Welcome to the 2nd Iteration of the Ultra Beginners' Jam!
The Ultra Jams are focused on EXAGGERATION - the expression of the Ultra Factor, whatever that means to you is up for you to decide!

As a beginners' jam, we welcome jammers with little to no experience to try out and compete in a friendly environment! Hence, this is a non-ranked Jam.

How you interpret this is up to you! Maybe the level finishes in 10 seconds. Maybe you can find collectibles to have more than 10 seconds. Maybe the entire game is 10 seconds!

Be sure to make something ULTRA happen in that 10 seconds! The definition of ULTRA here is up for interpretation.

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.