Tactics Time is a game jam built around turn-based tactics and strategy games. This game jam runs for 2 weeks. Join this jam to create your own original system designed to run turn-based tactics and strategy games. This jam is open to both pen & paper games, as well as LARPs, TTRPGs, and games played electronically.

Tactics Time is a genre of strategy games that through stop-action simulates the considerations and circumstances of operational warfare and military tactics in generally small-scale confrontation.

Turn-Based Strategy is a genre of strategy game where players take turns when playing rather than going at the same time.

Things You Can Do

• Brainstorm, outline, and work on concept art before the jam begins, but please keep the final assets and game creation to the two week long jam period!
• Work solo or in a team! feel free to check the jam’s community here on itch.io to look for collaborators if you’d like to form a team. Or ask around on twitter using the #TBTJam
• Make use of premade and paid assets in your project is also allowed, provided you use them according to the creator’s terms.
• Submit unfinished work if you feel comfortable sharing it; you don’t have to submit a perfectly polished project and are welcome to show off whatever you create as a prototype or proof-of-concept, whether it’s an unfinished demo or a collection of assets you were able to create during the jam.

This is open to both pen & paper games, games played electronically and LARPs games & systems.

Resources & Help

If you want to collaborate or talk to other jammers, there’s a community forum here, as well as a channel on my own server House of Many Cats check out the Jam Band channel for fellow jammers. Please ping me - KaosCryptid [hashtag] 1810 for channel access.

New to game development? Not a programmer? Here are some free resources for you that are easy to medium-difficult to learn, though some are only free trials or only free for non-commercial use or released to certain platforms:

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• Tiny Tools Directory - https://tinytools.directory/
• Twine - http://twinery.org/
• Ren’Py - https://renpy.org/
• Bitsy - https://ledoux.itch.io/bitsy
• Flicksy - https://candle.itch.io/flicksy
• Mosi - https://zenzoa.itch.io/mosi
• Inform - http://inform7.com/
• Construct 2 - https://www.scirra.com/
• Stencyl - http://www.stencyl.com/
• Gamemaker Studio 2 - https://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker
• RPGMaker - http://www.rpgmakerweb.com/
• GameSalad - https://gamesalad.com/
• Adventure Game Studio - http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
• Quest - http://textadventures.co.uk/quest

Other resources for beginners:

• http://www.sortingh.at/
• http://www.pixelprospector.com/game-development/

Here are some resources for if you want to create an analog (tabletop or live-action) game:

• RPG Design Zine - https://ndpdesign.itch.io/rpg-design-zine
• The Gauntlet RPG Forums - https://forums.gauntlet-rpg.com/
• r/RPGDesign - https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGdesign/
• https://medium.com/a-taste-of-madness/level-zero-how-to-start-designing-your-first-tabletop-role-playing-game-c70820702041
• https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SoYouWantTo/WriteATabletopRPG
• http://www.genesisoflegend.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Tabletop-RPG-Design-101-Public-Draft.pdf
• https://nerdyshow.com/rpgfromscratch/
• Golden Cobra Challenge - http://www.goldencobra.org/
• Pattern Language for LARP Design - http://www.larppatterns.org/
• Nordic LARP - https://nordiclarp.org/
• Game Wrap - https://gamewrap.interactiveliterature.org/
• Larp Library - https://library.interactiveliterature.org/
• Leaving Mundania - http://leavingmundania.com/start-here/
• http://analoggamestudies.org/2016/11/the-mixing-desk-of-larp-history-and-current-state-of-a-design-theory/
• https://stonemaiergames.com/kickstarter/how-to-design-a-tabletop-game/
• https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-learn-board-game-design-and-development--gamedev-11607
• Board Game Design Lab - https://www.boardgamedesignlab.com/
• Affinity Publisher Zine Templates - https://metaparadox.itch.io/affinity-publisher-zine-templates

If you have any questions or want to have some input on the jam, please tweet me at asalwaysimani, ping me on discord KaosCryptid [hashtag] 1810 or by leaving a comment in the community section.

Use the hashtag #TBTJam on Twitter to talk about your project. And feel free to join my own server and check out the Jam Band channel (ping me - KaosCryptid [hashtag] 1810 for channel access)