#itchio jam

[efangamez]

The Pride in the Fall Jam is 1/6th of the way done! Join now! <3

PLEASE REBLOG!!!!!!

Welcome to the Pride in the Fall Jam!

In this game jam, your objective is to create or submit ANYTHING that involves queerness in some way in content or by the relation to yourself!

There are no rules on genre or topic OTHER THAN it is REQUIRED for all submitters to be under the 2SLGBTQIA+ umbrella (and some other stuff you'll see below)

Queerness is a subjective term which means a different thing for different people. For this jam, queerness means something that defies cisgender, hetero-normative and/or western ideals of both. Your games are encouraged to either have been CREATED by a queer person AND/OR contains queer themes. It's a pretty general game jam, so as long as you are queer AND/OR are queer and submit a game with queer themes, you're good! <3

Your games can be tabletop games OR digital games. Anything that gets your mind in the realm of game design is all that matters to me!   

IMPORTANT: Participants may submit previously-made games from no more than a year ago, but it is encouraged to also submit an original piece for this jam! This is a chance to exercise your creative skills AND get your game out there, not just one or the other! ALSO, NO AI ART OR WRITING IS ALLOWED! Also, Under no circumstances are people who submit games with bigoted tones, ideologies, or dogwhistles allowed in this game jam. If your work is bigoted in any way, it can and will be rejected for submission. You have no place in my community, and please do not play my games at your tables. Also, please no NSFW submissions (you know what I mean by that). 

IF YOU ARE SPAM SUBMITTING A GAME WITH NO ADHERENCE TO THE RULES ABOVE, I WILL ALSO DECLINE YOUR SUBMISSION! PLEASE BE AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT!

[deerspherestudios]

Hiya! I know you get this a lot, but I wanted to start off by saying how much I ADORE your work and that I genuinely cannot WAIT for day 3 of Mushroom Oasis. Your artstyle is so pleasing on the eyes! ٩(^‿^)۶ You might have been asked this before, but I was just wondering what programs you used when programming/making your visual novels ^^’

I love writing stories/drawing and I had loads of ideas bustling about making visual novels but have no idea where to actually start…

MUCH LOVE 💗💗💗💗

I use Ren'Py! It's incredibly beginner friendly and truth be told, coding is not my forte. I mostly looked at how my friend did it for Lift Your Spirits and kinda just worked with what I understood at the time!

Most of the time this is me working in Ren'Py:

Dev ramble under cut:

I know the question didn't explicitly ask but just a teensy bit of unsolicited advice, I recommend starting with a script!

You can't make a visual novel without the novel part done first, and it helps to see if you really have something good enough for a finished game before investing the time and energy into artwork, coding, et cetera. You can even start writing before you figure out how to use Ren'Py, as the script can help motivate you to finish what you started! At least that's how it worked for me!

[anim-ttrpgs]

Announcing a Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy Game Jam!

We're hosting a game jam over on itch.io! Submissions open in March, 2025 and will remain open until April, 2025!

Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is a groundbreaking TTRPG that revolutionizes mystery investigation of all kinds! The rulebook is available at this link for free! This community event gives long-time fans and newcomers alike a chance to flex their mystery-writing muscles. 

Leave behind the days of "We walk into the room and roll Investigate." Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is a TTRPG all about investigation, and its purpose-driven mechanics let players take initiative, use their characters' unique strengths to find clues, and deduce conclusions themselves. This game jam will bring the community together to write more mysteries for their characters to solve, put together in adventure module form. You can find a helpful guide to writing Eureka mystery modules in Chapter 7 of the Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy rulebook linked above.

This game jam is non-competitive, but the developers' favorites will be linked on the Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy store page so everyone can play through your creation! You can work alone or in a team, as long as you follow these basic rules.

While you're working, and especially if you have questions, join us on the A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club Discord Server. It's a club for discussing and playing all kinds of RPGs, not just Eureka, run by the creators of Eureka. You can also join our "Top Secret" Patreon Discord server and further support the A.N.I.M. team by subscribing for any amount to our patreon. We'll be happy to answer your questions about this game jam or Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy either way.

(Full submission rules below the Read More)

Rules

Submissions Must Be Adventure Modules and Be Compatible with Eureka: This game jam is for mystery adventure modules to be run with Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy. If you're unfamiliar, an adventure module is a guide for game masters to running a specific scenario for their gaming group. You can find an example of one made for Eureka alongside the rulebook linked above.

Follow the Theme: The theme/prompt picked out by our patreon subscribers is "The Call." By design, this prompt is flexible and leaves room for interpretation - are the characters beset by mysterious phone calls? answering a mysterious call for help in the forest? or something far stranger? (Just remember not to make it about mind-control - Eureka doesn't have that.) Your submission can be about any sort of mystery, as long as it is obviously inspired by this prompt in some way, however you interpret it. Just also make sure to follow the rest of the rules below.

Third-person Verbiage: Avoid saying "you" when referring to player-characters.

Separation of Player and Character: Ensure that your module says "investigators" when it is referring to the player-characters, and "players" when it is referring to the real people sitting around the table, and don't get them mixed up.

Characters Can Be Bigoted, but We'd Rather You Weren't: NPCs in your module may express hateful attitudes, but we do not approve of hateful attitudes from submitters themselves. 

Stay Grounded in Eureka's Lore: Please keep your module roughly within the bounds of what the world of Eureka offers. You can read more about this within the first half of Chapter 8 in the rulebook linked above. (And remember, your submission doesn't have to be a paranormal mystery!)

Submissions Must be 5,000 Words Minimum: There is no upper limit, so be careful not to overdo it, as long as your submission has at least 5,000 words. This is the bare minimum size. Most good Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy adventure modules are about 50-100 pages, as Eureka really stresses providing detailed information to the GM and players alike.

No Generative AI: Do not submit anything that has been created in whole or in part through the use of generative "AI."

We Don't Own Your Submission: Your submission is still your property. You can even sell it after the game jam is concluded if you want. Though if you do, we recommend you keep working on it a bit to polish it up, since one month is plenty of time to get a first draft out, but even the best submissions will benefit from some critique and further refinement and editing!

[ophanimkei]

Meat Girl is released!

Your roommate disappeared a few months ago and you go out into the cold looking for her. You find a strange girl and many things made of meat.

This is an RPG Maker game made for the yuri jam and frigid cold jam! It's completely free, playable in browser, and I'd be so very happy if you played through and left a comment with your thoughts!

[mayarab]

IT HAS BEGUN!!

I forgot to post it here, but I'm hosting my first jam as a part of the flights of foundry event! It starts tomorrow (sep 27, 2024) and lasts the entire weekend! It is open to everyone and accepts both physical and digital games!

[nadianova]

💊🤕visual novels about weird girlies🩸💊

Menhera (メンヘラ) is an abbreviation of “Mental Healther”, meaning “someone who does mental health”, and refers to a subculture centered around a certain style of vent art as well as fashion featuring it.

Hello, and thank you for your interest in the very first Menhera VN Jam! This is a jam for games about living and coming to terms (or not) with unseen burdens, whether they be mental, emotional, physical, psychological, or otherwise.

We will play through all the submissions and pick FIVE of our favorites which will receive a $250 paypal headpat. There will be no first place. There will just be 5 judge favorites. Due to payment reasons, all members of teams involved must be legal adults.

Please note that, in addition to the overall quality of the works—writing, art, music, etc.—one of the primary criteria in determining which entries will be granted an award is being on-topic.  In other words, while the individual elements of a work are important to their overall composition, a work with a conventionally "bad" component (e.g. very amateurish art) will not lose points on those grounds alone. Intention and sincerity are the most important parts of our judging criteria, so try and make something representative of your heart more than anything!

read more at itch.io

s t a r t i n g s o o n!

now with a discord server. you can find the link in the jam description.

[aethereaii]

We made a game! My friends and I joined the Big Mode Game Jam and furiously worked on it over the last week. Feel free to play it on the itch.io page!

>>>itchyyyyyyyyy.ioooo

[trianglart]

Haven't shared art on this blog in a minute but I was part of a mini game jam last weekend! My first time being part of a game :')

Here are some assets I made:

And a few we ran out of time to add:

Please check it out if you have a minute or two and see if you can beat my high score -w-

[regoregitati0n]

Silly guy for the stained red game jam on itchio. I'll be working on this for about 3 months, so yeah. Let's wish me luck! (I'm a total beginner 😭)

Anyway, this is Professor Rigor. He's a vampire teacher. The player plays as a teacher assistant/co-worker (another teacher) but human.

the concept is still being brainstormed, and the prototype title is "Love Sucks" (title design drawn by me)

He's a silly yandere vampire teacher what more could you want

Unsure what the rating will be at this moment

[cosygaming]

nom nom - great autumn jam by anaïs

work in a humble jam shop in a cosy autumn village populated by quirky animals! whip up customized jams, learn your regulars' favorite orders, and play games on your phone to pass the time.

you can play for as long or short as a session as you'd like. it's the perfect game for throwing on a podcast and vibing out to. free to play in browser!

[franciscolemos]

This jelly-fish outcast is one of the weird characters I made as part of Forlorn Encounters, a series of NPCs for Pirate Borg, an OSR TTRPG.

[loathsomespider]

[okenki]

i made a zine for the pride jam hosted on itchio back in june it's very experimental, personal and it was difficult to make somehow, and when i originally released it, i was very shy and embarrassed by it. it still feels very heart grabbing, but i think, maybe if someone feel alone or singled out by their experience maybe they can feel less alone. so i post about it again here. i can't link it for it not to be buried even more so head to my blog to find a path to it if you feel like it? it's, as most of my work, free. its a pdf and i guess i could post it in full here, but it's too much for me at the moment. yapyapyap

[ejbcya]

You are pirates, betrayed by your captain and bounded by affliction. With nary but your fellow crewmates and the boons of your disposition, set sail upon waters most desolate. Venture into the All Hallows’ Sea to plunder your keep and conquer your curse.

All Hallow’s Seas is a one-page ttrpg where players roleplay as cursed pirates and heed the Game Master’s call to adventure. Dice are shared among each player to encourage collaborative and strategic management of limited resources.

There are two PDF copies: a printable A4 version and a digital dark mode version. 

[fort-of-novelty]

Made a lil' something for the 36 word RPG Jam! I hope you give it a try : )

[terrifyinglovereviews]

GAME REC: PolterKisst

This is so well made for only being made in a month!!! Absolutely loved it! I got the ending Forever Haunted but I am planning to come back to get all of them at some point :) 

Recommend!