This jam is now over. It ran from 2024-06-23 14:00:00 to 2024-07-07 00:00:00. View results
Hello, friends! Thanks for joining the first annual Imaginary Game Jam! This year, I’d like to highlight Imaginary Game Studios’ first mascot character, Metic. Who is Metic, you ask? Well, Metic is a helpful guide on board a futuristic spaceship designed to help players achieve their health goals. Metic is adventurous, thoughtful, and first and foremost – supportive! You can check out his game, Meticulous, on Steam, or just watch a couple of videos over on the Imaginary Game Studios YouTube Channel to get the gist. That said, you’re welcome to interpret his character however you like! Your game doesn't have to be about health, and the setting can be sci-fi, fantasy, slice-of-life – anything is fair game. Oh, and like many game jams, there will also be a bonus theme, TBA – stay tuned!
The Imaginary Game Jam is a two week long game jam running from June 23rd to July 6th for solo developers (the “Submission Period”). The theme will be announced at the beginning of the Submission Period. To access the provided assets, please join the Imaginary Game Studios Discord server. Winners will be announced on July 21st in the Discord server. Game submissions may be featured live on stream the weeks of July 6th – July 20th.
During the two weeks after the Submission Period, Imaginary Game Studios will evaluate and score your submissions. Our judges will be stack ranking games according to each category, and determining overall scoring by the sum of each category. All categories will be weighted equally. We will be evaluating the following criteria:
With the exception of Community Scoring, the judges will make their selections in their subjective, good faith determination (or judgment). Winners will be announced on or after July 20th.
*Entrants can only qualify for one payout. The highest eligible payout will be selected per entrant. In the event of a tie between entries in Community Scoring, Imaginary Game Studios reserves the right to raise one of the tied entrants’ Community Scoring score up by 0.01 points for consideration of payouts.
*You're welcome to submit any game project, but only those that follow the requirements are eligible to receive compensation. If you would like to excuse yourself from compensation for any reason, please state “I excuse myself from compensation” anywhere on your game’s itch.io page.
**If you have non-developer friends who wish to contribute assets (art, models, UI, music, etc.) but are unable to submit their own entry, that’s great! Please direct them to share their contributions on the Imaginary Game Studios Discord server. Our goal is to make the best games we can, and we’re all in this together! 🙂
*You are not required to use any provided assets. You are welcome and encouraged to create your own representation of Metic using any art style you choose. You can access the provided assets via the Imaginary Game Studios Discord server.
**You're free to use any provided assets for the purposes of developing a game for this particular game jam, but not for any other purpose. You own the rights to any unique IP you develop in the course of the game jam, but you are not being granted ownership over any IP belonging to Imaginary Game Studios.
We reserve the right to revise these Rules in our sole and absolute discretion.
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