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Building on older works

A topic by Michael Penny created 22 days ago Views: 55 Replies: 2
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Hi! Back in 2023 I made a few games for the 12-word jam, including a pair of shitpost-y lyric games inspired by the myth of Sisyphus. When I saw the new jam's theme was Infinity, I couldn't resist making a new 48-word "special edition" of each of those games.

  • One game is all about an infinitely repetitive task. The joke/artistic statement with the new version is that it mostly repeats the 12 words from the original 4 times to fill out the word count, with only very minor variation in wording and layout to make it flow correctly. You're still carrying out the same repetitive task, but now the text itself follows that pattern of repetition. Thus it feels like a sequel which makes more sense if you've read the original, but none of its component parts are new.
  • The other game does have 12 brand new 3-word prompts, a new font and layout, and something new to say, but it still includes the 4 prompts from the original version so it's not 100% new material.

I'm now wondering whether I should submit it to the jam. Does revisiting an older project like this, treating the 48-word version as a new work that's in conversation with the original rather than just a remaster, do enough to satisfy your criteria for "made within the jam period"?

Cheers!

HostSubmitted

That sounds like a cool idea to me.

Are they going to be uploaded as new itchio projects?

Submitted

Yeah, absolutely! The overwrought Special Edition marketing blurb on the new project page will be part of the joke.