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An analogue game jam on folklore (including myths, urban legends, etc.) from one's own culture. 

(Deadline extended to the end of September.)

Rules

  1. Write an analogue game that incorporates elements from a folklore of your own culture.
    1. An analogue game is a game that can be played in physical space (but with the advance of technology, can also be played online), such as tabletop role-playing game, LARP and board game.
    2. Folklore, myths, urban legends are all allowed. It doesn't have to be a popular folklore; it can be the story of an old tree that only you and your friends know about.
    3. Said folklore should be from a culture you are a part of.
  2.  Old games are allowed, as long as they are made in 2020, or updated this year.
    1. Revisit your old games and see what you can learn/improve from it.
    2. The update can be trivial, such as fixing typos.
  3. Have fun!
    1. Don't push yourself too hard. Take regular breaks and stay hydrated!

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A game of life interrupted. By Garfield, specifically.
A Chinese Mythology Role-playing Game
A solo game where you play as a paranormal investigator staying 13 nights at a haunted bed and breakfast.
A tiny little system for playing heisting tricksters
a 1-page racing game with fairies and corgis
A Treasure Hunt to be undertaken in strictest Silence and Solitude, for a Single Player
In this kid-friendly roleplaying game, help Draculola make the spoopy realm of Zitterstein a better place.
A roleplaying game of folk ballads and justice
A storytelling game for two to five players going for a walk in the outdoors.
a storytelling game based on indian folklore
You have been poisoned by a spiteful fae. A Tabletop Game for 1-4 Players
A game of magic, mystery, and community
A Shared Narrative where you Safe the Island today or tomorrow, or the day after .. doesn't matter - it's always Today!
A fantasy golf dice game about escaping from Golf Hell through victory in a demonic golf tournament.
A storytelling game about the year in the life of a small, farming community, as told to the town's bees.
A Shared Narrative for 2 players about Transformations and Magical Girls
A Belonging Outside Belonging game in the fantastical Scandinavian woods
A collaborative storytelling game about the things that live on the edge of town...
a small 1-player game about mapping a town that meant something to you
A Descended from the Queen game about the haunted backroads.
A Descended From the Queen game about a ghost of uncertain character
An intimate Partner Game
A #FolkloreJam Game about sharing dreams, and the consequences
Whenever A Branch Falls From The Old Oak Tree. One Of Your Family Will Die.
A demonic bestiary for Small Town Gothic, A Tabletop Adventure Game
A GMless game about exploring an old Canadian PSA
A Maltese solo storygen TTRPG of survival and escape from a world deep underground.
a #wscajam game about Mythical Irish Heroes and Folklore
a tiny, campy game about cortaditos, cocaine, and cryptids.
storytelling is how we preserve our history
Wights
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A role-playing game about protecting your community and punishing the wicked
a collection of folklore games
A short game of small creatures and small comforts
A game about people who flee to nature to deal with their trauma
A solo journaling game for naughty children
A Story of Letting Go
An active 2-player game inspired by Korean folklore.
Waterfall dwelling spider farmers with a taste for human flesh
A two-person RPG about resistance, pipelines, and Appalachia.
A Story Game About Cleaning Out Your Basement
A 2-player storytelling card game about desire and transgression, made for the 2020 Folklore Game Jam.
A zine about how to play a card game with a dying grandmother.
A Lovecraftesque scenario based on a Korean folktale.
A storytelling roleplaying game set in a more magical version of the modern world.
Explore your neighbourhood while helping to re-home a ghostly dog.
A bookmark-sized character creator based on Korean folk culture.
A game about tradition and its legacy
Two-player storytelling game about overprotective ghosts.
Folkloric creatures adjusting to human life
Welcome to Chicago, Hallowe'en 1913. Can you sneak into Hull House and prove that the rumored Devil Baby is real?
a beachcombing memory game for one player
A ranked-dice stealth & exploration game set on a miniature scale.
A one-page RPG about dealing with the Devil
a game about what counts as folklore and what people remember about the past
A card-based party game about hunting Bigfoot!
a 2-player game about strained and dramatic reunions.
Hunting the Hodag is a survival horror narrative based storytelling game.
A love-touch larp about butterflies and buoyancy
A game representing Cornish Knockers found in mines (Card Game)
A Bylina for Three Players
A #folklorejam2020 romp through the mythic Blue Mountains
A game of moose-like determination & attention-seeking behavior.
In development
A story game of talking animals, trains, and the secrets we hide.