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BRAINWORM was created for two game jams: Godot Wild Jam 78 (GWJ) and Brackeys Game Jam 2025.1 (BGJ). Inspired by both themes, the duo at Hangover Sunshine explored the concept of a brainworm "erasing" the cognitive functions of a rising politician. The classic Snake gameplay was chosen for its resemblance to worms and its emphasis on avoiding mistakes—echoing the idea that "nothing can go wrong."
Spoiler alert: After the brain-eaten politician becomes president, players are left to wonder: did nothing go wrong because the worm ate everything, or because even without a brain, the candidate’s path to power remained unimpeded?
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Everything was made from scratch, except for 2 music tracks
How many people worked on the game?2
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Hey everyone!
We noticed our game just got recently disqualified from this jam. We aren't entirely sure if this is a mod/admin decision or something automated, however, I can say we sort of expected this to possibly happen due to the game's criticism of the general political climate in the U.S., right-wing politics, as well as its "inspiration" of a real-world event with the current Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). We plan on reaching out to the jam coordinators to see if we can get this overturned, so do please come back if you play it and are unable to give it a rating.
Either way, we are super appreciative of the love from the comments, as well as the time y'all have spent playing our game!
- S. & DrImPasta
Love the art, sfx, and concept of this game. The intro even got my skin crawling seeing the worm and laughing at the same time. But yeh, I can't remember a time I played Snake for fun and not because it was the only thing to do - but this made me curious enough to play of my own free will! Hilarious, reminds me of why I left the US.
Aaaay, thanks so much for giving our game a shot. I'm glad to hear we convinced you that Snake has the potential to be a lil' fun. I do envy your freedom from our country of "freedom". Much love for your kind words and thank you for your time.
- S.
Very nice game! The Snake gameplay is well-executed and it was a fun experience. Sadly, it was a bit difficult to read the politician's nonsense while focusing on the game. In the end, I would have loved to read the newspaper article, but it skipped too quickly. The sound and visuals fit very well, and I really like how you interpreted the theme!
Thanks so much for the love for our game! Def am taking note of the politician being a distraction and will discuss it with my co-dev. I also do apologize for making that newspaper skip too quickly (will switch it to be like the cutscene). As a token of my appreciation for the time you took to play and provide feedback for our game, here's the newspaper:
- S.
This game is one of the best I have ever tried in the game jam, congrats, all the visual is just amazing, the comedy with the president in the presentation make me laugh, amazing job!
Aaaay, thanks for the love and time taken to play our game! Do appreciate the hype for our humor
- S.
Hahaha the theming was too real, even funny for a non-American (my condolences) xD. Snake is always a classic game so its hard to fail that formula but I liked the powerups and extra bits of polish you've included (particles and animations, good colour palette) and the opening cutscene really pushed home the theming you were going for and set the scene well. Good stuff guys!
Aaaay, thanks for giving our game a play, shooting us a comment, as well as for your condolences! They're very much appreciated :,)
- S.
I love the concept and execution of this! I played a few times!
Great job!
Hey! Thanks for giving our game a shot and for the feedback! Yes the MACs spawning, was a last-minute bug we noticed that we didn't get time to address. Happens in some playthroughs unfortunately. We'll take a look at that and also see what we can do about improving those turns!
Either way, thanks for the play!
- S.
Awesome idea! Super cool design and a lot of fun!
Yo! Appreciate the compliments and for the time playing our lil' snake game :) glad you had fun!
- S.
this was great, really well executed fun theme goo idea very well made quite trivky and i sadly didnt beat it but it was fun great job!
https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-13/rate/3338871 theres my game if your interested
Yo! Thanks for the play and for the commendation! If anything particular was challenging, do let us know and we'd be happy to take a look.
Appreciate the play and will def take a look at your game!
- S.
It's a good game, the gameplay makes you stick around a bit :) But the fact that the quotes in our present look quite realistic, and not even absurd enough, is a very sad reason to think.:((
Howdy! Thanks for the play and glad to hear the gameplay stuck with you. Quote research was quite a rabbit hole, definitely could not use a majority of them. And agreed, quite a bummer they exist in the first place. Will say, a portion of the quotes were inspired by the stuff we found and written by us.
Either way, do appreciate the play and thanks a bunch for the comment!
- S.
THIS IS TOP TIER!! Please tell me you're planning on a wider release. 10/10 graphics, 10/10 animations, 10/10 plot. I died a couple times just trying to read all the things the politician was saying lol nice touch.
Aaaay~! Thanks so much for the hype and love, so glad you got a kick out of it as much as we did. Writing and finding some of those quotes, and yes, some of them are actual quotes from politicians, was quite a fun endeavor this game. We're definitely planning to polish the game once the jam ends, so please keep an eye out! ;)
- S. (pronounced "Essay")