Synergy Games Jam 2026

What if your game could react to the real world?

Build a game, or add a mechanic to an existing one, that reacts to the player's real-world status through Synergy Login.

Real world → Synergy Login → the game reacts → the player feels the consequence or the benefit → the player may change what they do in the real world → the game reacts again.

How Synergy Login works

Synergy Login tells your game the Synergy Status of the player's device: how green the electricity powering it is, verified by ThingsApp. The player chooses to share it.

• Active (green): the device runs on renewable-backed electricity. Suggested: the strongest Synergy benefits.
• Limited (amber): its emissions stay within a carbon budget, but the electricity is not verified as renewable. Suggested: limited Synergy benefits.
• Paused (red): neither applies. Suggested: Synergy benefits paused.

You decide what each state does: boosts, abilities, resources, progression, missions, environments, characters, multiplayer mechanics, narrative, rewards or feature access. Finding out which mechanics are fun is the point.

Schedule

• Kickoff and Build Day, Friday 9 October: an introduction to Synergy OS and Synergy Login, how the integration works, and teams start building.
• Public play, 9 to 30 October: games are published for players to test, rate and give feedback.
• Final Showcase and Judging, Friday 30 October: final builds, presentations, judging and the winners.

Prizes

€3,000 in prizes in total, shared between award categories. A winner can take all of it or a part of it, depending on the category criteria their game meets.

The categories and their criteria are still to be announced.

Who should join

Game developers, indie developers and studios, students, programmers, game designers, creative technologists, AI and vibe-coding developers, startups, and anyone who wants to experiment with gameplay.

Players are welcome too: during public play you can test the games, rate them and give feedback.