Dojo Game Jam VII is here and starts on 10/31!
Join us for a special spooky edition of the Dojo Game Jam, celebrating the release of Dojo 1.7. Teams will come together for 3 days to build games on the open-source, provable Dojo Engine, competing for a slice of a $15,000 prize pool.
👉 Register your game idea here
If you have any questions or need support, head over to the #game-jam channel in the Dojo Discord.
👉 Register your game idea here
Then head over to the #game-jam channel in the Dojo Discord and start recruiting. The Dojo team will do our best to help match you with great people.
If you're looking for game ideas, Dojo maintains a spreadsheet of interesting game concepts. Feel free to grab an idea off the list!
If you're new to Dojo development, the Dojo Book is a great place to start your Dojo development journey.
To learn more about Dojo's new Sensei MCP server and to get started, check out the documentation here. See here for an example game vibe-coded with the help of Sensei.
As always, if you have any questions or need any support, head over to the #game-jam channel in the Dojo Discord.
- Submissions must be built using the Dojo Engine.
- Submissions must be deployed to Slot / Sepolia.
- Submissions must use the Cartridge Controller.
- Submissions must be built during the game jam 72-hour window and exclusively for the Dojo Game Jam.
- New features for existing games are allowed, but must be clearly scoped and defined.
- Extensibility and composability are core to fully onchain games, but all sources must be cited. This includes but is not limited to:
- Worlds being extended
- Code, Plugins, Libraries, and Visual Assets
- Winning projects are determined subjectively by our panel of judges based on the listed criteria.
- Dojo is an inclusive ecosystem. All forms of discrimination are strictly prohibited.
- Projects can be removed from the Game Jam by the judges for any reason.
- 5 contributors is the maximum team size.
Note: Vibe-coding is encouraged but not strictly required. If you want to be old-school and write everything by hand, go for it!
Coding begins Friday, October 31 at 00:00 AOE, and submissions are due on Sunday, November 2 at 23:59 AOE. We use AOE (anywhere on earth) to make it easy to participate from anywhere on the planet.
If you submit late, we will ignore any commits made after the deadline.
Submit your project before the deadline to qualify for the prizes:
- Copy / Paste the Game Jam Submission Template, follow the instructions, and open a Pull Request which contributes the submission to the repository.
- Create a new file
game-jam-7directory using the name of your project inkebab-caseas the file name.
Review and judging of projects will take place in the week after the game jam concludes. Judging is subjective, but it will be based on the criteria listed below.
- Novel use of the unique properties of the Dojo Engine.
- Originality of concept, game mechanics, visual design, etc.
- Compelling visual and game design.
- Level of fun!