A Flyover Indies Game Jam
Huzzah, it’s a game jam! You have one year to plan, develop, and build a game and a cabinet to house it. It can be a typical video arcade game, or something completely different!
At the end of the year, Flyover Indies will host a Showcase to demo your game to players and proudly display your handiwork. We’ll have more info about the venue and exhibition closer to the end of the jam.
sparKCade is open from June 20th, 2017 to June 20th, 2018.
Entry forms are due by March 20th, 2018, though your game and cabinet don’t need to be completed by this date.
The final Showcase will be shortly after June 20th, with the date depending on the final venue.
Here is the official sparKCade criteria. If you have questions, please let us know!
The game must be of your own design, though it can be a reinterpreted or modified version of an existing game. If you think it’s too close to another game, holler at us and we’ll help figure it out.
The game must be inseparable from, or at least benefit from, the game’s cabinet or housing. It should feel at home in an arcade or as a conversation piece in some nerd’s home.
The cabinet must be able to be transported to/into the final venue. If it fits through your door, it’ll probably fit through ours.
Games may not require money to play. This isn’t a real arcade, you don’t get to keep the change.
The cabinet (and by extension, the game) must not be physically dangerous to players or break any laws. We reserve the right to deny submissions if we believe it to be a hazard.
Entrant information is due by March 20th, 2018, and should include a brief on the game/cabinet and the participants involved. We’ll use this to make sure the venue will work out, and to excitedly tell everyone about the cool games they can play at the Showcase.
Here are some of the qualities we’ll be looking for in each submission. These guidelines are not hard rules, merely a compilation of ideas to clarify the intent behind this game jam.
The game may be analog or digital, or both. Buttons, knobs, lights, and moving bits are super fun and can be incorporated into a game in many ways.
Please get weird. Even though we sorta want you to make a box, think outside the box. If you’re wanting ideas, be sure to check out our resources page.
The game may be singleplayer or multiplayer, but we probably won’t have enough people for team sports, cause they’ll be busy playing other people’s cool games.