Welcome to the 2024 Collegiate Game Jam hosted by UNC Chapel Hill!

This is a game jam hosted by college students, for college students. It seeks to encourage new and upcoming  game devs to get started on their quest to make great games! This jam is open to any students currently enrolled in collegiate education, worldwide.

The theme is: 

The game jam will start on March 23rd at 11:00 AM EST. with the announcement of the theme. Then students will have 9 days to create a unique game from scratch! Submissions are due on March 31st at 11:59 PM EST. We chose this timing because we're all busy college students — this way even the busiest of us will still have two weekends to work. 

Voting ends one week after the jam ends, on April 7th at 11:59 PM EST. Please vote and play other games!

If your game is significantly broken or unplayable, we will allow you to upload a fixed version. Please DM any of the club officers.

Most people participating in this game jam will be new to game development! So it is not just okay to follow YouTube tutorials, it is encouraged! But one thing is important: the majority of the content of your game must be made by you and your team during the nine day jam period. 

After the jam ends, play other submissions and rate them! Additionally, leave comments on each submissions! We want to foster a positive, constructive community for this game jam.

You can either participate solo in the game jam, or with as many other students as you wish. We don't recommend teams larger than 3-4 people, but you do you.

AI Policy: For this jam, the use of AI-generated art and music is prohibited. The use of ChatGPT for coding assistance is permitted. If you are in need of art or music, we suggest this list of resources compiled by Mark Brown for the GMTK jam.

Please provide credit for any assets used in your game's description!

Games will be judged by the community based on the following categories:

• Enjoyment 
• Creativity 
• Presentation 

Participants can rate any games! The public is required to rate three random entries first before they are allowed to rate specific games. The community vote is purely for fun and bragging rights, and will not determine prize winners.

Expect the results to come out no later than two weeks after the end of the jam. 

We do have prizes, but they are only available to students enrolled at UNC Chapel Hill. (Sorry! We wish we could offer prizes to everyone, but we're not set up to handle that). Placings for prizes are based on a vote among the officers of the club and NOT the community vote! This is to ensure each game gets a fair shot and that the prizes go to UNC students only. Officers are ineligible to win prizes, and no officer will vote on a game made by someone they know personally.

• First place: $750
• Second place: $450
• Third place: $300
  These prizes can be used to purchase items relevant to game development from Amazon totaling up to the money total. They will be purchased by and shipped to UNC Game Dev Club, and delivered to winners personally.

Oh, and of course: anything that you make during the game jam is 100% your intellectual property to own.

The 2024 UNC Collegiate Game Jam is hosted by the UNC Game Development Club. 

Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/bMHxVPk

Contact for any questions: lukedias@email.unc.edu, or DrDrub#7272 on discord.