This jam is now over. It ran from 2024-04-26 04:00:00 to 2024-06-01 04:00:00. View 68 entries

Calling all the lost, broken, and unplayable ideas. Everything discarded, unfinished, dreamt but never written. Word docs rusting in a dust-laden folder. Mostly-empty journals with doodles and notes. Put them here.

Something small. Something weird. A poem, a song, a twisted series of words that we call “game.” An odd drawing, a playtest of something never released, a walkthrough of something never seen. The review of a game you’ll never imagine. The play report that drags a game into existence.

Lyric games, ergodic games, literature games, art games, video-game games, dream games, ritual games, dance games, fighting games, a game where we look at the moon and share the secrets she whispers to us. 

I want everyone to make at least one “unplayable” game. I want this to be the pit where we cast these magic pdfs, txts, gdocs, mp3s, comics, and htmls. The pit that bubbles and boils and churns and that we can all drink from and gather inspiration. We cast them so that they can become fuel for the next thing. To share what we desire and dream of so that everyone can dream something new.

This jam runs for 1 month. And I want you in. I want you to write something. Now. Today. Upload a jpg of something scrawled on a napkin. Unclog the drain and let your ideas spill out. No holding back. 

I want to find the next great experimental game in these submissions. I want to find the line that makes me shiver with delight. 

This jam would not be possible with the SnowTTRPG discord server, where we’ve talked about this kind of thing before and will continue to do so for quite a long time

Lost, Broken, Unplayable Rules

  1. Create a game that is lost, broken, or otherwise unplayable.
  2. Upload it as a txt, pdf, jpg, html, mp3, .wad or any other format.
  3. Add a title and submit it to the jam.
  4. Check out at least one other submission and rate it!

Hidden rule: Don’t just repost some older game of yours that you made a while ago. Old, hidden projects are fair game, but this is a jam. We’re in the house together right now slinging paint at one another. Make something NEW!

Appendix

Submissions(63)

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Windows (4)
macOS (1)
Android (2)

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a game you should never play with your loved ones, the bandaids in your apartment, and sharp teeth...
A system for breaking down systems
A demon lurks in these cards.
IS THIS A DREAM?
Adventure
A game where you must hide what you are to live
solo epistolary game of banishment and letters
Role Playing
The worst high-school reunion. Scenario seed for Liminal Horror
Scraps, Insights and Abandonware
This is all we can find.
An unplayable physical game about fighting people in real life
An unplayable singing game about the sin of avarice.
A Roleplaying Game of Time Wars and Paradoxes.
encounter and embody werebeasts on your real life walks
A dream of a game, about a dream of a home.
A guide for introducing philosophy to your fantasy roleplaying games
A combat system from a corrupted gamefaqs guide
An unplayable game about questing knights
Light weight and open rpg for your shared fantasy story telling experience and enjoyment
Goofy pirate TTRPG (one shot, zero-prep, GM-less, 4-8 players, 2ish hours, very silly)
A play-by-post fantasy roleplaying game in a world of wandering mages and long-dead gods
Adventure
Play in browser
A simple social revolution game
surprisingly comforting bad end for a game that doesn't exist
Visual Novel
Play in browser
i found this part of a monster battler(??) in my uncles stuff. haven't seen him since the flood (rip?)
A manual for the professional interpretation of dreams
a destructive trench warfare simulation
Solitary Jdr about intrusive thoughts
a game manual that doesn't exist
Little bits and pieces I suppose I'll never use.
A funny free TTRPG-draft about silly adventures in space
A Memo about a lost TSR Game of Psionic Warfare.
A game that can only be seen while looking over your shoulder. You've visited this town before. Maybe you never left.
goodbyes demand to be felt.
The Hollow is a solo journaling ttrpg similar to something you might find in Wretched and Alone.
An unplayable online class-based first-person shooter.
A game about remembering old friends
The game and world, that never were
an attempt to mix Nobilis 2e with a dungeon game
Adventure
A lifestyle mementobuilder
Lost Umbrella is a game where you play as a girl to push boxes to reach the umbrella.
Puzzle
Play in browser
A design theory document written for the Lost, Broken, Unplayable~ Jam
a toxic yuri breakup game sequel to teeth bingo card scavenger hunt
Una aventura de suspenso sin sistema
An ongoing Hungarian translation of Dream Askew by Avery Alder
An outline for a game I want to make, made for the 'Lost, Broken and Unplayable' Jam.
a lost game of human sacrifice and transgression
An unfinished attempt at a space opera game
Didn't have the time for it in the past but maybe I do now.
Visual Novel
An unfinished TTRPG for Snow's Lost, Broken, and Unplayable Game Jam
An unfinished Power Word Magic System for a fantasy game
An Unfinished Dungeon Delving TTRPG
Unfinished. Will likely remain that way.