The Write A Game Challenge!
A game jam about game writing!
Supported by:
OUR PRIZES:
From One Story Games:
✍ Elite Writer subscription to StoryStylus for 1 year
✍ Exclusive membership to our Literary Council to help shape the future of the games portal and StoryStylus' development
From RPG Maker/Game Dev Fort:
Several $ prizes in Game Dev Fort Store Credit + more to be confirmed!
From Focal Press:
Books related to game writing for each winning team!
And feedbacks from our pro jury! :)
OUR WINNERS:
ON A GENERAL NOTE:
The jury wants to congratulate all the WAG Challenge participants. The judges are blown away by the high quality of the entries and by what people pulled together in only a month! There were extraordinary games made during this contest. All the participants should be proud of their work. It's not easy to create something powerful and meaningful in such a short time frame. Congrats again, everyone!
PRO CATEGORY:
- WINNER: THE HOLLOW
The judges loved the writing of The Hollow. Polished to a shine, this game delivers a rich, nuanced story, with good characterizations and dialog. It addresses the nature vs. nurture question, but set in the world of animals specifically. It's also a smart take on grief and parental death in fairy tales. Great job, guys!
AMATEUR CATEGORY:
- WINNER: THE BOTTOM OF THE WELL
The Bottom of The Well delivers an entertaining, branched story with interesting options. Alice's dream is genuinely terrifying. The conversations feel natural and appropriate. Players can randomize their character stats, but still negotiate the game with deliberate and meaningful choices. The final game stats give The Bottom of the Well immense replay value. One judge played the game several times to find the "best" ending!
- RUNNER UP: ERAVOLA
The judges love Eravola for its subtlety. The branching narrative suggests the larger story more than it outright states it, and the "down the rabbit hole" connection is there without being blatant. Framing devices like screen skipping and a character index complicate this story of a sage's visit to a small town and the tragedy that follows. As the central mystery develops, Eravola's story becomes more complex. It left the judges wanting more.
-RUNNER UP: TRISKELE
The members of the jury appreciate Triskele's fantastic and lively lore. They are impressed by how the world opens up based on seemingly mundane choices. The writing reminds them of Ray Bradbury, China Mieville; and the judges played several playthroughs in the hopes of finding out more about the story and the different endings, so kudos for that!
-HONORABLE MENTIONS: BEWARE THE FAERIE FOOD YOU EAT, MADRIGUERA
The preselection was:
Amateur category:
| Down The Wombat Hole | Felicity Banks |
| A historian's family history | Dani-Andre |
| Abandoned Stations, Empty Trains | Endelyon |
| Avner | kyuen1 |
| Beware The Faerie Food You Eat | Astrid Dalmady (@dastridly) |
| Beyond the Brick Wall | Drakkashi |
| Eravola | Chronologist |
| Heresies of Discord | Aegix Drakan |
| Lagomorph Soliloquy | alfheimwanderer |
| Langley | @PixelChronicles |
| Literate | Tophat_Haze (@TheStorysinger), Norbez (@NaomiNorbez) |
| Lost Girls and Daymares | anbrewk |
| Madriguera | Shonté (@JohnnyxH) |
| Red Skies | Shademare (@dboose4) |
| Segfault[0]: Mad Hatter | Connor Thomas Cleary (@ConnorTCleary) |
| The Bottom of the Well | Wolfrug |
| The Drowning House | Richard Cochnar (@richcochnar) |
| The Idealist | BenCrispin |
| The Third Kind | Pizzamakesgames (@pizzamakesgames) |
| Triskele | chrisssims |
Pro category:
| Clockwork Benny | superpoint |
| How to Die Like a Graceful Beast | Aleks Samoylov (@Aleks_S) |
| I'm Falling | SadJesterGames (@SadJesterGames) |
| Norman | Samantha Wallschlaeger (@StillNotSam) |
| The Hollow | TomIrony |
Special thanks to our
pro jury Tobias Heussner, Ann Lemay, Anna Megill and John Ryan!
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A friendly contest curated by:
GENERAL RULES
THE WAG CHALLENGE FORUM
Submissions(81)
All submissions
· Browser playable (39)
· Windows (34)
macOS (16)
Linux (13)
Android (2)
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A story about the origin of all the stars in the sky and the people who loved among them.
Interactive Fiction
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A visual novel about funny animals, and the nature of Nature.
Visual Novel
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They say that some of the faerie folk can grant wishes...
Interactive Fiction
The sun has died. You have been seduced to Edinburgh below the Stair. But at what price?
Role Playing
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A boy and his Schrödinger Dog - play at https://www.inklewriter.com/stories/68898
Interactive Fiction
A dark story about twisting perception and identity and truth.
Interactive Fiction
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As a hacker-for-hire, you've stumbled into a system unlike any you've ever encountered.
Interactive Fiction
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Clockwork Benny is a critique of the human condition. It's also a fun game with bloodz, man.
Simulation
Dr. Sato is a psychologist who is about to reveal his secret research
Adventure
You have received a telegram from your old friend Warren.
Adventure
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Damian Doyle. Ceri Armes. A simple love story. Everlasting.
Platformer
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In search of a missing person on an abandoned asteroid mine.
Interactive Fiction
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What would you pay in order to save your world?
You awaken from the crash in a strange place. You seem to have lost track of yourself.
Adventure
A 1930s detective agency is hired to recover a mysterious book that has been stolen.
Adventure
Dedicated to everyone who commutes on underground trains.
Adventure
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A Twine game about a young man questioning his place in a utopian society.
Adventure
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What's the big idea?
A woman searching space for answers, her only company a rapidly deteriorating AI and memories of lost love
Visual Novel
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Sometimes, there are no winners, only different ways to lose. But, hopefully, different ways not to lose oneself.
Adventure
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A three-move, choice-based interactive fiction.
Role Playing
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I stare unblinkingly at lagomorphs trying to claw their way to the center of the world.
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An AI exploring the wreck of an alien craft uncovers the terrible fate of its crew and – an entire civilization.
Platformer
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Down the rabbit hole in a hellhole town of Mitrovica
A simple tale involving a light in the distance.
Looping short story about not changing the past
A little bunny goes looking for her mother.
Explore the exciting parts of everyday life, before confronting something we all hope to avoid.
Simulation
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