What is “Inspired by… Retro Game Jam”?

"Inspired by... Retro Game Jam" is about creating a game inspired (but not copied) by another game chosen randomly in the community tab in the first week of the the jam. Participating game must be playable on a retro/discontinued platform.

Rules

1-) participating games must be inspired, not a clone or a fan made

2-) Teams are allowed, if you need help you can ask for it in the community tab and maybe someone will help you

3-) You can use your own, public, free or paid resources (with their respective credit to the artist)

4-) You can make the game with any tool you want, as long as you respect the fifth rule.

5-) Participating games must be made solely and exclusively to be played on discontinued platforms example: atari, pc Engine, NES, GBA/GBC, MegaDrive, NDS/3DS, Wii U, PS3, Windows XP/7 (only 32bits) , PSVita.

The jam will last 5 weeks and every day of the first week the chosen game will be published in the community tab, participants can choose which game to take inspiration from for theirs, and who knows... maybe take inspiration from all the games...

To add a game to the list you just have to fill out this Google Form

SELECTED GAMES!!!

participants will have to make a game inspired by... Punch Out!!, Turmoil (Atari 2600), Ristar (Genesis/MD), Animal Crossing and/or Alien Soldier.

              

your game can be inspired by any aspect of the game. example: color palette, character design and other things. 

you can even be inspired by all selected games

Tools

These are some tools I would recommend to make your games. You are not limited to use these!

GB Studio:

A drag-and-drop game builder for making Game Boy games!

GBDK:

A toolkit made by Chris Maltby that let's you make Game Boy games.

NESMaker:

A game engine that allows you to make NES games!

Retro Puzzle Maker:

This web based game engine let's you make your very own top down NES games, right in your browser! There is also a desktop version.

DS Game Maker (DSGM):

A game builder that allows users to make games for the Nintendo DS!

Unity (Wii U, 3DS, PS3 and PS Vita SDK):

a simple and easy to use game engine that works for these consoles, maybe there is a very old version of Unity that works for creating games for Windows XP, but I'm not sure about that.

NOT ALLOWED

Any participating game that is made for modern platforms will be immediately disqualified, example any relatively modern video game console (ps4, ps5 and nswitch), Windows 10/11 (32/64bit), Commander X16, Pico8.

Credits

Host and admin:

  Retro Indie Dev (little discord server)

allies: 

Felix 64 - YouTube

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