The STFJam series is a series of yearly monthly, week-long game jams that I started because I had no idea what else to do. They usually start at the 8th of the month and judges are given 24 hours to vote by criteria
Here, you can use a wide variety of game engines
You can use:
- Godot
- GameMaker Studio
- HaxeFlixel
- Geometry Dash
- Cocos2dx
- Cocos Creator
- Pygame
- raylib
- Any Simple Directmedia Layer (SDL) Version
- Ren'Py
- Scratch (TurboWarp Desktop recommended)
- PICO-8
- Processing (Any version)
- create-nes-game
- NESFab
- GB Studio
- GBDK
- RPG Maker series
- Pyrite64
For the music, you can use:
- Stock Music (excluding NCS or copyrighted music)
- LMMS
- FL Studio
- Cubasis
- REAPER
- MIDI Editors (ie. Signal MIDI, MIDI Editor, MIDIPLEX...)
- OpenMPT
- MilkyTracker
- Furnace Tracker or Furnace-B
- FamiTracker (including extensions/mods)
- FamiStudio
- DefleMask
- KiraStudio
- etc.
For SFX, you can use:
- Stock SFX
- SFX from other games
- LabChirp
- sfxr or jsfxr
- Audacity (record you own sound effects)
You cannot:
- Not Safe For Work (NSFW) content (Including within Easter Eggs, Unused Content)
- Not-Copyright Sounds (NCS) music (They get stuck in my head)
- The cat
- Give people a stroke (There's a criteria for grammar)
- Other languages (This is English only!)
- Unreal Engine (GPU-Hungry Monster that makes more GPU-Hungry Monsters)
- Unity (I'm honestly surprised that games are still being made with this engine)
Helpful tips:
- Keep the splash! (It might disclose your engine)
- Make it open source! (Put it on GitHub, so if I find any bugs, I can analyze your code and probably make a detailed essay on how the bugs work and how to reproduce them)
You are encouraged to:
- Use an unfamiliar listed engine or DAW (You are allowed to learn new engines, challenge yourself a bit!)
Wanna challenge yourself? Here are some challenges you can try:
- Don't use any external dependencies, unless it comes with the engine
- Make everything yourself, except the engine
