This is a 48 hour game making marathon, but spread out around two week-ends so you can choose the best moment to jam. It is focused on bad design, horrible mechanics, and stupid ideas. It runs from July 29th, to August 27th. This jam is a parody of the GMTK game jam, which you can learn about here.
Theme reveal (premiere on July 29th):
Video of the previous jam:
Theme: EVERYTHING
Here is what you need to know:
Who can enter? Everyone, of any age, from anywhere. You can work alone or in teams to make the worst possible game!
What is the theme? EVERYTHING
What can I make my game in? Everything, provided you can upload a file that runs on Windows or browsers.
What assets can I use? Absolutely everything, whether you have the right to them or not. Feel free to reuse art or music from the public domain or even from existing games, I don't care. Just make sure you remain somewhat safe for work, as i'll have to make a video showcasing all the games. Feel free to also submit every other bad game you've already made.
Who will judge the games? Games can be judged by anyone. I will also play all the games and make a video compilation out of them. I like pain.
What will the games be judged on? This is a bad design contest, and everything goes. As a general rule rate more stars on criteria which fail excellently. For this jam, there will be 42 very cleverly selected judging criteria:
- Annoying Characters
- Arbitrary One-Way Paths
- Bad Controls
- Bad sound design
- Backtracking
- bugs
- frustration
- Horrible Storyline
- Intentionally placing day 1 release items and game mechanics behind a paywall
- Lack of feedback
- Locking On to Things You'd Never Lock On To
- Long Tutorials
- low fps
- microtransactions
- missing key binding
- missing options
- No tutorial
- No Twinkie
- not enough music
- not immersive to play
- repetitive music
- ridiculous loading times
- Slow download speed
- Surprise Deaths
- Taking autonomy away from the player
- terrible game design
- Too much water
- Trail of Breadcrumbs
- Ugly User Interfaces
- Uncanny Valley
- Unclear Controls
- Unfair
- unfriendly UI,
- Unergonomic Controls
- Unnecessary Voice Acting
- Unskippable Rerun Cutscenes
- Unskippable tutorial
- Wander Aimlessly to Progress
- weird camera angles
- weird mix of art styles
- your decisions aren't meaningful.
- Zombies
Is there a Discord I can join? Yes! Click here to join it
Further rules:
- You may participate in every jam at once if they happen at the same time and your game is bad enough to join my jam.
- Games submitted to the GBTK Jam should not get me banned from youtube/twitch so please remain somewhat SFW.
- No VR. (or at least make sure the game can be played with a mouse and keyboard)
- Your game must run on its own and not require me to install other software/viruses
- Feel free to submit games made for a previous GBTK jams in order to artificially inflate our game count.
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