Summer Game Jam 2025 was a seven-day in-house development sprint held in the Digital Futures Lab, delivered in partnership with SEGA Europe with additional prizes provided by MSI. Teams collaborated intensively to interpret the theme of “Time”, designing and building original playable games across the week-long event starting on Friday 23rd May 2025.
Throughout the jam, teams explored creative mechanics, narrative ideas, and technical solutions inspired by the theme, while pushing their projects toward a polished playable experience. As with previous jams, teams were encouraged to think about replayability and player engagement through features such as scoring systems, progression loops, and inventive gameplay twists.
Although the event was eventually remembered as the "side scrolling platformer" game jam, it is remembered in UWL Games history as being amongst the greatest.
Step into the role of Eris, a daring trickster who has stolen the sacred hourglass from Chronos, the god of time. This polished side-scrolling platformer centres around a clever rewind mechanic that allows players to snap back to the position of their temporal ghost, turning mistakes into opportunities and enabling creative problem solving through tight level design.
In Hey Boss!, you play as a reluctant mobster sent back to the roaring 1920s by a Mafia boss meddling with forces he barely understands. Tasked with carrying out missions to prove your worth, you navigate side-scrolling levels filled with hazards, enemies, and narrative flavour inspired by classic gangster stories - building toward a climactic pistol showdown in a lively speakeasy.
Grimloop is an atmospheric platformer set in a sparse, abstract fantasy world where time itself is your greatest constraint. Players move through precise platforming challenges in short bursts, activating clocks that act as checkpoints while also defining the game’s core loop.
Cyberwatch delivers fast, satisfying combat through a tightly tuned player controller and a versatile moveset. Set within a compact arena, players battle waves of enemies in a side-scrolling beat ’em up format that emphasises timing, positioning, and combo flow.
Echo Orb blends shooting mechanics with physics-based puzzle design in a mysterious, ghostly setting. Players utilise a time-based apparition to interact with the environment, solving challenges involving pressure plates and spatial timing.
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