Welcome, Contestants

We are glad you are here! This is the Incremental Game Jam 2020.

This year the contest will begin <insert date>. There are two contest periods, the 48-hour jam ending Sunday August 9th at 1PM EDT and the 7-day jam ending August 14th 1PM EDT.

The purpose of this event is to have fun and see what great ideas you can come up with in the time constraints. At the end of each contest period, a panel of judges will play some or all of the games and provide their feedback and ratings. The aggregate ratings are then used to rank games based on 5 criteria:

  1. Theme: How well does your game represent the specified theme even if abstractly?

  2. Game Design: How well do your mechanics and design fit together to make a coherent presentation?

  3. Originality: How well do your mechanics break new ground and experiment with new ideas?

  4. Fun: How enjoyable is the overall gameplay?

  5. Balance: How well balanced are the resource production, upgrade prices, wait times, etc. ?

You will not be rated based on art or music.

To keep the playing field fair, we are putting some limitations on what is or is not allowed.

  1. You are allowed to work together, there is no max size.

  2. Generally speaking, you must come up with the idea, plan, and execute with your team within the allotted time.

  3. Your code, scripts, and assets should be limited to what is available publicly (JS snippets, frameworks, etc)

  4. Games cannot be changed between the end of the contest time period and when the judge's ratings are published.

  1. If you are submitting the same game to both the 48H and 7-Day jam, you will need 2 versions in separate URLs so that judges can see what was done at the end of 48H

  2. Games need to be playable, so if small fixes are needed because a judge cannot play your game (bugs happen, we get it), then it is permissible to make Changes.

  1. Your game must be publicly and freely available - if it requires sign up, a payment, or some other barrier of entry, a judge is probably not going to play it.

  2. Github pages is preferred but not a hard rule

  3. Keep it SFW

Before you begin...

Please visit the Registration page to register your team. Only one member of a team needs to register. Registration will help us keep track of teams, and games. Your email will not be shared with other people.

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