🌍 What is Code for a Cause?
Code for a Cause is a game jam where your creativity can make a real-world impact! This is not just another jam—it's an opportunity to win cash and prizes while supporting a charity.
How does it work?
- The total prize pool is split up, spread to the podium and any special tracks (coming soon).
- 50% of each prize is then donated to a charity of the winners' choice ❤️
Here's the exciting part: The prize pool grows as we receive more donations and sponsorships! That means the more people support the jam, the bigger the rewards for both participants and charity.
Join the Discord to participate with the community! (also a requirement to be eligible to win)
💰 Prizes
Our current prize pool is a total of $1250 USD:
🏅 1st Place:
$400 ($200 to winner, $200 to a charity of your choice)
1x Aseprite key (worth 20$)
🥈 2nd Place:
$200 ($100 to winner, $100 to charity)
1x Aseprite key (worth 20$)
🥉 3rd Place:
$100 ($50 to winner, $50 to charity)
1x Aseprite key (worth 20$)
🏅 4th Place:
$30 ($15 to winner, $15 to charity)
1x Aseprite key (worth 20$)
🏅 5th Place:
$30 ($15 to winner, $15 to charity)
1x Aseprite key (worth 20$)
🎮 Best MiniScript entries: These prizes go to the best games made with our sponsor MiniScript! MiniScript is a simple-to-learn coding language perfect for making a game jam game! Check out their website for more information, or our Discord channels with people ready to help!
1st Place - $60 ($30 to winner, $30 to charity)
2nd Place - $40 ($20 to winner, $20 to charity)
🗳️ Community Winner – $100 ($50 to winner, $50 to charity) The overall winner of the community vote! Winning the community vote does not automatically mean you win the judge's pick, but prizes can stack! 🎉
🎭 Best Theme Usage – $100 ($50 to winner, $50 to charity) This prize goes to the game with the coolest or most innovative use of the announced theme!
🦾 Most Interesting Mechanic - $90 ($45 to winner, $45 to charity) This prize goes towards the game with the most thought-out and fascinating mechanic! Maybe this is a game where you remove a crucial control, or maybe a never before seen movement controller, totally up to you!
🎨 Most Appealing Art - $50 ($25 to winner, $25 to charity) This prize (funded by Juniper) goes to the game with the most interesting artstyle!
🤪 Silliest/Funniest Game - $50 ($25 to winner, $25 to charity) This prize goes to the silliest/funniest game in the jam! Make us laugh, we all know the world needs more of that!
🔹 As we secure more sponsors and donations, these prizes will increase and we can introduce new tracks for more opportunities to win! 🔹
Want to help grow the prize pool? Donate or share the jam with potential sponsors!
💡 Judges
Were actively working on growing our judges panel! Here are some notable features on the panel so far:
Sifd is an indie game YouTuber with over 130,000 subscribers! He makes videos on a variety of indie games and has played tons of amazing indie games in his time, so no pressure!
Rye is a game development YouTuber with almost 150,000 subscribers! He makes super funny videos on his game development journey!
Hedge is an amazing streamer over on Twitch with over 1000 followers! She has very chill and relaxing streams working on different development projects, please do check her out!
Juniper is a game development YouTuber with over 40,000 subscribers making extremely interesting videos both on her own games and on the indie game space itself, do go support!
TheChief has been making games for over a decade, helping host the Bullet Hell Jam and tons of others, including the latest GMTK jam! He's also taken part in over 100 jams, so he knows what he's talking about!
Tommy has been running the past few Micro Jams, a bi-weekly jam with cash prizes of up to 110$! He's got tons of experience judging games, again, no pressure!
🕹️ How It Works
1. Develop a game based on the announced theme.
2. Work solo or in teams – it's up to you!
3. Submit your game before the deadline.
4. Judging Criteria – Winners are selected based on creativity, gameplay, visuals, sound/music and theme interpretation.
As for a theme, we need your help! Head to the link below and vote for whichever theme resonates the most with you!
📍 Who Can Join?
🌍 Anyone, anywhere! Whether you're a solo developer or part of a team, you're welcome to participate. The jam is completely online, so anyone around the world can join in!
🚀 Why Join?
✅ Win cash prizes! More sponsors = bigger prizes!
✅ Help raise money for a great cause.
✅ Connect with fellow devs and grow your network.
📢 Help Spread the Word!
The bigger this jam gets, the bigger the prize pool and the greater the impact we can make together. Share this jam with your dev friends, communities, and potential sponsors!
Our Sponsors:
Let’s make games for good! 🎮