Arcade games are our jam (get it) and we want to see a bunch more of them - so we're putting up $10,000 worth of prizes split across a few different categories. Our last jam spawned some awesome games, but we want more.
We've got a pretty active Discord community if you need help, or want to find a team. I personally run a weekly live game feedback session there too, if you have an existing project and you want to see someone new play it live.
Now, you're probably thinking "hey, where is this money coming from" - we have a WIP suite of free developer tools, and candidly we want more people to be aware of them. But it's not just that! We want to foster a cool game dev community with regular game jams and feedback sessions. In my opinion, the best way for us to make a great set of useful tools is to have an active community: using our tools or not, developers are our priority and we want to see and help you do cool things!
You're also probably thinking "this is definitely a scam", but no! The last winners were paid within 10 days of the jam end, and it's really easy to get in touch with us if you're having problems. This is our fourth jam that has a prize pool, and all winners have been paid 😉
https://itch.io/jam/hyplay-jam-2
