The theme for the Week Sauce jam this September is…
EXPLAIN A MOVIE YOU LIKE BADLY in a sentence or two,
base your game on that.
Sounds familiar? If it works for a meme, why not as theme of a game jam? Plus, if you are out of ideas you can just jump into your favorite social network and look for examples (see the #ExplainAMoviePlotBadly hashtag or @ExplainPlot on Twitter for some hilarious takes).
About Week Sauce
What's Week Sauce? We started the jam this January as an alternative for people that want to participate on game jams but cannot commit to strict dates. It is a very chill, non-ranked jam, that doesn't have a lot of requirements. You only have to make a game (of any type, tabletop games included) in 7 days, and then publish it. More importantly, you don't need to make it in 7 consecutive days; you can decide what days work for you.
You can join whether you are new to game development and looking for a no-pressure environment to start, or you just have a lot going on in your life and need a more flexible schedule (you would be surprised to know older people with families and responsibilities still like to make games! Or so I am told, not that I know anything about that…). Although publishing a game on itch.io is not a requirement, we have been hosting jams here every month, and almost all our submissions have been through itch.io. So…
- If you want to get more info: https://weeksauce.io
- If you want to join: https://itch.io/jam/weeksauce-9
- If you want to see the entries for previous months: https://itch.io/jam/weeksauce
- If you want to join our Discord server and chat about your project: https://discord.gg/t6aFsKzyVB
- And if you have any questions, comment below or get in touch.
Cheers!
—Miguel Friginal (@mysterycoconut)