The theme is: "PIRATES!"

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Welcome to Indie Game Dev Beginners! We are a community of new game developers looking to encourage each other and facilitate learning. This jam will take place in June 2023 and aims to gather the community of  beginners together to make some great games!

The games will be rated based on three criteria: fun, creativity/theme, and art/sound. Creativity/theme exists to encourage participants to think outside of the box when interpreting the themes. The winner gets the coveted "Gamejam Winner" role on our Discord server!

Basic rules:

• Your team must be composed of beginners.
• Your game MUST be made fully within the time limit of the jam. Minor fixes are allowed after the submission window.
• You can use any free assets that you have the proper licensing for. However, please try to keep the content of your game mostly original. If your art or programming skills are lacking, try teaming up with someone on our Discord server!
• You can use any game engine/programming language, as long as you are able to submit a file to itch.io and have it be playable on a PC with a keyboard and mouse.

Q: What counts as a beginner? A: For the purposes of this jam, the definition of "beginner" is very broad. However, if you are an highly skilled developer with years of experience, this jam may not be for you. Let's keep it fair.