- Participants must be 18 years or older to enter and have a trust level of at least 1.
- Teams of any size may also submit a game, but all members must be over the age of 18 and their names listed on the submission topic.
- The submitted game must abide with Weight Gaming’s Terms of Service and US law.
- Weight Gaming staff may participate in Gain Jams, but due to conflict of interest & knowledge of the theme before the Gain Jam starts they will not be eligible to receive any rewards or prizes.
- All entries must be new games and produced within the specified two-week period. Keep in mind this rule does not forbid the reuse of assets or code; we just dont want people doing simple reskins of an existing game.
- All entries must make use of the specified theme.
- While we do not expect a production-grade game, the game should be stable enough that it can be played with only intermittent crashes at worst.
- Extensions to the Jam will only be given under extenuating circumstances in which an external factor that is not under the participants control impedes their ability to submit before the deadline.
- The issue in question must be proven to be either significantly unfair to a minority of the participants or effects all participants equally.
- Any extension will be up to a maximum of 24 hours unless extenuating circumstances outside of the control of Weight Gaming require a longer extension.
- Only one entry allowed per team/user.
- NOTE: A single user can be apart of multiple teams but this is discouraged
- All entries must be public and free to play to be eligible.
- All entries must be submitted within the specified two-week timeframe. Any entries submitted before or after that period will not be eligible to win.
- All entries must be submitted as a standalone game. We should not need access to the engine the game was built on to run it and mods are not accepted entries.
- To submit a game create a new topic within the appropriate subcategory in the Gain Jam Category category with a link to or an attachment of your game.
- Do not create any topics other than submissions in the Gain Jam Category. Any non-submission related topics will be deleted immediately.
- Do not modify your submission after the jam closes. If your game is hosted on a third-party site like itch.io or is browser-based, do not update it till after judging has closed. Submissions we find or suspect have been modified after the jam closes for judging will be disqualified.
- To get points for wild cards the submission must clearly state in the game what cards where attempted. This is for the convenience of our judges and to help ensure we properly judge wild cards
- This can be done anywhere in the game as long as it is reasonably visible to the judges
- Wild Cards can be declared multiple times but please keep it consistent (it can be hard for us to tell what a submission did if it states one card in one location then two in another)
- We highly suggest stating the cards used either when the game loads, on the main menu, or before the game starts to guarantee the judges will see it. Placing it in the credits or other areas where the judges may miss it is not advised
- Cards that are not declared in game will not be judged
- Weight Gaming will attempt to provide assets that can be used to declare what wild cards have been attempted. It is highly suggested submissions use these assets if they can but text can be used in its place if the dev wishes
- If a cash prize is offered, participants must have a valid Paypal account to receive the cash prize.
- If the winning game was made by a team, they must designate a rep that will receive the prize money and divide it among the team members.
- This can be done by sending a Weight Gaming staff member a screenshot of all team members acknowledging the rep designation or by conducting a group chat with a Weight Gaming staff member present.
- There will be a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place Overall Winner based off of the cumulative scores in all categories.
- In the event the 1st place winner can not or will not accept the cash prize, the reward will be split between the 2nd & 3rd place entries.
- In the event 2nd and/or 3rd place can not or will not accept the cash prize their respective portion of the winnings will be returned to Weight Gaming.
- Along with the Overall Winners there are four additional "Best Of" categories, each with a cash prize:
- Best Art
- Best Writing
- Best Sound Design
- Community Choice
- There will be only one winner per "Best Of" category with no 2nd or 3rd place positions.
- To help spread out the prizes, Overall Winners are precluded from also winning a "Best Of" category.
- This is also due to the fact the highest scoring games will also likely be scoring highly in at least one of the categories as well.
- Community Choice is the only category award that is exempt from this rule.
- In the event the winner of a "Best Of" category can not or will not accept the cash prize, their respective portion of the winnings will be returned to Weight Gaming.
- Every Gain Jam will have one Community Choice winner.
- The winner of the Community Choice Award is determined by the number of likes their submission gets.
- Voting will continue for one week after the closing date of the Gain Jam.
- All members may vote by liking submissions and can vote for as many submissions as they like.
- In the event of a tie, Weight Gaming staff will break the tie.