This jam is now over. It ran from 2024-06-28 17:00:00 to 2024-07-18 04:59:00. View results
Welcome to Indie City Allstars, our first competitive game jam! For those of you looking to test yourselves against the rest of the community, now's your chance: break out your A-game, your most galaxy brain dev mechanics, your top-tier dev skills- it's time for the first community development throwdown. Competitors are invited to create a single-player arcade game into a competition judged by Iron Galaxy and Itch.io community votes, culminating in a live pop-up arcade hosted by Night City.
After the jam’s end, 10 selected projects will be featured as part of a live competition and pop-up arcade at Night City. Prizes will be awarded to first, second, and third places at the event, ranked according to the number of tokens received/plays by attendees.
Players will be able to exchange “tokens” at game booths to play, receiving tickets based on leaderboard placement. Tickets will be able to be exchanged for player prizes at the event. A set amount of tokens are given to attendees upon entry. Total tokens received will be tallied at 8:30pm CST at the pop-up arcade. Winners will be announced live at the event after tally, with prizes being sent out within seven business days via Paypal or Venmo (winner’s preference).
(Optional) themes are:
Constant Drain
Bounce Back
Crunchy
Some potential guidelines for creating arcade games include:
Games must be original and created during the jam period. Asset packs are allowed, with credit to their creators. In order to qualify for the pop-up arcade and competition, games MUST have a leaderboard function, be singleplayer, and should be high-score/arcade focused. Leaderboards may be local only, and are not required to have online functionality.
All entries will be reviewed by a selection committee from Iron Galaxy. Games qualify to compete for the prize at the pop-up arcade by either being selected as a judges’ pick (five games), or ranking within the top five community votes. Community votes are decided on after judges picks have been decided, in order to prevent overlap (I.E., if the five Judges’ picks include the #1 ranked community vote, then the #2 community vote would count as the highest ranked for pop-up arcade selection purposes. Games must also submit the jam entry form, and have at least one team member able to attend the pop-up in-person.
We want to minimize gatekeeping and encourage community participation across all skill levels. All games that comply with the rules below will be included in the jam page on Itch.io. However, due to limited space at the pop-up arcade and limited availability of prizes, a maximum of 10 games will be officially selected.
To be officially selected, submissions must fulfill the following criteria:
Players will exchange tokens at the pop-up arcade for plays, developer prizes being awarded to games based on the number of tokens received! Prizes will be dispensed on a per-game basis (IE an entry comprised of multiple team members is not eligible for additional prizes). Prizes are as follows:
For any additional help, info, searching for teammates, or just finding some local community, check out the Indie City Games Discord!
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