This jam is now over. It ran from 2023-12-02 17:00:00 to 2023-12-11 18:00:00. View results

Welcome to the fourth official Bevy Jam! In this 9 day event, your goal is to make a game in Bevy Engine, the free and open-source game engine built in Rust.

The theme is: That's a LOT of Entities!

Game jams are a great way to dive in to game development, even if you have never built a game (or used Bevy)! They are also a great way to meet like minded people. Join the Bevy Discord to meet other people, discuss the jam, and form teams. Make sure you check out the "Bevy Jam" channels there!

The Bevy Jam is a competition with winners, but the goal is for everyone to have fun in a safe and collaborative space. This is about the journey, not the destination!

If you are new to Bevy, check out The Bevy Book and the various community made learning resources in Bevy Assets.

You can also check out the previous results:

  1. Bevy Jam #1
  2. Bevy Jam #2
  3. Bevy Jam #3

⚪  Theme

The theme will be determined in two stages:

  1. Community members propose themes in the #jam-theme-voting channel of the Bevy Discord, which will open before Bevy Jam starts. A maximum of two suggestions are allowed per community member, and one theme suggestion per message (to make voting possible).
  2. After some time, submissions will be closed and voting will open. Use emoji reacts to vote. Only "thumbs up" votes will be counted.
  3. The day the jam starts, the theme will be randomly selected from the 3 highest voted suggestions. Organizers reserve the right to veto the random selection, but they will be transparent if this happens (and explain why the theme was vetoed). This year's theme is "That's a LOT of entities!".

⚪  Rules

  1. Only submissions built with the Bevy Engine are allowed.
  2. Submissions must be made during the duration of the jam, explicitly for Bevy Jam. No submitting old work!
  3. You are allowed to reuse publicly available code, art and sound assets, provided your overall contribution is novel. Check out Bevy Assets for plugins, libraries, example games, tutorials, and more!
  4. You must have the legal right to use any assets, and any premade assets that you use must be available for free (at the time of the jam).
  5. Teaming up is allowed and encouraged! Reach out in the Bevy Discord if you are looking for a team.
  6. Racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination are not allowed. If you have questions about this, ask us on Discord.
  7. Submissions may be removed by the organizers for any reason. If you have questions about content, ask us on Discord.
  8. Submissions must follow the theme. We will be lenient here, but submissions that clearly don't relate at all might be removed by the organizers. Be prepared to explain how your submission fits the theme!
  9. Do your best to finalize your itch.io page before voting starts, but edits after that time are still permitted (we can't stop it, and listing workarounds or controls etc. can really help make the playtester experience better).

Additionally, we have some "soft rules". You are highly encouraged to follow them, but your submission won't be removed if you don't:

  1. Submission code should be open source (ideally under the dual MIT / Apache-2.0 license for maximum compatibility with the ecosystem).
  2. Submissions should be run-able on Windows, Mac, and Linux. This can be done by publishing native builds for each platform, by submitting a WASM/Web build, or both.
    1. In the past, jam entries with a Web build have gotten many more players, so consider figuring that out at the start!
    2. Feel free to ask for help playtesting / verifying on other platforms in the #jam channel on Discord.
  3. Credit all of the assets and libraries you used :)

⚪  Voting

Voting on submissions will begin as soon as the jam ends and will run until December 29th. Anyone with an itch account can vote. Submissions will be rated on the following criteria:

  • Fun: did you enjoy it? Were there neat mechanics that felt great?
  • Presentation: Did the game create a compelling experience using visuals, audio, etc? How much was this experience disrupted by bugs?
  • Theme Interpretation: Does the game fit the theme? How well did it reinforce the gameplay? Was it a unique and interesting interpretation?

The summed score of these criteria will be used to determine the winner.

⚪  Prizes

Winner(s) can pick any two items from the (currently closed) Bevy Merch store. Teams must choose how to divide up the loot! A big thanks to @cart's sponsors for funding the prizes!

Submissions(86)

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a traffic management game where you guide spirits home
Simulation
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A Tower Defense game with mining and a bunch of Ents
Simulation
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An action game to dodge chain reaction particles, at the same time you have to create your own chain.
Action
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Best platformer or what?
Puzzle
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A racing game with tower defense mechanics
Racing
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🦆🦆🦆 a puzzle game about a group of ducks eating bread on the ice
Puzzle
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Join Bevy Jam #4! What will your game look like?
Simulation
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Puzzle
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Strategy
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A detective game about the complications of working for a LOT of legal entities.
Puzzle
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How long can you hold off the Entities?
Action
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Bevy Jam #4 Submission
Action
Pop, then pop, then pop some more
Simulation
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Made for bevy jam #4
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Bevy Jam #4 Entry!
Action
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Help Henk the pug to fullfill his lifelong dream of becoming a shepherd's dog.
Puzzle
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Big City, Little Beings, Complex Problems!
Simulation
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shoot space ships and asteroids, collect their drops
Shooter
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Platformer
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Can you protect the sheep flock from hungry wolves?
Action
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Grow and collect crop resources quickly before time runs out!
Simulation
Subdue the geese!
Survival
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Build barely standing skyscrapers
Puzzle
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🏯👾 Retro arcade game from the year 3200!
Strategy
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Marble management
Action
[EXPLORE] [NAVIGATE] [TRANSFORM] [INNOVATE] [THRIVE] [YIELD]
Strategy
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Clean all your trash with the power of the keyboard!
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Investigate the strange happenings in your ant colony
Platformer
Liberate Asteroid Belts from the Protectorate Battleships!
Shooter
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Mostly a tech demo with some light game elements | Made for Bevy Jam 4
Help out bees by connecting their hive homes in this honey-sweet hextris puzzler
Puzzle
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Race down a hill and avoid the falling ragdolls. A Bevy Jam game inspired by the Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake
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Avoid the flock and collect the pellets!
Survival
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Spawn, Defend, Conquer: Manage pawns in RimGuard Realms, where entities thrive in strategy!
Strategy
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I want to finish my backlog, but I keep buying more
Puzzle
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Bevy Jam 4
Simulation
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entry for bevy game jam 4
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Game created for Bevy game jam #4
Shooter
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Puzzle
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Lead your (many) worker bees through the winters
Simulation
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Survival
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Simulation
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Simple grappling game. Made for Bevy Jam 4.
Platformer
Craft Unique Spells to defend your wizard tower from hordes!
Survival
Free a tree from his/her remaining leaves <3
Simulation
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Shoot and capture a LOT of awesome icons!
Platformer
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A quick project for Bevy game Jam 4
Action
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our submission for Bevy Jam #4
Platformer
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Collect lol, avoid ToT
Platformer
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Go Meets Checkers Meets Tower Defence
Strategy
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Vacuum ghosts, upgrade, repeat
Shooter
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Shooter
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Don't let the zombies catch you!
Puzzle
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Command an army of thousands dodgeball players
Sports
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strooptest
Puzzle
For Bevy Jam #4
Action
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WIP bevy_jam4_click_defense
Strategy
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Bevy Jam #4 entry
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Create a perfect swarm to rescue the Queen!
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Help this dude shovel "A LOT" of snow!
Action
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Survive a horde of ghoulish Entities by stealing their power!
Shooter
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An unforgiving arcade space shooter that will test your nerves.
Action
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Christmas? Fight!
Action
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Bevy jam 4 entry. Lead your Roboswarm to victory !
Strategy
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Action
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Play cards to spawn shapes
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Defend the Lab from an otherworldly onslaught!
Shooter
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Defend humanity from mutant super bugs
Action
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Match the sliders to the bacteria before it goes out of control!
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Let's sprinkle water droplets
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Will you be remembered?
Action
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Bevy Game Jam #4 Entry - That's a lot of Entries
Action
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That's a lot of shooters!
Survive through rings of bad cell invasions
Simulation
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Escape the Zombie horde. Bevy Jam #4 Entry
Adventure
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recycle an endless landfill
Strategy
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Atomic fission simulation game.
Simulation
Avoid touching enemies that get stronger as they merge.
Action
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