Spring 2025 PenguinJam

Hosted by PenguinMod Team

Welcome to another PenguinJam! We’re glad to have you back.

This will be a reoccurring event that will appear every now and then. If you miss your chance this time, come back in the future to join another!

What is PenguinJam?

PenguinJam is a Game Jam, starting April 25th at 2:00 PM (Eastern Time) and ending May 4th at 2:00 PM (Eastern Time).

Scroll to the "What is a Game Jam?" section if you don't know what a Game Jam is.

Submit projects to PenguinJam by using the tag #pjamspring25 in the title or notes.

What is the theme?

The theme is: Hidden!

Some examples to get you started: a game where you need to hide from a monster, or a game where you need to solve a mystery? Get creative!

Create and upload projects based on this theme before May 4th at 2:00 PM (Eastern Time)!

Participate if you want to try to earn one of these badges:

What is a Game Jam?

How our PenguinJam will work is:

We will reveal a theme

You need to create a PenguinMod project based on a provided theme.

You can interpret the theme in any way, and implement it into your published game. It should be a big part of your game's design.

Projects that do not fit this theme will not receive any rewards.

Submit a project

You need to upload your theme-related project to PenguinMod using the tag #pjamspring25 in the title or notes.

Make sure to upload your projects by May 4th at 2:00 PM (Eastern Time)! Do not upload them any later than that.

Judging projects

Staff members and developers will go through all of the valid published projects. We will be reviewing the projects based on the following criteria:
Presentation: The quality of costumes and sounds.
Originality: How new is the concept of the game?
Entertainment: How fun and/or interesting the game is to play.
Incorporation: How well does the game implement the theme?

Note: These criteria are not final; if you have something special to bring to the table then we might give you a higher score.

We will give out rewards

We will choose the top 5 games to be our winners, and they will receive badges displayed on the website profile!

Badges will be awarded over time. Do not pressure the team into giving your badge ASAP. Please acknowledge that we may and will be busy with other things.

Event Participant will be awarded to everyone (or mostly everyone, we likely won’t count low quality projects.)

Event Winner will be awarded to the creators of the Top 5 Projects.

PenguinJam: Bronze will be awarded to the creator of the third place project.

PenguinJam: Silver will be awarded to the creator of the second place project.

PenguinJam: Gold will be awarded to the creator of the first place project.

PenguinJam: Obsidian will be awarded to creators that placed Top 3 in a previous PenguinJam, and then placed Top 3 in this PenguinJam.

PenguinJam: Platinum will be awarded to creators that placed Top 3 in 2 previous PenguinJams, and then placed Top 3 in this PenguinJam.