This jam is now over. It ran from 2025-07-11 23:00:00 to 2025-07-21 05:00:00. View 16 entries

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

Submissions(16)

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dentist x vampire
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Short wave-based survival game with minions!
Action
Steal from your awful boss and earn the afterlife you deserve!
Simulation
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A small ghoul gets curious about the surface...
Adventure
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short bullet hell about point-blanking, grazing, and unleashing overwhelming power!
Shooter
A game about digging holes for yummy stuff
Adventure
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A ghoul learns how to farm in a tiny adventure game.
Play in browser
Submission for The Worst Game Jam 3
Platformer
Help find a monster school trip's missing child!
Visual Novel
Play in browser
WIP tower defence project
A podcast episode for The Worst Game Jam 3
DND 5e adventure made for the The Worst Game Jam July 2025.
Killers should fear the undead, because their secrets are no longer buried.
A bare-bones clicker game
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