The CRAZY 8 Jam - 8 games in 8 weeks! 
Week 2  Starts Jan 30 Ends Feb 2
Theme: Everything is Tiny OR Cozy

Invest in 7 ventures, nay, 8; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.
― King Solomon
If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.
― T. Harv Eker
Giving fish a chance to grow in the lakes and rivers before heading to the ocean.
― Chera Meredith (paraphrased)

WE BELIEVE...
🎱Our skill exchange guild needs to get to the next level. No more “Business as usual”
🎱This is not just another jam, but we have long-term hopes and dreams behind it. We are starting a local guild to mentor and raise up successful developers. 
🎱Taking action regularly increases quality, cultivates the “Ready or not “PUBLISH!” habit, and overcomes the ailments of ego. Your efforts HERE will be tracked and can be applied to your membership in the real guild! 

DETAILS...
🎱Game Scope: Somewhere between a Proof of Concept and a Prototype. Maybe during each week you spend only 4, 8 or more hours.  YOU DECIDE. Just DON'T USE YOUR BABIES (i.e. your current pet projects)!  
🎱Award Categories: Best Overall, Best Art, Best Music, Best Writing, Best 1 Pager AND MAYBE >> WORST LOOKING GAME, FASTEST PUBLISHED, BEST GAME MECHANIC, just to help you overcome your time wasting perfectionism and fear!
🎱We strongly encourage and support:  
---multi-disciplinary teams (link collaborators on your itch.io project page) e.g. dev, artist, musician, writer, producer, promoter.   Producers would be expected to produce the ONE PAGER or MEED (Minimum Enjoyable Experience Doc) and maybe drop out one week to take a turn as a judge. Promoters would be expected to do a video interview podcast or "lets play".  If you can't recruit a person for a needed role (e.g. art, music, writing) you may use free/paid assets or A.I. but would not be eligible to receive an award in that category.
---board/card/tabletop as well as comic and animation submissions. Please provide links to content and/or gameplay video
🎱Each week:
---game themes are released Thursday Noon PST
---submissions are due Sunday Noon PST including any links to ONE PAGER/MEED, Podcast, and Team Members and Role.  
---People’s Choice Vote and 2 Judge picks due Wednesday Noon PST
---Repeat 8 times!
🎱This jam is a multi-participant game dev guild sim and a preparation for the 22 games in 30 days entry gauntlet for the proposed official guild. 
🎱 MORE QUESTIONS? JOIN the DISCORD and ASK HERE
🎱 LOOKING FOR TEAM MEMBERS? >> HERE
🎱🎱🎱AWARD PARTY TUESDAY APRIL 1st (yes, really) 7:00 PM PST @ The Innovation Collective

The themes for the Crazy 8 Jam will foreshadow our future studio’s “2230” bootcamp strategy where apprentices are expected to create 22 games in 30 days in which THEY determine the theme for each game.  However, for the jam, there will be some base constraints PLUS an additional special constraint to be revealed at the start of each.
Base Constraints:
🎱No using your babies, i.e. pet projects
🎱Each must be a small scope proof of concept 
🎱Originality and fun are paramount

Special Constraint Pool that will randomly be selected from:
🎱Must use this but click “GENERATE” 8 times >> https://letsmakeagame.net/game-jam-theme-generator/
🎱Cozy! … whatever that means to you
🎱Plot Twist
🎱Idea must be connected to one of the judges that week
🎱What Could Go Wrong?
🎱Mythical Mashup
🎱No Heroes Allowed
🎱Everything is Tiny
🎱Backward Worlds
🎱You’re Being Watched

The JUDGES...