1. Hello! I'm Li, though I use the online moniker Altedi. I'm a recent college grad starting a career in graphic design who's also looking to dip their hands into web design and game development. Preferred pronouns are they/them/theirs.

2. Nope, didn't participate. I didn't know about it. I've always wanted to try and make my own game, though.

3. I'm a lifelong fan of the Pokemon games; I watched the anime when it first aired in the US, and five years later finally convinced my mom to let me get a GBA and Sapphire. Aside from that, I'm rather fond of The World Ends with You and Undertale, as well as the Zero Escape series. Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories really made an impression on me as a kid, and I do enjoy Bravely Default (repetition aside).

4. A little! I went to a week-long game development bootcamp seven years ago haha. We used Unity.

5. I really enjoy art and graphic design, and am constantly looking for ways to improve. I'm also rather fond of reading fantasy/scifi novels.

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?
hello! my name is link, i'm an agender teen whos almost 15 years old. i make fanmusic for shit on fl studio and i personally believe i'm gettin pretty good at it. also i draw things as well.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?
im afraid i havent. i saw this post on tumblr giving out information about it and i decided i wanted to join it! uvu

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?
man i love animal crossing, megaman, pokemon and undertale plus a million other games i cant remember atm. undertale has inspired me to want to make my own game due to how emotional things can get even if its a 'cartoony' type of game.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?
i attempted to work with rpg maker before, but i found it was a lot of effort that i simply didn't have to program everything lmao
im hoping through this ill be able to code more and do more with video game making

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

i love making music and drawing, and hopefully one day i can create something that many people can relate to and love. thaaats all i got. i hope i have fun making this n i hope i learn some new things thru this!! :D

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Heyo, I'm icecream. I'm not great with words.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I found out about this jam a couple of weeks ago, so no. I want to try my hand at making (and finishing) a game.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

Both Jet Set Radios, Okami, Journey, Harvest Moon... mostly stylized kinds of games that aren't so heavily centered around combat, the exception being Monster Hunter. And Wild Arms 2, one of my favorite story experiences to date.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

No real experience, just some playing around in RPG Maker and Unity learning some of their mechanics.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

I suppose I'm an overall art enthusiast since my own skills are mediocre at best. I always love looking at concept work and pop art. Also I love food and new recipes. It's not uncommon for someone to find me making pancakes at 1 AM.

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hello! I go by Blu or Vamp, it's nice to meet you all! I am a soon-to-be junior and I'm aiming for a degree in Game Design and/or Game Art!

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I could not participate in the last game jam due to being busy with school work. I feel that this will help hone my programming abilities and get a jump start on my field of study!

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

My personal favorite games are in the RPG or Simulation genres, but any games that focus more into story and the cast of characters with a hint of comedy always draw me in! A few examples are Disgaea, Harvest Moon, Fire Emblem, A few Tales of series, Blazblue, Ni no Kuni and so forth!

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I've played around with RPGMaker VX, VXAce and MV as well as a little bit of Game Maker. I used these engines mostly to get a feel of basic programming understanding and creating certain events to occur.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Whats up guys and girls? My name is Andrew Lillie. I'm studying infromatics and game design at Indiana University and recently finished up my first year.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I wasn't in the last game jam but i'm joining this one because I finally feel like i've learned enough about game development to put something out into the world.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

I like a lot of games but some that are especially important to me are Megaman, Street Fighter, Psychonaughts, Pokemon and Team fortress 2. The game i'm working on for this jam is a Megaman inspired platformer. Since the flop imo that was Mighty No.9 I guess I want to take a crack at improving the megaman formula. My goal is to have a playable level and maybe even a boss fight ready by the time the jam ends.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I've dabbled in just about every engine but the two ive spent the most time with are gamemaker and unity. As far as what ive done not a whole lot besides a bunch of prototypes that have never seen the light of day. I also enjoy making pixel art and have been making alot of improvements as of late but I still suck at animating.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

Well besides games the next thingI'd say i'm into is music. This whole summer has been planned around going to different shows and festivals all over the midwest. Some of my favorite bands are STRFKR, Tycho, Modern baseball, Cherub, The Front Bottoms, Run the Jewles, The Wonder Years, and Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra. Me and my real close group of friends all explore music together and are always looking for new stuff to listen to. If anybody here ever wants to share or talk about music i'm always down!

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hello everyone! You can call me Robusken or Jovany. I'm a 22 year old college student who just switched from graphic design to computer science. I'm real eager to give this all a shot and hopefully meet some people.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

sadly I didn't join it last time, didn't know about it. I think at the time I probably would have been too intimidated to try it honestly. Now that I've dabbled a little bit with programming, I want to give it a shot.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

I try to play a bit of everything but some that stick out are games like Pokemon, Final Fantasy, Persona, Transistor, TWEWY, and recently I've been really into Overwatch. These have all inspired me personally on some level but its the story telling of games like Transistor that push me to want to try and make a game of my own.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I'd say I have absolutely none. I'm still at the start of my CS degree so the programming I have been doing has been on this completely original but basic program made by my University. Other then that, I've messed around with HTML and Java on my own time and I hope I can pick up another engine somewhat quickly.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

I'm really into story telling and writing. I haven't been writing as much lately but I'm trying to write a little bit every day. Besides that I enjoy running and boxing a lot. Trying to train both body and mind during this summer.

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hello! I'm Connor, an 18 year old game-designer wannabe. I've got a lot of ambition, some (hopefully) interesting ideas, and just enough sarcasm to get by. Heading off to college for Game Design in August.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

Having missed the first Jam, I was wanting to participate in this one simply because I love games, and making games. I'm a fresh-out-of-high-school graduate with nothing to do for the summer, and I had a group of friends who I wanted to make a game with. So, here it goes.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

Listing my favorite games is nearly impossible, as what I own and what I've played are both incredibly large numbers (I have yet only been beaten number-wise on Steam by a single person that I know.) Anyhow, most recently I've been playing Deadbolt, Oxenfree, and OlliOlli 2. While DB and OO2 share a somewhat similar pixelart style, Oxenfree is low-poly. I've been enchanted by detailed pixel-art recently (DB, OO2, Eitr, Titan Souls, Stardew Valley) and luckily I have an amazing art team with me that could make my dream a reality.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?\

I have a fair bit of experience with game development. Mostly working with modding pre-existing games, or the Unity 4 engine. This time, though, I'm working with a group, and with GameMaker: Studio, so it should all be an interesting experience.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

I'm very passionate about music, from all kinds of genre. I love game OST's, Progressive / Modern House, Rap / Hip Hop, and just about anything else.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsS1yH1qo0ncdKnXr6RHWe2aj5ew_ttXK (My current playlist. Use the shuffle option.)

Lord please give me the strength to actually make a game this time and the power to not get bogged down learning sophisticated 3D techniques for a damn 2week gamejam!!!!! !!!!111!!!!!!!!

Let's try this again!!!!

I do have experience, especially since the last jam, and I want to do better! And be able to look back on a game and say boi I did that.

I am quite familiar with Unity but always get stuck on the dialogue part which kinda. Stops everything. But! Lets try this again.
I'm passionate about video games that's why I'm still here. Love JRPGs; slave to the deep storylines and never want to leave. I would like to become a member of a community and make friends too.

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

I am Ryan. I guess you could say I'm a failed artist. Four years out of college, got a BA in Studio Art, have done next to nothing with it, live with my parents - you get the picture.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

I did. The end result was an alpha build for a prospective game called The Cabin of the Doe. Working on that was the most animated I'd ever been since the year prior about making any kind of artwork, but I simply let the project get too big for its britches - there was simply no way to incorporate everything I wanted to do with that game in the span of a fortnight, and now that that jam has wrapped up, I've lost momentum on it entirely. I'll want to wrap things up with that game in the future, but for now, there's another work I've been itching to put a bow on for a while now. Like the last attempt, this game will simply be too big to finish in two weeks - so I'm sticking to a tight scenario that would play out in the full title, should I even get that far.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

I love Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden by Tales of Games, Dog of Dracula by TEAM BATSU, Dys4ia by Anna Anthropy, and Lakeview Cabin Collection by Roope Tamminen, among others. I suppose there's a lot of games that encouraged me to make my own, but my main motivator is personal irritation. I've had so many pie-in-the-sky ideas that never went anywhere because of a lack of understanding on my part, or just a failure to capitulate on my own wants and needs from a project. So, I guess I'm inspired by bitterness.

I4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I have a fair to middling amount of experience with game development, having made alpha builds of visual novels in Ren'py and platformers in Adobe Flash. This will be my first time doing any work in Unity, and I'm slowly building up anticipation, working through tutorials to see what's what with the system.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

Comics! I love telling stories in comic format, and that's a main source that I draw from and approach any artistic project with. This one is no exception, as I want to use my skills with storytelling to hopefully navigate this project into something playable.

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hi, I'm bluefootednewt. I'm currently majoring in Software Engineering (entering my 3rd year this autumn), and

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

Nope, only just now finding out about this! And my primary reason for joining is that I want to actually finish a game; I've started work on a couple of them, but they kind of ballooned out of proportion to the point where working on them started to seem somewhat overwhelming. I want to work on something small that I can finish and feel complete about.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

My favorite game of all time is EarthBound, and I would say it absolutely inspired me. I'm loving the recent resurgence in quirky RPGs with brilliant senses of humor alongside shifts in tone throughout them that really do make you feel like you're on an adventure. That's not to say I want every game to be like that, but when I think of inspiration, those are typically the games that come on top.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

Some experience, but not a huge amount. I've started projects in GameMaker, but nothing concrete ever came out. That's why I'm hoping I can produce something fruitful from this; really, this is a chance to prove to myself I can make something great.

That's really all I have to say. I look forward to creating something that people will enjoy!

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hi, I'm Kai and I've really taken an interest in indie games and want to make one for myself!

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

Nope! I've never done a jam before (I had plans to join a few but I've been super busy) but this seems like the perfect jam to get started making games!

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

Some of my favorite games are rpg maker games like yume nikki, off, ib, etc. I like horror games a lot, and maybe that's what I'll go for in this jam. I'm interested in visual novels too and maybe will take the idea I missed working on for ilujam and use it for this

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine

Nope. I'm entirely new to this ;^; !!!

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

I love talking about oc's and world building stuff, and write a lot of ideas in my free time for stories and characters (and never get around to putting them in anything WOOPS). I'd love to chat about your worlds and characters if you wanna!

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hello! I'm Ethyl. Biology student, just into this for fun~

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

No, didn't have time then. I'm taking this opportunity to get off my ass and start working on something original!

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

The game that inspired me the most to make my own is perhaps The Mirror Lied? Other than that, I think I've been influenced by RPG Maker horror games (the likes of Ib and OFF). If Umineko counts as a game, that too. I also enjoy Love Live ahahaha.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

Technically I've done something in Twine but i wasn't exactly making a game (trying to present a project for school in a creative way, more like)

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

I've been in a bit of a slump lately so I'm not sure if you can say I'm really "passionate" about much anymore? But I'm into Vocaloid song series, and Sound Horizon, and I Iove sketching out elaborate AU fanfiction (and never getting around to writing it)

I am really bad at talking about myself so I will try to keep it short and painless..

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hi! I am Aman, 2 years out of college and working for a software firm (nothing related to games).

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

No, timing wasn't right for me. I want to seriously get into games and this seems like a good place to start.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

This could be an endless list. I guess Gone Home, Firewatch, Dishonored, Max payne, Alan Wake, mostly narrative based games and CS. I would have to say it was Gone home that inspired me to some extent. It seemed almost reachable if that makes sense. I just started breaking down and analysing games after playing that.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I have done beginner level stuff with Unity but haven't finished a single game yet. Hope I complete it this time.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

I would like to tell stories using all aspects of the game so that there is no disconnect between narrative and game play.

1) Hi my name is Charles. I am a beginner game designer first time jammer. Really looking forward to this

2) Did not participate last time

3) I dont really have a favorite game to be honest. I did really enjoy sonic growing up as it was one of the few games I had at the time.

4) Haven't done nothing except following some tutorials using game maker.

5) I am passionate about wanting to create something that people will enjoy and want to share with others.

LOOKING FOR A TEAM :)

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Wazzup. I'm Tony, I'm a screenwriter. I've done a solo skydive. I'm writing a movie, a game, two TV shows, and some comics right now.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

So I missed the last jam due to other commitments, but I wanna get gamemaking now!

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

Uhhh, FEZ, Bioshock, Journey, Bloodborne, Last of Us, Arkham games, Halo 1-3, The Witness. Enjoying Animal Crossing and Alien Isolation right now. I can't pick out any one game that made me want to make my own, but I'd say that a common thread through most (but not all) of the games I listed is the inspiring writing/worldbuilding.

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

So I'm familiar with Twine for interactive fiction writing and have a LOT of experience writing regular fiction. I co-run a website called scriptflix.co.uk where you can find a portfolio of my writing. I've also made several unreleased games with GameMaker, but am looking to learn Unity.

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

I love speculative fiction, scifi, and fantasy, although I rarely write fantasy. I guess what I'm really passionate about is making writing in games better; if we're honest with ourselves, the best written games, when compared to the best written movies, TV, or novels, pale in comparison. We have not yet in this medium had a seminal text with influence on all of culture as even comics has had with Watchmen, let alone the dizzying heights reached by the big screen's greatest auters. But someday, hopefully in my lifetime, it'll happen, and I want to be part of it.

So that's about it! I'll work with anyone, and I'd really like to work on a culturally diverse team (I am a default human). I can be contacted at tony_worcester@me.com, or you can reach out on twitter @tonyjeffree.

1. Hi there! What's your name? Want to introduce yourself?

Hi all, My name is Erlia, 21 years old, Female, Asian (Chinese). Currently working as an office worker. My major didn't related with gaming, programming, or art at all. It's just an hobby of mine since long ago, and I'm planning to work it out.

2. Did you participate in the last jam we held? If so, what do you plan on doing better this time? If not, what's your reason for joining?

Nope, Never know about any Jam before. I just come in in order to download a game, any try to check the main page, and see "Jam"? So I click any see.

So I'm interested and currently working on it, my first game.

3. What games are your favorites? Did any of them inspire you, or made you want to make your own?

My favorite will be Harvest moon, Crash Bandicoot, Stardew Valley (current year), Party hard, Super Mario, The adventure of Darwin, Mana Khemia, Disgaea 2, etc. Too many, can't list all of it.

Hmm, inspire on making the story line actually, and the art style rather than making the game. But, it doesn't matter I think as I'm trying to make my way on it :D

4. Do you have experience with game development? What did you do/with what engine?

I do Have actually, but it's along time ago when I was on my 3rd year of Junior High School with my younger brother, using RPG Maker. We were only test it out, but the file gone and never be found in the universe. But currently I'm working on Twine, it might be boring as hell ==", but I'm trying my best to make it as good as I can... Trying to work on some storyline, as I'm bad at it. without planning some storylines, there's no way we can make a game, right? Unless you already a pro where the storylines already burn in your heads, and you just make your way out... (Not being harsh, but it's my life)

5. Tell us about something you're passionate about!

I'm more passion in drawing a simple character, doodling, listening to music, watching few good anime, playing games, read manga.

Hi!! I'm Comicsans. I'm a trans game designer who has a million and one ideas and no time or energy to do them all. My spouse, Ashfield, is my inspiration and helps to make sure I don't bite off more than I can chew. With their encouragement, I participated in the last My First Game Jam with the game Lost Dreams, which was a buggy mess.

So I guess my goal this time is to try and make sure that the game is functional enough that players can get the rest of the endings. I'm also going to be experimenting with RPG Maker MV this time, so that's also a learning adventure!

As for favorite games, the "Tales of" series and the Silent Hill games are my favorites, as well as sources of inspiration. Other games that inspired me are: Okage the Shadow King, and various RPG Maker horror games.

I've been part-time developing RPG Maker games for a while now, since VX came out, as well as experimented with Renpy. I've developed the (currently on hiatus) RPG Maker horror game "In The Dark," the demo visual novel "MonPla," and my last game jam game, "Lost Dreams." I have a few other projects that I'm developing a script and game document for before I think about actually making them though.

Playing games, art, and story-writing have always been passions of mine, so...I guess it was only a matter of time before I ended up in game design as a field!