She Built This: Game Jam - The MADE
GLITCHED - Women in Game Dev, GGWP (GG Women Professionals), and Women in Games NYC, are hosting a game jam for women developers! She Built This: Game Jam powered by Sentry, is a chill jam for women to make friends, network, and make cool games over the course of a weekend. 🛹
This is a weekend jam. We will be hosting at The MADE museum on Saturday, June 13th. Come work with your team, meet other teams, and enjoy free food and drinks! 🍩
This jam is beginner friendly. You do not need to have any or tons of experience, or be a level 76 enchantress to participate! 🌆
JAM SCHEDULE
🛹 Starts - Friday, June 12th 2:00 PM
🥳 Ends - Sunday, June 14th 2:00 PM
🗳 Voting Ends - Sunday, June 21st 2:00 PM
👾 Awards Ceremony at Sentry San Francisco HQ - Friday, June 26th 5:30 PM
WHERE
On the Saturday of the jam, June 13th, we will be hosting at The MADE, the Bay Area’s only all playable video game museum! Join us to co-work with your team, meet other teams, and check out an amazing video game haven. We will be bringing sandwiches and other yummy food and drinks! 🥂
It’s not required to be at this in person location to participate in the jam.
THEME
The theme will be revealed at the start of the jam. Oo wonder what it shall be??? 😲
PRIZES FOR PARTICIPATING
Everyone that participates in the jam gets free sentry credits ($270 value)! 🥳 Sentry's debugging platform helps every developer diagnose, fix, and optimize the performance of their code. Sentry is used by over 4 million developers and 150,000 organizations, including Disney+, Cloudflare, GitHub, Anthropic, Vercel, and Atlassian.
Here's how to redeem. You're welcome to claim these now!
In the Dashboard, Scroll all the way down in Settings to Usage & Billing
Click Redeem Promo Code
Enter the Code: gamejam2026
Have Fun!
PRIZES
First place will receive the freshest swag from Sentry, Syntax, and Friends with $50 Sentry Shop credits for the Sentry Shop!
Top 3 places will receive a 1 year subscription to Craftpix, a 2D Game Assets Store that offers high-quality premium assets for your project.
The winners of the special category will be receiving game codes to Unleaving, a narrative-driven puzzle platformer, from a women led studio, where every frame is a hand-painting, seamlessly integrating pencil and graphite puzzle elements.
JUDGING
All participants of the jam will be able to vote on each submission. The top 3 winners will be decided based on the community's ranking.
There will be a special prize for the game that fits a special category! Will it be best glitch, best character design, best water, we're not sure! TBD! The judges (organizers of the jam) will vote on the game that wins this prize.
Please officially join the jam on itch.io! You must click Join the Jam to submit a project and vote on other submissions!
RULES
The game must be made specifically for the jam and during the jam's time window
You may use pre-existing assets as long as you disclose what was made before the jam
Any art, sound, or external assets used that you or your team did not create MUST be credited
The use of Generative AI for assets is NOT allowed
This means that AI is NOT allowed for creating any art, music, or written assets
Using AI assistant tools for help with programming is okay
You can solo dev or be on a team of 6 maximum
You are welcome to use any game engine
Your game must be submitted using HTML5 / WebGL. It needs to be playable in the itch.io browser
No NSFW or offensive games
Have fun!
WHAT IS A GAME JAM?
A game jam challenges participants to make a game by themselves or with a team within a time frame based on a theme or restriction. Game jams are great for creating projects for a portfolio, practicing new skills, trying new roles, and networking!
WHERE CAN I FIND A TEAM?
Feel free to use the community tab on itch.io or join the GLITCHED discord server and use the channel #looking-for-a-team to look for team members
We hope to see you at the jam!
THANK YOU
Sentry helps every developer detect, understand, and fix broken code, fast. Using Sentry’s debugging platform decreases resolution time from days to minutes, giving developers more time to do the stuff they love, all while making customers happier. Sentry is used by over 4 million developers and 150,000 organizations, including Disney+, Cloudflare, GitHub, Anthropic, Vercel, and Atlassian. Learn more: sentry.io
The MADE - Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment is the Bay Area's only all-playable video game museum. They have over 14,000 playable games from the 1970s through the early 2000s, almost all running on original hardware.
Over more than a decade, the MADE has sought to legitimize the preservation of video games as an historic, cultural, and artistic medium within the context of our time. Visitors to the MADE have access to play any of our collection of over 14,000 games across 40+ systems, on-demand.
Craftpix offers high-quality premium and free 2D-game assets for your project. In their store, there are 2D game art of the main categories: icons, sprites, tilesets, gui, characters, backgrounds, game kits and more!
ORGANIZERS
GLITCHED - Women in Game Dev is a community centered in the Bay Area that gives women developers a safe space to connect, network, and make friends while gaining valuable insight into the game industry through bi-monthly events.
GG Women Professionals is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit supportive community for women and allies in the game industry who are devoted to amplifying and elevating new and under-represented voices in gaming through events and strategic partnerships.
Women in Games NYC is a NYC-based community for female-identifying and femme folks in games, offering regular IRL meetups, a Discord server, and a presence at major industry events, with a focus on supporting members both in their careers and in the broader culture and life of game development.