This jam is now over. It ran from 2024-02-02 10:00:00 to 2024-02-05 10:00:00. View results

THE THEME is: Darkness within

Voting results are available here


Trijam is a weekly game jam where your goal is to make something playable (and fun!) in just 3 hours, and our history shows that it’s more than just possible! Here’s a short video explaining how it works if you don’t feel like reading the page.



The rules are simple: try your best to make the game in 3 hours, but even if you can’t - still submit it, you are allowed to go overtime! However, only games developed in 3 hours or under are eligible to get the 1st place. The time only counts for building your game, that is, any coding, making sound effects/music, art, and other assets. Writing a design doc, coming up with ideas, compiling your game, or making the itch.io page for it does not!

You can split your time into however many chunks you want, too - work on it for 3 hours straight, or for one hour each session, or any other way you may prefer!

Have a team? Great! Everyone on your team gets their own 3 hours! One person may focus on one part, another on another, and so on. There are no restrictions on team sizes, so invite your friends!

Using pre-made assets is no problem, just make sure that you have the necessary rights to use them, and attribute them in your game’s description properly.

Also, if possible, prefer web/HTML5 builds of your games so more people can play them!

Every week, the community (that’s you!) votes on the theme for the jam out of 5 themes we arbitrarily choose. We sometimes take theme suggestions too! Join our Discord (see below) to take part in that. You are free to interpret every theme in any way.

The theme gets announced every Friday, along with the next jam’s page on our Discord.

The jam takes place every weekend from Friday 9 AM UTC - Monday 10 AM UTC, so there is plenty of time for you to take part!

After the jam is over, the voting period starts and ends on Wednesday 7 PM UTC.

The games are rated in a 5 star system in the following categories



You can vote however you like, as long as your votes are consistent across all games. Whether 4/5 for graphics means “it’s nice” or “it’s not that nice” to you, make sure to apply that to all games equally! Thanks!

Every week after the jam has ended, we have two streamers who will play your games and give feedback. They are:

Rocknight Studios (Twitch) will livestream your games on Wednesday. They will need either a Linux or a web/HTML5 build of your game.

Paanch Tanmatra Studio (YouTube) will livestream your games. They can also play Windows games.

Use hashtag #Trijam on Twitter during the jam and we'd love to check out your games and retweet @TrijamGJ.

To get notifications on these livestreams, join our Discord where you can chat with fellow jammers!


Here’s a history of previous winners!

 


Submissions(49)

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whale(true) { tryEscape(); }
Puzzle
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Free the animals possessed by the evil shadow.
Action
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Therapy can feel like a journey to nowhere...
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Escape from maze and darkness within yourself.
Puzzle
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"It's like putting a loaded gun on the table and turning out the lights!"
Shooter
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Watch your black hole grow as you feed it as much as you can. This game was made in 2h 30m. Made for the Trijam#255
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Mine out a randomly generated cave, buy upgrades, and escape the cave.
Survival
darknesswithin1
Survival
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A piece of coal tries to help out
Adventure
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Short and fun banana hunting game
Adventure
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Just how life feels like sometimes.
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Immerse yourself in the story of this man and his wife.
Visual Novel
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Survive as long as you can in this shooter game!
Survival
You need to.
Action
Survive the darkness
Platformer
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Convince an AI not to shut down.
Visual Novel
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[Trijam 255] A breakout-like game in the dark.
Action
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Action
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Granny needs her meds
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An unfinished game, with a friendly monster guy
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Runner about collecting souls and slashing darkness
Action
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Game made in 3 hours!
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You are a doctor that can take darkness or give darkness
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A Knight must prove his courage by surviving a night in the Woods
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[Web Build on Game page] You are a creature of light. Light up the dark wells and avoid the void to reach the surface.
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Puzzle
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You got swallowed by sea serpent. Try to make it out.
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You are an imposter with THE VOID inside you. And it's hungry! Feed it by eating crew members.
Action
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just a normal tamagotchi game
Simulation
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A conversation game
Interactive Fiction
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A dragon in the dark!
Platformer
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Dungeon-Crawler
Action
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Shooter
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face the darkness go into the cave come out rich or more...
Platformer
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Simple game created for Trijam 255, made under 3 hours
Action
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I can be good, despite the darkness inside of me
Adventure
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Survive in the darkness.
Action
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Puzzle
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Don't be overwhelmed by the darkness within
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This is a submission for Trijam#255
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Top-Down Shooter in which you put curses on yourself.
Shooter
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Trijam #255 Darkness within
Puzzle
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Slay Cthulhu's minions to protect the Light as long as you can
Shooter
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prototype proof of concept
Platformer
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Trijam #255
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