The SpatialOS Game Jam: the prizes, categories and rules

If any added incentive was needed to sign up for our thrilling SpatialOS game jam, we can now reveal the fantastic prizes and categories that you’ll be competing over for the duration of the event.

As a reminder, the jam will be running from Friday 10th February at 18:00 GMT until Sunday 12th February 2017 at 18:00 GMT.

Registration details can be found in the original blog post announcement.

Categories, Prizes & Judges

Category: “Showing promise”

Judged by Improbable’s founder and CEO Herman Narula, this will be rewarded to the entry that shows the most promise as an actual game.

Prize: This is a big prize - Improbable will help you make your game!

We'll take your idea and work with you to turn your game into a reality. This will involve us organising several weeks of extended jamming at the winning team's convenience - we'll throw engineers, animations, VFX and concept art at the project to see how far we can take it together.

Category: “Strongest take on the theme”

A panel of judges will decide who has the best take on the jam’s theme, which will be announced on the day.

Prize: The creators of the winning entry will be able to choose from one of the following -

• Mini Sega
• Raspberry Pi
• Atari Flashback

Runners up will get an Improbable swag box.

Category: “Popular vote”

This will be judged by all you wonderful people with a little help from our panel of experts. We'll use a poll on the forums to select the most popular game.

Prize: Winners will be able to choose from one of the following -

• Logitech gaming mouse
• LG 22" monitor
• Corsair Gaming Keyboard

There will be plenty of Improbable swag will be around for the runners up too!

Category: “Best art”

This will be judged by our special guest Rex Crowle (Lead Creator at Media Molecule, creators of Little Big Planet and Tearaway) who will decide which is the best-looking game.

Prize: winners will be able to choose from one of the following -

• Wacom Tablet
• 3D Printing Pen
• Samsung 500GB SSD

Additional rules regarding prizes

• Max team size of five. One prize per winner per team (a team of 5 people will each win 1 prize of their choice, mailed to you after the game jam, at our convenience).
• If an Improbable employee is on your team, you are still eligible for all the prizes: but the employee can not win! (Don't worry, they will be rewarded internally).
• We will try to ensure one game doesn't win all of the prizes, but there are no guarantees!

Rules & Regulations

Full rules and regulations are also now live in a thread on our community forums. Be sure to give them a read in the run up to the event.

See you on the day!

Download SpatialOS and begin exploring.