This jam is now over. It ran from 2016-06-17 23:00:00 to 2016-06-26 23:00:00. View 77 entries

Bring Out Your Dead is an event for sharing dead WIPs and experiments that you don't expect to finish, but that you'd like to show to someone anyway. It's a chance to cleanse your hard drive, move on from old ideas, and salvage some learning from things that didn't work out. It's also an opportunity for your community to learn from your mistakes — which can be just as useful as learning from a success. Ambitious follies, bizarre experiments, toys, and notions that in retrospect never had a chance — all are welcome.

You are also welcome, and indeed encouraged, to provide some context about your work. What were you trying to achieve? What do you think is most or least successful about what you did? Why did you ultimately decide to abandon the project? Are there things you think others could learn from the project?

There is no ranking in this jam: it's not about competition and judgments. However, discussion is welcome, especially if you find something in someone's entry that sparks your imagination.

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Silly shooter clicker, progression, pacing experiment
Shooter
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A retro style game where you do cool stunts in a family car (UNFINISHED!)
Platformer
Trippy ROMHack Made With RPG Maker 2003
Role Playing
Incomplete political fantasy game about planning a wedding
Interactive Fiction
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Beautiful Hexagon Puzzler
Puzzle
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An exploration of abandoned games
Educational
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Who said germ warfare isn't fun?
Shooter
Interactive exploration game/story in twine. For Bring Out Your Dead jam.
Role Playing
Unfinished text adventure of an unnatural phenomenon that happened in Dubai in 1984
Adventure
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Unfinished visual novel: mystery and teen drama
Visual Novel
Two unsuccessful drafts of an IF game
Puzzle
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The interactive rhyming story of Kulhwch and Olwen
Adventure
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A Challenge in perspective.
Puzzle
An unfinished project; a submission to the Bring Out Your Dead jam.
Unfinished piece of Interactive Fiction from circa 2005
Role Playing
a really bad game that I poured my heart into at an age where one's heart outpourings are uniformly trash
Adventure
Procedurally generated mental exploration, released for Bring Out Your Dead
A game of space, fucking and murder.
Interactive Fiction
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Hunt for treasure and make new friends.
Adventure
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A backburnered parser IF game. You play as a dog.
Simulation
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Caravan is an IF piece about an important pilgrimage & the decisions you make along the way.
Role Playing
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Magic makes home renovations easier than ever. Almost too easy. (A sample game for the ContriverText engine.)
Adventure
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An [abandoned] interactive creation myth
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Game that was made for a friend's birthday.
Puzzle
An incomplete work, featuring MST3K-ish snarking at a series of old, weird and occasionally terrible parser games.
Adventure
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A game jam piece. Taught some Twine while exploring IF. Died in a fire of branch explosion.
Role Playing
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Be naughty or nice to your pet monster friend...
Simulation
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A recently abandoned text game--glide around a (desultory) procedurally generated world.
Simulation
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You are a rebel determined to bring the robot overlords to their metal knees! Just as soon as you get out of this cell.
Adventure
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Basically agario... But very glitchy
Old project for the BringOutYourDead jam
Platformer
Two unfinished storygames, for Bring out your Dead
An entity is called to Earth to attempt to help a few people move past tragedy.
Adventure
Collect cheese in crazy shifting mazes
Puzzle
An unfinished game from 2005, by Guy Minor (aka Caleb Wilson).
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Unfinished ant survival game
Simulation
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A game about waking up in a body that isn't yours
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A guided twine tour of ( C A U L S ) by Guy Minor, by Caleb Wilson.
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Fix a broken world to fix your broken self. An IF procedural generation extravaganza.
Role Playing
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Slenderman, but 2d... and you're a goat... and 7 pages.
Puzzle
Dwarf Fortress meets Versu meets Crusader Kings. (I can't imagine why it never got very far.)
A bad and incomplete game, exhumed for the #bringoutyourdead jam
Action
A tiny game for those with immense patience.
Puzzle
Create a cute little office worker...
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An unfinished tribute to Paul Panks, part of the "Bring Out Your Dead" abandoned-games jam.
Interactive Fiction
"There is a desert in the Roman Empire which is infinitely vast." Unfinished game for the BOYD jam. Play in Chrome.
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Point and Click adventure... that never started... :(
Adventure
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Parser interactive fiction proof of concept for an animate door
A very first attempt at a game
Puzzle