Finished 27 Jan 2025

Tech Jam

Lets get weird

Built
16 Dec 2024 - 20 Jan 2025
Prize pool
£25,000
Entries
100
Winners
10

workspace_premiumAwards

10
  1. Best Destruction
    Shape SimBarrel Prototype
    £2,500
  2. Best Tool £2,500
  3. Best Simulation £2,500
  4. Best Weather
    AtmokineticAli3n Systems
    £2,500
  5. Best Least
    SURREALGbonn
    £2,500
  6. Best Style
    Point and Click Adventure DemoMONOCULTURE INTERACTIVE
    £2,500
  7. Best Procedural
    Procedural Biomes ToolI Can't Believe It's a Law Firm
    £2,500
  8. Best Realism
    Underwater Demopetergriffin
    £2,500
  9. Best Satisfaction
    Ghoul GroundsMighty Brick
    £2,500
  10. Best Unexpected
    Neverspaceteam pwegg
    £2,500

infoAbout

Things are a bit different with this jam. It's not about building an entire game from scratch.. it's about exploring and creating tech that fascinates you. This means you can spend less time creating the bullshit of menu screens, and just get straight to the fun stuff.

This time around we've got a bunch of different categories, which we hope will increase the variety of entries and give people more chance to win. You don't have to nominate your entry for a specific category - we'll do that. It's our hope that this is going to be an artist friendly jam too.

Your entry doesn't need to be a game package. I would expect to see games, maps, models, prefabs and libraries - but we're accepting anything here.

Getting Started

If you've never used s&box before, it's pretty easy:
  1. Click the Log In button above
  2. Log in with your Steam Account
  3. Click banner at the top
  4. You'll now have s&box in your Steam Account
Our engine is pretty easy to get into. It's got a scene editor, GameObjects and Components. All code is in C#. Shader code is in hlsl. It has super fast hotloading.

We have a bunch of documentation here, but please let us know if you're finding anything difficult and we'll try to make things more obvious.

gavelRules

  • One submission per person
  • Team entries are fine, but only one person can submit
  • You must have the right to use all content in your entry
  • You are welcome to use any content from facepunch's workshop
  • This should be a new creation, not something you have already created
  • If you use generative AI for art or audio, say so on your entry

Read the full terms and conditions