Thank you again for your beautiful games. I've left a few notes on everyone's entries about my favorite aspects.
I was particularly impressed and delighted by the inventiveness of the mechanics in the games you submitted. I'll definitely run another jam like this.
The final winners are based on mechanics (fun? thematically fitting?), playability (easy to pick up?), scenario/setting, use of theme (breakage and repair), playfulness/inventiveness, replayability, and je ne sais quoi.
Here are the four cup-of-coffee winners (couldn't stop at three in the end):
- Monster in the Wilderness - Yarntheory - a beautiful abstraction of the themes of Beowulf (or that's how I read it) - gorgeous
- A Moment too Late - ToriBee - You are a time-travelling tortoise who always arrives too late for the Major Historical Event and has to piece things together from the aftermath - moving
- A Game of Tower - Yoon Ha Lee - Fantasy, surrealism, and personal growth via confronting your lies about yourself - delicious
- Kintsugi - Elusis - A supple yet strong spine for stories of damage and repair - poignant