This jam is now over. It ran from 2024-03-18 07:00:00 to 2024-03-25 07:00:00. View results
Official Winner - LABYRINTH PAM'IATI by mykmaz
Community Winner - Memory Copter by B.dot-Studios
Future Inspire Academy (FIA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people learn game development in a way that's fun, convenient, and flexible. We offer services like Daily Unity Challenges, Weekly Game Creations, One-on-One Mentoring, and Beta Platform Access combined with our gamifying leaderboard system. What makes our jams unique are our upgradable prize pool where you can redeem higher rewards by using points you gain from our program. https://futureinspireacademy.com/
Join our non-profit program to improve your game development skills, interact with a growing global community, get access to exclusive beta platforms, and redeem higher rewards in game jams:
93 points in our program will guarantee that your team can maximize the cash prize.
- $125 (split among team)
- Odin Inspector/Validator
- Dialogue System
- Kubacho Lab asset of choice (vTabs 2, vFolders 2, vHierarchy 2, or vFavorites 2)
As promised for getting over 400 jam ratings and feedbacks, we will give $25 to the best community voted game! Congrats guys on this achievement!
The winning team doesn't automatically get $125; you are only guaranteed a portion. Our game jams reward our active members that contribute to our community. Members can use points from our program to earn more cash, up to the total prize value ($125). For the cash prize pool, your team's guaranteed amount (for the whole team, NOT per member) is the total prize pool divided by the team size (rounding up). The rest can be attained by using points. Yes, this means that if you win as a solo developer, you will earn the entire cash prize value without spending any points. This time, however, we are allowing teams to collectively gather the required amount of points to upgrade the cash prize (before it was individually), which makes it a lot easier to be awarded the max amount.
This jam's point to cash conversion is: 1 POINT = $1 PRIZE UPGRADE
Each member of the winning team will be guaranteed a copy of each Unity Asset.
Disclaimer: The advertised prize pool value refers to the total cash value of all of our available prizes combined. The entire prize pool value cannot be attained by one singular individual and the prize pool value may not be distributed in its entirety because of team size and potential inability for some to upgrade their prizes. In other words, we will keep all leftover cash to save for future game jams. The prize value that an individual person receives is dependent on their team size (referring to the cash prize because each member will receive our assets).
Note: The game that is rated the highest (but is not the official winner) will be given a $25 cash prize with no drawbacks. The official winner will also get $25 more.
Each team will have a "team captain" that will submit the game on behalf of the team and will receive the cash prize from FIA. The team captain will be responsible for distributing the cash to their entire team however they want to.
We prefer using PayPal. That is our primary option. For international developers, we will prefer using Xoom because it is very simple to send money to any country. If there are issues with these platforms for your country or situation, we can talk about it; we WILL get you the money you deserve no matter what.
Disclaimer: The cash awarded to the winning team may be deducted to pay for international transaction fees. FIA is not required to use extra funds to account for international fees.
Thank you to all of our partners who help fund our game jams for the community! A huge extra thanks to Odin Inspector for providing us with keys to your tools. Let's hear a word from all of our sponsors:
"Pixel Crushers' mission is to provide narrative tools to bring designers' stories to life. You can find our flagship asset, the Dialogue System for Unity, in everything from Game of the Year winners such as Disco Elysium to small solo indie passion projects and everything in between.
Pixel Crushers on the Unity Asset Store: https://assetstore.unity.com/publishers/4521
It's our pleasure to sponsor Future Inspire Academy. Best of luck on your game jam. Go out there and make great games!"
Kubacho Lab creates productivity-boosting tools for Unity.
Check them out: https://assetstore.unity.com/publishers/80066?aid=1100lGLBn&pubref=fia
For this game jam and possibly for our future game jams, we are requiring all games to have a WebGL build. This is more accessible to the community and it'll let your game be more likely to be played by the crowd. This is NOT optional. We WILL disqualify any games that do not have a WebGL build.
The first three days after submissions close will be open to public community voting. IF WE HIT ABOVE 400 RATINGS WE WILL ADD AN ADDITIONAL $50 TO THE CASH PRIZE POOL. Public voting will not determine the winner of the jam as that will be from the judges, but it will engage our community, hence why we are incentivizing it. The games will be judged by one or two of the founders/co-founders of the organization. Judging will commence after the community voting period is over and the results will be released the following Monday. Participants are encouraged to rate each other's games and give constructive feedback. The categories we will judge are the following, we also look at which game has the most potential to be expanded upon and become successful. We hope that you will use a portion of our cash prize to invest in your game development journey. This time, there is only one winning game.
Future Inspire Academy claims no rights or ownership to submitted games, but, by submitting a game to our competition, you give permission for your game to appear on videos or other promotional materials that we may create in the future.
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