Ratings

This jam is now over. It ran from 2021-06-25 12:00:00 to 2021-07-05 00:00:00. View results

Update: the theme is....

POWER

Your goal for this jam is to fulfill as many of the classic jam game tropes as humanly possible, and to do it with style! We're talking Kenney assets, Comic Sans, comedic crashes, and more. Don't feel obliged to work through the entire jam period, all games are welcome, big or small :)

The Challenge

Make a game during the submission period, and include as many of these tropes in it as you dare~

Game name is a pun, alliteration, wordplay, or includes the theme or jam name
Provide extensive lore/backstory on the itch page
Do not include a main menu
Use Kevin McLeod music (be sure to give credit, as specified on the website)
Use Kenney assets
Make home-recorded sounds (don't even worry about the quality)
Use disjointed art asset styles
Use the default Unity skybox somehow
Make a janky player character animation
Font is Comic Sans (free lookalike), and/or Arial (Unity default), other meme-y fonts will be accepted.
Include a box/rock pushing puzzle
Post WIP images/gifs in the Discord
Hide an easter egg (relating to the jam name, theme, previous Jammy Wednesdays, Darz, whatever as long as it's recognizable)
Give the exe/zip and the game different names
Hint at a feature, but apologize in-game for running out of time
Esc button quits the game
No failure/death screen, game just restarts
Player can fall out of the world, especially when they don't expect it
Game crashes (ideally not in a way that prevents winning)
Post the final game submission in the Discord
Include a sweet gameplay gif on the itch page
Upload an untested build for a system mentioning that you don't have access to it (i.e. Mac users post a PC build, and vice versa)
Submit the game within 1 hour or less of the deadline
Include a cat in the game (this isn't quite a trope, I just want to see some cats)
FREE SPACE - Submit to the jam

Feel free to indicate your project's Bingo Score on the project's page. This is the number of tropes built into your game out of 24, as specified above. This score is not explicitly used for ranking so don't feel pressured to use every single trope if they don't fit your style or goals. The Bingo Score is essentially for bragging rights and honorable mention on stream.

Theme

The theme will be announced at the beginning of the jam!

Ranking

Participants will rank submissions based on Originality, Fun, Style, Use of Theme, and General Bingo Enthusiasm. Ideally General Bingo Enthusiasm isn't simply the project's Bingo Score, it's more a question of how much you feel the dev(s) embraced the tropes regardless of how many they used.

Stream

The results of the rankings, as well as honorable mentions for highest bingo scores, will be given on stream by the jam host on Wednesday July 7th 2021, at 3:30pm EST. As host, my goal will be to stream the submissions and offer feedback once ranking is complete, while filling out bingo cards for each game. Since I have no clue how many submissions there will be I can't promise that I'll cover them all, but I'll certainly give it a try!