The Forge the Future Game Jam brought our global developer community together for six inspiring weeks of creativity, collaboration, and innovation. Now it’s time to celebrate the incredible projects that emerged. With support from HTC VIVERSE, this was our biggest prize pool yet, including a unique opportunity to join the VIVERSE Creator Program. 

Throughout the challenge, we hosted a full slate of community programming to support and inspire participants, from our Info + Ideation kickoff session to live workshops, 1:1 tech support hours, and the debut of our powerful new AI Asset Lab tool. Developers arrived with bold ideas, creative mechanics, and meaningful storytelling, creating projects that spanned genres, causes, and continents.

Judged on gameplay depth, creativity, technical execution, and visual polish, today we’re thrilled to unveil the winners of the Forge the Future Game Jam. Let’s dive in!

🥇 First Place

ApoCARlypse by Emilio Andres Martinez Romero

Drive through the desert, blast zombies and demons, and survive endless waves with outrageous weapons in this apocalyptic arcade ride! Built entirely in 8th Wall Studio, ApoCARlypse combines instantiation, pull mechanics, particles, and slick UI for a chaotic, fast-paced WebAR experience that had our judges coming back again and again.

🥈 Second Place

Meso Mountain by Irina Fawcett & Noah Ilbery

Uh-oh—you’ve lost all your eggs! In this charming 3D platformer, you’ll explore a lush Mesozoic island, solve environmental puzzles, and chat with NPCs to recover your nest. With colorful art, solid mechanics, and lighthearted worldbuilding, Meso Mountain shows off the playful side of WebXR.

🥉Third Place

Stunt Trucks by Kum Peng Han

A joyful fusion of childhood toy cars, Angry Birds physics, and bowling night vibes. Players launch pullback trucks across obstacle-filled levels to rack up points and unlock secret vehicles. Built using 8th Wall Studio’s new prefab system, this project showcases modular design and level replayability done right.

🎮 Most Addictive Game Winners

Hyperloop by Sandeep Rathod

An endless runner… with a twist. Instead of controlling the spaceship, you control the obstacles—changing the flow, speed, and shape of the challenge in real time. A clever remix of a classic genre with elegant UI and buttery-smooth performance.

Salty Slime by Herman Gabriel Ptacnik

This stylish platformer stands out for its tight movement mechanics—bounce, wall jump, and climb your way through vibrant 3D levels. Created by two college students, it’s a great example of how a simple idea and good design can go a long way.

✨ Most Polished Game Winners

Mamak Hauntu by Amierullah Iqram bin Ismail

You’re a ghost-serving shaman-chef in this typing-based speed game with personality to spare. Type ingredients in real time, earn combos, dodge curses, and serve picky spectral customers. With unique character logic, visual polish, and dynamic challenge curves, Mamak Hauntu is hauntingly good.

Cockroach Slayer X by MUHAMMAD DEAN FITRAH

A 3D horror-inspired mini-game set in a grimy subway restroom—where your only weapon is a balled-up piece of toilet paper. Featuring a stylized art style, first-person projectile physics, swarm AI enemies, and a disgustingly delightful boss fight, this desktop-optimized experience blends comedy, chaos, and creative execution. Built for the web but designed to scale across platforms.

🎓 Best Student Project Winners

Dash Hunt (AR) by Aniket Jagdish Apraj

Collect coins, unlock a car and a house, and explore a retro-futurist city with your robot avatar in this mobile WebAR experience. Built with A-Frame and Ammo.js, Dash Hunt combines spatial gameplay with playful visual storytelling and an intuitive control scheme.

Quantum One by Keagan Valentine & Frank Pasztor

A surreal, puzzle-driven prototype that uses an "out-of-body" perspective mechanic to gather clues and solve spatial mysteries. While still in development, this project impressed with its conceptual depth and strong AR thinking around movement and perspective.

🎖 Honorable Mentions

• Wobble Clash – Tactical AR battler where Wobblers fight turn-based duels on real-world terrain. Level up, evolve, and outsmart your enemies!
• Reel Tension – Cast your line by tapping the pond, keep your cool during the reeling minigame, and land wacky fish like the Banana Bream and Spicy Snapper
• OCHØ Protocol – A wave-based third-person shooter set in a decaying city block.
• AI Bot - In a future where AI replaced humans, hope seems lost. But AI Bot, a conservation robot, has the mission to save humankind
  

Congratulations to all our winners and community contributors!  Join the community on Discord and start creating with 8th Wall Studio.

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