a jam, it will kick you from the jam, so if you made a mistake you would definitely have noticed. 😅

If your game is still in the jam, you're fine. 👍

Hey. 👋

I noticed you weren't able to upload to itch with a html version of your game, so please add the link to your gd.games version on your game page so people can play that version.

We don't have anything made for that, but feel free to snag the title art on the jam page and use it for the opening scene in your game. 👍

They give you an extra jump in the air.

No, you can't update your game until after the voting phase is over and the results are released.

I've seen rate for rate spamming ruin the scoring of jams in the past, and I'd like to see a fair and honest jam here.

It's alright to ask someone to play your game if you've played, rated, and gave feedback to their game. But blanket "rate for rate" callouts can really mess with ratings as people try to collect as many ratings as they can without playing/having their own game played.

If I find people posting blanket "rate for rate" posts here, they will be removed. If I find too much of that happening, the community tab will be removed entirely.

DM me on discord ASAP. 👍

Keep trying to upload to gd.games, you need that in order to be considered for the prizes.

But you can upload to gd.games after the submission date, just make sure your itch version is uploaded and submitted to the jam before the end of the time limit, and you can get the gd.games version working up to a few days after the end of the jam.

Hey folks, sorry to say the video the jam will be delayed to tomorrow mid-day.

I had some file corruption issues that I couldn't recover, and there wasn't enough time to remake the video for today.

So the announcement will be tomorrow mid-day, 11am EST.

I see it there. 👍

You'll probably be fine, the NSFW rule is mostly about nudity/sexual content or over the top realistic violence.

Cartoony violence in a game is fine.

Of course. 👍

Thanks for sharing, they've been disqualified. 👍

This game has been disqualified from winning because it was not made with GDevelop.

We'll try our best, within reason, to get the money to the people who won it. If they don't have/can't make a paypal account, we'll discuss that with them after the jam and find the best way to transfer the money to them. 👍

1. If your team members join the jam, it'll make the jam look more impressive by having a bigger number of people joined. 😉

2. Yes, to properly give out prizes and rewards to team members they should be added as admins to your game project on itch and as authors on gd.games. You can add admins on itch and change the authors of a game on gd.games after the submission deadline, but having them added will help us when giving out prizes/crediting creators.

You can't be part of two teams/games in the jam.

Your time is better spent focusing on a single game anyway, better to make the most polished single entry that you can. 👍

I'll fix that in the FAQ, thanks for pointing it out. 😅

The results from the jam will be released on Friday, along with the favorite games from the judges.

The video will be released on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8RsU74-hU1pfNKHNMfiFfw

It doesn't need to be a game made with the physics behavior, try looking up the definition of unstable and some synonyms, that might help come up with ideas that wouldn't require physics.

You don't have the legal right to use the work of other people without their permission, I suggest you look for other assets to use instead.

itch.io and opengameart.org both have a large collections to look through.