This jam is now over. It ran from 2020-12-27 00:00:00 to 2021-01-04 00:30:00. View results

The Historically Accurate game jam is a game development contest focussing around history. Over the course of a week, you have to make a game centred around a history-related theme. The goal of the jam is to inspire more developers to make games about history and, more importantly, have some fun! The jam is from the 27th of December - 3rd of January, so mark your calendars!

We also have a discord server, so feel free to join if you want to :)



The Theme of the third Historically Accurate Game Jam is "Cold War"

We have a multiple-round voting system to decide on our theme. Firstly, everyone can suggest up to 3 themes. Then, after a few months, you can select all the themes you'd be okay with making a game around. The top 10 from this round are then selected and voted on - however, this time you can only pick one! After this round, the top 5 are chosen. From these, everyone votes on the top 3. A few weeks before the jam, I announce these top 3. From these, I'll randomly (though weighted towards the vote proportion) select the theme and announce it to you all when the jam starts!



At the end of the jam, everyone who participated gets to judge everyone else's games. Games can be judged on by the following categories:

  • Overall Rating
  • Gameplay
  • Graphics
  • Audio
  • Historical Accuracy
  • Thematic Relevancy

If you place in the top 3, you get a copy of Pendragon, by Inkle Games



  1. No NSFW games (by NSFW, we mean sexual content)
  2. You can only use free assets and you must link them on your game's page
  3. There can be a maximum of 4 members in a team - otherwise the jam becomes unfair



Who can enter? Anyone. There's no skill floor - the jam is about having fun!

How much effort should I put in? There's no point overworking yourself, so do what you feel comfortable with!

What game engines am I allowed to use? All game engines are allowed!




This Game Jam is sponsored by Inkle games. If you want to check out their amazing games, including Independent Games Festival winner Heaven's Vault or their latest, somewhat historical, game Pendragon, go to https://www.inklestudios.com/

Submissions(75)

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A Cold War Strategy-Map Game
Strategy
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Play as a furry but brave feline in a failed CIA Project...
Action
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From Russia with ḽ̵̓ȏ̴̢v̷̪̍e̴̼̚
Rhythm
Reconnaissance is everything.
Action
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You're a lethal operative trapped in... a hotel room? Secrets await you.
Puzzle
As a Viet Cong, take the American's base during the Vietnam War in this stealth/action game!
Action
In this game you can be the leader of the USSR and bring Communism to glory!
Strategy
Become a Cuban Revolutionary in Venceremos, a shoot em up platformer where you fight the oppressive Cuban dictatorship!
Shooter
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Do you remember the space race in the Cold War? well yeah I made it into a game
Racing
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Le Grand Espionage!
Puzzle
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Historically Accurate Game Jam 3
Action
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Lead an anti-Communist resistance against the unstoppable spread of Soviet oppression in post-WWII Poland.
Strategy
Spy VS Spy game in the Cold War
Simulation
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Shuffle papers, spread memos... They don't suspect a thing
Role Playing
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Search. Eat. Afraid. Listen. Repeat... Rougelike about a cat and the cold war
Action
Musician Anja decides to escape through the Berlin Wall in this branching path stealth-RPG.
Role Playing
You can test Nukes
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Sneakily slip out of the Soviet Union as the KGB are on your tail!
Strategy
Survive 3 Waves
Shooter
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Escape to West Berlin
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Keep your three bosses happy while flying in a straight line
Simulation
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A Game Where You Manage A Newspaper During Kennedy's Presidential Term.
Simulation
Dual-Control Cold War Strategy
Strategy
Multiplayer Fighter featuring Cold War leaders
Fighting
A double agent has infiltrated the embassy! Find the perpetator, before they sabotage all their targets.
Puzzle
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Which Ideology is best? Fight it out in this turn based strategy.
Strategy
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Liberate Bangladesh. Stop World War III.
Strategy
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My first game , hope u like it
Strategy
Be the first country to launch 10 missions and reach the moon!
Racing
Fight across the world !
Shooter
Invade Cuba's Bay of Pigs utilizing strategies in order to thwart the spread of communism!
Strategy
An in-progress series of minigames about the 1967 riots in Hong Kong.
Puzzle
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In this game you are in a secret mission on the moon during the ColdWar. You have to fight against the Soviets!
Action
A 2D pixel art game with an element of suspense
Visual Novel
Play as Sputnik and shoot asteroids and enemy satellites!
Shooter
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Jazzy, Fast-Paced Code Breaking Game
Simulation
Crush the Soviet Menace in this famous piece of CIA propaganda!
Platformer
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The day the world nearly ended.
Visual Novel
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​An immersive sim set in the Cambodian jungle during the fall of the infamous Khmer Rouge regime.
Text-based espionage
Interactive Fiction
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A radar simulation
Puzzle
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a soldier escaping from vietnam warzone, you have 5 chance to help a little soldier escaping from war zone
Shooter
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A music legacy of the cold war era.
Adventure
Survive your surveillance mission in enemy territory!
Action
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Project for Historically Accurate Game Jam 3
Strategy
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This is a game where you build and sell planes. There is also a cool museum with cool plane facts.
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controls: left arrow, right arrow shooting: up arrow reset after a loss: down arrow
Action
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Historically Accurate Game Jam 3
Adventure
Historic ColdWar GameJam 2020
Strategy
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Historical Aviator Game
Adventure
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A group of people are trying to build a tunnel to escape East Berlin. We need to stop them.
Strategy
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A game set in East Berlin, Germany. Help a citizen escape to the west.
Adventure
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A Casual Game where you can draw some stuff on the Berlin Wall back in it's day.
Use a U2 plane to locate missiles over Cuba in this 2D flight game
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Play a little Prisoner whos trying to escape the deep caverns of an evecuated gulag.
Puzzle
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Play the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, a turning point in the space race during the cold war.
You play as a pilot in the Berlin Airlift.
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You play as a Russian agent trying to steal secrets form a secret city in the US
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with your soldiers, attack your enemies and capture their camps.
Action
No real bears were harmed during the development of this program.
Platformer
A 2 player LAOG about emotional compromise and sexual questioning during the Lavender Scare.
A game about diplomacy, chaos...and space!
Simulation
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Adventure
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