A Care Bears-themed Game Jam will be held on The Sandbox on September 5-25. The bear production company has been remarkably influential in the lives of millions of children since it was created in 1982. The quest of the Game Jam is to create a game experience inspired by the Care Bears Universe.
Rewards
30,000 SAND will be split amongst the top entries in the following ways:
- 1st place: 12,000 SAND;
- 2nd place: 7,000 SAND;
- 3rd place: 4,000 SAND;
- 4th to 10th place: each receives 1,000 SAND.
Dates
- The Game Jam begins on September 5th, 2022;
- The deadline to complete and submit your entry is the September 25th 2022, at 3pm UTC;
- Submissions gathering and voting will take place from September 26th till October 17th;
- The results will be announced on the October 22th, 2022.
Entry guidelines
- Your entry must be designed in the Game Maker software;
- Your entry can include assets you’ve created yourself;
- Your entry must have some playability (quests, missions you name it);
- Your entry must be unique and not a direct copy of any existing experiences (similarities are fine, but exact copies are not!);
- Spamming the gallery with a number of low quality experiences just to try and fit into the 4th-10th places may result in all your entries being disqualified;
- Not completing the submission steps correctly (see below) may result in your entry being ineligible;
- The judging will be done by The Sandbox’s staff and Care Bears’ staff.
What makes an entry valid?
- Game length should be at least 5 minutes (excluding timed, collection quests);
- Use at least 25 different assets;
- Follow the storyline/theme;
- Experience must be created after the start date (any experiences built for previous game jams cannot be used);
- The Sandbox staff members have the right to remove any entry as they see fit.
Submitting your entry
You MUST also submit your game to the following form link:
If you submit your entry to the Game Jam gallery but do not submit it to the form linked above (or vice versa), your entry will not be eligible!
Slow down — check everything! Take the time to submit a qualitative experience rather than rushing and submitting a half-finished experience.
Game Maker and VoxEdit
Check out the tutorials page on The Sandbox’s official knowledge base here:
Judging Criteria
The entries are judged on a 100 points scale divided into the following categories:
- Overall Idea — (25 Points);
- Level/Game Design — (25 Points);
- Creativity — (25 Points);
- Playability — (25 Points);
- Bonus Points: Wow Factor — (Up to 25 Points Extra).
Do you have what it takes to win this contest? Submit your entry and find out!
Side note: ChromeOS is testing a new keyboard for Android games.
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