Welcome to SonderingEmily and Juliestrator's 48-hour game jam!

And the theme is....home! Feel free to post your progress throughout the jam and tag Emily and Julie's socials — we will repost some of them! Good luck everyone ✨.

Who can enter? Anyone, of any age, from anywhere. You can work alone or in teams. There is no limit on team size.

When does the jam take place? The jam begins on September 8th at 6pm PT and ends September 10th at 6pm PT. You can submit your game until September 10th at 7pm PT as a grace period for late entries, last minute bugs, and Itch.io issues. After the jam, you can vote on entries until September 22nd at 6pm PT.

What is the theme? The theme will be announced when the jam officially begins!

What assets can I use? The game should be developed during the jam, but you may use pre-existing code and can use whatever art and audio assets you have the legal right to use. Please do not use AI to generate any assets or code.

When should I submit my game? You can submit your game at any point after the jam begins. If you submit early, you can update the game at any time before the jam closes.

Who will judge the games? Games will be judged by the public. Julie and Emily will then play the top games and pick their favorites. The top entries will be featured on Emily and Julie's socials.

How do I find a team? You can join Emily's Discord which will have a channel #find-a-team. You can also join Julie's Discord which will have a channel #find-a-team-for-game-jam.

What can I make? Please upload your build to Windows and Mac. We highly encourage you to upload your game to WebGL. You can make your game in any engine or programming language. Your game cannot contain nudity and hate visuals/speech. Your game MUST be free and "released," not "draft."

• You can not make games for consoles (so no Super Mario Maker 2 levels or Dreams (PS4) creations).
  
• You can not require the user to download additional software from external sources (so no ROMs for emulators, or games for Roblox. If your game requires additional files (like DLLs) they should be included in the download and not require separate installation). 
• You can not require the user print things out (so no board or card games).
• You can not require the user to have hardware beyond a keyboard and mouse (so no VR games, webcam games, and no controller-only games). 
• The itch.io file limit is 1GB. You can compress your game as a ZIP, RAR, or 7Zip file (ZIP is preferred).

Follow Emily: Instagram. YouTube. Discord.

Follow Julie: Instagram. YouTube. Discord. Twitch.

(Credit to GMTK as I copied some of his jam info here.)