Christmas Jam

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Merry Christmas to all!

Who?
This game jam is another one of the 4 seasonal game jams hosted by Princess Sonya and Empress DAX. Christmas Jam is the year 2020 Winter Game Jam hosted on CloudNovel.

When?
We will hold the Winter jam this year for THIRTY-ONE (31) days from December 1st 2020 till December 31st 2020.

Where?
You're already here! The jam will be hosted here on CloudNovel. To join, create a team for your project entry or join an existing team to participate in building a game project or drawing/design a character, background, object/item, GUI set, or composing a music/soundtrack or sound effect!

What?
The theme for the Christmas Jam is holiday festivities on Christmas Day.


For visual novel entries, to help you kick start your Christmas entries, we will give you several prompts that you can use. It is NOT required to use these prompts, and we encourage you to work on your original idea, but these prompts are here to help you start your project if you have no idea to start.

• I am so excited to be known as the host of the most awesome-epic-fantastic-bombastic Christmas party this year. I have to make sure everything is going fine but as I welcome the last guest to the party; I hear a knocking on the door. Who's there?
• As a manager of the most prestigious hotel, I love Christmas! Why? Because there will be a lot of guests in the hotel! I am so ready to welcome my little cashb- ahem, I mean, honorable guests with an open arm, but little did I know, our hotel will be visited by someone or something beyond imagination.
• Santa is having trouble delivering all the presents to little boys and girls this Christmas due to the corona virus! Oh no! Will the children around the world get their Christmas presents from Santa Claus? What is going on at the North Pole?

For other types of entries such as dress up games and resources, you are required to create Christmas-based entries.

Rules

• You can enter the jam alone or as a team (please choose one member as a representative to enter the jam and make sure you add other teammates as collaborators). In the case of a team entry, the prize will be split among the members.
• Fangames or fanart aren’t considered as a valid entry. Your work must be original. No plagiarism, especially art theft, shall be tolerated.
• If you are entering a game, you can enter a demo of your game, but you won’t be able to receive the prize until you finish your game. Only finished games are eligible for final rankings.
• You have to publish your entry within the contest period. Once the time is over, we will decide how many points to give you based on what you have done until then. If your entry is a demo, you have to complete the game afterward (no time limit) to get the prize, but what you make after the contest period won’t add any extra points. Please refrain from updating your game after the deadline until results are out.
• All entries must be listed so it is required to follow the listing guide so it can be listed on the site. (Listing Guide here: https://cloudnovel.net/forum/rules/DAX/listing-guide)
• Do not create a new entry before the jam has started.

And don't start your project or artwork/music composition before Jam officially started

Visual Novels’ Rules:

• Only English entries are considered as a valid entry.
• Either of these categories:
  
  CATEGORY A - Ongoing/Hiatus entries that had been created or published before the jam began. It must be completed within the jam period.
  
  CATEGORY B - New entries with less than 5,000 total published words are required to be completed within the jam period to be valid.
  
  CATEGORY C - New entries with over 5,000 total published words may enter with ongoing work.
  
  
• Non-story games entries such as Doodlepie needs to be completed to be considered valid.
• If you are using free resources, please make sure the assets allow commercial use.

Dress Up Games’ Rules:

• The art must be original.
• The background and music can be free resources but they must be credited.

Art Submission Rules:

• The art or design must be original. Stock images are okay as long as you have full permission to use them.
• No tracing for artworks.

Music/Sound Submission Rules:

• The music/soundtrack or sound effects must be original.
• No remixes for soundtracks.

Prizes
All entries will be judged by CloudNovel staff. When the result is announced, you will be awarded 100 points to a maximum of 100,000 points per entry! For visual novel entries, please make sure you have completed your entries to get the prizes.