This is not a serious thing, but also maybe it is a bit…
ARE YOU TRIED OF MAKIN ALWAYS THE BESTEST OF THE GAMES? DON’T YOU WANT TO NOT HAVE THE PRESSURE OF ALWAYS BE THE BESTEST?
Join the REALLY BAD IF jam. Make really bad games. Get that 1-star average on IFDB.
The REALLY BAD IF jam unranked interactive fiction jam where the goal is to simply make really bad IF games.
Bring your terribly written, bug-riddled coded, nonsensical-story games along!
Want to make a troll game? Go for it
An impossible to finish-game because you “forgot” to code one object? Come right along.
Something that looks SO UGLY it will make people cry blood? Sure! (I mean add TW but sure)
Don’t have any idea on how to make a bad game?
Here’s a recent thread:
Rules:
This is supposed to be a silly jam. So no ranking. You don’t even have to leave rating or comments opens on your page.
I will seriously boot out games that are actually good. Don’t submit your critically acclaimed games you think have flaws!
If the participants want to create their own IFDB page, there’s no one (but the moderators of the IFDB) to stop them. Same for anyone else wanting to make a listing…
It wouldn’t be the first time troll and low-quality games have been listed on the database.
for already explained reasons, I don’t want to subscribe to itch, but if some nasty idea came in my mind, i will inflict it here in a .zip attachment ]>
By the way, if someone wants to do parser, make sure that “You can’t see any such thing, You can’t go that way, You see nothing special about (thing)” shows up often, even when trying to >X SOMETHING THAT IS OBVIOUSLY THERE.
Probably don’t submit an action sidescroller. Sometimes indie devs submit their games to every single open competition without checking the theme first.
There are users on itch.io who will submit their games to a bunch of jams without the entry meeting the requirements. They spam by submitting so their game can maybe get some attention/players.
It happens at least once to all the jams I’ve organised. It’s often your FPS/puzzle platformer/etc… the non Interactive Fiction games
It’s unranked, so the jam technically ends when the submission window is over.
But usually, people will go through the entries and play/comment on them. I’m probably going to do a short thread going over the entries and that’d be that. It’s just for fun
By the way, if someone wants to do parser, make sure that “You can’t see any such thing, You can’t go that way, You see nothing special about (thing)” shows up often, even when trying to >X SOMETHING THAT IS OBVIOUSLY THERE.
I wanted you to know that you are personally responsible for my entry.
You smoothen the duck with sandpaper. The duck seems content.
AGAIN
There is no need to smoothen the duck further.
DOWN
You take the flight of stairs downwards.
Bottom of stairs
This is at the bottom of a long flight of stairs, leading to the basement, the top secret area of Dr Syrup’s laboratory inside his castle.
