[Day 1] Team & Goal Formation Meeting [Host] [Wednesday]

🔸 Event host

🔹 Everyone else

🟢 Elected team facilitator

🥇 Goal: These will help you improvise. 
This checklist is detailed, but you can reach the goals using your judgment if you think you can achieve them faster than the checklist suggests. 

🟦🟦🟦 Headers, subheaders 1, 2, 3. 

Headers are silent, don't share them. 

🔄 Conditional

🔸 Say: Everyone open the text channel connected with this voice channel. You'll find an icon when you hover over the channel name of this voice channel on the left, just above the participants list. Click that icon to open the chat if you're on desktop; if you're on mobile, hit the big chat bubble. Whenever you're in a voice chat here, all the text chat will be in the channel related to the voice channel you're in. 

🔸 Say: Type YES in chat now if you got there!

Step 1: Click the 🚀

🟢 Step 2: Choose "Watch Together"

🟢 Step 3: Put in the URL

🟢 Step 4: Have everyone click "Join Activity" 

🟢 Step 5: Say: "Click the Rocket Emoji"

🟧🟧🟧 How We Operate

🟧 Incubation

🔸Say: We sit right between an incubator and an educational institution, welcoming people of various skill sets, but our focus is on pairing people up and creating an environment where they can succeed.

🔸Say: We believe there's a lot you can learn when paired with peers on well-organized teams focused on real-world tasks. 

🟧 Impact 

🔸Say: This is the perfect spot if you're looking to create a portfolio project, a hobby project, or something that makes the world a better place.

🟧 Project Types 

🔸Say: I should mention, although most come here for game development, you're welcome to join us with animation projects, software applications, or any other project you have in mind.

🔸Say: As the most active game developer voice chat on Discord worldwide, [P1] is a great place to team up and bring your dream project to life.

🟧🟧 Event Process

🔸Say: Now we're going to discuss how we structure our project jam events.

🔸Say: To help us diagnose issues with how people are understanding what we're saying, if you plan to join us you may want to open up a Word document right now and jot down notes. 

🔸Say: Unlike a game jam, projects resubmit often and keep working on their original idea. 

🔸Say: We as a community will continue to support those projects we believe will have the biggest positive impact on humanity, as well as the people participating in it.

🟧🟧 It's Free & For You!

🔸Say: This program is absolutely free, and we take no stake in your projects. We seek to act as an independent arbiter to empower you to succeed without cost. 

🔸Say: For those just learning, our goal is to provide you with the benefit of a full educational experience for free. 

🔸Say: For established professionals and hobbyists our goal is to provide the ideal platform to connect with those at your level.  

🔸Say: Our goal is to provide all this free with the help of sponsors and donors!

🔸Say: This is a space where you'll mix with people who genuinely put others first. Namely, people who truly care about others and want to make a real impact in all that they do.  

🔸If no one speaks up ask one of these random questions: 

• If you've had an educational experience, how was that experience, and how could it have been better? Let's type in chat now.

🟧 Funding & The Covenant

🔸Say: You might be wondering about the financial incentive structure here. We hope to incorporate this as part of our larger community as a non-profit once we've proven the model. As a non-profit, we will primarily be funded by willing donations and sponsors.

🔸Say: The biggest cost we face isn't immediately obvious. Bringing together the right mix of people is costly and difficult. The hardest part is marketing. For this idea to work, extensive marketing is needed to attract a mix of complementary skills. The success of this program relies on those who donate and sponsors who support us.

🔸Say: The Covenant is a group of elite [P1] members, hyper-determined to get into the game industry as soon as possible, and they collaborate on handpicked quality teams to build commercial projects to get into the industry. 

🔸Say: The reason it's called The Covenant is because the people that you're joined with in your unit take an oath to each other to push until they get each other into the industry. When you join The Covenant, you get placed in a unit of allies who fight for you to get into the industry restlessly.

🔸Say: Most people spend years trying to build a game only to have very few people even find it. It took our first team at The Covenant 30 days to make a multiplayer game that was played and loved by gamers. I'll link you a video of it along with a download link in chat if you'd like to check it out. If you'd like to have a portfolio piece like that, or if you'd like to learn what it takes to build your own indie games with other highly determined people, this is a place for people that are the Navy Seals of game development and ready to get massive, awesome things done for good. 

🔸Paste this: The first game: https://youtu.be/Ab5CaqqsbZc

Download: https://siyahas.itch.io/shardrun 

Learn about The Covenant: https://form.jotform.com/232886828471975 

🔸Say:  Big thanks to The Covenant for sponsoring our open-source incubator. If you have any questions about The Covenant, this is your moment to ask. 

🔸Give them a moment to ask questions. 

🔸Say: If you choose to join us in open cooperation, you must be sure to uphold our values in all you do. 
If you're interested in being part of this, I recommend opening a fresh document to note these down. 

🔸 Action: Give them a moment to open the doc.

🔸Say: In this community, we expect participants to uphold standards that are higher than your average workplace. 

1. Gossip: If you have an issue with someone, address it with them alone. Never sit and listen to gossip, rather bring people 1 on 1 with the person they are talking about and have them hash it out. Also, don't criticize a team member's hard work publicly; instead, address issues privately to avoid undermining their credibility. 
2. Solution-oriented mindset: Instead of being emotionally invested in your ideas or needs, focus on what's best for your team. Use rational deduction to determine the best way forward, being ready to lay down and let go of your ideas. People who push their own ideas at the expense of the success of their team are a impediment to cooperation.
   
   1. Being objective involves prioritizing real data over personal opinions. Shift from a "I know everyone will love my idea for this game" mindset to "Where can we find data about people who love these sorts of games?"
3. Courage: Throughout this experience, you'll be asked to take on roles, speak up on topics, and engage with your team. Consistently deferring to others will sap the team's vibrancy and overburden the willing few. This is a space where failing is encouraged; therefore, raise your hand with every opportunity you get. Those who volunteer last benefit last. 

🔸Say: Even as we demand the highest standard of behavior, keep in mind that you are free to come and go as you wish and you can always take your projects out of this community!

🔸Say: Here at [P1], we deeply care about people and want to see them empowered. 

Life is short and we love watching people accomplish more than we ever could alone and therefore we have a deep desire to empower others. The joy of watching others succeed is more valuable to us than our own individual success. 

The Covenant is an elite group led by industry professionals (actual company CEOs who have gone through the whole process of making a game, raising funds, selling it). The Covenant connects an elite, hand-picked chosen-few from this program and others. It's a paid program for those ready to take a serious, commercial approach and it's for people with a Navy-seal-like mindset. 

🔸Say: I will leave you the link to that program in the Discord chat. 

🔸Paste: Apply here: https://form.jotform.com/232886828471975 

🔸Say: If you lack years of industry experience, demonstrating integrity and a positive attitude here will greatly increase your chances of being selected for that elite group. 

Accessibility
Express Yourself: Make a game in which the main input(s) are done through facial expression

Caption Contest: 2023 is the 30th anniversary of subtitling in games. Your game has text equivalents for both speech and important sounds.

Zen: Game has no intense visual effects or sounds, or lets players adjust intensity

Art
Tour Guide: The art of your game showcases cultural aspects of places you like.

Representation Matters: Have multiple options for the appearance of the main character, such as gender identity, race, height, age, disability, etc.

Over 9000 Hours: All of your art assets have to originate in default MS Paint, and stay as MS Paint Driven as possible in your pipeline - you may export a "Final" MS Paint asset to software that lets you export transparent backgrounds - but art should be as MS Paint centric as possible. Or use the open source version https://paint.js.org/ 

Audio
Kazoog: The music of your game must be played on the kazoo instrument.

Proximity Effect: Make all of your game music using only objects that are in close environment (for example, tapping pen on table to create a beat, etc).

Synesthesia: Use painting accessories, programs and paintings themself to make music / design sounds 

Code
Shake 'N Bake: Include the use of gyroscopes and accelerometers in your game.

Off the Beaten Track: Use an open source game engine that is not well known.

No Shortcuts: Create the game without using ready -made engines and libraries dedicated to creating games.

Cultural
Woman, life, freedom: A popular revolution is forming and growing in Iran. "Woman, life, freedom" and "man, homeland, settlement" are the main slogans of the Iranian people in this revolution. Be a supporter of the peaceful Iranian people by making creative games based on one of these slogans.

Prehispanic: Your story takes inspiration from the myths of prehispanic South & central American cultures: Aztecs, Mayans, Olmecs, anything older than 1400!

Year of the Rabbit: Make a game that has rabbits as an element in it, or showcases how your culture/locals celebrate the Year of the Rabbit, or make a game featuring cats for our Vietnamese friends who are celebrating the Year of the Cat.

Slava Ukraini: Recognize the struggle of the Ukrainian nation for freedom by using the shades of blue and yellow in your game palette 

Design
Couch Potato: Your game must implement couch local multiplayer (co-op or versus). Ideally featuring potatoes.

An Image Is Worth 1,000 Words: Make a game that has no text.

A Friend In Need: Implement a character that aids you in your goal in the game.

Meta
New Friends Along the Way: Make a game in a team where none of the members have ever collaborated with each other before. Bonus if all of you were strangers before the jam.

The Great Outdoors: At least 50% of your game was created outdoors. Include picture(s) of you or your team  jamming outdoors. How you define outdoors is up to you.

The Number 23: It’s 2023. The number 23 represents change, progress, innovation, new beginnings, revolution, and transformation. Integrate one or more of these themes into your game.

Narrative
Creature Feature: Create a game that is played through the eyes of any non-human creature.

Once upon a 404...: Create a game that focuses or centers on the disappearance of information surrounding historical events and/or stories of underrepresented communities. 

Is this the end?: Make a game with multiple endings.

🔹🥇 Today, share your dreams, whether of entering the tech industry, building a hobby project or anything else, with everyone in this meeting. Ready a timer and take no more than 4 min to talk about your dream. Talk about your short term dream "get any job in the industry" and your long term dream "build the next Need for Speed". 

🔹 Go back and say "I" in chat now. 

🔹Continue with this list once broken off into teams.

🟦🟦 Appoint a Time Keeper/Facilitator

🔹 Someone must be in charge of keeping things flowing at a reasonable pace. If you are willing to help, speak up in voice chat. If no one is speaking, its your time to take initiative and break the silence. Your job will be to make sure everyone shares no more than 4 min. 

🔹 Elect someone to be a facilitator. 

• Nominate candidates by @tagging them

• Or step up by @tagging yourself

• Congratulate those who step up 👏

• Use 👍emoji for the person you want to lead

• Don't elect the same person twice in a row. 

🟢 = The elect person's responsibility.

🟢 Say: We have exactly 45 minutes for this meeting. I will set a timer. If we finish a bit early we can take a quick break or chat longer. 

🟢 Action: Set a 45 min timer.

🔹 Pull out your phone or set a timer on another device for 4 minutes. Have it ready for your speech to last exactly 4 minutes.

🟢 Make sure everyone shares their dream from first to last in alphabetical order taking no more than 4 min each. 

🟢 Have the team celebrate each person as they do. Skip those who can't speak as we can't wait for typing and don't want to encourage it. 

🟢 Ask each team member to summarize their goal in seven words or less and paste it in chat. 

🟢 Merge similar ideas.

🟦🟦 Tally Template  

🟢 Summarize and paste five messages, each under 7 words, summarizing five different types of goals heard. Here are some examples:

• Getting a job in the game industry

• Becoming an indie dev

• Having fun

• Impacting education.

🟢 Put a 👍under each individual option:

🟢 Say: React with a 👍 emoji to the one you resonate with most. You can only vote for one.

🟢🔹 Now you need to work together to create a list of names for each goal. Start by checking who voted: 

🟢 Say: I need help making a list of who voted for each option. Everyone try to create a list, but stop once the first one is posted for an option. We need only one list for each goal. 

Here is what the ideal list looks like: 

EXPAND PORTFOLIO
John
Sally
Ed

RELEASE COMIC
Bob

BUILD INDIE STUDIO
John
Ed
Fred

🟢 Say: We got to head back to the main meeting and show these lists to the host. Let's go.

🔹 Write down a list of people who you might want to work with in the future based on your interactions today.

🔹  Head back to your original channel. The host might be helping another team, so wait patiently for their return if needed to be heard.

🟢 Say: I've been leading for a while now, and the checklist instructs me to pass the baton on to someone else. Remember, stepping up helps you gain experience in a place where failing is okay.

🟢 Give the floor to anyone who speaks up. Explain that they will be reading from "🟦🟦 Pitching Ideas" onward. 

If you are less than six people in the voice chat, then you should probably just stay together as a single team. But if you're more, then you have to break up even if you don't have perfect complementary skills, as we will do recruiting for the teams later.

🔹 Write down every different idea that comes to mind and then simplify it all down to one idea that fits with both the goals and restrictions. 

🔹 Decide which 2 ideas you are going to officially pitch. Debate kindly, being objective and letting go of ideas, as emotional attachment to ideas is dangerous. Building consensus through conversation is always superior to voting. 

🟢 Say: 🥇 Now we want to pair people opted out of pitching with those determined to go through. 

🟢 Say: Now we need to decide who's going to work on which idea. To do this, we need to assess our strengths, weaknesses, and availability.

Availability

🟢 Say: Let's start by figuring out what times we're available. We'll use a tool called Hammer Time, which translates our time zones for each other, as we're all in different time zones. Our objective is for all of us to understand the tool and to post a start and end time for each day of our availability.

🔹 Everyone should visit the following website "https://hammertime.cyou/" and work together to understand it. Namely, you should copy and paste different times and notice how it translates the time zone and talk about that.

Strengths

🟢 Say: Let's take a moment to discuss the required skills for making these projects a reality that we possess as strengths. This could be programming, art, communication, marketing, production, or any area where we feel talented.

🔹 Discuss. 

Weaknesses

🟢 Say: Now let's do the same with weaknesses. 

🔹 Discuss. 

Experience 

🟢 Say: Now let's do the same with experience. How long has everyone here been working, and at what kind of companies? Would you guys consider yourselves juniors, mid-levels, or seniors, and if so, how much professional experience do you have?

🔹 Discuss. 

🟦 Teaming Up

🟢 Say: Considering everyone's strengths, weaknesses, and skills and matching them with our ideas, let's discuss how to best split into 2 teams.

🥇🔹 Break up into teams of 3-4 people each backing 1 idea. 

🟢 Say: Let's learn together how to create channels in Discord in order to best create a space for ourselves. 

🟢 Say: Now we'll continue as individual teams. First, try the new feature by clicking on add voice channels to create your own voice and text chat in Discord. After setting it up, return here and bring your team members to your channel. Once we've split off, continue following the checklist under this header, "🟦🟦🟦 Electing a Servant Leader" starting by electing a Team Facilitator.

🟢 Say: Say "I" in chat right now if you see the "electing a servant leader" part of the checklist.

🟢 Action: Wait until everyone says "I" and help those who don't. 

🔹 Try creating a channel by clicking the add voice chat button, then return to the original channel once successful. Once each team has a working channel and everyone has split up, continue the checklist as individual teams.

🟦🟦🟦 Electing a Servant Leader

Electing a Facilitator

🔹 The first thing we need to do is elect a meeting facilitator. This person will only lead to read out the next 10 steps.

🔹 @name yourself in chat now if you want to volunteer! 

🔹 🟢 is now the facilitator's responsibility. 🔹 is still everyone's responsibility. 

🟢 Say: Let's learn together how to create channels in Discord in order to best create a space for ourselves. 

🔹 🥇 Your goal is to ensure everyone watches this video: https://youtu.be/oqmbiuAafUg

🟢 Step 1: Click the 🚀

🟢 Step 2: Choose "Watch Together"

🟢 Step 3: Put in the URL

🟢 Step 4: Have everyone click "Join Activity"

🟢 Say: All [P1] projects are created democratically without leaders dominating others.

🟢 Say: If at any point your team feels that your leader is not able to contribute enough time, you may take a vote to replace them in their role. 50% of voters must be present and agree to make such a replacement. 

🟢 Say: Generally, aim to make group decisions by building consensus rather than a majority vote. Putting personal feelings aside and being objective about what's best for the team is critical.

🟢 Say: Whoever you elect as your Servant Leader will be your long term team project manager. 

🟢 Say: You can also choose to split roles, appointing a Project Manager to facilitate teams and one person as your Product Owner who has the final say. It's up to you.

🟢 Say: Remember that all teams are democratic, and you can replace leaders or join a different team if you don't have faith in a particular leader. But whatever you do, do these things subtly, kindly, and with understanding for each other, encouraging each other as human beings toward your long-term success. 

🔹 Elect a Servant Leader and, if you like, a separate Product Owner. 

• Nominate candidates by @tagging them
• Or step up by @tagging yourself
• Congratulate those who step up 👏
• Use 👍emoji for the person you want to lead
• Don't elect the same person twice in a row. 

🟢 = The elected Project Manager's responsibility.

🟢 Say: The first thing we need to do is decide on a time when we can meet daily. Many developers encourage having no zero days on their project, so it's best if we have one hour lined up every day until the deadline (not including weekends).

🟢 Say: To decide on a time, we use a specific method. First, I'll use Hammertime to suggest a time I'm available, and everyone hits the like button if they can meet then daily. If not, they should post their own time in Hammertime. The time with the most likes wins typically.

🔹 Choose a daily meeting time. Avoid the [P1] meeting time as you should all attend that too. 

🟢 Say: Now you must decide who's going to be in charge when the team servant leader is not available. 

🔹 Decide. 

🟢 Say: Now, you need to decide who's going to be in charge of onboarding new team members, as tomorrow we're going to talk about how to grow your teams so that you have all the skills you need on your team.

🔹 Decide. 

🟢 Say: The 2nd thing we need to do is get an appropriate game pitch up. We shouldn't aim for perfection yet, as we'll have time tomorrow to iterate, but a basic pitch should be done now.

🔹 Open the game pitch guide.

🟢 Say: Let's read it together. Say "I" when you're done.

🟢 Action: Wait for everyone to say "I."

🔹 Work together to get the bare-bones submitted right away. Then assign tasks as-to who will do what before you meet again tomorrow. You should ideally have a lot of time to finish tomorrow itself before you pitch on the 3rd day. 

🟢 Step 1: Click the 🚀

🟢 Step 2: Choose "Watch Together"

🟢 Step 3: Put in the URL

🟢 Step 4: Have everyone click "Join Activity"

Come up with a role for those who get this far. 

🔸Say: We're experimenting with a new way of doing things, hoping to significantly reduce the capital necessary to build teams that create great products. If people can create games, applications, and software without the need to repay investors, along with themselves, it will give those teams much more freedom to create monetization systems that put people at the center.

🔸Say: If it works, we can have an awesome impact together on creating a more ethical games industry that puts the player at the center. 

🟦🟦🟦 Team Registration 

In the future, there will be a section here in which new people are encouraged to sign an agreement, putting all their work under the open source license and agreeing to our terms of service.

🔸Say: Think of us as an incubator mixed with an educational institution, but we don't take a stake in what you create and we don't charge $100,000 for a development degree.

🔸Say: On the educational side, we believe in learning through doing rather than traditional instructional learning.

• No projects that take longer than 30 days.

🔹 Write down a list of people who you might want to work with in the future based on your interactions.

Then begin to think about ideas. Project ideas that will help you accomplish those goals. 

You're all on one team this meeting. First, appoint someone as the meeting facilitator. 

Value of self-reliance and research before asking questions. 

🔸Say: In all you do, embody the highest level of professionalism and integrity. 

• Your word is your bond. If you commit to finishing a task by Aug 3rd, ensure it's done. 
• Communicate clearly and often. If something comes up before Aug 3rd, don't wait till Aug 2nd to let people know. Keep people constantly updated. 
• Show up on time & ready.
• Only deliver exceptional work.

orange say unfortunately when people are given infinite freedom it can sometimes lead to less productivity than in a traditional environment where everyone is obligated to do something period  we are a place for self-motivated finishers only. most people here are interested in game development and anything related to game development is so much work it's not really worth your time unless you're all in 

🔸Say: 🥇Whether you're here to break into the industry, build a hobby project, or go independent and build your own studio, our goal is to match up with people of similar interests by sharing your dreams, brainstorming project ideas that would help you accomplish those dreams, and then working together as a team to make each other's dreams a reality.

It's a new form of social organization in which cooperation and collaboration trump competition.

Today we'll be splitting up into separate teams, and learning about each other's goals, so that we can help empower each other. 

🔸 Say: We're experimenting with a new form of social education through creation, pairing you with others at your skill level to learn and grow together. You'll build amazing portfolio pieces, social good software projects, animations, videos or whatever else you choose, alongside others who share your goals, empowering you to succeed together.

🔸 Say: We will be holding a contest and giving out awards at the end for the winners. "Award-winning designer" might spruce up that old portfolio? 

🟧🟧🟧 [P1] Values

🔸 Say: Our goal is to pair you with people who'll help you reach your destination, whatever it may be. Whether you aim to change the world with a unique application, become a professional game developer, or pursue another personal goal, this system is designed to match you with others who can help you succeed.

🔸Say: We're an organization for those grateful for life, eager to learn, take action, solve problems, and focused on conflict resolution. 

🔸Say: Together, we'll cooperate, embodying the highest standard of [P1] values - namely putting others needs ahead of ourselves. We are a new form of social organization that believes by genuinely putting others' needs ahead of our own, we can build something greater than ever imagined.

🔸 Action: Ask someone random in the community what you just said are the [P1] values and explain to them that [P1] means People-1st. 

🔸Say: In this community, we have a zero-tolerance policy for three things, please create a new document and write these down now. 

🔸 Action: Give them a moment to open the doc. 

1. Gossip: If you have an issue with someone, address it with them alone privately. Public rabble rousing, wining and complaining also count. Rather, we cooperate with a solution oriended mindset. 
2. Arrogance: If you don't have years of full-time commercial experience in your field, you don't yet have experience, and you should defer to those who do and always qualify statements made on subjects you're unfamiliar with with "I'm not an expert, but..." 
3. Lazyness: Take the effort to learn as much as you can independently and avoid overly relying on others to do your work. Be grateful for the oppertunaties life presents by taking action, stepping up and serving others. Go out of your way to help others when they need it.

🔸Say: Anyone lacking humility, pushing their ideas at others' expense, or failing to uphold our integrity will be removed from the community. 

🔸Say: We're devoted to our [P1] values of putting others first, meaning the things we create together will have to be dedicated to making a positive impact on the world. 

🔸 Say: Being a pro game dev is like being a star athlete—super competitive and for the best. Most think game making requires math skills, but great communication is actually paramount in every field that requires teamwork. It puts you ahead. Today, grab opportunities presented, speak up clearly and bravely, stumble and fail freely, no one will judge. This is a place where mistakes are allowed. 

🔸 Say: It's rare for opportunity to knock in life, but when it does we all have a choice, sit on our hands or dive right in. Let's open that door wide and dive in today. Speak up, make connections, win.

🔸 Say: At [P1] Gaming, whether it's a hobby, starting a studio, or building a portfolio, we will push to level you up and turn dreams into reality. From this day forward you won't be alone in this but on your mission together. Communication is crucial here. Be empathetic, listen, give introverts a voice, be patient, but also respect everyone's time. 

🟧🟧🟧 Contest Details

🔸Say: What we're doing today is empowering you to make a pitch for a contest that we'll hold together.

Removed faithfulness: 

🔸 Event host

🔹 Everyone else

🟢 Elected team facilitator

🥇 Goal: These will help you improvise. 
This checklist is detailed, but you can reach the goals using your judgment if you think you can achieve them faster than the checklist suggests. 

🟦🟦🟦 Headers, subheaders 1, 2, 3. 

Headers are silent, don't share them. 

🔄 Conditional

🔸 Say: Everyone open the text channel connected with this voice channel. You'll find an icon when you hover over the channel name of this voice channel on the left, just above the participants list. Click that icon to open the chat if you're on desktop; if you're on mobile, hit the big chat bubble. Whenever you're in a voice chat here, all the text chat will be in the channel related to the voice channel you're in. 

🔸 Say: Type YES in chat now if you got there!

Step 1: Click the 🚀

🟢 Step 2: Choose "Watch Together"

🟢 Step 3: Put in the URL

🟢 Step 4: Have everyone click "Join Activity" 

🟢 Step 5: Say: "Click the Rocket Emoji"

🟧🟧🟧 How We Operate

🟧 Incubation

🔸Say: We sit right between an incubator and an educational institution, welcoming people of various skill sets, but our focus is on pairing people up and creating an environment where they can succeed.

🔸Say: We believe there's a lot you can learn when paired with peers on well-organized teams focused on real-world tasks. 

🟧 Impact 

🔸Say: This is the perfect spot if you're looking to create a portfolio project, a hobby project, or something that makes the world a better place.

🟧 Project Types 

🔸Say: I should mention, although most come here for game development, you're welcome to join us with animation projects, software applications, or any other project you have in mind.

🔸Say: As the most active game developer voice chat on Discord worldwide, [P1] is a great place to team up and bring your dream project to life.

🟧🟧 Event Process

🔸Say: Now we're going to discuss how we structure our project jam events.

🔸Say: To help us diagnose issues with how people are understanding what we're saying, if you plan to join us you may want to open up a Word document right now and jot down notes. 

🔸Say: Unlike a game jam, projects resubmit often and keep working on their original idea. 

🔸Say: We as a community will continue to support those projects we believe will have the biggest positive impact on humanity, as well as the people participating in it.

🟧🟧 It's Free & For You!

🔸Say: This program is absolutely free, and we take no stake in your projects. We seek to act as an independent arbiter to empower you to succeed without cost. 

🔸Say: For those just learning, our goal is to provide you with the benefit of a full educational experience for free. 

🔸Say: For established professionals and hobbyists our goal is to provide the ideal platform to connect with those at your level.  

🔸Say: Our goal is to provide all this free with the help of sponsors and donors!

🔸Say: This is a space where you'll mix with people who genuinely put others first. Namely, people who truly care about others and want to make a real impact in all that they do.  

🔸If no one speaks up ask one of these random questions: 

• If you've had an educational experience, how was that experience, and how could it have been better? Let's type in chat now.

🟧 Funding & The Covenant

🔸Say: You might be wondering about the financial incentive structure here. We hope to incorporate this as part of our larger community as a non-profit once we've proven the model. As a non-profit, we will primarily be funded by willing donations and sponsors.

🔸Say: The biggest cost we face isn't immediately obvious. Bringing together the right mix of people is costly and difficult. The hardest part is marketing. For this idea to work, extensive marketing is needed to attract a mix of complementary skills. The success of this program relies on those who donate and sponsors who support us.

🔸Say: The Covenant is a group of elite [P1] members, hyper-determined to get into the game industry as soon as possible, and they collaborate on handpicked quality teams to build commercial projects to get into the industry. 

🔸Say: The reason it's called The Covenant is because the people that you're joined with in your unit take an oath to each other to push until they get each other into the industry. When you join The Covenant, you get placed in a unit of allies who fight for you to get into the industry restlessly.

🔸Say: Most people spend years trying to build a game only to have very few people even find it. It took our first team at The Covenant 30 days to make a multiplayer game that was played and loved by gamers. I'll link you a video of it along with a download link in chat if you'd like to check it out. If you'd like to have a portfolio piece like that, or if you'd like to learn what it takes to build your own indie games with other highly determined people, this is a place for people that are the Navy Seals of game development and ready to get massive, awesome things done for good. 

🔸Paste this: The first game: https://youtu.be/Ab5CaqqsbZc

Download: https://siyahas.itch.io/shardrun 

Learn about The Covenant: https://form.jotform.com/232886828471975 

🔸Say:  Big thanks to The Covenant for sponsoring our open-source incubator. If you have any questions about The Covenant, this is your moment to ask. 

🔸Give them a moment to ask questions. 

🔸Say: If you choose to join us in open cooperation, you must be sure to uphold our values in all you do. 
If you're interested in being part of this, I recommend opening a fresh document to note these down. 

🔸 Action: Give them a moment to open the doc.

🔸Say: In this community, we expect participants to uphold standards that are higher than your average workplace. 

1. Gossip: If you have an issue with someone, address it with them alone. Never sit and listen to gossip, rather bring people 1 on 1 with the person they are talking about and have them hash it out. Also, don't criticize a team member's hard work publicly; instead, address issues privately to avoid undermining their credibility. 
2. Solution-oriented mindset: Instead of being emotionally invested in your ideas or needs, focus on what's best for your team. Use rational deduction to determine the best way forward, being ready to lay down and let go of your ideas. People who push their own ideas at the expense of the success of their team are a impediment to cooperation.
   
   1. Being objective involves prioritizing real data over personal opinions. Shift from a "I know everyone will love my idea for this game" mindset to "Where can we find data about people who love these sorts of games?"
3. Courage: Throughout this experience, you'll be asked to take on roles, speak up on topics, and engage with your team. Consistently deferring to others will sap the team's vibrancy and overburden the willing few. This is a space where failing is encouraged; therefore, raise your hand with every opportunity you get. Those who volunteer last benefit last. 

🔸Say: Even as we demand the highest standard of behavior, keep in mind that you are free to come and go as you wish and you can always take your projects out of this community!

🔸Say: Here at [P1], we deeply care about people and want to see them empowered. 

Life is short and we love watching people accomplish more than we ever could alone and therefore we have a deep desire to empower others. The joy of watching others succeed is more valuable to us than our own individual success. 

Accessibility
Express Yourself: Make a game in which the main input(s) are done through facial expression

Caption Contest: 2023 is the 30th anniversary of subtitling in games. Your game has text equivalents for both speech and important sounds.

Zen: Game has no intense visual effects or sounds, or lets players adjust intensity

Art
Tour Guide: The art of your game showcases cultural aspects of places you like.

Representation Matters: Have multiple options for the appearance of the main character, such as gender identity, race, height, age, disability, etc.

Over 9000 Hours: All of your art assets have to originate in default MS Paint, and stay as MS Paint Driven as possible in your pipeline - you may export a "Final" MS Paint asset to software that lets you export transparent backgrounds - but art should be as MS Paint centric as possible. Or use the open source version https://paint.js.org/ 

Audio
Kazoog: The music of your game must be played on the kazoo instrument.

Proximity Effect: Make all of your game music using only objects that are in close environment (for example, tapping pen on table to create a beat, etc).

Synesthesia: Use painting accessories, programs and paintings themself to make music / design sounds 

Code
Shake 'N Bake: Include the use of gyroscopes and accelerometers in your game.

Off the Beaten Track: Use an open source game engine that is not well known.

No Shortcuts: Create the game without using ready -made engines and libraries dedicated to creating games.

Cultural
Woman, life, freedom: A popular revolution is forming and growing in Iran. "Woman, life, freedom" and "man, homeland, settlement" are the main slogans of the Iranian people in this revolution. Be a supporter of the peaceful Iranian people by making creative games based on one of these slogans.

Prehispanic: Your story takes inspiration from the myths of prehispanic South & central American cultures: Aztecs, Mayans, Olmecs, anything older than 1400!

Year of the Rabbit: Make a game that has rabbits as an element in it, or showcases how your culture/locals celebrate the Year of the Rabbit, or make a game featuring cats for our Vietnamese friends who are celebrating the Year of the Cat.

Slava Ukraini: Recognize the struggle of the Ukrainian nation for freedom by using the shades of blue and yellow in your game palette 

Design
Couch Potato: Your game must implement couch local multiplayer (co-op or versus). Ideally featuring potatoes.

An Image Is Worth 1,000 Words: Make a game that has no text.

A Friend In Need: Implement a character that aids you in your goal in the game.

Meta
New Friends Along the Way: Make a game in a team where none of the members have ever collaborated with each other before. Bonus if all of you were strangers before the jam.

The Great Outdoors: At least 50% of your game was created outdoors. Include picture(s) of you or your team  jamming outdoors. How you define outdoors is up to you.

The Number 23: It’s 2023. The number 23 represents change, progress, innovation, new beginnings, revolution, and transformation. Integrate one or more of these themes into your game.

Narrative
Creature Feature: Create a game that is played through the eyes of any non-human creature.

Once upon a 404...: Create a game that focuses or centers on the disappearance of information surrounding historical events and/or stories of underrepresented communities. 

Is this the end?: Make a game with multiple endings.

🔹🥇 Today, share your dreams, whether of entering the tech industry, building a hobby project or anything else, with everyone in this meeting. Ready a timer and take no more than 4 min to talk about your dream. Talk about your short term dream "get any job in the industry" and your long term dream "build the next Need for Speed". 

🔹 Go back and say "I" in chat now. 

🔹Continue with this list once broken off into teams.

🟦🟦 Appoint a Time Keeper/Facilitator

🔹 Someone must be in charge of keeping things flowing at a reasonable pace. If you are willing to help, speak up in voice chat. If no one is speaking, its your time to take initiative and break the silence. Your job will be to make sure everyone shares no more than 4 min. 

🔹 Elect someone to be a facilitator. 

• Nominate candidates by @tagging them

• Or step up by @tagging yourself

• Congratulate those who step up 👏

• Use 👍emoji for the person you want to lead

• Don't elect the same person twice in a row. 

🟢 = The elect person's responsibility.

🟢 Say: We have exactly 45 minutes for this meeting. I will set a timer. If we finish a bit early we can take a quick break or chat longer. 

🟢 Action: Set a 45 min timer.

🔹 Pull out your phone or set a timer on another device for 4 minutes. Have it ready for your speech to last exactly 4 minutes.

🟢 Make sure everyone shares their dream from first to last in alphabetical order taking no more than 4 min each. 

🟢 Have the team celebrate each person as they do. Skip those who can't speak as we can't wait for typing and don't want to encourage it. 

🟢 Ask each team member to summarize their goal in seven words or less and paste it in chat. 

🟢 Merge similar ideas.

🟦🟦 Tally Template  

🟢 Summarize and paste five messages, each under 7 words, summarizing five different types of goals heard. Here are some examples:

• Getting a job in the game industry

• Becoming an indie dev

• Having fun

• Impacting education.

🟢 Put a 👍under each individual option:

🟢 Say: React with a 👍 emoji to the one you resonate with most. You can only vote for one.

🟢🔹 Now you need to work together to create a list of names for each goal. Start by checking who voted: 

🟢 Say: I need help making a list of who voted for each option. Everyone try to create a list, but stop once the first one is posted for an option. We need only one list for each goal. 

Here is what the ideal list looks like: 

EXPAND PORTFOLIO
John
Sally
Ed

RELEASE COMIC
Bob

BUILD INDIE STUDIO
John
Ed
Fred

🟢 Say: We got to head back to the main meeting and show these lists to the host. Let's go.

🔹 Write down a list of people who you might want to work with in the future based on your interactions today.

🔹  Head back to your original channel. The host might be helping another team, so wait patiently for their return if needed to be heard.

🟢 Say: I've been leading for a while now, and the checklist instructs me to pass the baton on to someone else. Remember, stepping up helps you gain experience in a place where failing is okay.

🟢 Give the floor to anyone who speaks up. Explain that they will be reading from "🟦🟦 Pitching Ideas" onward. 

If you are less than six people in the voice chat, then you should probably just stay together as a single team. But if you're more, then you have to break up even if you don't have perfect complementary skills, as we will do recruiting for the teams later.

🔹 Write down every different idea that comes to mind and then simplify it all down to one idea that fits with both the goals and restrictions. 

🔹 Decide which 2 ideas you are going to officially pitch. Debate kindly, being objective and letting go of ideas, as emotional attachment to ideas is dangerous. Building consensus through conversation is always superior to voting. 

🟢 Say: 🥇 Now we want to pair people opted out of pitching with those determined to go through. 

🟢 Say: Now we need to decide who's going to work on which idea. To do this, we need to assess our strengths, weaknesses, and availability.

Availability

🟢 Say: Let's start by figuring out what times we're available. We'll use a tool called Hammer Time, which translates our time zones for each other, as we're all in different time zones. Our objective is for all of us to understand the tool and to post a start and end time for each day of our availability.

🔹 Everyone should visit the following website "https://hammertime.cyou/" and work together to understand it. Namely, you should copy and paste different times and notice how it translates the time zone and talk about that.

Strengths

🟢 Say: Let's take a moment to discuss the required skills for making these projects a reality that we possess as strengths. This could be programming, art, communication, marketing, production, or any area where we feel talented.

🔹 Discuss. 

Weaknesses

🟢 Say: Now let's do the same with weaknesses. 

🔹 Discuss. 

Experience 

🟢 Say: Now let's do the same with experience. How long has everyone here been working, and at what kind of companies? Would you guys consider yourselves juniors, mid-levels, or seniors, and if so, how much professional experience do you have?

🔹 Discuss. 

🟦 Teaming Up

🟢 Say: Considering everyone's strengths, weaknesses, and skills and matching them with our ideas, let's discuss how to best split into 2 teams.

🥇🔹 Break up into teams of 3-4 people each backing 1 idea. 

🟢 Say: Let's learn together how to create channels in Discord in order to best create a space for ourselves. 

🟢 Say: Now we'll continue as individual teams. First, try the new feature by clicking on add voice channels to create your own voice and text chat in Discord. After setting it up, return here and bring your team members to your channel. Once we've split off, continue following the checklist under this header, "🟦🟦🟦 Electing a Servant Leader" starting by electing a Team Facilitator.

🟢 Say: Say "I" in chat right now if you see the "electing a servant leader" part of the checklist.

🟢 Action: Wait until everyone says "I" and help those who don't. 

🔹 Try creating a channel by clicking the add voice chat button, then return to the original channel once successful. Once each team has a working channel and everyone has split up, continue the checklist as individual teams.

🟦🟦🟦 Electing a Servant Leader

Electing a Facilitator

🔹 The first thing we need to do is elect a meeting facilitator. This person will only lead to read out the next 10 steps.

🔹 @name yourself in chat now if you want to volunteer! 

🔹 🟢 is now the facilitator's responsibility. 🔹 is still everyone's responsibility. 

🟢 Say: Let's learn together how to create channels in Discord in order to best create a space for ourselves. 

🔹 🥇 Your goal is to ensure everyone watches this video: https://youtu.be/oqmbiuAafUg

🟢 Step 1: Click the 🚀

🟢 Step 2: Choose "Watch Together"

🟢 Step 3: Put in the URL

🟢 Step 4: Have everyone click "Join Activity"

🟢 Say: All [P1] projects are created democratically without leaders dominating others.

🟢 Say: If at any point your team feels that your leader is not able to contribute enough time, you may take a vote to replace them in their role. 50% of voters must be present and agree to make such a replacement. 

🟢 Say: Generally, aim to make group decisions by building consensus rather than a majority vote. Putting personal feelings aside and being objective about what's best for the team is critical.

🟢 Say: Whoever you elect as your Servant Leader will be your long term team project manager. 

🟢 Say: You can also choose to split roles, appointing a Project Manager to facilitate teams and one person as your Product Owner who has the final say. It's up to you.

🟢 Say: Remember that all teams are democratic, and you can replace leaders or join a different team if you don't have faith in a particular leader. But whatever you do, do these things subtly, kindly, and with understanding for each other, encouraging each other as human beings toward your long-term success. 

🔹 Elect a Servant Leader and, if you like, a separate Product Owner. 

• Nominate candidates by @tagging them
• Or step up by @tagging yourself
• Congratulate those who step up 👏
• Use 👍emoji for the person you want to lead
• Don't elect the same person twice in a row. 

🟢 = The elected Project Manager's responsibility.

🟢 Say: The first thing we need to do is decide on a time when we can meet daily. Many developers encourage having no zero days on their project, so it's best if we have one hour lined up every day until the deadline (not including weekends).

🟢 Say: To decide on a time, we use a specific method. First, I'll use Hammertime to suggest a time I'm available, and everyone hits the like button if they can meet then daily. If not, they should post their own time in Hammertime. The time with the most likes wins typically.

🔹 Choose a daily meeting time. Avoid the [P1] meeting time as you should all attend that too. 

🟢 Say: Now you must decide who's going to be in charge when the team servant leader is not available. 

🔹 Decide. 

🟢 Say: Now, you need to decide who's going to be in charge of onboarding new team members, as tomorrow we're going to talk about how to grow your teams so that you have all the skills you need on your team.

🔹 Decide. 

🟢 Say: The 2nd thing we need to do is get an appropriate game pitch up. We shouldn't aim for perfection yet, as we'll have time tomorrow to iterate, but a basic pitch should be done now.

🔹 Open the game pitch guide.

🟢 Say: Let's read it together. Say "I" when you're done.

🟢 Action: Wait for everyone to say "I."

🔹 Work together to get the bare-bones submitted right away. Then assign tasks as-to who will do what before you meet again tomorrow. You should ideally have a lot of time to finish tomorrow itself before you pitch on the 3rd day. 

🟢 Step 1: Click the 🚀

🟢 Step 2: Choose "Watch Together"

🟢 Step 3: Put in the URL

🟢 Step 4: Have everyone click "Join Activity"

Come up with a role for those who get this far. 

🔸Say: We're experimenting with a new way of doing things, hoping to significantly reduce the capital necessary to build teams that create great products. If people can create games, applications, and software without the need to repay investors, along with themselves, it will give those teams much more freedom to create monetization systems that put people at the center.

🔸Say: If it works, we can have an awesome impact together on creating a more ethical games industry that puts the player at the center. 

🟦🟦🟦 Team Registration 

In the future, there will be a section here in which new people are encouraged to sign an agreement, putting all their work under the open source license and agreeing to our terms of service.

🔸Say: Think of us as an incubator mixed with an educational institution, but we don't take a stake in what you create and we don't charge $100,000 for a development degree.

🔸Say: On the educational side, we believe in learning through doing rather than traditional instructional learning.

• No projects that take longer than 30 days.

🔹 Write down a list of people who you might want to work with in the future based on your interactions.

Then begin to think about ideas. Project ideas that will help you accomplish those goals. 

You're all on one team this meeting. First, appoint someone as the meeting facilitator. 

Value of self-reliance and research before asking questions. 

🔸Say: In all you do, embody the highest level of professionalism and integrity. 

• Your word is your bond. If you commit to finishing a task by Aug 3rd, ensure it's done. 
• Communicate clearly and often. If something comes up before Aug 3rd, don't wait till Aug 2nd to let people know. Keep people constantly updated. 
• Show up on time & ready.
• Only deliver exceptional work.

orange say unfortunately when people are given infinite freedom it can sometimes lead to less productivity than in a traditional environment where everyone is obligated to do something period  we are a place for self-motivated finishers only. most people here are interested in game development and anything related to game development is so much work it's not really worth your time unless you're all in 

🔸Say: 🥇Whether you're here to break into the industry, build a hobby project, or go independent and build your own studio, our goal is to match up with people of similar interests by sharing your dreams, brainstorming project ideas that would help you accomplish those dreams, and then working together as a team to make each other's dreams a reality.

It's a new form of social organization in which cooperation and collaboration trump competition.

Today we'll be splitting up into separate teams, and learning about each other's goals, so that we can help empower each other. 

🔸 Say: We're experimenting with a new form of social education through creation, pairing you with others at your skill level to learn and grow together. You'll build amazing portfolio pieces, social good software projects, animations, videos or whatever else you choose, alongside others who share your goals, empowering you to succeed together.

🔸 Say: We will be holding a contest and giving out awards at the end for the winners. "Award-winning designer" might spruce up that old portfolio? 

🟧🟧🟧 [P1] Values

🔸 Say: Our goal is to pair you with people who'll help you reach your destination, whatever it may be. Whether you aim to change the world with a unique application, become a professional game developer, or pursue another personal goal, this system is designed to match you with others who can help you succeed.

🔸Say: We're an organization for those grateful for life, eager to learn, take action, solve problems, and focused on conflict resolution. 

🔸Say: Together, we'll cooperate, embodying the highest standard of [P1] values - namely putting others needs ahead of ourselves. We are a new form of social organization that believes by genuinely putting others' needs ahead of our own, we can build something greater than ever imagined.

🔸 Action: Ask someone random in the community what you just said are the [P1] values and explain to them that [P1] means People-1st. 

🔸Say: In this community, we have a zero-tolerance policy for three things, please create a new document and write these down now. 

🔸 Action: Give them a moment to open the doc. 

1. Gossip: If you have an issue with someone, address it with them alone privately. Public rabble rousing, wining and complaining also count. Rather, we cooperate with a solution oriended mindset. 
2. Arrogance: If you don't have years of full-time commercial experience in your field, you don't yet have experience, and you should defer to those who do and always qualify statements made on subjects you're unfamiliar with with "I'm not an expert, but..." 
3. Lazyness: Take the effort to learn as much as you can independently and avoid overly relying on others to do your work. Be grateful for the oppertunaties life presents by taking action, stepping up and serving others. Go out of your way to help others when they need it.

🔸Say: Anyone lacking humility, pushing their ideas at others' expense, or failing to uphold our integrity will be removed from the community. 

🔸Say: We're devoted to our [P1] values of putting others first, meaning the things we create together will have to be dedicated to making a positive impact on the world. 

🔸 Say: Being a pro game dev is like being a star athlete—super competitive and for the best. Most think game making requires math skills, but great communication is actually paramount in every field that requires teamwork. It puts you ahead. Today, grab opportunities presented, speak up clearly and bravely, stumble and fail freely, no one will judge. This is a place where mistakes are allowed. 

🔸 Say: It's rare for opportunity to knock in life, but when it does we all have a choice, sit on our hands or dive right in. Let's open that door wide and dive in today. Speak up, make connections, win.

🔸 Say: At [P1] Gaming, whether it's a hobby, starting a studio, or building a portfolio, we will push to level you up and turn dreams into reality. From this day forward you won't be alone in this but on your mission together. Communication is crucial here. Be empathetic, listen, give introverts a voice, be patient, but also respect everyone's time. 

🟧🟧🟧 Contest Details

🔸Say: What we're doing today is empowering you to make a pitch for a contest that we'll hold together.

Removed faithfulness: