what's up i am thrilled to announce that we are doing another game jam
it is happening from july 30th to august 7th um this is eastern time so it may kind of flex
based on your time zone um there is a link down in the description for you to be able to join this is
going to be a nine day game jam so we're going to do the last weekend in july to the um that first
weekend in the first full weekend in august so you get both weekends and you get the whole week in
between to work on your vr game this is going to be the vr jam 2022 and it is hosted by me
obviously you're gonna have valeum hosting it as well vr with andrew dinesh from immersive insiders
and dilmer are all going to be posting and judging and doing videos about this gym so it's going
to be a lot of people it's going to be pretty big this is definitely going to be the biggest
vr game jam of the year of 2022 so you don't want to miss this one and it's for all skill
levels so anyone can join if you're a beginner or if you do vr professionally all skill levels are
able to apply um and there are actually prizes as well so we're going to give prizes to first second
and third the ranking system is going to be on enjoyment so how much do you enjoy playing the
game concept so how interesting or unique is the game idea this is all kind of keeping to the theme
that will be announced the day the game starts um and presentation so how well uh executed is the
game so how what does it look how well does it function all that kind of stuff and then
use of theme so use of theme will be announced the day the minute that the game jam starts it'll be
announced on the jam page so just make sure to keep a lookout for that and it's also going to
be announced on my discord vellum's discord it's going to be we'll put it everywhere so before i
let you go uh let's talk about some rules for the jam so rules are to uh keep it clean so no
uh not safe for work content offensive excessive gore violence that kind of stuff um and then we're
going to require that you list whatever assets you used any assets are available for use you have to
start making the game from when the moment the jam starts you can't make a game ahead of time that's
why we're not announcing the theme until the actual moment the jam starts so nobody can
get a head start we're actually going to provide you a get download link that gives you kind of a
jumping off point for a unity vr project and so if you you have if you struggle with the actual
uh building deploying part of the vr process then we're actually gonna help you out with that um so
there's gonna be links down the description and on the jam page to download those as well you can use
any engine so uh most of the developers who are you know hosting this use unity but if you are
inclined to use unreal or godot or you know any other game engine that suits your fancy go for it
submit it as long as it as long as it is posted on itch and downloadable for us to play
we're gonna have a creative fun theme this time um and uh i'm actually pretty excited
for it um and then you can join up with a team so in my discord in velen's discord
and in um immersive insider dinesh's discord um all of our channels are actually linked as far
as the the game jam and team finding channels so if you're interested in finding a team to
participate with then you can come hang out in our discords or you can find a game jam team on the
threads in the forum section of itch io on the jam page so a few different options for finding teams
if you don't already have one and you know just make sure you submit the game on time uh be on the
lookout for what prizes we're actually going to be giving out those will be posted in the coming
weeks and then if you are a asset developer or you have something that you would like to
provide for us to give as a prize then there's a form also in the link down in the description
that you can fill out to um you know give away some prizes if you're interested in that kind of
thing we're actually really excited for this one it's going to be huge we're going to have several
hundred people actually participating in this one and probably at least 100 games to play through so
even if you don't want to participate you can just come and play some free vr games so it's going to
be a fun week so go click on the link down the description to sign up and i'll see you there