I have no idea. I've been so busy with the Text Adventure Literacy Jam, that I haven't started yet. I think I'll finish off one of my many unfinished games that I recently ported to PunyInform. The most likely candidates are a time travelling saga that revisits some famous disasters from the past and one set in a school that is due to be closed down due to lack of funding. Both are retro-style puzzle fests. The first is probably medium length, the second is somewhat smaller.

I’m personally aiming for “Zork, but in space and red”, and have spent most of my time thus far trying to make it look all fancy and make the keyword highlighting work properly.

I’m making it in Unity 2021 w/ HDRP, if only because it makes adding bloom and assorted post-processing tiddlywinks trivial, and I think that the weird phosphor-delay-y effect caused by the fancy anti-aliasing that I accidentally left on looked pretty cool.

As for “plot” or “theme” (silly things), the game takes place on a space station controlled by an aging biological processor after most of the crew was killed by a virus or whatever. I haven’t quite gotten it down yet. Just the whole “brain space station” thing, really.

Happy debugging! here is a silly screenshot featuring balls

I’m planing to make a small game, to test some ideas related with playing mechanics. Being a native Spanish speaker, small size for my first English language game is a must do :D

I’ll use ParserCommander, a tool I created some years ago and that I already use in another Spanish IF JAM.

It will be an investigation adventure, starring by a Scotland Yard detective, with his mind working in strange but brilliant deductive ways.

In fact the Scotland Yard detective’s mind is screaming somewhere in Yith, while the player will be the Scotland Yard detective with an alien mind swapped.

Something that by now we can call “Scotland Yard detective from outer space”.

Let’s see how far can I go with that! ^.^

I didn't even know what a parser game was before clicking on this jam! But I'm so glad I did because I love the genre. I'm trying to turn an RPG game I made when I was a child to play with my cousins into a parser game. We loved that game, and now that we're not kids anymore, I didn't want the idea to die there. It's a big challenge because the whole world is set in my native language based on my culture, so making an English version seems hard. Anyways, as I said, I'm totally new to parser and text adventure games in general, so if you have any tips, helpful links, or some cool games I can play to familiarize myself with the genre, or anything, I'd appreciate it. GL to everyone!

> trolling mode off

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Enjoy your holidays!

I wish I'd checked on this thread/community earlier, but it's been fun to read who planned what, and when.

I just want to say -- a chess game, even an endgame, with 4 pieces is still tough to implement, even if you know chess pretty well. I had to oversimplify certain things just to keep the focus on the narrative and avoid special cases. Inform 7 may not be the best tool for typing in Algebraic chess notation, but it was a fun challenge, and the original position brought back good memories for me.

I can't imagine I'll ever write another chess game. But I'm glad I wrote this one.