Crossroads Jam

June 7th - 21st

A jam for Midwesterners, or those who feel Midwestern at heart.

(So anybody)

Theme: Severe Weather 

(discuss on Discord how 'midwest' it is https://discord.gg/hzjaxzBk6K )

Guidelines

• You may work as a team with other participants or as a solo developer
• One member of the team must be a midwesterner
• Projects that have already been conceptualized or are in early production that follow the themes are welcome. Please make and note new contributions developed during the jam
• Properly attributed Creative Commons, similarly licensed free-to-use, or paid assets that are available for other developers to legally obtain are allowed
• AI-generated assets are only allowed if you own the training data. (e.g. Photoshop's content-aware fill, training an entirely separate instance of AI on exclusively your work, using ML to remix art with permission from the artist, etc.)  Systems in which the training data is not owned by the dev (ChatGPT, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and similar) are not allowed at this time.
• Demos are allowed
• Entries that promote bigotry and hateful conduct, or are otherwise made in bad faith will be banned
• Have fun
  
• Help others have fun

Participants may release their source code for their games but aren't required. If you do release your source code please include a license of your choosing via https://choosealicense.com/.

Timeline

• June 7th 6:30pm - Kickoff @ Books and Brews Indianapolis + theme added to site
• June 12th 7 8pm eastern - Optional show and tell on Discord
• June 17th 8pm eastern - Optional show and tell on Discord
• June 21st - Games due
• June 22nd - July 1st - Play games and leave feedback
• June 29th - Submitted games live stream showcase

Feedback guidelines

Rate on aesthetics, game play, and  engagement. Try to identify in an early phrase in your feedback the core goal the designer was going for, and then offer suggestions on how to improve on those elements. End with one positive thing they should keep doing in this or other projects.