Hey! Welcome to PengJam 2021! Congrats on making it through 2020. You should make a game to celebrate!

PengJam is a game jam where the focus is on having fun and improving your skills, rather than following a theme or worrying about short time schedules (you have 2 months)!

Anyone who takes part in PengJam gets to vote on the best game. If your submission was a joint effort between you and other people, Contact @BlockyPenguin to get them added as judges too. They must have an itch.io account to do so.

Before the start of the jam on the 1st January, you can prep your game, e.g. get the basics there: menus, file loading/saving, textures/sounds etc. Once the jam starts, you are free to code the game itself! Obviously, if need be, you can go and revisit the basics during this time. If you need a little extra time to finesse your game, late entries are accepted up until 10 days after the submissions close. Contact the host, @BlockyPenguin to submit a game late.

PRIZES:

The top three games get their creators invited back to be judges in the next PengJam, regardless of whether they enter it or not.

The top ten games get linked to from this page.

RULES:

• No NSFW content - Let's keep this jam family-friendly!
• Don't start coding anything playable before the jam starts, either leave that time for menus, file loading/saving, and other behind the scenes stuff, or do everything within the dates!
• Be fair when voting. Don't be biased, and be sure to play the game first.
• All submissions must be playable either online or on desktop.
• Remember, the whole point of PengJam is to have fun and better yourself. Don't worry if your game isn't quite how you'd like it by the end of the jam, you still have up to 10 more days to finish up!

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