Theme: Food 🍔 🍕 🍜 🌮 🍣 🥗

Spring time is here — and there's a lot of great and interesting food from around the world!

So let’s make games about food! Any kind of cuisine from around the world. Whether it's Shopping in a Supermarket or Convenience Store for food, Coffee barista serving or bartender simulators, a mukbang livestream simulator, serving customers at a boba/bubble tea stall, or preparing food as a sushi chef, all types of food or drink based games are welcome.

Welcome to the Foodie Jam — your ticket to exploring virtual cuisines without leaving home! ✈️ Be sure to join the discord for access to game dev resources and community discussion:

Jam Rules

• ✅ Your entry MUST incorporate the food theme and follow all jam rules listed below and incorporate at least ONE (1) limitation. The game can be in any genre - anything from a cozy cafe simulator to a RPG.
• 🛠️ Any Game Engine is allowed (Unity, Godot, GDevelop, Unreal, your own custom engine, open source libraries, etc.)
• 🤝 You may work in teams or solo. Teams are limited to a maximum of five (5) participants.
• 🌐 Web Games/Builds are strongly encouraged, but downloadable games (Windows preferred) are allowed as well.
• 🤖 AI Usage: AI tools are allowed only for coding. All art, music, and story content must be created by participants or properly sourced from assets.
• 🎨 Any non Generative AI assets (art, music, sound effects, etc.) are allowed: your own creations, free assets or paid asset packs, open-source assets, or properly licensed assets. Any unlicensed or copyrighted assets are not allowed. Be sure to give proper credit for any assets that you use.
• 🚫 No NSFW Content.
• 🛂 No rate spam / Review-for-Review: Any attempt to manipulate the voting results, including using fake accounts, vote-swapping, or offering review-for-review/incentives, is strictly forbidden. Violations will result in immediate disqualification and removal from the jam.
• 🏁 You may begin working on your jam content immediately (as in right now) - there is no need to wait for any announcement.
• 💬 Games must primarily be in English.
• ⏰ Be sure to submit your game before the submission period deadline ends. You will not be allowed to modify your game submission during the voting period, but will be able to do so after the voting period ends if you wish to make a post-jam version.
• 🖥️ Games submitted must have a fullscreen toggle to enable fullscreen mode, this is a checkbox in itch.io's edit game page: Edit Game → Embed Options → Fullscreen Button, OR must have an option in the settings menu to toggle fullscreen.

Rating

Games will be rated in a 2-week voting period after the jam on the following 4 categories:

• Gameplay 🎮
• Theme Incorporation 🍕
• Presentation / Art 🎨
• Audio 🎵

The top-rated games will be featured in a livestream, where the jam host will play them live and share first impressions and give real-time feedback! 🎟️🌟

Sponsor

This game jam is sponsored by Craftpix, an online store and resource specializing in high-quality premium and free 2D game assets for game developers, indie studios, and hobbyists.

The top 5 community contributors (those who help out and give constructive feedback to other jam participants on discord or itch.io) will receive a 1-year CraftPix membership (unlimited access to all game assets with commercial use).

🎯 Limitations (Pick 1 or more!)

Choose at least one limitation from the list below. Each one is a “modifier” to your foodie adventure — mix and match to create your own unique journey. You can choose more than one if you like, but one is the minimum.

1) 🕰️ Time-Travel

Your game must allow the player to visit the same location in different eras than the present — either travel to the past, to the future, or both. This can affect visuals, characters, gameplay mechanics, or story.

Examples:

• A Cafe in Paris in the Middle Ages → Cafe Paris in the modern day🏰🥐
• Edo Tokyo Sushi restaurant → Neo Tokyo Sushi restaurant 🏯🍣
• American Burger Diner → Post Apocalyptic Cafe After Zombie Apocalypse 🍽️🧟
  

2) 🏛️ Historical Food Event

Your game must be based around a real, historical food event or banquet of some sort.

Examples:

• Roman Emperor Nero's Banquets: Known for rotating dining rooms, floral cascades, and decadent sensory experiences, epitomizing Roman excess.
• Ashurnasirpal II's Inaugural Feast (879 BC): A massive, 10-day event for nearly 70,000 guests celebrating his new capital, Kalhu, a huge feat for the time.

3) 🚋 Unique Transportation

The game must involve a specific or unique type of travel while incorporating the food theme

Examples:

• 🚅 Dining on a moving vehicle such as a Train, Plane, Cruise, or Space Ship, or even a bicycle or motorcycle.

4) 🛖 Local Customs

Incorporate cultural practices, etiquette, or rituals from the location.

Examples:

• Attending a tea ceremony in Japan 🍵 , with formal attire,  and making matcha with a matcha whisk.
• A Korean NANTA-inspired cooking show.
  
• A Live-streamed interactive mukbang cooking show.

5) 🌉 Iconic Restaurants/Locations

Players must visit or interact with a famous restaurant/location (whether still present or not).

Examples:

• Starbucks coffee reserve roastery in Shanghai, China ☕ .
• Dining on top of the Burj Khalifa.

6) 🎆 Celebration: Festivals/Holidays

Players must visit or interact within an iconic festival or holiday.

Examples:

• Getting Tanghulu at a Lunar New Year Celebration.
• Festival/matsuri food while viewing ice sculptures at the Sapporo Snow Festival.
• Interacting with food vendors at the Burning Man Festival

7) 🧪 Fictional Food

Players must visit or interact with fictionally created food. One could create a story around this as well, i.e. robots eating electricity for food, etc.

Examples:

• Robot Food.
• Alien Food.
• Zombie Food.
• Dragon Food.
• Elf Food.

8) 😭 Feels

The game must aim to take the player on an emotional journey through food.

Examples:

• A Taste of the Past by Sondering Emily https://sonderingemily.itch.io/a-taste-of-the-past
  
• Google's Boba/Bubble Tea Google Doodle  https://sites.google.com/site/populardoodlegames/boba-game

9) 📅 Date/Romance

The game must have the player romance (or attempt to romance) one or multiple parties while incorporating the food theme.

Examples:

• A Fancy Dinner Date with Multiple Locations, with a Motorcycle Ride scene.

10) 🏅 Contest/Competition

The game must have some sort of food eating contest or competition take place in it.

Examples:

• The player competes with Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi at Nathan's Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest.
• Hunting, Shopping, and/or Cooking for food in a Competition like in Iron Chef or the hunter exam cooking test from Hunter x Hunter.