For the end of our third year running the Week Sauce game jam, our community on Discord voted for a couple new themes in case you need some inspiration. So the themes for this month’s Week Sauce jam are…
🤔 Wait, Are We The Bad Guys?
or/and
🧑🧑🧒🧒 Running Out Of Space
Maybe you could do a game about the ecological disaster caused by your PC slaying monsters without considering the delicate balance of the fantasy ecosystems (did you know that when monsters disappear in a puff of smoke after their demise, leaving behind only hard gold coins, nothing can really feed on their carcasses??). For "Running Out Of Space" maybe you could do… any fantasy game with an inventory. You could even mix both, and make a game about having a shop in which you keep creating bigger and bigger items, resulting in all adventurers in town not having enough slots in their inventory for potions, and the town being overrun by monsters as a result. As usual, it is all up to you, we accept it all! And remember, if you don't like either of these themes we totally accept anything else you make.
Not sure why we are so loose with our rules? Read on.
About Week Sauce
What's Week Sauce anyway? It is a jam for people that want to participate on game jams but cannot commit to strict dates or enjoy being judged. It is a very chill, non-ranked jam, that doesn't have a lot of requirements. You only have to make a game (of any type, tabletop games included) in 7 days, and then publish it. More importantly, you don't need to make it in 7 consecutive days; you can decide what days work for you. We also don't care if it turns out to be 8 or 10 days instead of 7. We don’t even care how you define what “a day” of work on your game is. Week Sauce is not even a monthly jam (we only change the theme every month), so you can really spread those 7 or so days as much as you need, and we will still accept your entry!
You can work in any engines or programming languages, alone or with a team, and even the theme is completely optional. The only important thing here is to support you on developing and posting a very minimal game, from start to finish. It is a very VERY chill jam that hopefully helps you improve your game-making skills or break free of a creative rut.
You can join whether you are new to game development and looking for a no-pressure environment and some help to start, or you just have a lot going on in your life and need a more flexible schedule. Although publishing a game on itch.io is not a requirement, we have been hosting jams here every month, and almost all our submissions have been through itch.io. So…
- If you want to get more info: https://weeksauce.io
- If you want to join: https://itch.io/jam/weeksauce-36
- If you want to see the entries for previous months: https://itch.io/jam/weeksauce
- If you want to join our Discord server to chat about your project, look for a team, tell us about your progress, vote on next month's theme, or you need help of any kind (whether is tech questions or you just need cheering): https://discord.gg/t6aFsKzyVB
- And if you have any questions, comment below or get in touch.
Cheers!
—Miguel Friginal (@mysterycoconut)