Ratings

This jam is now over. It ran from 2024-03-18 07:00:00 to 2024-03-25 07:00:00. View results

Theme: Memory

Who is Future Inspire Academy?

Future Inspire Academy (FIA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people learn game development in a way that's fun, convenient, and flexible. We offer services like Daily Unity Challenges, Weekly Game Creations, One-on-One Mentoring, and Beta Platform Access combined with our gamifying leaderboard system. What makes our jams unique are our upgradable prize pool where you can redeem higher rewards by using points you gain from our program. https://futureinspireacademy.com/

Join our non-profit program to improve your game development skills, interact with a growing global community, get access to exclusive beta platforms, and redeem higher rewards in game jams:

Prizes

93 points in our program will guarantee that your team can maximize the cash prize.

The winner(s) gets:

- $125 (split among team)

- Odin Inspector/Validator

- Dialogue System

- Kubacho Lab asset of choice (vTabs 2, vFolders 2, vHierarchy 2, or vFavorites 2)

As promised for getting over 400 jam ratings and feedbacks, we will give $25 to the best community voted game! Congrats guys on this achievement!

The winning team doesn't automatically get $125; you are only guaranteed a portion. Our game jams reward our active members that contribute to our community. Members can use points from our program to earn more cash, up to the total prize value ($125). For the cash prize pool, your team's guaranteed amount (for the whole team, NOT per member) is the total prize pool divided by the team size (rounding up). The rest can be attained by using points. Yes, this means that if you win as a solo developer, you will earn the entire cash prize value without spending any points. This time, however, we are allowing teams to collectively gather the required amount of points to upgrade the cash prize (before it was individually), which makes it a lot easier to be awarded the max amount.

This jam's point to cash conversion is: 1 POINT = $1 PRIZE UPGRADE

Each member of the winning team will be guaranteed a copy of each Unity Asset.

Disclaimer: The advertised prize pool value refers to the total cash value of all of our available prizes combined. The entire prize pool value cannot be attained by one singular individual and the prize pool value may not be distributed in its entirety because of team size and potential inability for some to upgrade their prizes. In other words, we will keep all leftover cash to save for future game jams. The prize value that an individual person receives is dependent on their team size (referring to the cash prize because each member will receive our assets).

Note: The game that is rated the highest (but is not the official winner) will be given a $25 cash prize with no drawbacks. The official winner will also get $25 more.

Payment

Each team will have a "team captain" that will submit the game on behalf of the team and will receive the cash prize from FIA. The team captain will be responsible for distributing the cash to their entire team however they want to.

We prefer using PayPal. That is our primary option. For international developers, we will prefer using Xoom because it is very simple to send money to any country. If there are issues with these platforms for your country or situation, we can talk about it; we WILL get you the money you deserve no matter what.

Disclaimer: The cash awarded to the winning team may be deducted to pay for international transaction fees. FIA is not required to use extra funds to account for international fees.

Submissions (WebGL Builds Required)

For this game jam and possibly for our future game jams, we are requiring all games to have a WebGL build. This is more accessible to the community and it'll let your game be more likely to be played by the crowd. This is NOT optional. We WILL disqualify any games that do not have a WebGL build.

Judgement

The first three days after submissions close will be open to public community voting. IF WE HIT ABOVE 400 RATINGS WE WILL ADD AN ADDITIONAL $50 TO THE CASH PRIZE POOL. Public voting will not determine the winner of the jam as that will be from the judges, but it will engage our community, hence why we are incentivizing it. The games will be judged by one or two of the founders/co-founders of the organization. Judging will commence after the community voting period is over and the results will be released the following Monday. Participants are encouraged to rate each other's games and give constructive feedback. The categories we will judge are the following, we also look at which game has the most potential to be expanded upon and become successful. We hope that you will use a portion of our cash prize to invest in your game development journey. This time, there is only one winning game.

Theme
Gameplay
Presentation

Rules

We allow teams of up to 4.
No NSFW/L or offensive content.
Games must not be submitted to other jams.
Game must be playable on WebGL.
Any software, tool (including AI), or game engine is fine.
There is a 12 hour grace period if you contact FutureInspireGames up to 5 hours after submissions close.

FAQs

Where can I find team members?
1. We have a discord server where you can talk with lots of people! It's also where we host weekly challenges!
How am I going to get paid if I win?
1. After our second game jam, we would like to primarily use PayPal to donate the funds to the winning game. We also accept Venmo. We would use Xoom for international developers. If these platforms do not work for you, don't worry; we can talk. We will ensure that you receive the prize you've earned.
How do I gain points in the program to upgrade my prizes?
1. You can correctly answer daily polls for a small amount of points or you can participate in our weekly game creations to earn a massive amount of points at one time. We also allow you to work on past projects for half the points. We also give a generous amount of points for sharing your progress as a jam-devlog in our server.
Can I submit a game I've previously made?
1. No, we will not allow games started prior to the game jam. We will not award games that are spam and have been submitted to other competitions before. This is to make it more fair to those who participated on the jam's terms.
How can I submit my mobile game to the jam?
1. As stated in the rules, we will only accept a game built for computers and we require at least a Web build so you'll be able to publish it here. We may accept mobile in the future, but we are not yet accepting that due to complications so sorry.
I just missed the deadline! Can I still submit my hard work?
1. We are offering a half-day grace period after submissions. You must contact FutureInspireGames up to 5 hours after the jam ends to request a special link that will allow you to submit your game late. You will have 12 hours after the jam ends to submit your game. Any games submitted after 12 pm pst Monday will be disqualified. We are doing this to prevent developers from exploiting our grace period and only make it useful for those who really need it.

Terms and Policies

Future Inspire Academy claims no rights or ownership to submitted games, but, by submitting a game to our competition, you give permission for your game to appear on videos or other promotional materials that we may create in the future.