I’m running my first jam, and I think it’s one that could be of interest to IF authors in particular! Or at least I think the constraint I have in mind is probably going to be less of a hurdle for people who are primarily working with text. This video should explain some of the background:
Long story short, I’ve just released my first ever asset pack (temporarily free through this itch sale - do claim a copy while you can!), and I’m running the Premium Crayon and Kazoo Jam to encourage people to get stuck in and see what they can make with what I’ve provided! The catch is that entries should only use the contents of that asset pack, as far as possible.
I expect that entries will typically be small. It could be a nice opportunity to try making use of images and sound in Twine for anyone who doesn’t ordinarily. Or maybe someone who’s already well experienced with that sort of thing could manage something particularly novel with these assets ready to go? All in all, I just thought it would be worth sharing here.
This is fantastic! How did you do the black border around “GAME OVER”? It doesn’t look like anything directly from the assets but it fits in very nicely.
Haha! This is amazing - even building on an existing template, I’m astounded you managed to get it together so quickly. The colour really makes a difference: it’s super weird playing this and not quite spotting where various things have come from straight away. Is there any chance you could bung it in as an entry on itch for judging?
Ehn, I’m sorry, I’m not an itch user, and the brief bit of time I spent there looking for your jam didn’t motivate me to become one. But I enjoyed spending an evening make a random thing with your assets.
No worries - I’ll be sure to include a link in whatever write-up I do of the event, so people should still be able to find it alongside the other entries afterwards.
Just a reminder that there’s still nearly two weeks left to get involved with the Premium Crayon and Kazoo Jam, which ends on April 30th. There are already a couple of submissions, and some very promising screenshots of works-in-progress too!
Also, even if you’re not up for creating an entire game for this, you might be interested in mashing up some of the assets for the newly announced Community Expansion Pack. I’ve been hugely impressed by what I’ve seen people cobbling together so far, so I figured why not offer a space for them to share it?
The entries for the Premium Crayon and Kazoo Jam are now in, and they’re available for anyone to judge. If anybody reading this is interested in hopping over to itch and rating even just a couple, I’d really appreciate it. I went into this not sure if anybody would even enter, but ultimately it’s attracted far more submissions of far higher quality than I ever expected.
I’m still checking out everything that’s come in myself, but between what I’ve played and what I can glean from the descriptions, IF entries are pretty well represented! At least a couple of those are from authors who I know well but don’t think are active here, so do have a poke around and you might discover new people to follow.
