In May, we recommended forty-nine entries made for eleven different jams, so join us on a journey to bring your own art museums, pixelated bee hives, single rooms with unlimited content, mystical and beautiful places in the void, the bowling…
“SACRIFIGHTS” by Francis Coulombe, Lumpy & CBoyardee. “Summon a series of nightmarish monsters to battle with in this horror action game. Will you gather enough [arcane power] in [seven] days to repay your debt […] [or] will you …
“Drowning in the Rain” by David Williamson. “[This is] an autobiographical vignette with mild puzzle elements. It covers a very important and difficult period of my life […] that began with the death of my father.” This vignette game …
“Jamsterdam” by Ivan Notaros, Ferran Bertomeu Castells & YenTing Lo. “A game about trying to be a [jazz] musician in Amsterdam. […] [Sing] with your [mouse], collect donations, pay your bills and survive[.]” Whenever a game speaks about serious …
“Kitchen For One” by Sand Gardeners (Sam Machell & Colin Le Duc). “[A full motion video] jazz [improvisation] cooking simulator about windows, mice, and everyday monotony.” Cooking is a very ambiguous activity, as “Kitchen For One” shows. For …
“GÖLDF” by XMPT Games (Richard Pilot, Ed Moffatt, Brad Roeger & Luke Staddon). “Each time you shoot a coin, its value reduces by [one dollar] – when it hits [zero], that coin is dead: [You cannot] take …
“Dear Substance of Kin” by Deconstructeam (Jordi de Paco, Marina González & Fingerspit) & Ivan Papiol. “Dear substance of kin, [forsake] the mortal hex. Abandon flesh, abandon sinew; Thou are now my magic, [thou] are no …
“Gacha” by Zhiming Chen & Jewell Popp. “Open a gachapon and see where life takes you! […] [A] cute, [cozy] game that takes the player through snapshots of a coming-of-age experience. There are many collectible toys to unlock and …
This April, we recommended twenty-four entries made for fifteen different game jams, including a a pinball roguelike hybrid, a time paradox pizza adventure, a murder mystery with cute ghosts, a gardening game with spaceships as well as a black hole,…
