PSA: Always question a prize pool for a jam.

I found a jam offering thousands of dollars in prize money yet retains the rights to give no prize money. They obfuscated their rules by giving only a condensed version on their webpage, you need to follow a separate link. Those rules aim to claim all rights to your submission, mentioned where trials would be held(local to them), and requires for years that you come to them anytime you want to make a decision on your game.

They then amended the rules by requiring a short video detailing what's in your game. Mentioning that the video is mandatory and will seriously impact judging. The judges essentially want a tiktok reel of all these games instead of having to play them.

I believe they're just farming free labor for IP and it's working. Countless people are participating.

This seems blatantly scummy, inspired by greed, and devoid of passion for the industry. So the higher the prize pool, the more critical you should be of the event because companies think we're free dumb labor.