#game jam

[lavendeerstudios]

009 LIVES OUT NOW!

We made a little game for the Velox Formido game jam! It's finally out now on Itch.io! Go check it out~ (We made this game in two days... and then slept for two days.)

How far would you go to save a loved one?

#visual novel #renpy game #otome game #indie game #vn #vndev #renpy visual novel #interactive fiction #cyberpunk #velox formido #game jam #indie dev #game dev #indiegamedev #lavendeerstudios

[lapinlunaire-games]

It's that time of year again: the Anti-Romance Jam is back!

From 20 May 2024 to 22 July 2024, the 2024 Anti-Romance Jam will be open for submissions exploring the concept of anti-romance: what is it? how does it work? where's the line between anti-romance and romance?

You decide! This extra-long jam is meant to explore all the messy spaces and sensations that exist around and against romance, whatever that means to you.

Sign up on itch! | Discord | #AntiRomance2024

More info under the cut; check the itch page for full details and cool stuff like optional prompts and jam palettes!

Solo- and team-created submissions allowed

All kinds of games, art, and other media are encouraged

NSFW content allowed with appropriate content warnings included

Previously published work? Revisiting an old flame of a project is encouraged, so long as something new is involved. This could include translations, substantial edits or expansions, adaptations, etc. If you aren't sure if your idea would be eligible, feel free to ask here or on the discord!

Up to 3 entries per creator

All submissions must be related to anti-romance in some way; spam entries and hateful content will be removed

Submissions must not contain AI-generated content of any kind

#antiromance2024 #anti-romance jam #interactive fiction #game jam #indie game dev #itch.io #game development #indie games #twine games #gamedev

[knickknackpj]

Are you tired of making good visual novels? Don't you just want to go ape shitt?

@omegassecretsideblog, @catskets , and I are hosting the "Worst VN Ever Created" Challenge Jam! Release the need of making something good and join us in making bad VNs!

Inspired by the original jams run in Lemma Soft Forums in 2012 and 2013! The idea is to get people making stuff without the pressure of making something polished, so this is a great opportunity to learn a new engine and make something weird!

BTW, there will be a part two of this jam! The "Fix The Worst Visual Novel" Jam will take entries donated by the devs from the Worst VN Jam to improve those VNs! Be on the lookout for that!

#visual novels #indie visual novel #indie dev #indie games #game jam #worstvn #worstvn2024

[prokopetz]

Tumblr 200-Word RPGs 2023

Last November, we did an informal game jam for folks who wanted to write something for Writing Month, but would prefer to write fewer than fifty thousand words of it. You can find the complete list of participants for that event in this post here. There's also an off-Tumblr archive of entries whose authors gave permission for them to be preserved here, if any of those links turn out to be broken.

Last year's collaboration went over well enough that I thought we might dust it off again this year. To be clear, this is just for fun – it's not a curated jam, and nobody's judging winners or handing out prizes..

If you'd like to throw your hat in, just follow these steps:

Step 1: If you're unfamiliar with 200-word RPGs, read a bunch of last year's entries (linked above) or browse the 200 Word RPG Challege archives at https://200wordrpg.github.io/ to get your brain-meats properly configured.

Step 2: Write your own 200-word RPG. If you're not sure whether you have 200 words or not (and with RPGs it can genuinely be difficult to tell!), you can use the word counter at https://200wordrpg.github.io/wordcount to check.

Step 3: Reblog this post and append your 200-word RPG.

Step 4 (optional): Please indicate in your post whether you're okay with having your 200-word RPG archived off-site for posterity – if you don't say anything one way or the other, I'll assume the answer is "no".

(As before, as a courtesy to anyone who's creeping the notes, please restrict non-200-word-RPG commentary to replies and tags until November 2023 is over – let's make the actual games easy to find!)

#gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #tumblr 200 word rpgs 2023 #game design #game jam #200 word rpgs

[regal-bones]

We made a silly game in a 6 day long game jam about gay starfighter pilots (who are dogs) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

it would mean the world to us if you checked it out! !! 🐕✨🚀 click here to play (for free!)

#Game #Game dev #pride fighters #Game jam #Art #game design #indie game #concept art #indie animation #art #artwork #animation #animated #animators on tumblr #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr #digital illustration #illustration #digital painting #digital art #digital #fantasy #fantasy art #fantasy writing #dnd #pretty #aesthetic #gif #gif art #looping gif

[monkeyslunch]

Dumb Small Dog One page RPG jam.

A simple one-page RPG that helps you embody the role dumb small dogs have in our society. It may require skill and practice.​

Built on the Essence system​

#ttrpg community #small dogs #essence system #one page #ttrpgs #bark #spencer goldade #monkeyslunch #ttrpg design #game jam #indie games

[kithj]

Announcing the Queer Vampire IF Jam!

This is a month-long game jam that will run from January 10 - February 20th. The goal of this jam is to create more interactive fiction games about queer vampires, focusing both on queer relationships and queer experiences as told through a vampiric narrative.

JAM RULES:

Your project must focus on queer characters and vampires. Queer relationships, romantic or platonic, as well as other queer experiences, whether gay, lesbian, bisexual, ace, aro, trans and nonbinary - this is an inclusive jam. 

You can write from a human or vampire perspective (or both!)

This jam will accept any medium, so long as the work is an Interactive Fiction.

This jam will accept adult content as well as games covering heavy & uncomfortable topics, but please be sure to properly list trigger warnings either in-game or on the game page.

Entries that promote any kind of bigotry will not be accepted.

Games should not include any AI generated content.

You can submit as many entries as you'd like.

You are allowed to start working on your project early! That's why I'm announcing it now. This jam is unranked and it's not a contest, this is just for fun.

Submissions open midnight, January 10th EST. They'll close February 20th at 11:59pm EST.

Join the jam here!

🩸​Get dark and bloody and nasty.​🩸​

hosted by me, @nyehilismwriting, @attollogame

#interactive fiction #games #itch.io #game jam #umm idk. how to tag this #vampjamp #is the official jam hashtag tho none of us even use twitter but. vampjamp!

[starbirbz]

My friends and I entered this year's GMTK GameJam, I worked on the Pixel Art and Animations for this game. Your support is very appreciated! You can play it for free here: https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2023/rate/2157336

#starbirbz #kekitopu #Rolly Rodent #Pixel art #Hamster #indie dev #game jam

[otomedev]

Otome Jam 2024 jam page is finally up and along with it, we are continuing last year's Josei Jam!

Join now to be notified when it starts and go ahead and prepare yourself for the start OtoMay (and June)! As always please be sure to read the rules as we have made some updates again and this time provided more international support by adding translations (currently French, with German coming up) for Otome Jam! Even if your game is not in English, you can submit it to both jams, but as a disclaimer, the two hosts mainly speak English. If you would to submit a translation for either jam, feel free to contact us on Discord!

Likewise, we are still updating and getting some things ready, for any more questions our Discord server is available!

Logo & Thumbnail Art by @akuakourin

Banner Art by Everium

#game jam #otomejam #otome dev #indie dev #indie otome #visual novel #otomedev #OtomeJam2024 #JoseiJam #joseidev

[zephyo]

STOP BURYING ME ALIVE, BEAUTIFUL🩸

Made for Ludum Dare 54.

You're between a rock, a hard place, and a lot of rats.

Play it here: https://zephyo.itch.io/stop-burying-me-alive-beautiful

#ludum dare 54 #ld54 #game jam #game dev #indie dev #visual novel #indie otome #lgbt #wlw

[englishotomegames]

NaNoRenO 2024 has come to a close, and there were a total of 152 entries submitted! Congrats everyone!

There were several otome / adjacent submissions; the ones I could find are listed below in alphabetical order. If you know of more / see your game isn’t here, please feel free to let me know.

Accidental Necromancy (Demo)

Chromatic Agape

Cursed with a Dead Mom Hair (Demo)

Going Live!

her blue orbs.

In:Evanescence

M3NTICID3: Control Group

MindMindMind

Monochrome Pixels

Oh No! I have a cosplay fanclub (Demo)

Rendez-Doug

Ruby Dreams: Immortal Promise

The Inbetween

The Ouroboros Express

The Scarlette Mage (Demo)

This Date is TOAST(r)

Wake Me Up If You Need Me

Walking for Your Heart

#otome game #otome games #otoge #visual novel #nanoreno #nanoreno 2024 #game jam

[ethersic]

PLAY HERE

17+ Through Death We Become — An interactive fiction story about grief. [Submission to Queer Vampire Jam — Other Entries]

Years ago, your life was taken from you, stolen by the teeth of a vampire. For a long time, anger at losing all you were had festered inside, building and boiling, threatening to pour out, but you had maintained it.

Until you heard that the vampire who turned you had shown up in some state, and it all came rushing forth.

Not wanting to lose your chance at revenge, you hunt him down, but before you get to him, you wind up in a random town with a stranger who wants to help you.

7.5k words

1 human (non-binary) love interest

Lots of angst

#interactive fiction #game jam #vampjamp #through death we become #twine #twine game #twine if #itch.io #if wip #my game

[mollyyancey]

Long time no see, and happy new year

I made all the visuals for this touhou bird girl dating sim-type thing in 72 hours for the touhou game jam. If you have time, please give it a look 🙇‍♀️

Obligatory flavorful preview screenshots

#touhou #2024 #mystia lorelei #hatate himekaidou #tokiko #utsuho reiuji #kutaka niwatari #is also in it but not much #game jam #and yes all visuals means the background photos too

[beeflover1]

METAL GEAR SOLID : PETTABLE OPS

When Colonel Campbell goes on vacation to the Bahamas for 2 Weeks, YOU [Solid Snake] has been tasked with petsitting his beloved pet Yipperz. Are you up for the mission?

Made for a week long Game Jam, feat. professional voice acting [citation needed], and crazy petsitting action

Developed by Spicy_Sav & Geckorodeo

OUT NOW ON ITCH!

#mgs #metal gear solid #fangame #game development #game jam #solid snake #savvyscribbles #mgs fangame

[prokopetz]

A dumb game jam idea I actually 100% intend to run someday but would require way too much prep work for me to take on right now is setting up a web page that procedurally generates a blank character sheet for a nonexistent game every time you load it up, and you create your entry by working backwards to arrive at the game whatever you got could be the character sheet for. Full chaos – click the button and get a character sheet where the middle is a big compass rose with each cardinal point bearing a pictograph of a different breed of dog and there's three separate write-in slots in different parts of the sheet all labelled "Gender:" and you have to figure out what to do with that.

#gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #game design #game jam

[regal-bones]

“Across the Universe, a thick blanket of HATE has fallen. Who will save us? Who will bring back COLOUR to the Universe?”

🏳️‍⚧️ PRIDE FIGHTERS 🏳️‍🌈 is now out! We made this game over 6 days and I am SO proud of our team - you can play it for FREE at this link!

Pride Fighters is a short but sweet shoot em up, blast through waves of enemies with six unique starships!

🏳️‍🌈 Play as a cast of six delightfully LGBT Characters! 🏳️‍🌈 💖 Talk to characters, get to know your friends! 💖 💀 Fight back the HATE that threatens to extinguish the love of the universe! 💀

Only you can save the Universe! 🐶✨🚀

#Game #Game dev #pride fighters #Game jam #Art #game design #indie game #concept art #indie animation #art #artwork #animation #animated #animators on tumblr #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr #digital illustration #illustration #digital painting #digital art #digital #fantasy #fantasy art #fantasy writing #dnd #pretty #aesthetic #gif #gif art #looping gif