Q: What do you classify as an adventure game?
A: By "adventure game" we mean an interactive experience with enough content to tell some form of story, explore a character, or have some sort of adventure, however you define that.
Whether you associate adventure games with text adventures, point and click, 3D environments. Whether you associate adventure games with puzzles, strong narratives, exploration, or something else entirely. We want you to make whatever "adventure game" means to you.
Q: If I make a game for this jam, who owns it?
A: All rights to your creation reside with you. We claim no exclusivity to your work, we only wish to showcase it.
Q: Since this is an online jam, am I allowed to have an in-house team with friends IRL?
A: Although we have allowed in-house teams in previous years of Adventure Jam, we simply cannot recommend any of our community members to create their jam game with an in-house team due to the global pandemic. We would like to ask our participants to please stay safe and practice social distancing during this time.
Q: Can I participate in two games for Adventure Jam? Say for example, creating art for my game, but doing voice acting work for a friend's.
A: Sure! As long as you are only submitting one game as your own creation, you can contribute to however many games as you like. Otherwise, submitting more than one game as the lead developer would be unfair to those who only have enough time to create one game.
Q: Can I use freeware assets, or reuse assets from one of my previous games?
A: Absolutely! You are free to reuse any assets that you have made in the past, or use freeware or commercially available assets. This includes music, sound effects, models, et cetera. We only ask that you do not begin collecting or creating any assets specific to your Adventure Jam game until the jam begins.
If using freeware or commercially available assets, please credit the original creators!
Q: Do I need to register to participate in Adventure Jam?
A: Nope! All you need to do is upload your game to Game Jolt and submit it to Adventure Jam.
Q: How do I upload and submit a game to Adventure Jam?
A: Step 1: If you haven't already, create a Game Jolt account here.
Step 2: If you haven't already, upload your Adventure Jam entry to Game Jolt. You can do this here.
Step 3: You'll need to submit your game to our Jam's game entry page, here, by clicking the button that says submit an entry and follow any on-screen instructions.
Q: I've completed my game. Can I patch it?
A: For fixing bugs, yes. We want players to have a smooth and bug-free experience if possible. However, for expanding on the actual game content, please wait until the voting period ends.
Q: Who will judge my work?
A: The Community's Choice awards will be open to all those who have submitted a game to Adventure Jam, but not the greater community of players.
Q: How does the Community's Choice voting process work?
A: Anyone with a Game Jolt account can give your game an out-of-five rating on your game's page. This will, in part, effect how high your game appears on Game Jolt's website in terms of popularity. This means more people will see your game, whether they participated in Adventure Jam or not.
Adventure Jam participants will be able to vote on each other's games through the Games tab. Community voting will open once the jam ends, and will continue for four weeks. Through this voting, participants will be able to vote on individual categories for each game.
Q: How do we know that all participants have followed the rules?
A: All online game jams require trust. The organizers must trust the participants that they will follow the rules, and the participants must trust the organizers to catch any rule-breaking games.
We will do all that we can to ensure that everyone is playing by the rules, and will remove any games that have broken them. If you suspect a submitted game hasn't followed the rules, please contact us and tell us why. We will investigate and if we discover that a team has broken the rules, we will take appropriate actions.
Q: I don't want to make a game. Can I just play the games that have been created?
A: Of course! You can search for games on Twitter via the hashtag (#AdvJam2021), or by looking at the Games tab on our jam page.
(The Games tab will appear once the first game has been submitted after the start date.)
Q: Whoa! Adventure Jam was created in 2015?! Can I play past year's games?
A: You sure can! You can revisit previous jams here:
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