Anything. If you take a picture of your dog and are okay with releasing it as a standalone itch project called "everyone please look at my dog" that people can see on your profile page, you can put it here.
Yes. Heck, you can submit 25 projects every day, and as long as it follows all the above rules, I won't remove it.
Anything, as long as it follows the rules above.
Yes, as long as it follows the rules above.
Yes, as long as it follows the rules above.
I WON'T remove your submission if it's 4 hours, 30 hours, or 100 hours, but you should be comfortable with the idea of someone experiencing your project for 3 hours or less, quitting, and leaving a positive/negative comment on your public page based on their experience.
Yes. You can do this by creating and uploading a project labelled a placeholder project before the jam ends, and then adding your files later.
Do know that if I come back around June 2027 and see that you still haven't added your release yet, I will shake my head and silently judge you. If you can live with that then do whatever you want.
No, not even an optional one.
Take a theme from someone else's jam that you wanted to submit to but don't think you can, and apply it to your project. Maybe specify that in the description.
Probably. Ask questions in the community tab, and I'll answer, but just so you know, the answer will probably be "Yes, you can do that."
Because the idea of someone crunching on their project while they should be celebrating the end of the year with their friends/family is extremely depressing to me.
If something is released in this jam, I'll try to look at it when I have the free time. I probably won't look at it for 3 hours (that stipulation is more for you than it is for me), but I'll at least click on your page, scroll through your page, try to explore it for at least a little.
Note that this isn't an ironclad promise, so if I get hit by a car running at 85 MPH tomorrow, I'll probably be more concerned with physically recovering than playing your game. Sorry.
I'm a hobbyist game developer (at least, right now), and I don't have a portfolio or professional work ethic to whip into shape with rigorously judged 2-week jams besides what I'm comfortable with. I have a non-creative 8-to-5 job and interests outside of games, and a lot of ideas I have for jams when I first see them are shot down by the short deadlines and mandatory themes they often have.
My favorite part of jams has always been looking through other people's submissions and commenting on them, knowing we were all connected by this one page. By making this longer jam focused on relatively short submissions that were otherwise as restrictionless as possible, I hope I can make a kind of "anything goes" forum-like page that people check in on again and again, where people feel like they can safely post stuff that they're not sure about and have other people look at them, rather than something focused on competition or professionalism, which are inherently baked into any jam modeled after Ludum Dare. The best alternatives I see right now are the "New releases" page on itch and gamedev Discord servers. I want to add another option.
And if that doesn't happen, then I hope I can at least get some interesting submissions to look at.
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