Welcome jammers to Climate Jam 2025!
Climate Jam 2025 begins with Sprint 1: Ideation. You can learn specific details about this sprint on the Sprint 1 jam page, this is also where you will submit your materials (do not submit to the main Climate Jam page).
Sprint 1 Submission Deadline: Thursday, June 19th at 10am PDT Learn More and Submit: /jam/climate-jam-2025-ideation
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Join us for two kickoff-day Zoom sessions! Today, June 13th, at 10:00am PDT, we have:
- Welcome
- Jam Structure
- Community Climate Game Creation Framework
- Introduction to Sprint 1 (Ideation)
- Q&A
- Meet-and-Greet
Today at 6:00pm PDT, we will introduce the Climate Solutions and Disaster themes of Climate Jam 2025.
Zoom Meeting Room and Times All sessions will use the same Zoom meeting room. All Zoom sessions will be recorded and shared. Schedule times are listed in Pacific Daylight Time. Convert to your local time zone here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Zoom meeting room link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87398956665?pwd=pt7a7xaUVb0Zi2X0TL7dB9KjGNBMXh.1 Zoom Passcode (if requested): SUMMER
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Core Jam Rules Participants will be tasked with creating a game between 6/13/2024 and 7/18/2025, in whatever format they choose, while using the themes as guidance.
To follow the spirit of the jam, we ask that you submit something for each of the 4 sprints. Sprints 1-3 will have their own itch.io jam pages for submitting your work. Your final project will be submitted on the main Climate Jam 2025 page.
You may also share Climate Solutions games that were made previous to the jam. These games will not be eligible for the ranking categories. Please only submit these games during the final sprint of the jam.
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Final Project Rubric Our rubric for successful games. Judges will rank the final end-of-jam submissions using these metrics, in addition to overall game quality releasability:
- What real scientific evidence is it based on?
- What positive climate action strategies are included?
- How engaging, experiential, and immersive is it? How does it use the capabilities of games media technology and design to its advantage?
- Does it have a realistic and accessible target audience?
- What is the solution-based call to action? And is this clear?
- How does the game inspire social connections and collaboration? In what ways does it listen to and involve the community?
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Climate Solutions Compilation Our judges will select a number of games for inclusion in the Climate Solutions Compilation, a project into which multiple jam submissions will be imported and ultimately released on Steam as a single product. Additional details and paperwork will be provided for the invited teams.
Although any kind of game can be submitted for Climate Jam 2025, only games that fit these specific parameters will be considered eligible for inclusion:
- Project must be created in Unity, Version 6.1
- Project must use unique file names. Designate a short identifier that you can add to each of your project files.
- Use the default render settings.
- Use no or minimal plugins.
- Must be in English
- Must own rights to all materials used
- Cannot contain inappropriate content
Ask questions and discuss plugin use, etc., in the #compilation channel on Discord.
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Jam Community This year's jam will be hosted on the IndieCade Discord server. There will be mentors there to help with your creations and resources available for you to use during the jam and beyond. It is also a great place to ask questions, chat and meet other jammers.
- Join the IndieCade Discord server here: https://www.indiecade.com/discord
- (If you are new to the server) Click the green checkmark in the #code-of-conduct channel to acknowledge the rules.
- Enter in the following command in #the-lounge channel to give you the Climate Jammer role: !climate
We have a few ways you can meet other jammers this year:
- A #team-forming text channel on Discord
- A #looking-for-team forum on Discord
- Climate Jammer Meet-and-Greets in Zoom Breakout Rooms
Once you've formed your team, we invite you to participate in the Climate Jam Cohorts. Teams will be placed into cohorts of 3-4 teams each, with a dedicated cohort channel and assigned jam mentor. These cohorts will be there to provide peer reviews and ask mentor questions.
If your team would like to be assigned a cohort, please register here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z0rb6jKxWwUbWPyalGPsu5V6T4805X8RTjiXHhcR...
- Select an unused team ID and fill out that row for your team.
- Have each of your team members enter in the command code for your team ID in the #jam-lounge channel on Discord to receive the related server role.
- During Sprint 1 we will place teams into cohorts of 3-4 teams, with a dedicated cohort channel for each and an assigned mentor.
We're so excited to see your games!!!!
The Climate Jam Team