Make a game with Defold and win rewards!

Made with Defold Jam is an annual community organized event about making a game or library or anything with Defold!

This year the jam is filled with amazing events that you can join for free! Below you can find and save the dates of the talks you are interested in!
Jump in the Defold Discord, listen to the presentation and have a chit-chat after!

When?	GMT+2 (CEST)	What?	Where?
15 August 2024	0:00 AM	Start of the jam + Theme announcement!	Itch.io
16 August 2024	3:00 PM	"Web AR and location based games" by Paweł Jarosz	Discord
16 August 2024	4:00 PM	"You don't need a physics engine for a platformer" by Sergey Lerg	Discord
17 August 2024	6:00 PM	"Game played 15M times: Punch Legend Simulator" by Dmitrii (d954mas)	Discord
17 August 2024	7:00 PM	"Gamedev Camp Participation Experience" by Eugen Mozok	Discord
30 August 2024	3:00 PM	"Poki Team Q&A" hosted by Paweł Jarosz	Discord
30 August 2024	4:00 PM	"Defold Team Q&A" hosted by Paweł Jarosz	Discord
1 September 2024	0:00 AM	End of the jam - submit your games before this date	Itch.io
8 September 2024	0:00 AM	End of voting period! Winners announced day after!	Itch.io, etc.

Link to the last event: Defold and Poki Q&A Event

One of the rewards are Steam PC games. There is a pool of games to choose one from for the best 10 best games in overall ranking. The winner can optionally select 1 Game of Your Choice - any game on Steam.

Pool of games: Ghostrunner II, Humankind, Life is Strange: True Colors, Oaken, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Death Stranding, Coromon, Destroy All Humans! 2, The Calisto Protocol, Scorn, Steelrising, Rollerdrome, Victoria 3, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Bore Blasters, Craftomation 101, Cx6, Interrogation: You will be deceived, Tameshi.

After the jam, Paweł Jarosz will play the top rated games in the overall category, and make a video featuring them on Unfolding Gamedev YouTube channel, so subscribe and join the forum and Discord.

Also remember to use the hashtag #madewithdefold

Your game(s) or asset(s) should be made with Defold, to be eligible for rewards.
Your game(s) or asset(s) should be submitted in the jam period, to be eligible for rewards.
The submission should fit the announced theme, to be eligible for rewards.
Your game should be playable by someone using a PC or in a browser (HTML5), preferably with nothing more than a keyboard or mouse (or gamepad). It should not require additional hardware or software to run.
Please be mindful and respectful of your peers! For inclusivity, the game should not contain: pornography, racism, hate speech, nothing illegal etc.
Your game can participate in other game jams as well (if those are fitting given jam rules of course).
You must be aged 13 or older (otherwise your parent/guardian needs to submit your creation)
There is no limit on the number of people per team, and people can be in multiple teams. You can submit more than one game. Only one person needs to join itch.io and submit the game. However, if others on the team also join itch.io, they can be tagged as contributors. (On your game's itch page, pick "Edit", "More", "Admins", and follow the instructions).
You can use whatever art and audio assets you have the legal right to use. You can also use whatever source code you have written up to this point or use any other source code/asset, as long as you have the legal right to use it
Your game belongs to you! We claim no rights or ownership of your game. We do request the right to use your game only for purpose of publicising the game jam. Any game submitted to the jam may show up in a Unfolding Gamedev YouTube video without your express permission. If you take part in the game jam and submit your game, it means you agree to this and all Rules.

Scores and Rating

After jam period is over, everyone is invited to play the games and rate in 3 criteria: FUN, CREATIVITY, and PRESENTATION.
1. FUN - criteria should assess the game feels and how much did you enjoy it
2. CREATIVITY - criteria should assess the gameplay (or other aspect of the game) by its uniqueness and creativity
3. PRESENTATION - criteria should assess the audiovisual presentation of the game
These add up to your overall rating, which will be revealed at the end of the voting period and which ranking determines winners.
Winners will be annnounced on 1. October 2024. If you will be a winner, host of the jam will be trying to contact you in order to get you a reward, so please leave a contact info and be responsive to make it quick! ;)

It's an unofficial Game Jam driven by a community, however the Defold Foundation support it! ;) Things shouldn't, but may change, for example by requests of peers, just to suit the community as best as possible and we will inform you every time it does.

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Organized by Paweł Jarosz since 2020.
Design and artworks by Selim Anaç.

Thanks to the Speakers: Dmitrii, Sergey and Eugen!
Thanks to The Defold Foundation for sponsoring rewards and preparing a Q&A!
Thanks to Poki for preparing a Q&A!
Thanks to Amel for moderating Discord server!
Thanks to all Defold community!