Welcome!

Imagine - you and your friends are hiking in a forest, a guide familiar with these woods leading the way.  You take in the fresh air, listen to the birds chirping in the treetops above you... but suddenly you catch a twinkling out of the corner of your eye.  Could it be... a fairy?  A magical being of olde?  Against the wishes of your guide, you chase the light into a ring of mushrooms, where you find yourselves transported to a reality entirely separate from your own.  You pull out your phone to check Google Maps, but alas, Verizon does not have coverage in the fae wilds.

How do you occupy yourself while your guide gets their bearings?

The Jam

Create a new game that only uses the apps that came pre-installed on your phone. Smartphones have access to an ever deepening well of games and apps, but we're taking a step back to strip these miraculous little devices back down to their bare necessities.  Think of these like folk games, for our smart phones!

Rules

• Your game must only use the apps that came pre-installed on your phone!  If you download a lot of apps and are unsure which ones were default, you can try using the Challenge App list below, or do a little digging on your phone model.
• Submissions should be mostly instructional in nature - they may be text documents, a .pdf file with pictures, a slideshow, or any other way you can effectively explain how to play your game.
• If your game requires an additional set of files (pictures, sounds, text documents, etc.) for the game to be played, you may include those as well in your submission, as long as they are still being used within pre-installed apps.

~Optional~ Challenges

• Use the theme:  GROWTH
• Make a multiplayer game.
• Create your game using only smartphone apps from this list:
  • Calculator
  • Calendar
  • Camera
  • Clock/Timer/Stopwatch
  • Contacts List
  • Notepad/Lists
  • Phone
  • Photo Gallery
  • Settings
  • Voice Memos/Recordings
• Remember, if you want others to be able to play your game, the more commonplace the app the better!

Need Inspiration?

• Jam #1 and Jam #2 Submissions!
• Play With Your Own Junk!
• Folk Games, Festivity and Subversive Game Design by Douglas Wilson
• Danny Hawk's Folk Game Tiktoks Thread
• Bernie DeKoven's Funny Games List
  
• Holly Gramazio's 21 Games