The final submissions for Climate Jam 2024 are in! Check them out here: https://itch.io/jam/climate-jam-2024/entries

Greenlight Jam co-creator MJ Johns explains the Prototype sprint:

It can be buggy, messy, and have all sorts of placeholders, but you should have the beginnings of a playable experience by the end of this sprint! This is a time where you test out the simplest versions of your core mechanics, experiment, throw stuff out. Your original concept might radically change during this sprint, and that’s okay!

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Submission: You should try to make some combination of these:

1) Graybox (or whitebox): blocked out level built with primitives, gives a sense of the space and flow of the level, where will objectives and obstacles be? How will the player navigate the space? How do you portray your gameplay mechanics in the space of your world?

2) Beautiful Corner: showcase the art and sound, but no playable experience necessary (maybe have a camera that can move around to view 3D models from different angles or get a sense of 3D sound effects)

3) Minimum Viable Product (MVP): core functionality in a somewhat fleshed out playable space (should give a clear meaningful representation of what the gameplay will be, what actions the player can take, how can they win or lose, etc.)

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Categories for ranking:

• Playability
  
• Promising Idea
  
• Aesthetic / Feel
• Use of Themes