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Hallo! I'm Jaye (they/them, nonbinary demisexual), 1/2 of Sunken Rust Games which I run with my husband. (Our released games are all mine so far but he's got a few system-size games in the works.)

I'll be using the jam momentum to work on a Forged in the Dark game about gaining Glory for your ancient Greek family and making your demigod Patron happy. It's not very spooky for a concept, but there are plenty of oracles, ghosts, undead, and spooky themes to throw at players.

Sounds like a teammate assistance action for 1 stress!

From Blades:

"You can normally get two bonus dice for your action roll (some special abilities might give you additional bonus dice). 

For one bonus die, you can get assistance from a teammate. They take 1 stress, say how they help you, and give you +1d. See Teamwork, page 134."

Hello! I had contemplated a tourney aspect but hadn't gotten very far yet. Best thought I had so far are linked clocks-- one for each player/horse and a rival/representative of the other competitors. Fill player clocks as established, and fill linked rival clocks as consequences and devil's bargains. Cutting between players and their chosen activity (jousting, jumping, barrel racing??, dressage?, cross-country) will keep the tension high.

I realized I never posted this here! You Enter This House Alone But You Are Not Alone now has a new layout and cover.

This game is absolutely DELIGHTFUL. With a set of polyhedral dice, a deck of cards, a journal, and the PDF pulled up, I was able to write a 2-page, 8-day journey of my character in under 45 minutes in a very warm summer sunroom, and yet get in the midset of a chilly glacier trek. I highly recommend you buy this tight solo game.

Just what I needed after a rough mental day. Thank you for making this game!

https://sunkenrust.itch.io/readysetbake

Yes! I'm repurposing a satirical novel idea I had a few years ago in the vein of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, where Gatsby is a vampire, Daisy is a fey/dryad, and Tom Buchanan is a werewolf.

Enter my TTRPG: a mashup dating sim where you roll on tables to determine the kind of supernatural creature you are, who you're in love with, and what your background secret is. Then you play through some loose plot points (drawn from the book but possibly also mixed up) and see who loves, lives, and dies.

I'm demisexual/ace, and I've never played or enjoyed playing dating sims of any kind, so this will be a stretch for my design chops.

-Jazz

I (Jazz) love The Great Gatsby. I've read it a few times, and since I was a lit nerd in college, it's one of my favorite touchstones. In fact, I'm a huge fan of Fitzgerald's work in general, but especially of his short fiction. He had a way of building up a glamorous world, and undercutting it at every turn with subtle but lethal satire. TGG is one of my favorite books for his wit and mastery of language - not for the moral of the story.

This is my first real jam. The game is set as In Development, and when I created the product, it linked it to the jam. Not sure how to remove it now.

Usually PDF and/or TXT files for download. Since it's a long-running jam, I'm hoping my ttrpg entry will get a few groups interested in playing.

Thanks, Sam! (You've got a shoutout in the latest devlog update and a link to your tweet.)

I've uploaded v0.95 with some tweaks, including removing the Sweet Spots mechanic and replacing it with a secret ballot voting for an additional Kudos per recipe by the Bakers themselves - a sort of Miss Congeniality aspect so not all Kudos are based on dice rolls - and because no one in 4 playtests has ever hit a Judge Sweet Spot.

I will take a look at the Preparation and Bake examples again as well.