This jam is now over. It ran from 2024-06-14 00:00:00 to 2024-06-24 04:59:59. View results

Missed the deadline? We accept late submissions through the 26th!
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A 10-DAY CREATE-ANYTHING JAM 
WHERE🫵YOU🫵 DECIDE WHICH COLOR PALETTE
BECOMES THE JAM's THEME!
 🏆

1. Vote for your favorite palette in a tournament bracket
2. Make anything using the winning color palette

Hosted by Society of Play, a 501(c)3 Non-Profit!

Important Dates & Links

ROUND 1 OF VOTING END*May 30th
SEMI-FINALS VOTING END*June 6th
WINNING COLOR PALETTE CHOSEN*June 13th
JAM STARTSJune 13th
JAM ENDS & VOTING STARTSJune 23rd
VOTING RESULTSJune 30th

* Voting for palettes is optional!

Our Discord
(for team building, progress sharing, and palette propoganda)

The COLOR PALETTE TOURNAMENT BRACKET
(vote here!)

How to Participate & Rules

  • Make anything!
    • Art, games, music, novels, field recordings, field notes... anything!
  • Use the color palette that wins the tournament.
    • You can modify the palette as needed!
  • Use an additional theme. 
    • HOLIDAY IN SUMMER: Use any holiday in your submission
      MORE: Add colors to or blend colors in the winning palette.

Judging Criteria

Everyone who participates will rank each other's submissions. Many of the criteria are intended to be vague and up to interpretation, so have fun with it! Decide what they mean to you.

  • Art / Palette Usage 🌈
  • Enjoyment 🎊
  • Theme Use / Neat Idea
  • Mouth Feel 👄
  • ??? / !!!

Color Palette Competitors

🏆HOT PANDA🏆

SODA CAP
WHEAT FIELD
ANGELIC
Y'S NEUTRAL GREEN
1-BIT MOONBEAM
SACCHARIDE
BLESSING

VOTE HERE
Click on a palette to see more info on the creator & art examples!

Q&A

Who is hosting this jam?

Society of Play is the jam's host!
We're a 501(c)3 Non-Profit. A community for professionals, hobbyists, and students alike! If you make games (or want to), you belong here!

You can join our Discord!
Share progress & hang out with other devs. Since we're a non-profit we aren't trying to monetize your participation in any way.

Who made that awesome key art?

Key art by FIZZTAP (They're awesome! Check them out.)

Where do I vote again?

Here! Final voting ends when the jam starts, but there are 3 rounds of voting!

This is the third Hexcode Palette Showdown Jam?

Yup! Here are links to the previous ones! HEXCODE 1 & HEXCODE 2

Submissions(34)

All submissions
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Browser playable (17)
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Windows (13)
macOS (3)
Linux (5)

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Fight against endless waves of spirits and restless dead while leveling up to gain new abilities!
Action
Play in browser
A Funky Tower Defense mixed with physics!
Strategy
Play in browser
A Colorful Arcade Shooter, Flashing Lights Warning
Shooter
A pixel art of two women being cozy on a couch together :D
Your Cosmic Donut Delivery Service
Puzzle
Audio files and magazine snippets found for a long lost third game in a beloved franchise.
Work quick and get it right the first time, your customers want delicious hot pot!
Strategy
Play in browser
Craft fireworks to fulfill orders and get a satisfying Bouquet Final! Made for Hexcode Palette Showdown 3
Where Am I?
Visual Novel
A surreal and non-linear adventure about a linear boy
Adventure
You're a ghost. Defend your Haunted House from the Void.
Survival
Play in browser
You have a car and a gun. There are enemies. Seems straightforward enough.
Action
Play in browser
A short game about conducting interviews and gaining audience
Play in browser
Come tend to your bonsai collection in this chill simulation game
Simulation
Play in browser
Avoid bouncy watermelons in this minigame
Action
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Fly high
Action
Play in browser
A small sketch from the depths of my reveries
Play in browser
The castle of axe
Action
Play in browser
Two hearts. Four fists.
Fighting
Play in browser
Roam, with us, our castle in the swamp.
Deliver packages with a drone!
Simulation
Play in browser
Adventure
Play in browser
Raise an armi of catimaris and take over the world!
Simulation
A chill ride around (a small part) of San Ursus, famous vacation destination.
Play in browser
A game where you bounce your way up to victory with your own self-made platforms!
Platformer
A game where you run forever and gets faster
Play in browser
A video placed in an Itch page to submit to Hex Jam 3
elf love ep cover art lol