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Make a Game featuring a Character Creator!

The Creative Theme is UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.

Join us in our Opening Stream on June 3rd and Closing Showcase Stream at twitch.tv/PIGSquad!

This jam will be fully remote.

A word on Character Creators:

  • Make a game that uses a character creator, a game about character creators, or a game that IS a character creator! It's time to experiment with player input on their avatar, whether that be cosmetic, gameplay-oriented, story-focused, or whatever you can think of!
  • Coven Ant, Cryptid Low-cation, Hot as Hell Paper Doll, Haste!, and Red Tag Rendezvous are good examples of PIGSquad game jam games that have character creators. 

Jam Schedule:

We will be hosting streams and other online activities to support jammers in meeting and sharing. This list will update over time. All times listed in Pacific time zone.

Rules & More Details:

  • These jams, the opening event, and the showcase will be fully remote. Non-Portlanders are welcome to participate.
  • Follow PIGSquad on social media channels for consistent updates on events, workshops, and other opportunities.
  • If you'd like to participate in choosing the creative themes for each jam, voting is exclusive to our Patreon members - learn more here!
  • All participants, in person or remote, must follow PIGSquad's Code of Conduct.
  • We encourage you to jam with new people or on a team, but it is not required. We will be providing resources for team forming at the jam kickoff and throughout the jam timeline. Please reach out to an organizer early if you need help finding teammates.
  • You may use pre-existing tools to make games, but please start your jam at the official jam start date after the Creative Theme is revealed.
  • Please don't crunch! We host game jams over extended periods of time and like having open conversations with jammers about scoping projects to encourage a healthy outlook on creative production schedules. If you need help scoping, please reach out!
  • Jammers retain full ownership of the games they make during Summer Slow Jams.
  • Late submissions or submission updates can be accepted - just get in touch with an organizer. Please note that games must be updated on your itch page multiple days before the showcase if you'd like the updated version of your game to be played at the jam showcase.
  • Extra special thanks to Ragon Dickard for creating Summer Slow Jams art! You can follow her on her website.

Summer Slow Jams:

Each summer, game makers get together to make a game project with friends and community members in a few weeks! Summer Slow Jams is a collection of game jam events happening once a month this summer, providing structure and networking opportunities for creatives in Portland and remote participants. Participate in a jam to finish a creative project, learn new things, meet new people, and share your work!

Creative themes are delivered during each kick off event then shared online, and developers are able to showcase their game jam projects at each closing event in Portland, OR (online this year). In between the dates of the kick off and closing showcase, you are encouraged to meet up with others using online channels to complete a game over whatever in-jam time period you see fit: take it slow if you need!

For more information about how to participate in Summer Slow Jams, visit pigsquad.com/summerslowjams! Summer Slow Jams this year include Character Creator Games in JuneStealth Games in July, and Boss Fight Games in August.

Tweet with the hashtag #summerslowjams and PIGSquad will retweet screenshots, video uploads, and blog posts of jam games while you're working on your games!

The Portland Indie Game Squad is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to supporting the health and continued expansion of game developer and enthusiast communities in Portland, the Pacific Northwest, and online. We provide events, resources, and networking activities for art and technology creatives. Learn more at PIGSquad.com.

PIGSquad Jam Games

To play more games made at Portland Indie Game Squad jams, visit our itch collections!

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Grow a mushroom from a spore to a fine young woman!
Interactive Fiction
Paint a caterpillar canvas.
Design your own Steampunk Character!
Role Playing
Play in browser
A dress-up Desktop pet that talks to you every hour!
A paper doll-style character creator/dress-up game made using hand-drawn and scanned assets.
Play in browser
Make a friend, feed it stuff, watch it grow!
Adventure
Play in browser
be a weird creature, spook your neighbours
Action
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Of Ramen and Monsters
Strategy
Play in browser
Summer Slow Jam 2022. A witch prepares for the achievement of her life, but will a new friend change her prospects?
Action
Play in browser
A Scientist and their assistant endeavor to create a monster at the forefront of Victorian science.
Visual Novel
Be the catwalk god, steal clothes and make your models look amazing!
Play in browser
Shape a lost spirit's character through the lense of your own bias!
Interactive Fiction
Monster idea generator app for character designer and game developers
Run in browser
the one & only horse generator! made during PIGSquad's character creator summer slow jam!
Racing
Play in browser
You are a goat in the forest, and you can be who you want to be
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
a collaborative storytelling game about what makes a hero, and the legacies we choose to remember
Dress-Up Doll Game X Mad Libs
Construct your own ship in this 3D shoot'em up!
Shooter
Buildabirb
Puzzle
Play in browser
A hack n slash using only a mouse
Action
Create a monster and watch it traverse a series of obstacles
Puzzle
Play in browser
Battle Bot Builder
Shooter
Play a character creator where you face off against the characters you didn't choose.
Adventure
YEEHAW PARTNER, IT'S TIME TO GET TO TRADIN'
Simulation
The unintended consequences of mad science!
Action
Capra is an environmental cozy game about herding goats.
simple character making tool for know only demo for jam
Run in browser
It is a Game
Puzzle
Character Search thingie made for Summer Slow Jams 22
Simulation
Build a deck to battle ill-omened culinary creations!
Card Game
Inject your consciousness into the ACT-O-MATIC, a brand new star raking in rave reviews!
A rule variant for HASTE!
24x24 front facing sprites for an adventure!
Character Creator Game made for PIGSquad Summer Slow Jam 2022
Interactive Fiction
Create the ideal employee to get hired...and maybe defeat an overlord or turn into a dog
Play in browser
A 3D chore simulator!
Adventure
A choose your own adventure RPG
Role Playing
UNFOLLOW EVERYONE
Play in browser
summer Adventures
Sports
Character Creator Bullethell
A SummerSlowJam22 Game
Simulation
Play in browser
Breakout meets Match-3. Watch out for the beasts!
Action
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Catch bugs to breed them
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The character creation may serve more of a purpose than aesthetics (incomplete)
Action
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Splicin' Babes on a Budget
Puzzle
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Featuring the most robust customization tools ever!
Simulation
Play in browser
A solo character creator puzzle game