WELCOME TO THE ULTRA BEGINNERS' JAM. THE ULTRA JAMS ARE FOCUSED ON EXAGGERATION - THE EXPRESSION OF THE ULTRA FACTOR. THOUGH, THIS BEGINNERS' JAM WELCOMES JAMMERS WITH LITTLE EXPERIENCE TO COMPETE IN A STRESS-FREE EMULATION OF A STRESSFUL, COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT.

THE BEGINNERS' JAM VARIANT IS NON-RANKED.

Make the game playable with only one button

Remember this is optional only!

WHO CAN JOIN?

BOTH AS SOLO, OR AS A TEAM WITH A MAX LIMIT OF 4.

WHAT CAN I USE TO MAKE MY GAME?

ANY ENGINE IS WELCOME. WE RECOMMEND THAT IT IS PLAYABLE ON BROWSER.

WHAT ASSETS CAN I USE?

ASSETS THAT YOU CAN LEGALLY USE. PRE-MADE ASSETS ARE WELCOME, BUT IN THE SPIRIT OF THE JAM, PLEASE KEEP MOST IF NOT ALL DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE JAM DURATION.

WHO WILL JUDGE THE GAMES?

THERE ARE NO JUDGES - THIS IS AN UNRANKED JAM

WE HAVE A DISCORD COMMUNITY AS THIS JAM IS CO-HOSTED WITH THE BRUNEI GAME DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY! YOU CAN FIND OTHER ULTRA-MATES THERE TO TEAM UP AND MAKE SOME GOOD STUFF.

Development

https://devga.me/ - General game development resource site

https://godotengine.org/ - Godot is a popular choice for its relative ease compared to Unity and Unreal Engine. Recommend Godot to start off if you are okay with learning programming.

https://www.renpy.org/ - Visual Novel engine, used to make a surprising amount of VNs found in itch.io. Has a relative amount of flexibility if you learn some programming.

https://textadventures.co.uk/quest/ - Another text-based engine to make interactive story games. Is open-source and is even available to use directly on the web-browser.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php - Sprite based "fantasy console" where the entire coding, and playing can take place in a console.

https://ledoux.itch.io/bitsy - Bitsy is a web-based game-making tool, great for making small and short narrative based games.

Visual

https://www.aseprite.org/ - Great pixel art tool for $20 usd. It is also open-source so you can build it yourself.

https://www.piskelapp.com/ - Web-based pixel art tool. The simplest tool to use here.

https://lospec.com/ - Palettes and tutorials and everything for pixel/voxel art.

https://opengameart.org/ - Get pre-made assets here available to use here.

https://game-icons.net/ - UI and Icons available for free

Audio

https://boscaceoil.net/ - Free and easy-to-use music maker

https://pixwlk.itch.io/petaporon - Ultra simple, minimalistic music maker.

https://freesound.org/ - Sound database

https://www.zapsplat.com/ - Sound database

Working in Teams

https://trello.com - Free and easy-to-use project management to communicate and delegate work

https://aggie.io - Draw-together app to brainstorm together 

https://unity.com/unity/features/collaborate - If your team is working in Unity, consider looking up Unity Collaborate.