Open-source Game Jam 1

This jam is now over. It ran from 2021-05-27 04:00:00 to 2021-06-07 04:00:00. View results

The Main Idea

Use 1+ open-source tools (Aseprite counts) and/or 1+ "copyleft"/CC free assets, like some image with a CC0 license. Most importantly, the game you make must be released somehow as open-source, too! (So, whether you use Godot or Defold or Gamemaker Studio or GB-studio -- or whatever -- to make your game, you will release the project files and source code on either your Itch page or another site linked on your Itch page.

There will be a prize for the winner! The prize will be announced when the jam starts. (Maybe next time I'll take donations for runners'-up prizes or honorable mentions...but not this time. Sorry, I'm poor.) Everybody who participated gets to judge, but if there are lots of entries, the top 10 or so will get final judgement by the coordinator of the Jam (a.k.a., Zed Hanok).

Update: The winner gets a free website account at my new webhost (so new I've really haven't finished setting it up!) plus one of my spare Microsoft 365 memberships (I have five, I think), plus a Steam gift card. (The size of the gift card is up in the air because I don't know if there will be a multi-way tie, but it will be as much as I can afford, maybe $30! Again, it depends if we have a tie...) I figure I can handle a five-way tie, but any more than that and I start going to the poorhouse! (But I'm trying to prepare for contingencies.)

Rules (More Like Guidelines):

Your project must be a video game that can be released as open-source in some way. It would be wise to make an HTML5 version of the game and/or a Windows version -- we need people to be able to play it and judge it!

(I do have Linux, too. So I can test stuff on Linux, if you want.)

Your submission must have a page on Itch to be submitted. It is recommended that you document your progress making the game somehow, but it is not required at all.

There will be a theme that is part of the judging, but technically you do not need to follow it (if you think your game is strong enough on points to win anyway). The theme is "droids and/or mechs".

To help out, I will try to get an asset links page up at my new site--ZedekHost.com--near the start of the jam (if I figure out everything). I found some good stuff at OpenGameArt.org you could use for this jam, if you want. You don't have to.

Go ahead and submit the games to any other jams. I don't go out looking and checking, so why not allow it?

It's been a long time since I made a Jam, but I think multiple submissions are allowed by Itch's system, so that makes it good enough for me.

If your game is based off existing open-source code that anybody could use, that's great. Moreover, if you want to continue development on a game you tried to make for another jam, that is fine, just open-source it.

Anything you make during the Jam is your property. We claim no rights or ownership of your game.

If you don't finish in time, that's okay, maybe nobody else will, either -- submit and release what you have as a pre-alpha prototype or demo or something. It happens to me all the time!

Spamming Jams with non-open-source entries is grounds for getting your submission kicked out, if that wasn't clear from the rules!

To repeat: Your project must be a video game that can be released as open-source in some way. It would be wise to make an HTML5 version of the game and/or a Windows version -- we need people to be able to play it and judge it!

If your submission is not open-source, I may have to reject it. I really hate to do that!