🐜 Tiny World Jam 🧃
A game jam about small worlds, huge adventures, and tiny heroes.
Welcome to Tiny World Jam — a jam where the world is small,
but the adventure feels enormous.
In this jam, your task is to create a game that takes place in a
tiny world.
Maybe the player is a bug, a toy, a tiny robot, a miniature creature,
or something so small that a normal room becomes a dangerous open world.
🌍 Theme
“Small World, Big Adventure”
Your game should make the player feel tiny.
A table can become a mountain.
A kitchen can become a battlefield.
A bedroom can become a mysterious city.
A glass jar can become an entire planet.
The most important part is scale.
The player should look at normal objects and feel like they are giant, dangerous,
useful, strange, or magical.
🎮 What can you make?
You can create any type of game:
- Horror — survive as a tiny toy while something huge walks around the house.
- Platformer — jump across pencils, books, boxes, wires, and shelves.
- Survival — collect crumbs, build a shelter, and avoid spiders or vacuum cleaners.
- Puzzle — use everyday objects in creative ways to reach new places.
- Adventure — explore a hidden civilization under the floor.
- Simulation — manage a tiny bug colony, toy town, or miniature base.
- Racing — drive a tiny car across a messy desk or kitchen counter.
- Story game — tell a emotional or funny story from the view of a tiny character.
💡 Game idea examples
🧸 Toy Horror
You are a small toy in a dark room. The player must hide from a human, a pet,
or something unknown moving in the shadows.
🐞 Bug Survival
You are an insect trying to survive on a kitchen floor. Crumbs are food,
water drops are lakes, and a shoe is a natural disaster.
🤖 Micro Robot Mission
You are a tiny robot inside a broken computer. Explore circuits, avoid electric danger,
and repair the system from the inside.
📦 Cardboard Kingdom
A small civilization lives inside a cardboard box. Build, defend, trade, and explore
the giant room outside.
🕷️ Under The Floor
A creepy adventure where the player discovers a secret world under the wooden floorboards.
📜 Rules
- Your game must be made during the jam period.
- The game must follow the main theme: tiny world.
- You can work alone or in a team.
- You can use any engine: Unity, Unreal, Godot, GameMaker, RPG Maker, Construct, Scratch, or your own engine.
- Free assets are allowed, but you must have permission to use them.
- AI tools are allowed, but do not submit a game that is fully generated without your own work.
- No stolen games, stolen art, or stolen music.
- Keep submissions safe for the itch.io community.
⭐ Rating Criteria
Games will be rated by the community based on these categories:
- Theme — how well the game uses the tiny world idea.
- Creativity — how original and interesting the concept is.
- Gameplay — how fun or engaging the game feels.
- Atmosphere — visuals, sound, mood, and world feeling.
- Polish — how complete and clean the game feels.
🏆 What makes a good Tiny World Jam game?
A good submission does not need to be huge.
It just needs one strong idea.
Try to make normal objects feel different.
A spoon can be a bridge.
A phone charger can be a tunnel.
A sock can be a cave.
A chair can be a tower.
A sink can be an ocean.
The best games in this jam will make players say:
“I never looked at normal objects like this before.”
🛠️ Tips for developers
- Use big everyday objects to show scale.
- Make the camera low to the ground.
- Add huge shadows and loud footsteps for atmosphere.
- Turn normal items into level design pieces.
- Keep your scope small. A short finished game is better than a giant unfinished one.
- Focus on one memorable mechanic or location.
📦 Submission ideas
Your game could be about:
- a mouse trying to steal food from a kitchen;
- a tiny explorer climbing a bookshelf;
- a robot repairing a console from the inside;
- a toy escaping from a child’s room at night;
- a bug colony fighting for crumbs;
- a mini city hidden inside a wall;
- a tiny wizard living in a teacup;
- a race across a messy desk;
- a survival horror game inside a basement;
- a peaceful farming game inside a flower pot.
🚀 Final message
Be creative.
Be strange.
Make the player feel tiny.
Your game does not need to be perfect.
It just needs to show a small world in an interesting way.
Good luck, and welcome to Tiny World Jam!
My Unity Asset Store Assets
Need tools or ready-made systems for your jam game?
You can check out my assets on the Unity Asset Store. They can help you save time, prototype faster, and focus more on making your horror game scary and playable.
Using my assets is completely optional. You can join the jam with any engine, any tools, and any workflow.
Check my Unity Asset Store assets
