Theme
Keeping it simple for the first game jam, the theme is the USSR. Home of the first successful communist revolution and workers' state, the Soviet Union seems a good place to begin. How you engage with this theme is up to you. Games based on Soviet literature and cinema, games featuring events and figures from Soviet history, games that might have been made in the Soviet Union if computer gaming had taken off there, the possibilities are many.
If you want to make a retro-style game, you may find these resources useful:
- 8 bit White Army Black Baron
- 8 bit Soviet anthem
- 8 bit Katyusha
- Hell, this channel in general has many 8 bit Soviet songs
- Pixel art hammer and sickle
Submission Requirements
- Submissions must be posted publicly in the submissions subthread below.
- Submissions must be turned in on time (by 5PM Eastern time on March 18)
- Submissions must follow the Jam's theme
- Submissions must not promote reactionary ideas (bigotry, imperialism, etc.)
- No pornographic works (sexual themes may be fine, but explicit sexual content is not)
- For safety purposes, submissions must include source code
Awards
Submissions will be eligible for the following awards, based on community vote:
- Best Overall: The best overall game for both theme and engagement.
- Most Thematic: The game that best exemplifies the jam's theme.
- Most Engaging: The game that offers the best gameplay experience, whether that be through mechanics, artwork, story, etc.
Voting will be done in a dedicated voting thread, to be created near the end of the submission deadline. To minimize the risk of sockpuppeting/ballot stuffing, each user will post their votes under their username and an account must have had at least 10 posts as of March 1 to vote. My initial plan was to have votes delivered to my privately to avoid any game emerging as a frontrunner early, but ultimately I decided that it wouldn't be worth the loss in transparency.
Commenting Policy
To keep things easy to follow, I've created separate subthreads for entry submissions and donation announcements. Please put submissions/donations in these subthreads or I might miss them.
Donation Drive
The community has decided to use this game jam to promote the good work of Doctors Without Borders in Ukraine and elsewhere.
You can donate to DWB here. To have your donation counted toward the total, post a screenshot of your donation into the subthread below (with personal information scrubbed, of course!).
To kick things off, here is my own contribution.
So far, Hexjam has raised $360.92 for Doctors Without Borders.
open to compose for anyone looking, here's some of my work if you're interested. if anyone has only programming/art skills, i'm willing to help with writing as well if needed, though i mainly wanna compose
tossed in 20, posted screenshot to the donation submission comment thread.
i'd love to see a chip tunes version of this. (i was specifically addressing the link under the word work, not realizing they were all different tunes, but chip tunes for all.)
I work with ISW's super audio cart (which is really accurate for fakebit) a lot so i could prob do that lol, just need to find the time.
:party-cat:
edit: thanks, meant to respond to your answer above
I like the first one can i use it for title screen and credits?
feel free as long as you credit. the composition title is Drifting Leaves and it's under the username i'm using now