GBA Jam 2022
The GBA Jam 2022 has reached its conclusion!
The event was hosted by the the gbadev.net community. We're promoting the development of new GBA homebrew games, development tools and documentation. Join us on Discord and check out our curated collection of gbadev resources.
To everyone who took part: thanks so much for joining, and congrats on making it this far. Above all else we hope you had fun and learned something new. We're proud of ya!
Thanks to our sponsors, who made this possible and provided wonderful prizes for the winners:
Incube8 Games, Pocket Pulp, RST Games, Epilogue and the gbdev community.
And thanks to everyone who donated, our fellow organisers and judges, and of course everyone who's played & enjoyed the entries so far (if you haven't yet, what are you waiting for!!)
Results
Prize winners are in bold. Open-source bonus is denoted by ﹢.
Ties are left as-is, except for 3rd place which needed a tie-break due to the physical prize. Scroll down for more info!
Full detailed results for all 26 entries can be found at the jam page on itch.io.
Overall
- Green Memories by Tengukaze Studio
- Hero Core GBA port﹢ by Evan Bowman
- notenogram﹢ by kva64
- Collie Defence﹢ by vayan
- Attack on Voxelburg by nuclear
A Rushed Hack Job by Pyro_Pyro - Gerbil Space Program by Origamiscienceguy, n67094, Nikku4211
- Ravenia by allalonegamez
- Chocolate Hunter Runa by Lsh0426
- Coin Fall by 3DSage
- Lane by setsquare
- Nuclear Love by Jono Shields
- BugTris by NotImplementedLife
Jump Kid by allalonegamez
Pocket Paint by jroatch - HEXES by EigenlightArts
- Villager's Ambition by AtsushiHdez
The Enchanted Place by VideoGameStoryTime - gnoq by Bergasms
- Kankandara no Mori by brave_orakio
- Glacia Dungeon by NotImplementedLife
MineBoyAdvance by sulsadood
Minesweeper Battle by Dewbone3 - Pathfinder Demo by pyroceper
- YALAXY01-Yearlysis by MysteryStrawberry
- The Axe by Maximilian II
Technical
- Attack on Voxelburg by nuclear
- Coin Fall by 3DSage
- Gerbil Space Program by Origamiscienceguy, n67094, Nikku4211
- Hero Core GBA port by Evan Bowman
notenogram by kva64
Green Memories by Tengukaze Studio
Originality
- Green Memories by Tengukaze Studio
- The Enchanted Place by VideoGameStoryTime
Lane by setsquare - Chocolate Hunter Runa by Lsh0426
- HEXES by EigenlightArts
Graphics
- Gerbil Space Program by Origamiscienceguy, n67094, Nikku4211
- Green Memories by Tengukaze Studio
- Attack on Voxelburg by nuclear
- notenogram by kva64
- Nuclear Love by Jono Shields
Audio
- Green Memories by Tengukaze Studio
- A Rushed Hack Job by Pyro_Pyro
notenogram by kva64 - Gerbil Space Program by Origamiscienceguy, n67094, Nikku4211
Hero Core GBA port by Evan Bowman
Polish
- Hero Core GBA port by Evan Bowman
- Green Memories by Tengukaze Studio
- Ravenia by allalonegamez
- A Rushed Hack Job by Pyro_Pyro
- Chocolate Hunter Runa by Lsh0426
Prizes
If you won a prize, we'll be in touch via email over the next few days.
More details on how the prizes were calculated can be found here.
Physical Prizes
The top 3 participants can choose from the following pool (first place gets first pick, and so on...)
- 1x Deadeus - Collector's Edition courtesy of Incube8 Games
- 2x GB Operator courtesy of Epilogue
Money Prizes
- 1st place - $574
- 2nd place - $230
- 3rd place - $143
- 4th place - $115
- 5th place - $86
Open source bonus
Additional prize money is given to the top 3 entries whose source code was released under a free-software license.
- 1st - $143
- 2nd - $86
- 3rd - $57
Tie-breaks
Notenogram and Collie Defence required a tie-break due to the physical prize. The judges held a vote to break the tie, but this also tied... so we decided to use the average score across all categories (technical, originality, graphics, audio, polish) to decide who should get 3rd place.
For the tie between Attack on Voxelburg and A Rushed Hack Job, we decided it would be most fair to split the prize money 50/50, since there were no physical prizes involved for those.
