Playboy Game Jam
Bunnies Treasure Island
Calling all daring treasure hunters! In an effort to squeeze in one last vacation before the launch of the upcoming Playboy MetaMansion, a band of adventurous Playboy Bunnies have taken over a captivating tropical island, turning it into their own Bunny paradise. However this is no ordinary island — a thrilling secret lies within its lush landscapes . The island hides a priceless treasure, and the Bunnies need your help to uncovering it!
The rules of the contest are simple: Create an enchanting game set inspired by the Bunnies Treasure Island theme using The Sandbox Game Maker. Imagine a stunning paradise teeming with lush vegetation and sparkling beaches or instead a spellbinding oasis with massive cliffs and mysterious caves. Create a compelling world and engaging storyline that leads players on an exciting quest alongside the bounty-hunting Bunnies, as they discover the island’s hidden secrets and search for the mysterious treasure.
🏝️ Get ready to embark on the Bunnies Treasure Island adventure! Join the Playboy Game Jam in The Sandbox now! 🎮🥇
🏆Rewards
50,000 SAND will be split amongst the top entries in the following way:
- 1st place: 10,000 SAND
- 2nd place: 6,000 SAND
- 3rd place: 3,500 SAND
- 4th to 10th place: 1,500 SAND each.
- Best Newcomer (best new Game Jam participant. The entrant must be KYC to verify that this is their first time participating): 1,000 SAND.
- Rising Star (one or more participants who have shown great creator growth over the course of 1 or more previous Game Jams): 1,000 SAND.
- Honorable Mentions (games specially picked by the judges outside of the Top 10): 1,000 SAND.
Up to 10 winners may be picked between the Best Newcomer, Rising Star, and Honorable Mentions categories as the judges see fit.
In addition to the SAND prizes, your experience might get picked to be published on Playboy’s LAND in The Sandbox.
*By submitting your entry, you accept to be contacted by a Game Maker Fund representative. Placing in the Top 10 awards contestants with the potential to be onboarded to the Game Maker Fund.
IMPORTANT: KYC is needed to place in the top 5 or you need to be a verified creator.
How to be a verified creator ?
- Have a studio linked with a GMF account.
- Have participated in 5 contests and placed top 10 during one of those times.
📅Important Dates
- The Game Jam begins July 17th, 2023.
- The deadline to complete and submit your entry is July 30th, 3P.M. UTC.
- Submission gathering and voting will take place between July 31st and September 1st, 2023.
- The results will be announced September 2nd, 2023.
💯Judging Criteria
The entries are judged on a 22-point scale divided into the following categories:
- Overall Creative Idea — (5 Points)
→ Is the idea unique and engaging?
- Level Design — (5 Points)
→ Is it easy to find your way inside the game?
→ Is the terraforming visually appealing / coherent with the theme of the game?
→ Is the progression curve challenging?
- Game Design — (5 Points)
→ Does the game have interesting mechanics?
→ Is the logic well-designed so it’s fun to play?
- Playability — (5 Points)
→ Does the game work properly from start to end?
→ Does the player experience bugs?
- Bonus Points: Wow Factor — (Up to 2 Extra Points)
→ Outstanding assets and artistic direction.
→ Unique features.
→ Outstanding atmosphere / immersion.
✅ Submitting Your Entry
We will be using the Game Maker “Gallery” feature as a form for submissions. You can find instructions for how this works, here.
You MUST also submit your game to the following form link: https://forms.gle/C9uzVdHMuk6Jr6gT8
Please note that you may NOT update your game after the deadline until the official results are announced.
WARNING! If you submit your entry to the Game Jam gallery but do not also submit it via the form linked above (or vice versa), your entry will not be eligible!
Slow down & check everything! Take the time to read the submission form and the requirements before submitting your entry. Feel free to check the Game Maker and the VoxEdit Academies to make the best out of both tools. The goal is to submit a qualitative experience, rather than rushing and submitting a half-finished one.😉
⚠️Important Entry Guidelines
- Your entry must be designed in the Game Maker software.
- Your entry must be made on the GM 0.8.5 version.
- Your entry can include assets you’ve created yourself.
- Your entry must have some playability (quests, missions you name it).
- Your entry must be unique and not a direct copy of any existing experiences (Similarities are fine; Exact copies are not!).
- Spamming the gallery with a number of low quality experiences just to try and fit into the 4th-10th places may result in all your entries being disqualified.
- You must upload an uncut and unedited video of a full playthrough of your game to the submission form. The video must be showing at least 5 minutes of gameplay.
- Once submitted, it is not permitted to update your entry before the final results are out.
- You may take inspiration from a brand’s, work, style and values but do NOT use copyrighted characters, names, people, logos and other copyrighted material in your Game Jam entries..
- Not completing the submission steps correctly (see below) may result in your entry being ineligible.
- The judging will be done by The Sandbox’s staff and in collaboration with The Council and Playboy’s team.
- What makes an entry valid?
→ Game length should be at least 5 minutes (excluding timed, collection quests).
→ Use at least 25 unique assets.
→ Follow the storyline/theme.
→ Experience must be created after the start date (any experiences built for previous Game Jams cannot be used). - The Sandbox staff members have the right to remove any entry as they see fit.
❓Game Jam FAQ
Who can participate in the Game Jam?
Anyone who is eligible to create an account at The Sandbox can enter the Game Jam.
Can I use other people’s assets?
No, you cannot use assets that you haven’t created or purchased. Using assets created by another user without permission will result in your experience being disqualified. Default assets created by “TSB-Account-1” and “SandboxGame” are free to use.
Are teams or studios allowed?
Yes! You are welcome to work independently or as a team/studio of no more than 4 members per team.
Where can I get the Game Maker and/or VoxEdit from?
Here are the official links:
How important is it to create many high quality assets for my game to win a Game Jam?
Artistic direction is not insignificant, but we judge your games primarily on your creative idea, your mechanics, your level design and how well the game plays and functions. Assets may influence the amount of Wow-factor points you get (Max 2), but a visually appealing game does not necessarily require 100s of custom assets.
Where can I find guides for the Game Maker and VoxEdit software?
Check out the Tutorials section of The Sandbox’s official Knowledge Base here. It’s super effective, if you are a beginner!
You can also join our Discord community, where creators often share tips with each other and post their own tutorials. You can also share your entry with the community for feedback, if you wish.
Good luck to all participants!
General Terms and Conditions
In connection with your creation of assets for submission to this contest, while you may use elements that are inspired by or thematically related to Playboy’s intellectual property (such as “Playboy”, “Playboy Rabbitars”, “Rabbitars”, “Leveretia”, “Rabbit Head Design”, and associated logos), you are not receiving any license or right by Playboy to use any of Playboy’s intellectual property in any manner whatsoever. Any permitted use of elements for your entry assets that may be inspired by or thematically related to Playboy’s intellectual property are solely for your personal, non-commercial purposes and in connection with potential use and display in Playboy’s The Sandbox metaverse.
By entering this contest, entrants grant The Sandbox, Playboy Enterprises, Inc., their agents, subsidiaries, and affiliates (the “Licensees”) a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable right to exercise the copyright, publicity, database rights and any other rights entrants have in their entry submissions, in any media now known or hereafter devised (including without limitation, the internet), without any compensation. Further, by entering the contest, entrant grants Licensees the additional license to modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works from, and distribute the content (with the understanding that Licensees are under no obligation to do so), or incorporate the entry submissions into any form, medium or technology, and, to use entry submissions for advertising and promotional purposes. Licensees shall not be required to designate entrants as the creator or author of any entry submissions that are distributed or otherwise exploited by Licensees.
The Licensees, Instagram, Twitter, and Discord, and each of their respective employees, officers, shareholders, and directors (collectively, “Contest Releasees”) will not have any obligation or responsibility, including any responsibility to award any prize to entrants, with regard to: (a) entries that contain inaccurate information or do not comply with or violate the contest entry guidelines; (b) entries, prize claims or notifications that are lost, late, incomplete, illegible, unintelligible, damaged or otherwise not received by the intended recipient, in whole or in part, due to computer, human or technical error of any kind; © entrants who have committed fraud or deception in entering or participating in the contest or claiming a prize; (d) telephone, electronic, hardware, software, network, Internet or computer malfunctions, failures or difficulties; (e) any inability of any winner to accept the prize for any reason; (f) if a prize cannot be awarded due to delays or interruptions due to Acts of God, natural disasters, terrorism, weather or any other similar event beyond The Sandbox’s reasonable control; or (g) any damages, injuries or losses of any kind caused by any prize or resulting from awarding, acceptance, possession, use, misuse, loss or misdirection of any prize or resulting from participating in this contest or any promotion or prize related activities. ANY PERSON ATTEMPTING TO DEFRAUD LICENSEES OR IN ANY WAY TAMPER WITH, DAMAGE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST WILL BE DISQUALIFIED AND MAY BE SUBJECT TO CIVIL AND/OR CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.
BY ENTERING THE CONTEST, ENTRANT FULLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY RELEASES, DISCHARGES AND HOLDS HARMLESS THE CONTEST RELEASEES FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, COSTS, EXPENSES, ATTORNEY’S FEES, DAMAGES AND OTHER LIABILITIES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO ENTRANT’S PARTICIPATION IN THIS CONTEST AND CONTEST RELATED ACTIVITIES (SUCH AS ACCEPTANCE, POSSESSION, USE OR MISUSE OF ANY PRIZE), INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION BUT TO THE EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, DEMANDS, CLAIMS AND CAUSES OF ACTION FOR NEGLIGENCE, DAMAGES TO PROPERTY, BODILY INJURY (INCLUDING DEATH), PROPERTY DAMAGE, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF CONSORTIUM, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, PUNITIVE DAMAGES AND ALL OTHER FORMS OF CLAIMS, LIABILITIES AND DAMAGES.
All disputes arising under or relating to the contest will be governed by the laws of California, without regard for conflicts of laws principles. All disputes arising under or relating to the contest shall be submitted to and resolved by binding arbitration in Los Angeles, California, any award shall be confirmed in the courts situated in Los Angeles County, California. The arbitration shall be conducted on a confidential basis pursuant to the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association. Any decision or award as a result of any such arbitration proceeding shall be in writing and shall provide an explanation for all conclusions of law and fact and shall include the assessment of costs, expenses, and reasonable attorneys’ fees. Any such arbitration shall include a written record of the arbitration hearing.
