Aztec Game Lab’s 2023 Summer Game Jam is a week-long event. Participants will have six days to create a game with their teams or solo, and will have one day for voting. This is a great opportunity to work directly with other creative and passionate people to create something together in a short amount of time. We hope that this event will help to spark your passions and grant you experience with creating and publishing a game from start to finish.

At the end of the event, prizes will be raffled off to participants who submitted a game to the event on itch.io. Those whose games were voted best in category will have a higher chance of winning prizes. If you are not present at the library on the last day, we can hold your prizes until the start of the semester and distribute them during the first AGL general body meeting.

Take care of yourselves and each other as we move forward with this exciting and extraordinary challenge! Stay hydrated and get plenty of sleep. Learn a ton and have fun!

Rules

1. Be civil. There shall be no slander, derogatory language, or hate speech. We shall all help to foster a positive growth environment for all participants.
2. The event is open to all current and incoming students of SDSU, and any other friends who are invited by a student. Participants who are not SDSU students must be in a team with those who invited them. 
3. Participants shall register for the event and specify their team composition no later than the end of the first day.
4. Participants shall begin production of their games no earlier than the beginning of the event. Assets that participants created previously are permitted, and asset packs made by others are allowed so long as proper permission is granted by and credit is given to the creators of all included content.
5. Participants must submit their projects to the event on itch.io prior to the submission deadline in order to be eligible for voting and prizes.
6. Prize collection may be optionally deferred to the first AGL meeting of Fall 2023 semester, September 1st 2023. Prizes which have not been collected will be added to the prize pool for the next AGL game jam.

Schedule

Day 1: July 22nd, 11AM

Meet at Love Library 24 hour study area or on Discord. 

Announce the theme!

Solidify teams

(Recommended) Teams finish their initial planning meeting

Day 2:

(Recommended) Production!

Day 3:

(Recommended) 1st test build

Day 4: July 26th, 11AM

Meet on Discord 

show-and-tell 

“temperature check”

Day 5:

(Recommended) Polish and bug fixes

Itch pages set up

Day 6: July 28th, 11 AM

Itch entries are locked

Voting begins

Day 7: July 29th, 11 AM

Meet at Love Library 24 hour study area or on Discord   

Review entries

Announce winners 

Distribute winners’ raffle tickets

Raffle off prizes

Prizes

• Jimu Robot Unicorn
• Matrix Puzzle
• BB-8 Action Figure
• King of fighters 2002 Ultimate (Steam key)
• Get in the car, Loser! (Steam key)
• The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante (Steam Key)
• Windjammers 2 (Steam Key)