GoedWare Game Jam #7 (+ prizes 🏆)

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This jam is now over. It ran from 2023-01-07 10:00:00 to 2023-01-16 01:30:59. View results

The seventh GoedWare Game Jam is over. Everyone who was able to make a game within the 8-day deadline submitted it. We had 35 entries, a new record. We are hoping to get even a few more at the 8th GoedWare Game Jam in April 2023!

We really enjoyed organizing this event and we will do so again in the future. So watch out for the seventh GoedWare Game Jam (#8)! We hope you will join us again

First, thanks to everyone for participating and forwarding your games! Without you there would be no Game Jam. We hope you had fun creating, testing and playing your games. I know we did.

And now for the results the winners in the various categories are listed below:

#Overall winner

The overall winner of the seventh GoedWare Game Jam is: INFINITE POWER by LOKO-606. This game had solid rankings in all categories, including the devlog, so it can truly be called the OVERALL WINNER! Congratulations!

#Runner-up

The runner-up is: Dream Beat by Isaac 2. The game had also solid rankings in all categories and only missed the win by all but a fraction.

#Gameplay

The winner in what can be called the most important individual category for a game is: Grocery Hurry by Sebthebeast90. The gameplay against yourself gave players great enjoyment!

#Graphics

We all love eye candy and the winner in this category was Mission Simulated by Jiahao Guo. The dream like style was very neat.

#Audio

Our ears loved this one: Dream Beat.

#Theme

This game represented the theme "ALTERNATE REALITY | TIME IS POWER" the best: INFINITE POWER.

#Devlog

We all join Game Jams to learn to make even better games that give the player a lot of fun and emotions playing it. This Jam we learned the most of several entrees. These devlogs give us a nice sneak peek into their development process. Go and read it and learn😊!

#Jury ranking

#1

INFINITE POWER: This game had already finished high in the public votes, but it also drew positive attention from the judges. The smooth controls and inventive use of the theme were well received, the graphics were beautiful and the sound quality good.

#2

Grocery Hurry: The #2 game in the public voting and also with the jury, this game received high marks, but just not enough to take first place. However, the judges liked the graphics, audio, gameplay, and use of the theme.

#Graphics

Ethereal Quest by EspressoBuns, curtismith04, DinoSloth, JoostVB, there were some very nice games again during this Jam, but for the judges, the atmosphere and ambiance of this world and models stood out just a bit.

#Audio

Dream Beat by Isaac 2, a rhythm game is also almost impossible without good music and sound effects. And that was also the case with this game. The jury could listen to it very well.

#Easter Egg Challenge

The winner is Flying Realities with a lof of funny Easter Eggs.

Final Results (Public Overall Score + Devlog Score)

This is the 7th Game Jam organized by GoedWare ( LinkedIn | Website | Discord ). Our goal is to let you practice coding, create and finish a game in 8 days and also learn from the experience, expand your skills and above all have fun and enjoy making your own game and playing other participants' games.

*(Link to previous Jams #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6)

It is always difficult to find a good theme. It should give you a push in the right direction for a game idea, but it shouldn't be too limiting either. We think we found that in the following theme + theme mechanic:

"ALTERNATE REALITY | TIME IS POWER"

We hope that your imagination and skills can turn these into something beautiful, fun and with great gameplay... Be creative 🤔😊!

You can always discuss, brainstorm and exchange ideas with your fellow participants @ our Discord Server.

Good luck to you all and have fun at this Game Jam!!

Anyone, regardless of experience, is welcome to participate!
An itch.io account to be able to join the jam and submit your entry.
You can use any engine or framework you like! For example: Unity, Godot, Unreal, Gamemaker etc. You can even make your own if you want. But some of our prizes are Assets for the Unity Engine (you can choose a gift card instead).
You will have to create a Devlog where you give some insights in your game development progress or inform the other participants how you solved a specific game problem or implemented a game mechanic. In this way we all learn something from each other's experiences.
- This can be a blog, a video, your daily schedule of the jam, some text or a short story telling us how you made the game, what difficulties you had during the jam and how you solved them. Or an explanation of some of your key game mechanics. How did you come up with them or how did you implement them. Or what you think are important learning milestones for us. It does not have to be much. Every information you can share will be helpful for us to learn to make better games that are more fun for the players.
- You can easily add your log to your Itch.io Game Project page or provide a link in the submission where we can read your log.
You can not edit your submission after the deadline! So be wise and submit your game a few hours before the deadline to be able to tackle any last minute issues.
Teams are allowed, but we recommend keeping the teams up to 4 members, after that it becomes hard to manage a team in 8 days for a game. (Prizes are only for the whole team, not the individual members)
If you have the time and can manage it, multiple entries for the Game Jam are allowed.
Music must be royalty / copyright free and properly credited.
You can use fonts from the internet, as long as you have the correct license for it.
You can use assets you own. For example assets from the Unity Asset Store or Unreal Marketplace.
Please only use assets you have permission to use, and avoid infringing upon any copyright or trademark.
No NSFW games. Games must not contain nudity, or hateful language or visuals.
Participants who try to manipulate voting will be removed.

All entries will be judged by other participants of the jam, so that includes you (hopefully)!

The categories the games are rated in are:

Gameplay: How fun is it to play the game
Graphics: How nice are the look and feel and art-style of the game
Audio: Do your ears love the sound effects and music and do they fit the game and theme
Theme: Does the game fit into the theme
Devlog: How insightful and educational was the log of the developer(s)

There will also be a Judge/Jury Ranking: a rating by our own panel of judges. They will make a separate ranking from the participating games based on their own tastes, preferences and gaming enjoyment as to who will receive a prize. They will take into account any double or unfair voting in the normal rating. To balance uneven or unfair votes.

The theme will be announced when the jam starts.

After the jam ends, a 1 week rating period starts, in which people can play and rate all of the submitted games.

Don't forget to leave feedback on any game you rate! It's more helpful than just a number, and it helps them find your game 😊.

Note: You need at least 8 ratings to be considered for winning in any of the categories. So make sure you play a lot of games so your game will have a higher chance of getting rated!

*The voting is open, but we reserve the right to take any submissions down that are clearly vote brigaded.

** The number of needed ratings to be considered a winning will be adjusted according to the number of participants.

Yes, this Game Jam will have prizes for the winners 😊. These prizes are made available by our sponsor and organizer GoedWare.

Let's start by saying that if you press that join button and upload a game before the deadline, you are already a winner! Having fun while creating and finishing your game project is an achievement in itself! That experience is more valuable than money, but we do have some real prizes for the winners also 😉.

We have a public vote with prizes and we also have a jury ranking (see these prizes under the public vote) with prizes.