Game Develop Month

What is the theme for the event?

The theme to help inspire your game is... GATHERING And with the theme announced you can now begin planning what kind of game you will start making on April 1st! The theme is meant as something to inspire you for what you will work on during the month and is not a restriction, feel free to use it or ignore it completely!

Are there Prizes?

Game Develop Month is intended as a way to inspire the community to work on a game that they can be proud of in a fixed length of time and that they can polish to be fun and complete. With that in mind the greatest prize of all is the feeling of building and completing a game yourself!

Do I have to use the full month?

No, of course not. Everyone has busy lives, and especially as ingdie gamedev’s many of us have other commitments like jobs, family and friends that we can’t just abandon. One of the many reasons this is a month long event is to give you time over multiple weekends or evenings to squeeze in time to make your game.

Will entries be judged?

Submissions to the challenge will be judged by the community! After the challenge is completed there will be a two-week period where everyone can play and vote on each other’s games, to help decide what are the community's favourite games.

What programs can I use to make the game?

Anything you want! Use Unity, Unreal, GameMaker, Construct, Flash, Godot, your own engine or whatever other software system you want to use. You can make a real physical tabletop or card game too, just as long as there is a way for everyone to play! It doesn’t matter what you build it in, just make a game!