ABOUT

The aim of NOISE JAM 3 is to drift through a chill jam for games and non-games, focused on different types of noise. It is not intended for you to work for the entirety of the duration. If you do, take it easy and take breaks regularly. Work reasonable hours. This is a beginner friendly jam! If you've never made a game, you are explicitly welcome to participate!

Noise can take on many forms. The goal of this jam is to create a piece of art that has noise baked into its DNA. Game, game-adjacent, or otherwise. How many aspects / disciplines of your project you want to infuse with noise is up to you. At least one thing has to be noisy tho.

Some examples of noise you could use in your submission:

• Visual: Dithering. Glitches. JPG compression. Saturation & contrast increased to the point of hurt.
• Audio: Distortion. Overdrive. Bitcrushing. Harsh Noise Wall.
• Gameplay: Unresponsive input. Gimped input.
• Narrative: Unreliable narration. Gardenpath sentences.

TL;DR: DO A VIOLENCE TO YOUR ASSETS. 

THEME

NOISE JAM 3 will  boast an optional theme. If you want a spark of inspiration or a thematic frame of confinement for your submission, follow this briefing. You may choose to ignore the theme if you want.

The optional theme for NOISE JAM 3 will be:

RULES

• No AI anywhere. No AI-generated code. No AI-generated placeholders or concept art. Do not fire up an LLM for any part of this jam.
• NSFW explicitly permitted. Make it filthy. Make it dangerous. Make it queer. Give appropriate content warnings. (Submitting a SFW project is totally fine tho :3)
• 18+ participation only. Coinciding with the above, you have to be at least 18 years old to participate in the jam.
• No promotion of hateful content. No racism. No nazis. No cops. No transphobes. No bigots. (You can include them if you bash their heads in.)
• Any type of medium is allowed. Visual novels. Zines. Videos. Regular-ass video games. Fonts. etc. Make it noisy :3
  • Both digital and analog submissions are allowed! Mixed media as well.
• Most tools are welcome. For example; Ren'py, Decker, Godot, Twine, Videotome. Consider aiming for a browser build if possible to make your work accessible to as many people as possible!
  • Using GDevelop or other Engines with AI-integration is not allowed.
• Using pre-existing code is allowed. Recycle your old projects. Continue working on them. Whatever. As long as it's not AI-generated obv.

JAM FORMAT

• No ratings. No gods. No masters. We're all awesome. Make something cool and praise your fellow devs!
• Crossjam entries allowed. If you make a thing for a different jam during the duration of the NOISE JAM 3, you can also submit it here if it fits the theme of noise!
• You can start early. But just to reiterate: Do not burn yourself out.
  • This is meant as extra time buffer if your life is in a tough spot right now.
  • If you published your work before the jam started, it'll get disqualified.

USEFUL LINKS

Join the NOISE JAM Discord: https://discord.gg/gCtmAcfnNg (announcements will be posted here)

Examples from the hosts:

• Above Water: Using various crunchy shaders and distorted audio
• Ouroboros' ægritude: distorted visuals/audio, circular narration
• Lines & Sand: Dithering and a limited color palette
• Divine Light: About an angel, and an aggressive use of blur, bloom, contrast, reverb, delay, and dither

Check out the entries from the previous NOISE JAMS: NOISE JAM // NOISE JAM 2

Other cool angel games: Divine Despair Deviance, GIRLCHRIST777

Resources

• A collection with noisy assets from NOISE JAM can be found here.
• A forum post from NOISE JAM by fivestarcrest compiles several noise-generation tools here.