Heart Slam 2024 OHRRPGCE Game Development Contest

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It's time again to talk about the biggest contest in the OHR. Combining both Summer Slam and Heart of the OHR, the Heart Slam OHR contest serves as a way to highlight the best games the ohrrpgce has to offer.

This year, the submission window is going to be longer than normal. Going from May 6th all the way until Thanksgiving (Nov. 28st).
This is to give people more time on their entries while also embracing the heart of the OHR contest tradition of being very long, despite that sometimes being a bad idea. IT is also to allow for the timing of a new and yet classic category to the contest, holidays.

The categories are individual awards entries can claim outside of the main contest. The winner of each of the 3 categories will receive a ribbon and $5 to spend on steam. The categories are Heart Award; which will go to the best traditional rpg entered into the contest, and Programming Excellence. Finally the last category is Best Original Soundtrack, which will go to the creator of the best original soundtrack made for an entry to the contest.

Aside from the separate categories, the main contest will crown a first second and third place winner. 1st place will receive $100, the offer of a mystery prize, and a trophy. Second place will receive $25 and a ribbon. Third place will get $5 on steam.

Voting include typical community voting, along with weighted scores from a panel of judges. While voting, please rank each game 1-10 and share your ordered list of games for each category. No need to vote for every game or every category. Anything not voted for will receive a 7 as it's score from the voter that skipped it as well as any person that entered and didn't vote.
Voting will run till Dec 15st.

All entries must be made with the OHRRPGCE. This is an indie game contest with an expectation of solo projects or small groups. All entries are required to have a budget of under $500 and no more than 5 people working on them.
All entries should not be released prior to the submission window. If an entry was previously released, a major expansion or update should have been added since it's previous release prior to the submission window.

More details to follow as the contest gets closer.
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what if I finish my game before june 21st and it's featured in an outside jam? might still qualify?
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The contest starts June 1st

pay no attention tot he dates on the video i uploaded... those are from last year and ... I guess i should remove the confusing video



Let's start the submission window today!
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Summary!

Contest runs from 5/6/2024 till 10/31/2024

Games must be new and made with the OHRRPGCE

Prizes include
  • 1st place, $100, mystery prize, Heart Slam Trophy
  • 2nd place, $25, a ribbon
  • 3rd place, $5 steam credit
  • Heart of the OHR / Best RPG Ribbon
  • Programming Excellence Ribbon
  • Best Original Soundtrack Ribbon
  • Best Holiday Ribbon

Voting begins 11/1/2024 and end 12/1/2024. Winners announced shortly after.
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Contest crossposted on itch.io
https://itch.io/jam/heartslam2024
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Berry shared a video today, I thought I'd share it here too.

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After giving it some thought I've decided to keep the spirit of the heart of the OHR alive.

You may enter previous released games as long as there is yet to be released content that you consider to be a major expansion.


Also, the holiday prize is being removed as it stepped on the holiday contests too much. If you were working on a holiday game BECAUSE of the holiday prize category please contact me.
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Spoonweaver wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2024 2:12 am After giving it some thought I've decided to keep the spirit of the heart of the OHR alive.

You may enter previous released games as long as there is yet to be released content that you consider to be a major expansion.


Also, the holiday prize is being removed as it stepped on the holiday contests too much. If you were working on a holiday game BECAUSE of the holiday prize category please contact me.
This is excellent news. Any chance you could extend the deadline to Thanksgiving? I'd be pretty thankful and able to submit something.
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Already requesting an extension?
And a month long extension?!

I guess there WAS a decently sized change in rules....

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Yep
the people I asked were all pro-extension. So the new due date is now thanksgiving.
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