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June 15 – July 20, 2024

Announcing the Winning Games of Climate Jam 2024!

Congratulations to all of this year’s Climate Jam participants! With nearly fifty projects completed by hundreds of creators from over twenty countries, this has been our biggest and most international Climate Jam yet. Thank you all for putting in your time, effort, and creativity to further the message of climate justice!

Climate Jam 2024 was a five week game jam, broken up into development sprints, where teams were tasked with creating games about climate change and related issues facing our planet. This year’s main theme was “Change the Story”, focused on telling the stories of climate justice that aren’t often told, countering the history of disinformation, and breaking out of the dialectic of pessimism (too gloom and doom) vs. optimism (too rosy).

Climate Jam 2024 was a a joint effort by IndieCade, Games For Our Future, and EarthLab @ University of Washington Congratulations to all of this year’s Climate Jam participants! With nearly fifty projects completed by hundreds of creators from over twenty countries, this has been our biggest and most international Climate Jam yet. Thank you all for putting in your time, effort, and creativity to further the message of climate justice!

Check out all of the games here: https://itch.io/jam/climate-jam-2024/entries

After the final submission deadline, each game was ranked both by the community of jammers and a group of external judges for its engagement of the themes, releasability as a polished project, aesthetic and technical merits, and more. These results were combined for the final category rankings.

TOP GAMES

Top Overall: At Least I’m Rich
Judges Choice: Coral Song
Jammers Choice: Skyglow
Changed the Story: Behind the Hydra’s Eyes
Ready for Release: Carbon Clicker
Wishlisted: Nine Shifts
Top Gameplay and Aesthetics: Restoring Harmony

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Climate Hero
A Drop In The Ocean
Time Teddy

Learn more about the winners here: https://www.indiecade.com/downloads/Climate_Jam_2024_Awards.pdf

Congratulations to the winning teams! Thank you again to our jam community, our jam mentors and judges, and a special thanks to Indie Cluster! We hope you all join us again for Climate Jam 2025!

-The IndieCade Team

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The theme of this jam is:

Change the Story

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We’re inviting game creators from around the world to make games that explore solutions to address a rapidly changing planet. Together we can make a difference!

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One Month

Four Sprints

Climate Jam 2024 will be presented in the Greenlight Jam format; join us and work step-by-step towards a polished, releasable project!

The concept of “greenlighting” a project is giving it the clearance to be fully developed in a released project. For this jam, it only means taking the concepts from the first week and giving them the “all clear” to be made into a title worth selling!

Climate Jam 2024’s sprint schedule is as follows:

Ideation

June 15- June 22nd

Brainstorm and work out what you will make. Do not start making a game, but work out your ideas with brainstorming, some research, and lots of prototyping (things you can throw away later!). For those of you that jam regularly, you might find it challenging to not jump right in. But the extra time spent ideating and planning will pay off in the upcoming jam series. If this was a typical 48 hour jam, this is the “end of Friday night” for where you should be.
Prototype

June 22nd – June 29th

Make the initial prototype of the game. It can be buggy, messy, and all sorts of placeholder, but you should have a playable experience by the end of this sprint!
Production

June 29th – July 13th

Two weeks of production based on what you discovered during the concept and prototyping weeks.
Release and Marketing

July 13th – July 20th

Fix the bugs, add some juice, make your polished masterpiece! You will submit to this jam for the final of Release Jam, there is not a separate itch.io jam page.

What you need to know

Jam Essentials

Climate Jam is a virtual jam hosted on itch.io just follow the link and hit “Join Now.”

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We ask that you follow our Code of Conduct in all of your IndieCade interactions, virtual or otherwise.

Mentors

Not a climate expert? No problem! We will have some great mentors available to provide inspiration and knowledge about climate topics and game design.

Want to be a game design or climate mentor? Join here!