Who can join?

Anyone! You’re especially welcome if you’ve never made games before—you just may find that it’s not that terrifying or difficult with the right resources and community. Experienced devs are also welcome and encouraged to learn something new–whether it’s an engine, language, or type of game they’ve never created before.

• Yes, we really mean anyone can join, even if you have not made a game before or already have some experience making games or joining jams.
• You can work alone or in teams. Only one person is required to submit the game, but you can add additional teammates who have itch.io profiles from the More > Admins heading under the game project.
• There is no limit to team size. However, we recommend you keep your team size relatively small for ease of communication.
• You are allowed to join multiple teams, but be mindful that making games is a lot of work and we do not recommend this for your first jam or more than 2 teams.
• We do not pair you up with teams. However, you can use the teamfinding channel in the Discord server to find teammates.
• Please note our Discord server age requirement is 14 years or older.

When is the jam?

Current jam dates are displayed on the jam page.

• However, if these jam dates don’t work for you, we host this jam annually! If you can’t make the current jam, follow us and check back next year.
• You can brainstorm, plan, and outline (including concept art, diagrams, and pseudocode) before the jam. However, any assets used in the game (including sprites, game-specific code, actual game dialogue) should be created within the jam timeframe.
• You can join the jam even after it’s started.

What can I make?

Make a game (or functional interactive work) in two weeks! This jam’s length is meant to encourage absolute beginners to take the time to learn how to make a game. Even if you have development experience, you should be learning something new—whether engine, language, or creating a kind of game you’ve never tried to make before.

• For the sake of the jam, we encourage everyone to be learning something new!
• You may use any game engine/framework/language to make your game and build for any platform you like, including mobile. For mobile, only APKs can be distributed on itch.io.
• We do not accept submissions that require external games or software to run such as Roblox. Games that require interpreters (python, some interactive fiction languages, etc.) are allowed.
• You are not required to build for a specific platform. Generally, the more platforms you build for, the more people can play your game, with web based games being the most popular.