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This is starting in two weeks! I hope to see lots of AGS folks there.

I love them. As someone said before, you have to reset people back to baseline. Even people in reality in real horrific situations stop being scared after a while and just consider it normal. That happens a lot more quickly when it's not real, so you have to do something to reassure them so you can scare them again.

The theme will be directly related to the plot of the game, so it would be fairly difficult to make an entire game that just happens to have a plot that fits before the start of the jam. Other than that, the judges will just use their best judgement.

By the way, it's actually completely allowed to use existing backgrounds and animations you already made before. See this from the rules: "Creators are free to use any tools or assets they have the right to use. This includes tools and assets they have created prior to the start of the jam, tools and assets that are free for anyone to use, and tools and assets they have purchased a license to use. Proper credit must be given if required by the licenses for the tools and assets."

What is not allowed is starting work on the actual functionality of the game prior to the start, and the types of themes that are chosen tend to do a good job of preventing this as it tends to be fairly obvious if someone has just tried to shoehorn the theme in rather than planning for it from the beginning. We didn't have any issues with cheaters last year though. Let's hope people stay honest.

and lastly I guess, $102 isn't really all that much money. Someone would have to be a pretty big jerk to come in and ruin the integrity of the jam just for 100 bucks, and I think adventure game creators tend not to be jerks.

The 2nd Annual Adventure Game Challenge jam is fast approaching, about 4 weeks away. Make an adventure game in 2 weeks, and the one the judges deem to be the best will get $102!

Check out the jam page here:

https://itch.io/jam/102-adventure-challenge

Hello! Don't know why I hadn't thought of posting about this here before now. But better late than never?

The $101 Adventure Game Challenge is a game jam in which you make an adventure game in two weeks. The best game as determined by a panel of judges receives $101!

Unfortunately it's already more than half over, but there are still over 5 days left if you want to hustle and put something together quickly.

Or might be good to keep an eye on just so you can play the games at the end. Right now there are 84 participants.

https://itch.io/jam/101-adventure-challenge

Discord server: https://discord.gg/fhrERYw