IT'S BACK! Jingle Game Jam 2025 hosted by Yogscast Games. This year, we're running a 7-day jam from December 1st 17:00 GMT to December 8th 23:59 GMT! The Yogscast will be playing some of the games part of Jingle Jam 2025 Sunday 14th December.

Developer, artist, writer, musician - whatever your role,  you can go solo or join a team and create something together! Find teammates on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/uq6bEsVyBC

We can't wait to see what you're going to make.  Sign up now, and show us your progress with #JingleGameJam2025

THEME

IF YOU CAN'T BEAT THEM, JOIN THEM

KEY INFORMATION

Launch and theme reveal: Monday December 1st 17:00 GMT

Jam ends: Monday December 8th 23:59 GMT

Voting ends: Sunday December 14th 23:59 GMT

Gameplay Stream: Sunday December 14th - twitch.tv/yogscast 

RANKING & PRIZING

We've reviewed how last years Jam operated and have looked to improve the event experience for all. This year the event will have ranking turned on, and we encourage all participants to review other entries. 

• Top 5 rated submissions will receive their choice of keys from the Yogscast Games catalogue (1 key per team member) & digital rosette to proudly display on their games itch page. 
• All participants can review entries
• Participants must review 3 entries from the review queue before they can freely review
• Rankings will not affect likelihood of a game being played on Stream

SUBMISSION RULES

• Anyone can enter - you can work alone or in a team
• Your game must run on Windows or in a browser
• Your game must be based on the theme (to be revealed December 1st 17:00 GMT)
• No NSFW content - no nudity, hateful language, or visuals
• No AI-Generated Content
• All aspects of the game development must take place within the duration of the jam (You're welcome to use any existing assets you may own, 3D models, tilesets, etc - the coding / game creation itself must take place within the 7 days)
• We reserve the right to remove any spam entries, or entries we believe break the submission rules
• The event is intended to be a fun community activity for Jingle Jam, submissions will not be reviewed to be published by Yogscast Games
• Due to time restrictions of the stream, we cannot guarantee all submissions nor specific submission can be shown on stream. 

USEFUL REFERENCES

Engines (use whatever you want, these are suggestions!)

• GameMaker Studio 2 (2D) - https://www.yoyogames.com/en/gamemaker
• Unity (2D/3D) - https://store.unity.com/download-nuo
• Unreal Engine (2D/3D) - https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/
• Godot - https://godotengine.org/

Art & Modelling Software

• Gimp (image manipulation) -  https://www.gimp.org/
• Blender (3D modelling) -  https://www.blender.org/
• Piskel (2D sprite editor) - https://www.piskelapp.com/
• Photopea (PS alternative) - https://www.photopea.com/
• Aseprite (pixel art / animation) - https://www.aseprite.org/

Assets (not all free, just some cool stuff that might help)

• Kenney (2D/3D asset library with a bunch of free stuff) - https://www.kenney.nl/assets
• Open Game Art (free 2D/3D assets) - https://opengameart.org/
• Synty Studios (huge collection of assets) - https://syntystore.com/collections/frontpage
• TurboSquid (3D model library, some free assets) -  https://www.turbosquid.com/
• Mixamo (3D animations) -  https://www.mixamo.com/#/  
• Odin Inspector (Unity UI asset) -  https://odininspector.com/