Welcome to the 5th Alakajam! 9

Wan • 5 years ago on 5th Alakajam! 

The new Alakajam! is finally approaching and will start on February 22nd!

The goal of the event is simple: make a game, from scratch, in just a weekend. You can do this on your own, or in a team, you can be a seasoned pro or a total beginner. If you opt-in to the competition, you will be ranked against every other contestant!

Full schedule

Dates Phase Description
Feb. 8 Theme submission & voting You can submit theme ideas for the jam and vote for all other submissions.
Feb. 15 Theme shortlist Only the best 10 themes are kept. Rank them by order of preference in this final phase of theme voting.
Feb. 22
6:30pm UTC
Countdown stream DanaePlays and Aurel300 host an official stream on Twitch to launch the event!
Feb. 22
7pm UTC
 THE JAM!!!  Until Sunday 7pm UTC, make a game solo or as a team, and simply submit it before the deadline!
Feb. 25 Unranked jam If you want to go for a relaxed weekend - or need more time - you can create a game in the 72 hours of the unranked jam.
March 10 Results After two weeks during which all entrants are invited to play, rate and comment on other peoples games… The results are released and the winners crowned!

Rules

There are three divisions:

  • Solo, in which you make a whole game alone in 48 hours
  • Team, in which any number of persons can gather to make a game in 48 hours
  • Unranked, a more open division which grants about 72 hours to finish the game. Useful for those not interested in the competitive aspect of the event, want to work on an existing project of theirs, or simply did not finish their game in time.

See the full rules for the Alakajam.

How to enter

All you need to do is:

  1. Create an account on this website
  2. Publish your game before the deadline

A lot of participants also post an "I am in" blog post presenting themselves or their team before the event. Describe what tools and frameworks and engines you will use to create your awesome game! Which themes do you like? Let us and the community know!

If you can, feel free to spread the word about the jam - the more we are, the merrier! glhf ;)

Comments (9)

maartene
 • 5 years ago • 

Just to be very clear: 7:00 UTC is 7:00 PM UTC right? (i.e. 1900 hours)

Wan
  • 5 years ago • 

@maartene Absolutely, I've just updated the post. Thanks

DaFluffyPotato
 • 5 years ago • 

!hype

Laguna
 • 5 years ago • 

Oh yes!

innomin
 • 5 years ago • 

This site is really nice, excited to try one out!

SnowFox
 • 5 years ago • 

Can't wait to dig into some code!

Pixels
 • 5 years ago • 

This'll be fun!

Oat
(@OatMealPal) • 5 years ago • 

E P I C

yumaikas
 • 5 years ago • 

Looking forward to this, haven't managed to do a Game Jam for quite a while now.

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