What is this game jam?

This is the third game jam hosted by the unofficial gamedev community of The Worst Garbage Online podcast network's Discord server! (Links for server channels below)

Everyone is welcome to participate, individually or in teams, and with any amount of creative background (including none!)

And for the purposes of this jam everything is a game and every type of submission counts! Everyone is encouraged to create whatever they want: video games, board/tabletop games, music, visual art, video, creative writing, or anything else.

Theme

Hold Your Ghouls Close

Episode 195 of Video Game Podtimism

from April 7, 2024

Constraints help creativity, so the Jam is featuring a central theme. You can interpret the theme in any way you want, no hard rules here.

How to participate?

• Click "Join jam" at the top of the page (you can do that before the jam begins)
• Join the TWGJ forum thread (join TWG Discord server, in the "Games Forums" section pick the "games-events" forum, and look for The Worst Game Jam forum thread)
• Pick a "Game Jams" role in the "Channels and Roles" section on the server to be notified of important gamejam-related messages
• Submit all files for your game before the jam ends (no late submissions!)

Rules

• The jam is going to be held from UTC 23:00 July 11th to UTC 05:00 July 21st
• Submissions are not going to be rated
• Teams and collaborations are allowed
• You are allowed to use any assets and tools you either created yourself or have permission/commercial license for, but please list what you used in the submission description
• Don't break Itch.io TOS
• Be cool, kind to each other and yourself, and overall low-key :)

Other useful things

• A recommendation: focus on your game being playable and working above all else and don't make last minute changes, those often lead to unintended consequences
• A discussion about useful tools for making a game at the game jam thread if you are not sure what to use
• Check previous jams here: TWGJ #1 (June 2024), TWGJ #2 (January 2025)
• The wonderful Into the Aether artwork used on this page is created by scout!
• This jam already became a recurring thing, so if you can't make it this time there's going to be another chance later!