This jam is now over. It ran from 2024-07-20 16:00:00 to 2024-07-29 17:00:00. View results

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

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
  4. Bevy Jam #4

⚪  Templates

We've provided a minimal template to help you get started! This is fully optional, but it should help you cut down on the boilerplate needed to make and host a web game, and get off to a solid start.

Check it out at bevy_github_ci_template! For something more complete (and opinionated), browse the list of community-submitted templates.

⚪  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. One suggestion per person.
  2. After a week, 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 5 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).

The chosen theme is cycles.

⚪  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. Anyone with an itch account can vote. Submissions will be rated on the following criteria:

  • Game Design: Were there interesting ideas here? Does everything feel like it fits together well? Was this a unique twist on the theme?
  • Execution: How did this feel to play? If this is an action game, were the controls tight and responsive? Were the quality-of-life features you wanted in there? Was your experience marred by bugs?
  • Graphics: Were the graphics breathtaking, cute, terrifying or otherwise delightful?
  • Audio: How were the sound effects? Music?

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 the Bevy Foundation for funding the prizes! If you had a great time, consider donating :)

Submissions(77)

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Dodge meteorites and fight earth-dwelling monsters in this fast paced roguelike, with only one weapon: circles!
Survival
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Escape
Action
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Create your own atom. Cycle its electrons!
Simulation
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A time-looping adventure built for Bevy Jam 5
Adventure
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terminal aquarium. bevy game jam #5 submission.
Simulation
a bullet hell rhythm game where you control an oscilloscope, but its just the oscilloscope
Bullet Heaven for Bevy Jam 5
Survival
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A hectic first-person game about delivering stuff on your bike in time. Try to abuse the janky physics!
Action
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A very short game for Bevy Jam #5, collect garbage and fight enemies alone or in local coop
Action
Race and encircle enemies to win
Racing
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A puzzle game about intermeshing circles.
Puzzle
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Make your way through a ruthless desert plagued by lethal storms.
Survival
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Collect illegally placed bicycles
Simulation
Have I been here before?
Platformer
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Endless wave, base defending RTS
Strategy
dance with the blobos~
Action
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Aim for a high score in this movement game. The world changes every 60 seconds.
A highscore game where you try to make the motor spin as fast as possible.
Simulation
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Cosmic Horror themed Puzzle Game
Puzzle
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Voxels inside Hexagons
Adventure
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Bevy Jam #5 Cycles
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A time-based game based on the water cycle. Enjoy appeasing the gods. This is my submission to Bevy Game Jam #5
Platformer
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A peaceful, meditative swimming simulator following a migrating humpback whale
Simulation
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A proof-of-concept chiptune creation sandbox game in bevy
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Bring that treasure home!
Puzzle
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A small game about a vampire pillaging a particular village over and over again
Adventure
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my first bevy game !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ill do better next time... commemt and subscribe
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Haunted by recurring earthquakes, the Babblers want you to expand and secure their home tower!
Simulation
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towerdefenseish futuristic node programming game
Strategy
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A simple 2d game about recycling
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Help the ducks thrive through their natural life cycles, grow their population and avoid threats eager to feast on them!
Simulation
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A bicycle game
Action
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Design the best Ruumba Robot to Recycle waste containers in a warehouse.
Simulation
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DRIVE LEFT IN A CIRCLE (and get points)
Racing
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Our submission for Bevy Jam 5
Adventure
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A top-down shooter / tower defense that constantly cycles between game phases
Shooter
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Strategy
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Bicycle racing game with eyes
Racing
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Puzzle
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Make as many journeys as possible, avoiding previous versions of yourself
Puzzle
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Click your way to riches, one cycle at a time.
Simulation
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Defend your planet from alien invaders for one orbital cycle until a weapon can be developed to save your world.
Action
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Game for the bevy jam 5!
Platformer
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Bikes go down a hill
Action
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A snake that can rewind it's self in space and kinda time
Puzzle
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Bevy Jam 5 - Collect all the ducklings as fast as you can!
Platformer
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Adventure
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How many cycles will it take to escape the Wizard's Spiral?
Action
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A young bird's journey through bullet-time hell back to it's nest.
Action
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Post a high score to the online leaderboard!
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Village survival builder
Survival
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Card Game
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Ressource management game where you try to pay your mortgage in space!
Action
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Game created for Bevy game jam #5
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A game about cloning hands to do things for you
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Country boy vs the forces of darkness
Action
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Simulation
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Submission for Bevy Jam #5
Racing
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Drive a motorcycle through a chasim
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Puzzle
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Strategy
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Cycle based idle game
Strategy
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Official entry for the Bevy Game Jam #5 (theme: cycles)
Puzzle
A puzzle-action game where you rotate a washing machine drum to sort falling clothes by their washing labels
Puzzle
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Navigate a platformer by day without melting, and return to explore again at night.
Platformer
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channel your inner 8 step modular sequencer
Rhythm
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card game made for bevy jam #5
Card Game
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The world has ended, and it will end again - unless you can finish your art project?
Adventure
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Save the Universe! Or don't, that's fine too.
Puzzle
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A short pixel-art puzzle game
Puzzle
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