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Duel Game Jam starts this friday on Itch.io!

Challenge other developers to take part in a 1 vs 1 competition and find out who makes a better game.

Runs from October 21 to October 28.

Quite soon! Actually, I want to share with you a sneak peak of the new jam I'm hosting: https://itch.io/jam/duel-game-jam

I'm not sure whether this new project is going to be accepted, but it's definitely fun to try!

Here you can suggest a theme for other developers to pick. Theme can be a restriction, genre, inspirative image or anything else that puts two matched people in equal conditions.

Discord username
KunoHoshiko#0907

Skill level (beginner/advanced)
Advanced

Time allocation (weekends/all week)
Weekends

Theme preference
I'm open for working on any theme, but if you don't have any ideas I want us to make games only using graphics made in Ms Paint.

Details
I'm available every day after 7:00 PM Pacific Time.

Welcome to Matchmaker! Here you can find a pair for Duel Game Jam.

It's suggested that you check out profiles of other people before submitting your own.

In case you didn't manage to find a suitable match, fill in the survey below and post it as a reply to this topic. You can copy-paste the profile template from the first reply. Posts that don't follow the template are removed.

Your Discord username. You are free to put other contact information, but remember that most developers use Discord.

Whether you're a beginning or advanced game developer.

Whether you are going to spend the entire week on making your game or just the weekends.

Suggest a theme that you would like to work on.

Additional information.

'At the Dead of Night' walkthrough by ManlyBadassHero

'At the Dead of Night' walkthrough by Horror Games X

Out of Stock jam is now over and I've a plenty of interesting things to share with you guys!

https://itch.io/embed/1676670

☠️ GAMINGTON, a short parody fanzine covering the jam games:

https://kunohoshiko.itch.io/gamington

🏆 Jam results:

https://itch.io/jam/out-of-stock/topic/2322143/results

🎮 Video walkthroughs of the submitted games:

https://itch.io/jam/out-of-stock/topic/2322163/video-walkthroughs

Make sure to check out the games, tell devs what you liked and keep on jammin'!

GAMINGTON is a world's first bonezine that covers games submitted for the recently finished 'Out of Stock' game jam.

It's a collection of small reviews, fun trivia and bone-chilling commentary done by GAMINGTON himself. Oh, and it features a plenty of amazing games for you to check out!

Inspired by the Shrek's Quests magazine (especially the scratch-n-sniff page).

Link: https://kunohoshiko.itch.io/gamington

Check out GAMINGTON, the world's first bonezine collaborative effort that gives in-depth coverage of all the games submitted for the jam.

'Sonic Shock' walkthrough by George_the_crab

'Huge Business INC.' walkthrough by George_the_crab

'Henry' wakthrough by Queen faith Official

'At the Dead of Night' walkthroughs by Queen faith Official

'orb with hat' walkthrough by StorytellerWMD

'Huge Business INC.' walkthrough by StorytellerWMD

'At the Dead of Night' walkthrough by StorytellerWMD

'Henry' wakthrough by StorytellerWMD

Videos covering games submitted for the jam.

👑 Best Game

Sonic Shock by Haunted Bees Productions

📜 Best Story

At the Dead of Night by Lion In A Box Games

🎲 Best Gameplay

Huge Business INC. by FlooferLand!

🎹 Best Sound & Music

orb with hat by NestRai

❓ Best Theme Use

Henry by Lizondo

💘 Must-Play

Stock 'em Boppers by Ironheader

Pucheritto in: Scammed by Ren'py by george_the_crab

Tornado Tapper by stiggzz22

🤡 Copyright Incringement

Sonic Shock by Haunted Bees Productions

🤖 Surprise Mecha

Sonic Shock by Haunted Bees Productions

✍️ Best Review

All the reviews were good meaning that it's simply impossible to choose the best one, so.. I'm just giving the award to myself. (it's an expired chocolate medallion from the local walmart with a huge 'NOT FOR RESALE' sticker on it)

🤴 Life of the Party

Special thanks to:

• George_the_crab for providing extensive feedback on the games submitted for the jam, help with bringing GAMINGTON to life and also recording quite handy video walkthroughs
• StorytellerWMD for giving high-quality coverage of the jam games and providing developers with a ton of useful feedback
• All the other members of our amazing gamejam community!

*licks the jam off the lips in an extremely seductive manner*

*starts coughing*

*dies from allergies*

'Sometimes I get overwhelmed by information' is definitely a quote I can relate to. In fact, it perfectly summarizes the whole experience of playing 'Pucheritto in: Scammed by Ren'py'!

It's still a big question for me what this game is about, however, I've made a few potential guesses! Maybe it's about duality? Bad and good. Fake and original. Half-japanese and half-american. Or it's a story that shows us how one bad thing in life leads to other good one? Well, who really knows!

By the way, making a doll just for the jam is quite an admirable effort. Maybe it's somehow tied into the cryptic narrative too! Well, I hope you're done clearing your room from all the clay by now.

Thank you for submitting your game to the 'Out of Stock' jam!

The surreal and abstract narrative made me feel like I was watching a David Lynch movie or listening to one of the Residents songs. You know, actually, it felt like I was doing both at the same time! Very unusual and original experience.

While I'm still trying to figure out what's the deeper meaning behind it all, right now it's interesting to notice how the latter part of the story is told through the metaphorical fever dreams earlier in the game (and occasional foreshadowing like the blue doll appearing on a shelf in the very beginning).

I also want to comment on how well you mixed different images from photo stocks into one complete picture. The art style looks very consistent and together with the smooth animations it creates quite a cinematic experience. True arthouse!

Thank you for submitting your game to the 'Out of Stock' jam!

I can't help but notice how much effort went into the development of 'Sonic Shock'! Aside from a few bugs like the mayhem run glitching out and kiosk locking out new upgrades (I still managed to beat Dr. Roboton though!), it's a pretty fleshed out game with a lot of complex systems (map, upgrades, inventory and the list goes on) working correctly. It's simply impressive that you managed to implement all of that in a jam game. I also checked the credits (the clickable text was quite handy!) and found a very helpful accessibility asset on your GitHub that I recommend other Godot users to try.

My favourite part of the game itself was the final boss! Hopping across the huge map and smashing Dr. Roboton with my hammer as everything explodes was definitely one of the best moments for me. I also liked the hacking mini-game and the variety of play styles that can be applied. By the way, the Robotizers changing sprite & facial expressions as they noticed me was quite hilarious!

Thank you for submitting your game to the 'Out of Stock' jam!

'Huge Business INC.' does an outstanding job of capturing office work vibe. While you are not normally supposed to take care of mysterious entities straight out of hell, it still feels like true horror in real life too!

On a more serious note, I like the detail you put on making cutscenes extra creepy with those subliminal frames appearing for a split second. The lifeless text-to-speech voicing also works well for creating unnerving atmosphere. My favorite part was the escape from horde of businessmen, reminiscent of Garry's Mod NextBots (actually promising material to base a horror game on in spite of being a meme!). Despite the humorous nature of the game, it was still quite exciting to run away from murderous 2D sprites and the energetic chase music definitely is one of the reasons for that.

I wish there was a way to skip the jail cutscene though as it takes more than one attempt to complete this part. Overall, it definitely would be fun to play a full game about escaping a huge office building filled with deadly entities and fast-paced mini-games!

Thank you for submitting your game to the 'Out of Stock' jam!

Whoa, what's up with all the games about being a cat recently? Well, I can definitely say that I will remember playing 'Henry' the most of them all (and it's not because it's the only one that actually runs on my computer!)

Simple yet extremely photorealistic graphics together with the genuine voice acting do an amazing job of immersing player into the game! The ability to run also makes exploration of the city quite convenient. I liked running around the quirky photostock town and stumbling upon some random people and objects, even if it wasn't part of the gameplay itself. The only problem was with the drunk robot at the corner of the map who kept harassing me.

It was also a lot of fun to follow the questionable requests of a local hobo, like 'pooping on a car' or 'finding diapers', which he referred to as 'top secret missions'. Little did I know I was just a part of a bigger plan, way bigger than I could ever imagine. The final plot twist was... Well, a truly heart-wrenching experience.

Thank you for submitting your game to the 'Out of Stock' jam!

Pro-gamer tip: if you're looking for the diapers, they are in a garbage bin on the left side of the police car.

Not only 'orb with hat' has great music (as always with your games!), but also a bit of voice acting. The best thing about it is that the dialogue changes after respawning. That's a cool feature to have in games where you have to restart a lot to keep the player more engaged. I think that reducing the initial HP value would add a bit more challenge though.

You've done a really good job on making a game just in 4 days while still managing to incorporate the jam theme and have a plenty of gameplay! Oh, and there's even an incredibly direct and honest trailer available on the game page.

Thank you for submitting your game to the 'Out of Stock' jam!

P.S. chemmse

I love beating children.
I love beating adults.
I love beating the elderly.

And in this game I finally get to do all of the above!

On a more serious note, I really liked the clear sense of progression that Stock 'em Boppers gives you with the level-up happening after every fight. HP increases, you unlock new abilities and now can fight against stronger enemies.

It's also great that the game doesn't have an inventory and allows you to heal without collecting items. It doesn't take away from the challenge since enemies can deal more damage than you heal per turn, yet you still have an opportunity to recover full HP. Pretty well thought-out! The thumbs-up kid really adds to the experience too.

Also, how many unlockable attacks are there? I've played several times and noticed that new attacks vary from playthrough to playthrough (like tickle and crossover)

Thank you for submitting your game to the 'Out of Stock' jam!

Ever since I was a child, I've always wanted to have a pet tornado. Keep it in a jar and unleash upon my mortal enemies (back then, math teachers 🤓). Then appreciate the sight of it wrecking everything. Thanks to this game, it seems that my dream has finally come true!

I actually like the clunky controls because successfully controlling a tornado is absolutely quite a feat. Tornado definitely should have its own physics like in this game without acting like any other normal top-down game player character. Of course, there's room for improvement as it's quite hard to figure out what you should do in order to progress.

I also wish there was some kind of an animation for destroyed objects and maybe they also could start spinning around the tornado for more realism? (it also would look cool!)

Overall, it's a pretty fun idea and I'm sure it would be great to see a full game like that where you get to wreck an entire city as a tornado! I'm sure it would work quite well on mobile platforms.

Pro gamer tip for all the n00bs in comments #2: rapidly smash arrow keys for better steering. Also, I scored like 16550 points before the tornado became too big and spiraled out of my control.

Thank you for submitting your game to the 'Out of Stock' jam!

I've been working on a game for the jam, but unfortunately I cannot finish it on time due to being busy irl. Is it possible to extend the jam for a few more days? Sorry for asking, I just really want to participate. Thanks a lot! ✌️

Oh, that's a good concern! For that, I've prepared a whole list of public domain & creative common resources on the jam page that are free to use and should be 100% fine. Other popular stock photo websites also offer free limited download options. Ultimately, it's up to the jam participants to respect the copyright and follow asset licensing terms, but it's no different to using any other 3rd party resources like 3d models, sprites, music and sounds, which is very common when making an indie game.

The jam icon! Itch.io doesn't display it anywhere and it didn't fit into the forum topic either, but I'm still sharing it because it's cool...

Pick the wildest photo you can find on a photo stock and make a game out of it!

Out of Stock is a game jam where you have to make a copyright-free parody of an already existing game or a brand new original game using royalty-free assets such as stock photos.

The jam is beginner friendly and everyone is encouraged to participate! I'm going to play and thoroughly review all of the games submitted for the jam. Also, feel free to submit your own theme ideas and join our Discord community. Even if you don't plan on participating, you still might be interesting in playing all the amazing games that will be made for the jam!