Hi everyone! It's the moment of truth for you all! I'd like to present the winning entries for the Junior Game Developers Game Jam. That's right I said entries for a reason. Including the one winner me and Tarja (our guest judge) wanted to congratulate two additional entries, one for the best visuals and one for the best gameplay. We discussed about all the entries together and weighed them against each other and here are our concluding thoughts:

Sunken Treasure (Best gameplay)

This entry has some potential to attract the same audience as the indie title Downwell. We liked how the combat mechanics and the descent worked. The expalanation of mechanics in the beginning could use some polisihing with maybe instead using some popup hud elements. Overall good job!

Manatee Calf Rescue (Best Visuals)

This adorable entry has some great potential to be a level based platformer when further developed. We would've loved to hear some additional background music that could've fit with the cute SFX for the player characters movement. Because of the great art the game was a joy to be played, congrats!

In the Search for Atlantis (Winner of Junior Game Developer Jam)

This Darkest Dungeon -like game had a good balance of simplified art assets with soothing audio and chill gameplay. It was interesting to read through the different text prompts and we could easily see this as a prototype for something that could be further developed as an AA release down the line. The font was a bit difficult to read from a pc monitor but that is something that can be pretty easily fixed. Great job 

Thank you everyone for participating in this servers first game jam. We learned a lot for future jamming activities and we hope you had fun making games together. As for the winners mentioned above. You will be contacted shortly via discord (or by other means)