#my first game jam

[myfirstgamejam]

My First Game Jam Summer 2023 will run from July 22nd - August 5th!

◾ Rules and FAQ

◾ Official Discord server - Join us! (Please note that you must be 14 years or older to join the server.)

◾ Fill out the optional entrance survey! Not required, but helps us assess jam needs!

My First Game Jam is an online game jam for people of all skill levels to learn something new. Never made a game before but always been curious? Set aside two weeks to join the jam and learn how to make a game along with others. Absolute beginners encouraged to join!

Our goal is to organize resources and make game development more accessible. We hope to foster an online space where you can share your progress with other first-time game makers and get help from experienced devs. By the end of two weeks, you hopefully will have some working game or prototype to share—it’s an exciting first step to making games! Individuals and teams are welcome, and we encourage you to both play to your strengths and try something new.

This is our 16th jam, and we’d like to thank our community for supporting new jammers! You can see some past jams here and here. We appreciate you taking the time to spread the word and look forward to seeing your games this summer!

[crystalnest]

I MADE A GAME! LET'S GOOOO!

[silentstaresfanficandfanart]

FINALLY DONE WITH THE SECOND LEVEL

I've realized this is basically just "increasingly difficult game of hide and go seek" with a shapeshifter KSPKSPKSP

[marzgamez]

HI!!!!!

I DID THE ITCH MY FIRST GAME JAM!!!

My Last Speed Date - The dating sim for people who love deranged characters.

Disclaimer: NONE of the dateable characters are based off of real people. Anything similar to real life, regarding dateable characters, is a coincidence.

Desperate for a love life, you decide to give speed dating a chance. What you had hoped to be a normal evening of trying to find the love of your life, was far from normal. Though, you could hopefully still find the love of your life among these (mostly)non-human killers.

Please check it out if you are intrested!!!

[marleyinbloom]

I participated in the My First Game Jam 2023 jam and made a game named Annomaly. It's a very short puzzle-platformer focused on time travel and the first game I have actually released publicly!

Try it out here:

[thehermiticbear]

The Moonlit Lodge is available!

My first officially finished project, The Moonlit Lodge, is now available for download on itchio. Its a solo journaling RPG where you play as a werewolf, trying to manage your health before the next full moon and your next transformation.

The game is free to download, so give it a look and let me know what you think!

I'll be writing up a post-mortem of the game and its development later this week, and after that its on to my next project, Court of Birds.

[nidbaesenpai]

Dare you say this love could just save you

[rexanesolo]

Adventures in Clairune is out!

If you want to:

Bully a dragon lord

Flirt with an elf

Trust an assassin

And most importantly romance them!! With perks such as:

he/she/they option for players

6 endings (good and bad for each love interest)

A 1 hour playtime (roughly)

Pretty art style & good music

FREEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

So go play my first vn! (I was inspired by the arcana and y'all might like this too :3)

[north-noire]

Made a Pirate Software game jam entry (You Are the Weapon) with HeahYiee and pandeesall! I was the one who animated and wrote most of the dialogue, so I wasn't the one who designed Benji, but I did design a few of the NPCs!

Feel free to play our prototype game and give us your feedback! We had a lot of fun making this! (Sidenote; this game can only be played on PC/with a keyboard, apologies as that's the only platform we considered at the moment; it's also recommended to download a copy of the game instead as the web version sorta messes up a few things, RPGMakerMV really beefing with us HARD LMFAO)

Link to the Music's Magic

Bonus; Benjamin in FNF style

[tavvoc]

[punkbarbarian]

[image id: a dark photograph of a grassy cliff face with dense clouds. a white illustration of a bat with its wings spread sits behind white text. text reads: Vampire Manor / a for truth's sake game by punkbarbarian. /end id]

On a rocky cliffside overlooking rolling moors as far as the eye can see sits a dark, towering manor home made of brick and iron. Tempestuous clouds cast a perpetual drizzle on the countryside and nearby forest, leaving the air damp and cold. Surely the generous owner of the manor the villagers whispered about will let you shelter there.  Maybe you’ll gather some interesting material for your research… Investigate the macabre manor, its eccentric inhabitants, and the nearby village through interviews and observation. What is the relationship between the unliving and villagers? Why do members of the community go missing without a trace? How long has the Vampire actually been alive?

Vampire Manor is a solo-journaling game where you explore a vampire's ancient manor and the surrounding village to learn more about the community and write an ethnography on them. 

Pull cards to ask questions of the residents, roll dice to see how well interactions go, and get to know a number of residents and fellow travelers, from a petty thief, to wandering nomads, a vampire hunter, and the intimidating Vampire. Unlock 12 different locations and gain levels in friendship and familiarity with the community as you document your discoveries in field notes.

You'll need: A d20, d12, and d8, and a deck of playing cards

Vampire Manor is a setting of For Truth's Sake by @hmooncreates. It was inspired by Dracula by Bram Stoker, Castlevania (Netflix), and Curse of Strahd. 

included in download: a plain text pdf and a formated pdf!

check it out on itch!!

[myfirstgamejam]

🌱 My First Game Jam: 2024 is finished! 🌱

Go play some games!

About 100 really awesome games have been submitted for this jam! It’s an incredible effort to learn something new and create a project under a two week deadline–especially for first time (and learning) game creators! Also, thank you for joining us in

🌱 Play some games!

Your fellow jammers made some incredible games! Be sure to check them out and leave constructive comments. Check Discord for playtesting threads if you would like some feedback!

🌱 Watch your game get streamed!

Our community mod Browntul will be streaming some of your games. Check out the Discord for upcoming info!

🌱 Fill out the exit poll!

If you participated in the jam (even if you didn��t submit a game), remember to fill out our exit poll! This will help us improve the next jam! (And yes–you can still participate if you’ve done previous jams!)

🌱 Share your game!

If you get the chance, be sure to post your game to the #MyFirstGameJam, #ScreenshotSaturday and #gamedev tags!

🌱 Fix some bugs?

We’ve gotten this question a couple times: Yes, it’s perfectly okay to update your game post-jam! Feel free to continue working on your jam games.

🌱 Continuing a project or starting a new one?

It can be tough to keep up your productive momentum after a deadline. Check out these suggestions for wrapping up your game or continuing it in the future!

Check out these productivity tools!

Don’t forget to back up your work!

Learn version control!

Write a post-mortem!

Connect with other devs from the jam!

Check out upcoming jams happening on itch.io!

Great job everyone! See you next jam!

[crystalnest]

my first game jam 2023

Day 1:

made a plan of action

made a list of necessary assets

written out all the scenes with a brief description and the relationships between them

set up the project before working in renpy and dig into the action manager addon settings

shoved Eileen into the washing machine

[sysig]

Maybe requestober prompt of soft?

Day 5 - Pile o' plushies

[renbiegames]

I've been a part of an incredible dev team for a few months and we just released a demo for Otome Jam called Cupid's Chatroom! It's a dating chatsim with 5 love interests, you can find the game here!

Here's some doodles I did of the two love interests for the demo, Roman and Daeho! I love them both sm ♡♡

[ugukun]

A short story featuring the struggles between love, infatuation, and envy.

Hi! I worked on a visual novel for Queer Vampire Game Jam 2024. I helped design and create the character art for my team's game. :)