This jam is now over. It ran from 2024-05-03 18:00:00 to 2024-05-12 19:00:00. View results

Welcome

Welcoming all game devs, from beginners to professionals, to take part in the fourth annual Fireside Jam!

Hosted by the GameDev Fireside community, we hope to make this a relaxed 10 day jam where everyone can have fun and learn to create better games. The theme will be announced in the discord server and on HelperWesley's youtube channel at the beginning of the jam.

Want to join the jam, but don't want to do it solo? Head over to the Fireside discord and check out our "jam-chat" channel


Theme

Standards

Entries which have no clear relation to the theme, or break one or more of the following rules will be removed without notification.
If you want clarification on why your game was removed, please contact HelperWesley on discord.

Rules

  1. You may participate in the jam alone, or in groups of up to 4 members. (All team members and entrants MUST be 13+)
  2. Answer all submission questions honestly.
  3. Game text MUST be written in English.
  4. Game MUST work in browser. (Or at least on windows 10  if browser version is unplayable.) 
  5. Game MUST be playable with a keyboard/mouse.
  6. You MUST credit any assets you use, as well as credit team members and yourself. (Somewhere obvious within the game)

Permitted

  • General code, i.e. character controller, project template, menu functionality, AI library, etc.
  • Publicly available assets, including art, music, and sound effects.
  • Any engine or programs, whatever you would normally use for creating your games.

Not Permitted

  • NSFW content.
  • Hateful Content.
  • Real world political or religious themes.(Fictional ones are fine)
  • Code or assets made by you or your team prior to the jam.


Rating System

You'll be rated from 1-5 stars based on the following criteria. (Judges will deduct 1 point in the relevant category for using freely available assets)

  1. Fun/Engagement - How invested players get in your game.
  2. Audio/Music - The quality and implementation of the sound.
  3. Art/Graphics - The quality and implementation of the visuals.
  4. Theme - How obviously tied to the jam's theme the game is.

Bonus Point

Judges will add 1 extra point to your overall score if you: Make something other than your typical platformer.

Showcase Video

When the jam ends, there will be a community voting period where developers who submitted games will be able to rate other games in the jam. The judges will use the results of these community votes to help them find the best games to judge. When the judges have finished picking their favorite games, a showcase video will be made that shows off and describe the top 3 community voted games and the top picks from the judges.

The video will come out on HelperWesley's youtube channel when their work schedule allows it to, and we'll do what we can to make sure people involved know when the video will be released.

Submissions(64)

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macOS (4)
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A small narrative idle game
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Mining and Refining
Strategy
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An obstacle course where you inflate to gain more points!
Action
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A Potion Making Sim! Start from Humble beginnings, Grow some plants, Brew some Potions, and get RICH QUICK!
Simulation
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a popcorn and Bloon-themed roguelike ish game
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Navigate a falling, expanding pinball through a forest of pegs.
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Expand and shrink your balloon to overcome obstacles!
Puzzle
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A simple clicker style fast paced farming game with not much polish for fireside Jam
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Light your way back home.
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IDK, BURGER?
Platformer
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Real-time global strategy
Strategy
Expand your city
Strategy
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A cooking action game.
Action
A cartoony top-down shooter made in 4 hours - Devour your followers to expand the eldritch horror
Shooter
Stop the goofy ghouls before they get to the Cloud Castle!
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A game for fireside jam 2024
Puzzle
A action movement game made in 7 days for the fireside 2024 jam
Action
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Be koi, eat food, get strong!
Adventure
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You are a zombie! Your mission?! Expand the reach of the the virus as fast as possible!
Action
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Tile based city builder made for the Fire Side Jam 2024
Puzzle
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A platformer where you expand... but can't size down!
Platformer
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A simple endless runner game for Fireside Jam 2024
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​Play as a rat starting up a cosy restaurant in New York City's underground sewers!
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Puzzle Platformer about resizing blocks
Puzzle
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skate down a store while inflating prices everywhere you go
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A roguelike strategy game
Strategy
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A game where you sacrifice goats into a fire
Action
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Help a fellow bear out and blow some balloons
Puzzle
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Casual strategy game about maintaining an expanding trade network of planets
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Shooter
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Collect barrels to grow until you fit into a hole
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Fireside Jam 2024
Strategy
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Strategy
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Deliver the package before your wheel's explode!
Racing
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Is it an endless platformer with level-ups? Or is it a narrative about expanding a released game, 1.0.0
Platformer
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Platformer
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Try to make your snowball as big as possible before the time runs out!
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World domination one robot at a time
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Made for the Fireside Jam 2024
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Game made for the Fireside Game Jam 2024 under the theme Expand.
Adventure
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Fly your RV through space picking up campers.
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FireSide Jam 2024 entry
Action
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Collect loot in your submarine!
Action
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Explore solar systems and improve your ship while trying to reach the center of the galaxy
Adventure
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Pong with crowns
Action
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Expand your empire by buying land and making money
Strategy
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An oversimplified strategy experience focused on resource management and territorial expansion.
Strategy
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Platformer
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Made in Scratch
Platformer
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Keith dreams about being huge and destroying cities like a Kaiju!
Action
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Expand Your Empire !
Strategy
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A mix of Snake & Pac-Man. Control a greedy gobbler, and consume pellets and escape while avoiding obstacles.
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Can you circ?
Puzzle
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Fireside 2024 submission
Strategy