This jam is now over. It ran from 2024-08-18 04:00:00 to 2024-09-09 04:00:00. View 29 entries

Do you have WIPs that you've put on indefinite hiatus?
Projects you've started and then abandoned or forgotten?
Then this is the place for you.

The Bring Out Your Ghosts jam is a place to show off the ghosts of the game development process. Abandoned or forgotten WIPs. Overly ambitious projects that never got off the ground. Notes and ideas for games that never came to be.

The name and timing of the jam is inspired by the Ghost Festival (or Zhongyuanjie) in East Asian tradition, a time when the ghosts of the deceased are said to visit the living. Imagine being visited by the ghosts of dead WIPs. What would they say?

Inspired by the Bring Out Your Dead Jam, hosted by Emily Short.

Rules

  • Incomplete and abandoned games, ideas, notes, etc. are all welcome.
  • Projects updated because of this jam are also okay. If you decide to revisit (or finish!) an old abandoned project because of this jam, that's great!
  • This jam is focused on interactive fiction and narrative-centered games.
  • As with the original Bring Out Your Dead Jam, it would be nice if you include some context in the Author's Notes when submitting. How did your project come about? Why was it abandoned or forgotten? What lessons can be learned from the process? This is optional but encouraged :)
  • While the creators of this jam come from the interactive fiction community, any games, physical games, text, etc. are allowed.
  • You must credit any asset used in your entry, or it will be removed (ex: code, images, sound, etc...)
  • Entries using AI or LLM will be removed.
  • No hateful content or spam entries.
  • Limit of 3 submissions per person.
  • The Jam is open to any language.

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Submissions(17)

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One page RPG system using 3d20
A cute little game about a witch boy collecting stuff to surprise his half-plant girlfriend!
Visual Novel
Be inspired and make a game that is Crafted in a Shell
Generative tables for cyberpunk TTRPGs. On the poetic side. Bleep bloop.
Hallow Hunt is a halloween themed 2D top down shooter with random map generation, full of spooky enemies and bosses!
Shooter
thing
Strategy
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Just TRY and meet the whole family.
Interactive Fiction
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A WIP concept demo in Ink.
Interactive Fiction
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You wake up locked in a basement. Time to escape!
Interactive Fiction
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"Not the house I expected."
an unfinished work with annotations by the author
Interactive Fiction
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Babysit a Fictional Anime Vampire
Interactive Fiction
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Unfinished mondegreen game
Interactive Fiction
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grief in a few words
Interactive Fiction
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Role Playing
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