game jam
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What If Unpacking Had Demonic Rituals?
Unmooring is a short fan game developed by calamitynolan for the Four Color Art Jam 2023 on Itch.io that takes Unpacking and makes it demonic.
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Game Jam Combines Fishing And Horror Genres To Great Effect
Video game curators Horror You Haven’t Played recently tasked the independent development community on itch.io to create horror games with fishing as the unifying theme. This call to action produced seven games of varying lengths and styles, all of which do an excellent job of adding a sinister edge to life below the waterline.
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A Time Waster That Mixes Rhythm Games With Dungeon Crawling
Made for a game jam where the theme was two incompatible genres, Rhythm Quest ends up working surprisingly well.
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You Should Play These Games About Political Resistance
Beautiful platformers stand side by side with state surveillance simulators in ResistJam. Focused on projects that “resist oppressive authoritarianism in all its forms,” it’s full of great games. All of them are this week’s Indie Pick.