Indie games are fun, right? I like them too. They have community, as I'm sure you're aware. 

What's fun about Itch.io? It has both of those things!

Crossovers are combining two things that usually aren't linked together. On TV, the crossovers usually share a genre or a timeslot or a staffer. On film... Well, there aren't many examples. In games, there's obviously a lot of examples, especially indie games. I could sit here listing them or I could start hyping up this game jam.

So, a crossover game has this thing where it introduces people from one game to another game, which they might like. Like Smash Bros. Or Terraria. Or fighting games with their guest fighters.

And the itch.io community has plenty of games to crossover!

So, I thought we could cross them over. With permission, of course.

Do as much or as little as you want, just try and do a good crossover. For this reason I think you should only have two games or it will dilute things. The crossover is built on some semblance of reason or you end up with something that has everything where nothing fits. I'm sure you know one I could be thinking about.

Basically, merge the two things in a way that fits. Even a completely opposing game can be combined with the right match and the right tone. I believe in you.

If you're new, I recommend Quest, which is a free software available on https://textadventures.co.uk/quest. There is also the fully text Squiffy on the same site. And of course, the RPG Makers and so on.

Or you could make a mod for another game for your submission, if you know how to do that and find it easier.

Rules:

Rule 1: No AI entries. Please be human. I know it's hard but you can do it! If you're stuck, steal a plot synopsis from a TV episode for your game. Or a YouTube series if you don't watch TV.

Rule 1.5: I'd recommend limiting yourself to things from itch.io or things that allow fan-games. Unless you don't want to, I'm not the boss of you. (See rule 3.) 

If you're making a crossover game with or using the game of a fellow Itch.io creator, credit them accordingly by saying that they own the things from the game they made. That's just nice.

Rule 2: Either get email permission from the indie person you're doing the crossover from and put a screenshot of it in the file for your game. If they're nice, you could even ask them to help. Or use your own things that you've made yourself and just interconnect them, even if one's a sex game and the other's a Celeste fangame.  (Or ask your friends to make an itch.io game and use that for your crossover.)

Rule 3: Anything goes, even NSFW. Unless it breaks Rule 1. If you have any concerns about this, please direct them to the message board. Or put them in your project! If your game gets removed, I'll still judge it, so...

4: Try to keep things as accurate as you see them and head your submission with a disclaimer. Setting, canonicity, genre can all be changed, but character is the through-line of any good crossover.

For example, one game might have a drastically different tone to the other and you favour the tone you're good at replicating, causing certain characters from the other media to be "out of character", so your disclaimer might read, "This crossover is done through the lens of Game A, not Game B." Or "This game merges both styles, through the genre, Farming Sim" If you think Game A and Game B unify perfectly as an idle game or a Doom mod, good on you!

5. Please play the games you're crossing over. This is another point in the Rule 1.5 column.

6. Low quality submissions are fine; I didn't give you long. Just take this seriously. It doesn't need to be fancy and have visuals, it can be all text for all I care. You could submit an essay as to why the games should have a crossover and that would be fine.

Enjoy.

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