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random idea: what if to cause (and cover) the transition - you raised both hands up to cover your eyes?
(possible good: blocking out your view of the environment for a second  might be a nice natural way to trigger the view change).
(possible bad: don't want people to smack their headset. don't know how close hands would need to get to block view. maybe there is someway to fade to black based on how close hands are? so it happens before they get there?)

Anywho. downloaded but haven't played yet. maybe this is all an unnecessary idea to share. but sharing anyway! 
(p.s. really dig the simple crsip shapes, art style and tone. )

nice! dig the seedling model and the music

nice! i fed my blimpo a pink blob and black wood then wondered at the nature of it's "age"

8) Waffuru, 
(frozen waffle forgotten. ghostly aura. merged with indiana jones who snuck in to hide from radiation?) ("waffle death") (waffuru is japanese for waffle. Shin Waffuru)

: the drawing looks a lot like a vortigaunt (from HL2) (some says they are kind of a headless "eva"?)

GAME: boy and his blob 

 (actually he is an alien that came from a meteorite)(echoes of no more heroes 3?). Helped a boy escape from drunk dad and waifu mail order mom. By platforming through the forest behind their mobile home. But in the end the boy died from being around his space radiation. so blob went back and hid in the family's freezer. Turns out his dad was a disgraced government scientist- who collects the freezer trap and takes it to area 51 for experiments. So Waffuru busted out and murdered them in transit. Horrified at the monster he'd become, Waffuru now seeks to contain his buttery super ego. so that he can just go back to playing with kids again. Endless breakfast time. He roams through the abandoned covid-19 malls, looking for friendly children.

Never wants to talk about his home planet, Waifufull. (too obvious? chat mentioned waifu jokes).

he ends up low self esteem, shooting syrupy butter tentacles around like the black tar beasts from Prey.

"Freeze and Burn, Baby." "I'm the lawful waffle"

WIN QUOTES: "I am a waffle, you fool. Whatever."

7) Haver, 
(tank top that cuts off above nipples. catchphrase "is it getting cold out?" Girlfriend leaves forever and takes butterfly dog. girlfriends name is Chelsea. To-tonah - is slang for vagina? "Bibi" like bee-bee) ("looks like i win again" "justice slash!") (pee-sku "pisku")

: So, jonny cage? ... Joshua Haver manages the broadcast gear for marketing events. His girlfriend is cofounder of PRG - Party Resource Generation Protagonists. J-PRG?

But All your gear was stolen. 

google:  "PRG has both the expertise and inventory to shape solutions across all entertainment and experiential markets, whether projection or LED. Our video team can realize any creative project from the simplest to the most demanding. (Colorado Governor’s Conference)(AMIkids hosted their 2020 Board of Trustees Annual Conference virtually to celebrate the amazing work their non-profit does for at-risk youth)

google: the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual desires; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic agent that mediates, between the instinctual desires of the id and the critical super-ego;

GAME: "PEAK BOX PEEK" (for xbox series x)

all these swirling vertical-meters orbit a box. They represent all these obscure aspects of your personality, perception, and focus. All the buttons on your keyboard are needed to lock them in as timer drops. (intense overthinking of the box peak concept)

When timer hit's zero: Explosion! as Haver, box on head, action lines in all directions, leaps up intp space. "PEAK!"

... Bibi was his girlfriend, who was also turned into his box. After he won everything, she turned into a sword instead. He's into that but she's not. 

Special attack: he can peek through his sword (girlfriend's arms?) to apply a more devastating magic attack. (like, she carries him. cuts for him. when he sees through her)

WIN QUOTES: "level up next time"

6) Executive Cobra,
(channels the power of her bank account. Like "Mark Cuban" barely ever wears suit jacket. paying elon musk more money unlocks more powers in her tesla suit) (her suit is never upgraded enough. debuffs by over-upgrading the suit. fists you could barely raise.) (basically gets worse the more armor she puts on)

GAME : DOUBLE DRAGON

She busts up emerging businesses to prop up the old money structures of America. Double Dragon style?  title: "Swipe Viper"
invades gamer twitch streamer houses, mom and pop marijuana dens, bit coin. She is like doris day from the 50s, gone bad. Her nemesis is the Marxist Mongoose. A farmer in this ridiculous Train-Tractor that can burrow. She wears military makeup and has an industrial Ingénue complex. All game streamers are innocent super models. All military are secretly CBD infusing. all these outrageous scenes of violence have intense global sociopolitical dialogue. "We can't convert the United States' global military base system over to a network of invasive infrastructure investments. It's an aging empire! You're insane! Who will fight the war on terror if not Uncle Sam I am!"
"you ARE the whore on terror"

She starts in yoga pants and suit jacket. super confident. Wears the Lobot head band from empire. sort of a slick corporate han solo vibe.

+ "sliding credit card" attack is her super power. Platinum debit card cuts into your brain. Then she owns you.

maybe story follows the loss of her Chewbacca-style sidekick. This pal always made the right investments and chose the best upgrades. He was her tax guy and personal accountant. Her ... twin. Or maybe she was cloned from him, and the tragedy is now she has to carry on his work - but she lacks his spark. (maybe he died trying to swim in a pool filled with money)

... or maybe it's more like mega man? where armor is good? She just can't control it like her brother-twin-clone? She shoots coins from hand? (byte coin? clone coin? cash dash? dollars and incensed? bent investment?) ...

WIN QUOTES: "have you heard about bitcoin"

5) Scratch Ballista, 
(super tall guy who slouches. still gets made fun of for peeing pants. (meh?) moustache? the kinda kid who joins the basketball team because they are tall, not because into sports. Like that, but with fighting. like, he has freaky fingers.)(baseketball hoop around his neck - I thought it was native american dream catcher at first.  Maybe both? Maybe it floats about his head like unattainable halo in high ego mode)

:So he's part sloth? ... or a sea creature who yearns to destroy lighthouses. But his mom already did that. Destroyed every lighthouse for miles. Then married the lighthouse keeper. So Scratch is sort of a lovecraftian Aquaman. His dad keeps trying to rebuild the lighthouses along the coast (but really just as a coquetteish game with his wife).

He is tall, so they put him on the basketball team. but he shambles. slow. so not very good. He secretly wants to be great at basketball. but looks like he should be a fighter. because he keeps hurting all the other players all the time with his claws and tentacles.

- he often leaves a trail of stinky fluid. not clear if sweat or piss or slug slime. nobody wants to give him crap about it. It's slippery but evaporates quickly.

GAME: "BRUTAL BASKETBALL"

try to score points before the game is called - due to the high amount of injuries and deaths. NBA Jam meets bloodborne. ... super dark goth baseketball?

WIN QUOTES: "... clawwwwwAAAAawwwwwaaawwwww.."

4) Bulgy Muscles, (was "SixPacky" - but packi is an insult to pakistani?)
(boxing gloves on hip. maybe his face pain PEELS off instead of fading?)

:So ... he was the master of ceremonies at a traveling circus, not a clown at all. Got distracted paying bills and managing legal fees. seeking to improve their national infrastructure for travel. he was boring.
... kind of picture a fighting game with one guy shadow boxing... shadow joking with his shadow. his ancestors? and his id. in a hall of mirrors. was cloned from a classic master of tai mantis fighting style, and decided to become boring? A sexy carrot hides in the shadow of his circus.

got boxing glove from the old dancing bear, who quit and went and opened a gym. one guy tried to fight him instead of listening to his tutilege, so he took his hand. It is still inside the boxing glove. (monkey's paw?).

He keeps waking up with bizarre clown makeup. can't wash it off. He never was a clown. He had a family. but they all died in accidents around the circus. then the whole circus died. so he made it an open mic tent. kept traveling around. when the audience groans, he can see the ghosts of his dead family. He has a strong natural wit, but prefers to see his family. So he tells bad jokes. But his nemesis Dark Schippie Dues has a cutting giggle, every time he laughs at anything. There is no joke so bad that Dark Schippie won't laugh.

Bulgy sleuthed his way up to find the order of the 7 Soapy Dragons, who killed his family. So he has became a fighter. 

GAME: "THE STANDUP DETECTIVE 6 : Practical Absolute Abs"

A phoenix wright style game. Sleuth the case. gather clues at various weird places. Then present the case at open mic night to the city. As a joke. Ever the master of ceremonies. the commisioner comes to see what new crimes you've discovered and take notes. M.C. Muscle Man they call you. Six practical abs. (but the game tells the story of how your crime comedy got every cop on the force killed).

WIN QUOTES: HA HA Nyah ha hyargh! Pants.

2) Ultra Mint 
(you only beat up her summons. wears a loose beanie. shirt/hoodie says "i'm epic". a Lumby who is Giga is from card game they already made, is made out of cloud, but fist is diamond -is the best possible summon from cards)

: So we'd explore how she got the cards. ... Collected by her foster care family. the cards are the bullies who beat her up. now contained in the cards.
So in this prequel game she WAS the pokemon that others trained. She was sort of collected by the school guidance counselor who kept trying to adopt her. They set her against others in school to build her ego and skill. Taught her the ways of the tarot, and witchcraft. But she rejected it all. 

GAME: INVERSE POKEMON

She fights to affect and destroy her various trainers/masters. Her execution of the fight orders she's given ultimately influences their choices (like, they only THOUGHT they were in control).

WIN QUOTES: "Like and subscribe" ("get decked") ("succumb my deck")

I had a lot of fun listening to kyle and chat wander through the crazy parts of this jam.
Decided to work up ideas for all 8 characters, then focus in on my fav. (which is based around Alexandria).

But just for fun, wanted to share the other discarded ideas.
(would love to hear other people's discarded ideas. or if you want to use any part of any of these, please feel free)

1. Izil
(little tuft covers his abs. can't make them work. has little sword. denim vest. if buffed, vest breaks and never returns. strong peter pan influence. a little flutter when he jumps. can't hoot. Snot head? )

: maybe he's a cyber hacker sort of pirate. maybe Egyptian? Maybe the runt of the litter in a owl crime family in East LA. 3D prints knives and shortswords (Untraceable). 
-Random google: 
 "filoplumes" are hairlike feathers on the beak and feet that act as "feelers". 
So... topknot special attack:  hairy little beaks emerge from all over Izil's body. filoplumes all around them. it's the only way he can feel.

- Family is super religious (birds of PRAY). He kinda hates spirituality but doesn't want to take away their crutch. Ultimately his little petty crimes get his whole family arrested. For life. So now he wants to find a religion that matters to him. Will travel the world fighting everyone he meets, until he understands what god is. and/or raises enough money to free his family (legally or otherwise...). 

- Maybe they all have nose rings with little religious icons. And longer "filoplume" hair than any other bird family? Izil idolizes his big buff ... brother? father? sister? (and that's who he turns into, when gaining self respect)

- Random google: origin of the word bandana:
"European snuff users of the 18th century suffered from an embarrassing problem: Blowing your nose into a white or solid-colored handkerchief left behind dark tobacco stains. Found a stylish solution in India, where textile makers employed a millennium-old tie-dyeing technique called bandhani"

THE GAME: modern Q-BERT ?

- Izil 3D prints blocks of cocaine. Sort of minecraft meets solomon's key. So, block puzzles. Touch any block to turn on it's physics for 3 seconds (then it freezes again). 

- Maybe the level is covered in a grid of laid out square bandanas. Each square he enters turns that bandana yellow, like Q-bert. Or he picks it up. So you have to cover the whole level to collect every bandana to complete. No stone unturned. maybe baddies spawn from the places that you haven't been yet, so that function as a way to find the few remaining bandanas you haven't touched yet. 

- or maybe instead it is all a wild car racing game and he is like a little wanna-be dominic toretto (vin diesel style VO). with tourrete syndrome? His big brother is Dom, and Izil wants to be like him. so he's been racing. uses a broken samurai sword as his gear shift and carries it everywhere. ... maybe it's like 

GAME : the map screen for Overcooked, 

a cartoony open world and you just drive around through everything... starting multiple street races. maybe it gets hard to keep track of how many different street races you're currently in, and where all their finish lines are (different colored lines stretch out from your car to various finish lines all over the map). maybe other levels are in ridiculous places (a chop-shop junkyard. supermarket aisles. the local court of law. the prison where your family is kept. an aviary at the zoo.)

WIN QUOTES: "ow! ow! OWL!" (in final buff  form)

(i'm getting a note the invite is invalid. And I don't know what " Don't Call Us Daddies" is.  is there some other thing needed to take part?)

I have a concept for a VR "whip" based game, for Alexandia. but if i can't get this idea have a for a simple whip mehcanic to work, i'll just pass on the jam for now. (hoping i can do somehting in Unity with 3 to 6 joints, then add a bunch of extra whip shader shit nonsense to make it seem much more complicated looking)

(thinking of something kinda like Spelunky in VR. where you are in a small room with too much treasure. stacks of it. one you disturb any of it, the room starts filling with sand. so you'd whip rings or ledges to teleport around in the room. whip any piece of treasure to bring it in close and decide if you want throw it in your bag (the twist is that every piece of treasure has a huge rambling description. so there's no time to really eval it all). eventually you whip the door handle to start over in the next room (or you drown in sand and die). you could come back around to revisit existing rooms and try something else there. 
And in the end it would turn out Alexandria is buried somewhere in this crypt under some treasure, so we're ultimately exploring how she was brought back to life by a treasure hunter. )

cool! lower any expectations to zero though. I mostly worked on the "pathing" mechanic, then ran out of time. soooooo, it's far from even remotely complete. (just wanted to share it because i'd put some time in).

much love! (but more respect, honestly).

sweet!

ah, i see the problem i think. the deadline is 5am, not 5pm. soooo, i guess i didn't make it. whoopsie.
Gently hoping the deadline could be pushed back to 5pm, just so i can toss my unfinished mess into the pile of charming goodness. Get that entry count up to 15! but. s'cool if that isn't in the cards. 

sayyy, I read the deadline as 5pm not 5am. any chance you could push it back to 5pm tonight, so i can submit my unfinished trash pile? 

am i missing  a "submit" button somewhere? 
(submission closes at 5pm tonight, right?)

I uploaded my crappy partial game here: https://warrenebb.itch.io/shirenoble-bureaucraft-5-pro-sports-to-the-rescue 

but can't seem to sleuth how to "submit" it to this game jam. help?

[update] ack. family got in the way pretty hard. Figure i've put in about 4 days of work on this over the past couple weekends. Primarily got the core 4-player-pathing working (which was hard. for me. programming. ugh).

iiii'm probably not gonna make it. but still hope to submit the partial project, if it's remotely playable. just because it's kind of a beautiful train wreck. weee!

* For example, 
I summoned all my musical strength about an hour ago, and made this fitting tribute to Nobuo Uematsu. So this is the main theme song for my game now. So at least this part turned out top notch. https://soundcloud.com/warrene33/music-is-not-hard-the-shire-noble-bureaucraft-5-theme

* posted some insufficient screenshots on my twitter feed. wee.
https://twitter.com/SolidFuelStudio
because why not? #twitter.

been having fun though. nom nom nom.  will definitely finish this #^@$! off after the deadline, whether i make it or not. VIDEO GAMESSSSS!

Intro:

Inspired by @Crowno, thought i'd chime in with a slice of what i'm tackling. I've enjoyed the EZA gang for years, and have often dreamed of making a small game to pay tribute to their unique mix. For this jam, I first came up with a game idea for each ruleset - then settled into Glinny's. (I love over-complicating things, so I planned out ways to incorporate every single rule from the list). 

(Aside: for Cahrsurraurher's I was thinking of a beat-em-up like Streets of Rage, but with a ton of talking and dialogue trees. Called it "1920's Bouncer." the idea would be to play as a beefy thug who works their way up from being a bouncer at small bars and jazz clubs in hollywood, until you get roped into handling lawless security for bizarre/shady rich people parties. But it seemed like the kind of thing you'd need to take seriously and research. Soooo, not good material for a quick jam!)

Shire Noble 4: Bureaucraft:: Pro sports to the rescue!

Although I love the EZA boys, I can't connect with their love for Anime, Japanese RPGs, or Sports. So I thought it'd be fun to make a game that slams those 3 things together from a woefully uninformed perspective. I mostly work in VR these days, so this is a Rift game. the idea is to play as 4 pro sports icons who band together to travel the world and solve geopolitical problems. By sneaking around and killing things with their sportsings and magics. And for no reason, the whole thing is drowning in a medieval fantasy (like lord of the rings. or final fantasy and harvest moon? I haven't played those so, i dunno). On some major level, this is a love letter to suda51.

I've had a lot of fun sketching up strange characters and environments. Going with your basic elf, knight, wizard, barbarian (who play golf, baseketball, baseball, and foothockeyball respectively). And they' sneaking through the poisonous gasses of LA, sandy farmhouses, volcano hospitals, and icy United Nations. (before tackling the jungles of wall street and the underwater whitehouse. and maybe ending in a space castle).  Figured each level should have an extreme hazard theme, like donkey kong country.

But what will the game be?

The core of it is managing 4 characters to an end point. THRILLING!?!?! Hoping it'll be fun to switch between the mindset up where you'd like this person to move (thinking stealth. each level has a way to be seen by the end boss) and the usual first person VR carnage. When you screw up stealth, a short horde of baddies will flow in. I picture it like a turn based tactics thing, but with this added/unique intensity that each character starts playing out their turn the moment you leave them.  That's about it. It's an experiment to see if this simple combo of mechanics is fun. And then there's a ton of gags planned that make fun of RPG spell menus and First Person weapons. ho ho, jokes.

Dev so far...

I setup the system for controlling your path in VR (you draw a line from your feet to where you want to be, then when you switch to a different character that path will be followed). Mocked up some 360 cut scenes in Tvori. And started modeling the main characters in Oculus Medium. 

Definitely won't implement all the game levels by next week, but hope to have the basic intro cutscene, world map for level select, and first level (LA traffic court) playable. 

Next:

Today: Hoping to finish sculpting the main characters (and first-person hands), retopologize them with Instant Meshes, and rig with Mixamo.com. Grab some animations from mixamo, and maybe free filler models from Sketchfab.  Need to decide whether Tvori's 360 video export is better for performance than it's "animation objects" export. And need to program character-POV-swapping and magic menus in Unity3D. weeooo. Also need to get my kids to record some of that dude's music with their recorders. 

cool!

random aside, you wrote "The main idea is to give the player the ability to change between party members with different attacks and abilities, but keeping it as simple as possible" - and coincidentally, i'm trying something similar. I'm fooling around in VR, and have never tried to manage multiple characters in a party in a game before. but. i'm tickled that there is somehow a similar urge. Super curious if others will randomly be drawn this way. (if so, makes me wonder if it's somehow related to the breadth of the "rules").   

i don't think there's any chance of crossover, just excited to see what you do. will definitely check out your jam!

Part of the fun of this jam for me, is that there are things the Allies are into that I don't follow at all. like Japanese RPGs. 

Can anyone give me an example of their favorite status effect spell (maybe a case where it kicked a boss's ass?).

So this rule about status effect spells virtually never working on bosses is kind of a mystery to me. I've seen poison effects in a ton of games. and "darkness" in that 3DS street pass adventure game (#@!$%!).  But i just haven't seen a lot of "status effect spells" in action. I googled up the whole trope (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StandardStatusEffects ). So i'll probably just forge ahead with poison/silence/paralysis. (or make up my own stupid-er effects). 

But I'm really curious if there are a bunch of other effects out there. Or a set that a big japanese-RPG-fan would enjoy. Or expect. ... Oor maybe if there was a "greatest boss battle" moment in all those Final Fantasy games, where a status effect spell really mattered.

jusssst curious! thanks for any thoughts.

ah, googled this https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HotSpringsEpisode
and these examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2H_YnXF93U  (Hot Spring | Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tPheIboaeU (Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES Hot Springs Scene - Fail)

sooooo. this is purely a pervy thing?  uhhh, So now i feel bad for asking for examples. but. curious if anyone has examples of this NOT being pervy.
and/or maybe an example of the worst (most jarring?) use of it?

Hey all, 
i'm not a big anime guy. Can anyone point me towards an example(s) of this whole "Bad Anime Hot Spring scene"?

(all I know of is the memory flashbacks to hot springs in Ranma 1/2. Which were kinda awesome and magical, informing the present. sooooo. just curious to see what i'm missing. hoping there might be some on youtube)