Sacramento Developer Collective would like to present our next Game Jam! We are starting a monthly Game Jam with different little twists here and there :)

The purpose of this jam is to create any asset, whether it be art, sound, game tools, etc . Anything that can be used in a game engine!

Submissions must have a minimum of one asset but there is no maximum

If you'd like to create a game anyway, make sure to select the asset or assets you're submitting when you upload to itch.io

Our theme will be announced the day of the jam!

This game jam will be running for 48 hours (with time for sleep of course) with additional resources being shared through our social media and more! So stay tuned!

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Theme: Family

If you'd like to create teams, come join us in our Discord ! We have some Game Jam channels for you to work in :) 

After submissions, we'll take a look through everyone's assets and see what everyone made. Once all assets are done, it’ll be just in time for our Dev Days on June 7! That's when you can showcase what you've made with others, along with feedback from your peers 😄We're excited to see what you can make!

Don't know where to start? Sometimes trying to even start is the hardest part! 

Here's a list of some tools/resources that you could utilize:

A few  game engines to make Game Tools for:

• Amazon Lumberyard
• Unity 3D
• Unreal Engine
• Godot
• Ren'Py
• Twine

Graphics: 

General/flexible paint programs:

• Quadtastic - A tool to manage sprite sheets and color palettes.
• Heavypaint - A phone app for graphic painting.
• Tuxpaint - A KidPix-like: free computer art software for children. 
• Noodle - A minimalist experimental drawing tool (controls in the console.)
• JSPaint - Microsoft Paint for the browser, more or less.
• Krita - A free & open source painting program.
• GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program. 
• Glimpse - Open source image editor based on the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
• Paint.net - Image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows.
• Fire Alpaca - Simple and easy, light performance image editor

Pixel art:

• pixeldudesmaker - What it sounds like - generates little pixel dudes.
• Pixelorama - Free & open-source 2D sprite editor with layers.
• dpixel - An odd pixel art remastering tool - pixels go in, smoothed images come out.
• Sink's Fun Pack - Mostly a paint tool but also a level editor!
• Nasu - A tool for making NES sprites.
• Piskel - Web-based editor for sprites, spritesheets.
• Aseprite - Animated sprite editor & pixel tool

Vector:

• cozyvec - A terminal program for creating plotter art (SVG files) in javascript.
• Dotgrid - A grid-based vector drawing software designed to create logos, icons and type.
• Inkscape - A free, open-source, cross-platform vector graphics editor.
• https://www.nodebox.net/ - a cross-platform tool to create generative vector graphics

Sound & music:

Tools for sound effects, music, and general audio. 

Sound effects generators:

• Bfxr - Sound effect editor that is based on sfxr.
• rFXGen - Also sound effects, based on sfxr.
• evosfxr - Also sound effects, also based on sfxr, with ~evolution~. 
• as3sxfr - S/A.
• sfxr - The original sound generator these are based on.
• GB SFX Generator - A small tool for creating authentic Game Boy sound effects.
• Chiptone - A free tool for generating sound effects in the browser.
• Freesound.org - A collection of CC-licensed sound effects.

Sound editors:

• Paulstretch - A program for extreme audio stretching. Make choruses and ambient tones.
• Audacity - The free software for recording and editing sounds.
• AudioSculpt - A visual approach to modifying a sound file.
• Reaper - Digital audio workstation
• Cecilia - Audio signal processing environment for mangling sound.

Click this link if you want more inspiration!