From: Oct 1 0:00 to Oct 31 23:59:59 PST

Give us your best Trollgame in October.

Bonus points for a troll card game

Submit: Online / Windows / Linux / Card Game Rules

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

• Games MUST be added to Itch sometime during October 2021 to be eligible for a prize. You may work on the game for this time period.
• A .zip file containing everything you need to run your game, and a .TXT for instructions if needed.
• A link to an itch page where your game can be played in the browser
• If your game is a physical card game, please provide print and play instructions
• Games MUST be free to play for all participants of the jam for the entirety of the judging period
  
• Games should be made using only assets/code you created yourself or have legal rights to use, but you don't have to avoid using code/assets from before October 1st, especially if you created it yourself.
• Please do not submit NSFW projects. If you're on the fence about whether something is SFW or not, drop a content warning in the appropriate place so potential players/streamers can make the call.
• If you want to chill out with others making the game there is a DISCORD: https://discord.gg/KU9PBP59mz
• Any other questions please ASK your EXCELLENT QUESTIONS and we will ANSWER YOU with AWESOME ANSWERS

BORING FAQ

q: WHAT A TROLLGAME IS?????????????????

A: a trollgame is a game that sets up and subverts expectations.  The best trollgames are ones where the player can follow the logic of the game, but that doesn't stop them from walking into the game's traps.

q: WHAT IF I MAKE GAME ABOUT A TROLL I AM SUBVERTING THIS ENTIRE CONTEST PUUHUU?????

A: if you make a game about a troll,

If you make a trollgame about a troll,

q: WHAT IS HOW THERE IS JUDGING????

A: Judging is open to all who submit a game. Judging will begin after the game submissions close and run for 168 hours (1 week). On November 8 the winners will be announced.

q: WHAT IS THE PRIZE I DONT WORK FOR FREE YALL?????????????????????

A: I guess it's time to start talking about the PRIZE PACKAGE

Q: WHAT THERE IS A PRIZE PACKAG?E?!!!

A: YES there will be a first place prize of:

YOUR CHOICE OF POSTER-SIZED SELFIE OF ONE OF THESE FIVE PERSONABLE GEESE:

and also $100 for the highest rated game and a spoon prize of $5 for last place* and ALSO $50 FOR THE SECOND PLACE GAME TOTAL PRIZE POOL OF $GOOS+155.  MeanGirlsGames will reach out to the winner/loser.  As MeanGirlsGames will be participating in the jam, they will not be giving themselves any prizes, so whoever is below/above them will get a prize if a MeanGirls game wins/loses.  The bonus points for being a card game will not factor into who gets a prize, only who gets points in the hearts of Mean Girls. (a game containing a Little Lad Dance reference will receive exactly one bonus point)

q: WHAT DID YOU SAY AN HUNRED DOLLARS

A: I am an oil baron.  Also it is double the trouble of last year, it is double the sequel, so it only makes sense it would be dOUBLE THE PRIZES okK

q: is the at UNITRED DOLARS or like weird AUDTRAILAIA CURRENTSY

A: it is REAL DOLARS of UNITED MONEYS also HOW IS THE GOOSE SELFIE NOT THE IMPORTANT PART OF THIS PRIZE FOR YOU

q: WHAT IF THERE IS A TIE I NEED CONTINGENCIES LACK OF CERTAINTY GIVES ME ANXIOUS TINGLES

A: We gave $5 to all last place finishers last year. If there' s a tie for first or second place (or both) this year, the $150 prize pool will be split into shares with everyone in first place getting 2 shares and everyone in second place getting 1.

q: BUT WHAT ABOUT THE GOOSE POSTER WILL EVERYONE GET A GOOSE POSTER OR WILL YOU BE SOME KIND OF GOOSE SCROOGE

A: Everyone tied for first place will get a goose poster until I run out of posters. As to choice of which goose is depicted, it may be first come first served I only have so many posters of these geese.

* The recipient of the Spoon Prize will be "the most spectacular failure to be a trollgame despite obvious effort". Effortfulness to be determined by judges.