Theme

The Global Game Jam will provide all the participating jams with a theme on 5pm (local time) on January 27, 2011.

The theme set out by Global Game Game will include some achievements along with the theme.

The GGJ Achievement system could really just as well be called diversifiers. It is a system aimed at diversifying the games as well as providing motivation for experienced game jammers. In a sense, the achievements are a free-for-all voluntary list of secondary constraints, that the individual teams can choose to go for, or not, as they please. If they do go for one or more achievements, they get to tick off those achievements as fulfilled when uploading their game.

As stated above, the achievements are absolutely voluntary, and no points are given for achieving them. If you are a first time team of students, we recommend that you focus primarily on the overall constraint, and only add in extra achievements if you feel sure you will have something to hand in on sunday.