Hello and welcome to the 2023 GDD Spring Jam! This jam is officially hosted by Game Design and Development Club at UW Madison.

Theme:

The theme for the jam is Parallel Worlds!

Rules:

Timing

• Start building your game only after the start period of the jam
• Having some pre-built general purpose code is okay. Use at your own discretion.
• Using assets from the internet are okay, as long as they are credited and you have the legal right to use them.
• There will be a maximum of one hour leeway past the end of the jam to account for technical issues with submitting files.

Content

• Absolutely no mature content is allowed in your submission. This includes sex, nudity, graphic imagery, etc.
  • Rule of thumb: Only if you could get away with submitting it for a school project, it would be acceptable to be submitted for this jam.
• The content of your game should relate to the theme in some way. This theme will be announced at the start period of the jam.

Teams

• You may work in teams of ANY SIZE (or alone), however, I recommend that your team size does not exceed 4.
  • Large team sizes can result in messy coordination, especially if you haven’t worked together before.

Theme

• The theme will be voted on by members of the discord server. You do not need to participate in the jam to vote here.
• There will be a suggestion phase, where we gather theme suggestions. Then we will vote on all suggested themes. A tiebreaker vote may be held.
• The voting period will last 3 days (72 hours) and instructions on how to vote will be in the announcements channel.

Submission

• A submission to the jam consists of the following:
  • An itch.io page (must be submitted to this jam page)
  • At least one build of the game on the itch.io page that supports Windows. (Highly recommended to have support for other versions as well to get more ratings)

Scoring (and Winners)

• The submission will be scored by user ratings in x categories:
  • Presentation - Does the game look and feel nice? Consider graphics, sound effects, music, etc.
  • Mechanics - Were the mechanics well designed? Well executed? Was the game overall fun to play?
  • Use of Theme - Does the game follow the theme? Was the interpretation of the theme creative? How was the concept as a whole?
• Only those who have submitted an entry or those marked as contributors for an entry can give a rating.
• Winner will be whoever has the highest average across all categories. They have the opportunity to be featured (with consent) at the next org fair.
  • For teams with multiple participants, every participant of the team must agree to having it shown for it to be shown at the next org fair.