AO Game Jam 2024: Best Game Hackathon on AO
Create & deploy your 1st-ever game that runs forever on Arweave
@ArweaveEco & the revolutionary AO Hyper Parallel Computer
@aoTheComputer , compete for a $30,000 prize pool!
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📌How to Participate
1️⃣Join Discord👉
discord.gg/RsDbxAdtu7
2️⃣Complete registration on the designated website.
3️⃣Submit your project between Sep.10th and 17th.
4️⃣Winners will be announced on Sep.19th at
#ArweaveAsia2024 in Singapore.
@HackQuest_ &
@itchio will provide tech support for the registration.
📌Jam Rules (Must Read)
1️⃣You can participate as an indie dev, or as a team (with no more than 4 members).
2️⃣The submitted project must be a playable game.
3️⃣The submitted project must be deployed and run on AO Hyper Parallel Computer.
4️⃣There are no theme restrictions, and the only limit is your imagination.
📌Tech Support
1️⃣Community Support: Forward Research and AO Games teams are here on Discord 👉
discord.gg/RsDbxAdtu7 to provide you with the technical support you need. Simply drop your questions in the relevant channels, or explore the community to learn more about AOS, Arweave, and Tokenomics.
2️⃣Quick Start Tutorial: We'll share an example of fully deployed game on Arweave and run by AO (Dimension Life), to help you easily understand and execute game development on AO.
3️⃣Perma Knowledge Base: We’re creating a knowledge base on AO, Arweave, the Web3 industry, and game development. It will start on Notion and eventually move to Arweave, becoming a permanent Library of Alexandria for the Web3 gaming industry.
📌Submissions Start and Deadline
1️⃣ September 10th to 17th.
👉 You can submit your game anytime during the submission window. We recommend starting development before submissions open—submitting early could give your project an advantage in scoring.
📌Highlights
1️⃣This event is hosted by
@aogamesorg &
@fwdresearch , with support from 20 partners, officially launching a new chapter in the rapid growth of AO’s gaming ecosystem.
2️⃣10 winning spots $30,000 prize pool multi-platform exposure on X, YouTube, Itch
@itchio, and various news outlets. Winners will be announced on Sep.19th at
#ArweaveAsia2024 in Singapore. This is the most influential Game Hackathon in the AO ecosystem to date.
📌Awards and Prizes
🥇1st Place: $11,000, 1 team
🥈2nd Place: $6000, 1 team
🥉3rd Place: $4000, 1 team
🎖Most Popular: $1500 1 team
🎖Best Art: $1500, 1 team
🎖Best Programming: $1500, 1 team
🎖Best Gameplay: $1500, 1 team
🎖Outstanding Team: $1000 each, 3 teams
📌Criteria and Judges
1️⃣Submitted games will be rated in 4 categories:
👉Code Completion Level
👉Performance
👉Art
👉Gameplay Creativity
2️⃣Each judge will score the game in different categories on a scale of 1 to 5 or select N/A (not applicable). A judge's final score is the average of their category scores, and a game's final score is the average of the scores it receives from all judges.
👉Projects submitted within the first 30% of the allotted time will receive extra bonus.
3️⃣The panel of judges is composed of representatives from the organizers and co-organizers.
HOST:
@aogamesorg @fwdresearch
CO-HOST:
@ArweaveEco @aoTheComputer @Permaswap @BuidlerDAO @rpcnftclub @arweavejp @alibaba_cloud @HackQuest_ @ArweaveOasis @0xBlockBooster @weave_db @SevenXVentures @IOSGVC @BeWaterOfficial
MEDIA PARTNER:
@PANewsCN @OdailyChina @ChainCatcher_ @DeThingsNews @TechFlame_News
JOIN NOW 👉
discord.gg/RsDbxAdtu7