Club members have competed in several game jams since the founding of the club. Game jams are competitions in which each individual or team makes a game in a short period of time, usually just a few days. Most game jams have a theme which serves as inspiration.
In Fall 2022, the UNL Game Dev Club hosted its first game jam! The jam ran for 34 hours, from November 12 to 13, 2022. The theme was "Stay out of sight". All games submitted for the jam can be played below.
The celestial conjunction is nigh. Assemble your cult and seek out mystical artifacts to summon forth the elder gods, but be wary: the Watch is ever vigilant.
Made by Aaron Friesen.
Play online, download for Windows and Linux, and get the source code on Aaron's website.
Navigate through the tower without being seen!
Made by Josh Bellmeyer.
Play online or download for Windows on itch.io.
Traverse the city without getting caught by zombies!
Made by Eric Dundas.
Play online or download for Windows and Mac on itch.io.
A game about object permanence, or lack thereof.
Made by Sam Woods and Ivy Chobanyan.
Download for Windows and Linux and get the source code on GitHub.
A few club members and alumni competed in the online Game Maker's Toolkit Game Jam 2022. The jam ran from July 15 to 17, 2022. The theme was "Roll of the Dice". At the time, this jam was the largest online game jam of all time. All 6,118 games submitted for the jam can be played on itch.io.
Gamble for your life with crafty critters to protect your chips in this tower defense casino!
Made by Jaden Goter, Matt Lowe, Erik Skoog, Tessa Hardin, and Camden Obertop.
The game placed in the top 5% of submissions.
Play online or download for Windows on itch.io. Get the source code on GitHub.
Roll the dice and take a chance by sneaking around the house past bedtime!
Made by Patrick Bate, Mike Fields, Caleb Kirilov, Kayla LaPoure, Josí Morgan, Jacob Schwitzer, Tyler Senne, Harry Strong, and Say Wah.
Download for Windows on itch.io.
Roll yourself through the crypt and attack with each of your faces.
Made by Aaron Friesen.
The game placed in the top 30% of submissions.
Play online, download for Windows and Linux, and get the source code on Aaron's website.
Explore a tiny world of tiny probability.
Made by Sam Woods.
Download for Windows on itch.io. Get the source code on Github.
Steer through an endless tunnel of deadly obstacles!
Made by Josh Bellmeyer.
The game placed in the top 10% of submissions.
Play online or download for Windows and Mac on itch.io.
A few club members made a game for the Cornhacks 2022 hackathon. The theme was "Retro". The hackathon ran from January 22 to 23, 2022.
Escape the grain silo in this fast-paced Game Boy platformer, made in ZGB!
Made by Jaden Goter, Camden Obertop, and Erik Skoog.
Play online or download for Game Boy on itch.io. Get the source code on Github.
A few club members competed in the online Ludum Dare 48 game jam. The jam ran from April 23 to 26, 2021. The theme was "Deeper and deeper". All 3,866 games submitted for the jam can be played on Ludum Dare.
A few club members competed in the online Game Maker's Toolkit Game Jam 2020. The jam ran from July 10 to 12, 2020. The theme was "Out of Control". At the time, this jam was the largest online game jam of all time. All 5,416 games submitted for the jam can be played on itch.io.
A top-down puzzler where you must escape a tower with a parasitic sword on your arm that can't help but kill whatever is in front of it!
Made by Jaden Goter, Zach Randolph, Matt Lowe, Erik Skoog, and Camden Obertop.
The game placed within the top 2% of the submissions.
A few club members competed in the online Ludum Dare 46 game jam. The jam ran from April 17 to 20, 2020. The theme was "Keep It Alive". At the time, this jam was the largest online game jam of all time. All 4,959 games submitted for the jam can be played on Ludum Dare.
A PS1-style stealth game where you must play as Bigfoot in the forest leaving clues and sneaking past guards to keep the myth of the squatch alive!
Made by Jaden Goter, Grant Davis, Matt Lowe, Erik Skoog, and Camden Obertop.
The game placed within the top 25% of submissions.
Play online on itch.io.
The club competed in Kansas State University’s sixth annual game jam. The jam ran from February 14 to 16, 2020. The theme was "What Goes Up Must Come Down". All games submitted for the jam can be played on itch.io.
A turn-based puzzler set in a gladiator high school. You can freely change your stats during combat, but when one stat goes up, another must go down.
Made by Aaron Friesen, Sam Foit, Kelly Kamrath, and Anders Long.
Download for Windows and Mac and get the source code on Aaron's website.
A local multiplayer game where one player plays a squirrel who tries to defeat the other play, a lumberjack, who tries to chop down the forest's trees!
Made by Casey Lafferty, Molly Lee, and McCade Robinson.
Download for Windows, Mac, and Linux on itch.io.
A few club members made a game for the the Cornhacks 2020 hackathon. The hackathon ran from January 18 to 19, 2020.
A few club members competed in the 2019 UNL Philosophy Game Jam. The jam ran from October 16 to 31, 2019. The theme was "Ethics and Technology".
Play as a smart home device that must only listen when told!
Made by Casey Lafferty and Molly Lee.
Download for Windows, Mac, and Linux on itch.io. Get the source code on GitHub.
The club sent a team of 3 students to compete in Texas A&M University's Chillenium 2019 game jam. The jam ran from October 4 to 6, 2019. The theme was "One For All And All For One".
A local co-op top-down action game for 3 people.
Made by Casey Lafferty, Molly Lee, and Ian Meister.
Download for Windows and get the source code on GitHub.
A few club members participated in the online Game Maker's Toolkit Game Jam 2019. The jam ran from August 2 to 4, 2019. At the time, this jam was the largest online game jam of all time. The theme was "Only One". All 2,606 games submitted for the jam can be played on itch.io.
A puzzle-platformer where you must use four unique items to navigate your way to the end of the level. The twist? You can only hold one item at a time, so you must throw the items around the level to transport them!
Made by Jaden Goter.
The game placed within the top 5% of submissions.
Download for Windows on itch.io. Get the source code on GitHub.
The club competed in Kansas State University’s fifth annual game jam. The jam ran from February 8 to 10, 2019. The theme was "Left Behind." All games submitted for the jam can be played on itch.io.
Explore a cave and find the golden idol, but be careful what you leave behind!
Made by Molly Lee, Nick Lehnert, Mike Senior, and Sifat Syed.
Download for Windows on itch.io Get the source code on GitHub.
A child is left behind on a field trip to the museum and must fight his way out!
Made by Zach Randolph, Michael Kovar, Grant Davis, and Jaden Goter.
They won best original music at the competition.
Download for Windows on itch.io. Get the source code on GitHub.
One club member made a game for the Cornhacks 2019 hackathon. The hackathon ran from January 19 to 20, 2019.
A non-traditional ball-based platformer, where you play as the moon and launch yourself around levels to defeat the evil Flat Earth Alliance that shrunk you down!
Made by Jaden Goter.
He won second place at the competition, and the game is currently in development.
Get the source code on GitHub.
The club sent a team of 3 students to Texas A&M University's Chillenium 2019 game jam. The jam ran from October 12 to 14, 2018. The theme was "Transformation".
You are a subject in a secret government program called the "Special Weapons Project", designed to create super soldiers. Escape with the help of another subject, or risk transforming into a monster.
Made by Casey Lafferty, Molly Lee, and Rongsong Yang.
Play online or download for Windows, Mac, and Linux on itch.io. Get the source code on GitHub.
