When is the project deadline?
All projects must be published into the itch.io jam group by January 28th 2018 at 11:59 PM
Is it ok to create project diaries & talk about my project with others?
You're welcome to maintain dev blogs, share updates & even livestream your creative process as much as you wish (give me a shout if you do). Just keep in mind that the projects are non-collaborative & individually assessed, so probably don't hand out all your source files.
You are also welcome to share ideas, talk about your approach to the project and discuss work-in-progress with others on the discussion board. Alternatively, if you want to keep your whole project private and work on it in secret until a spectacular reveal, that's fine too.
Do my project assets need to be made publicly available on itch?
To be assessed, you will need to set ‘Visibility & Access Settings’ to ‘Public’.
If you want to hide the page from the rest of the itch community then you are welcome to also tick the box for ‘Unlisted in search & browse’.
Please note that this doesn't hide your page entirely, and it will still be visible to other members of the game jam and also accessible through direct links. We will also be listing all the completed projects on Grads In Games.
It's not a requirement, but obviously we strongly encourage you to make your project publicly accessible. You've put a lot of work in and self-published a game project, so even if you don't think it's turned out great it's still worth showing what you've achieved.
Can you help me out with something else?
Sure. There's a few ways you can go about it; you can either pop a new topic into the support forum, join an existing discussion there if someone else has a similar issue, or if you'd prefer you can email dan@gradsingames.com
I've broken everything, have no idea what I'm doing, it's all gone wrong, I haven't got time and I'm giving up!
Talk to me about it. Don't panic, there's always something that can be done & we'll do what we can to help get you back on track.