Exilian Jam 2015

[Jubal]

Exilian Game Jam
11-13 September 2015

Welcome to the first Exilian Game Jam! The theme is RANDOMISATION - that is to say, your theme will be two randomly generated nouns, handed out to you at the beginning of the contest. The Jam costs £3 to enter, and has a prize pot that will depend on the number of entrants. Part of your entry fee will also go to Room to Read, a great charity supporting boosting literacy skills in the developing world.

To enter, you need to have an account and PM Jubal (that being me who is posting this) - I will send you the entry fee payment details. Your being an entrant will be confirmed after payment is received; you can sign up anytime from now until September 10.

The Full Rules

• At least one member of each team entering must have an Exilian account to enter, as contact with the organisers (aka me) will be done via the Exilian PM system.
• There is a £3 entry fee. This is split with £2 going into the collective prize pot, £0.50 going to support Exilian, and £0.50 going to the charity Room to Read.
• You may make multiple submissions, but need to pay a separate entry fee per submission.
• There are no limits on the number of members of your team; at least one team member must have an Exilian account for the reasons noted above.
• You may use pre-made game resources, but only ones that are freely and publicly available to all other contestants. You should declare these and their sources when submitting your game. This includes game engines, but does not include ancillary programs (so you may not use a for-payment game engine in your game, but there is no requirement that you only use free software to make the resources you use during the jam).
• Each entry's theme will be two randomly selected nouns. These will all be publicly published along with a list of the entering teams shortly before 8PM GMT, Sep 11 - teams will not be informed of their words prior to this point.
• You may not start making your game before 8PM BST, Sep 11. Any breaches of this rule that are discovered will lead to immediate disqualification.
• You must submit your game before 11PM BST, Sep 13.
• You retain full ownership over entries submitted, with the proviso that to be eligible for the prize vote they need to be available for free for voters to play.
• Hosting of entries for submission is broadly the responsibility of the entrants, though Exilian is willing to provide help where possible and reasonable.
• The entries will be voted on in a public vote, where everyone who has an Exilian account, including entrants, is eligible to vote. New accounts made during and shortly prior to the voting period, which will cover approximately 1 week after voting closes, will be individually checked for IP violations and account spam; any contestant found to have attempted to rig the voting will be immediately disqualified.
• The prize pot will be split between the top 3 entries, with 60% going to the winner, 30% to the second placed entry and 10% to the third placed entry.

[Jubal]

CONFIRMED ENTRANTS

Group/Team Name

Entering User

Word Prompt

[Glaurung]

One question, to clarify things for competitors: you've quoted the start and finish times as "GMT" - do you mean the UK standard time, practically equivalent to UTC, or do you mean current UK legal time (British Summer Time), which is UTC + 1?

[Jubal]

Damn. I of course meant BST, I always get that one wrong!