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Hey, indie devs! Want your games preserved for all time?

Submit your game and the entire source code, and I (or any other team members) will add it to the Internet Archive for permanent preservation!

• Your game must be predominantly built in a source code that’s easily editable by anyone - i.e. open source. Do NOT include any DRM or code with proprietary licensing; this includes Creative Commons licensing which have the “No Derivatives” clause.
• Any online elements (i.e. server software) that have been developed specifically for the game need to be included, so they can be re-implemented.
• Do not include games with ANY proprietary licensed assets, unless given permission by the developers of such.
• Anti-cheat software is okay, as long as it too is open source.
• Your game can be made paid if you want, but keep in mind that it will also be made available for free on the Internet Archive. We recommend not putting a price tag on your game upon submission unless you specify that it’s for donation purposes (in other words, you also offer a free tier).

Games that do not fit the criteria above will be rejected for submission to the Archive (and possibly the game jam itself).

For anyone who uses the itch.io client…

Clicking the “Install” button below will only download the first song in the list (i.e. “Completely Undead Nation”). To download ALL the songs, please click each Download button on the page itself.

In a future update, I’ll see about adding a ZIP that includes all the songs to the top of the list.

It’s a collection of tunes I remixed from Rytmik Studio. Nothing special, really.

https://tumbrwulf.itch.io/rytmikal-vol-1

(Yes, I know. I accidentally typed “TumbrWulf” when changing my username. That’ll be fixed eventually.)

Never mind. I broke down and made this myself. https://discord.gg/TY27eQbmz3

I’m not a bot - I promise! 😅 I’m a real person with real intentions.

Hey Rittz. I heard about your Steam, Discord, and Twitter accounts being hacked. That really sucks, man. Have you managed to recover from that?

I see that your Discord server really took a bad blow. Is there any way I can help? I’m knowledgeable on Discord security a little bit, and I can add bots for moderation if needed. If you don’t want me to work on it, I can offer some advice.

Please feel free to DM me on Discord, or just respond here. I tried to reach out to you there, as well as Steam, but IDK if you got my messages. Let me know how you want to proceed.

Just tried this, Rittz; rated and left you feedback. The demo is pretty solid! I look forward to the finished product.

Ah, I forgot about that! I’ve seen it advertised, but wrongly assumed that it was out already. Thanks for the refresher!

Wow, this looks darker than your usual stuff, SFB. I might still try the demo, but I don’t know if I’ll buy the game outright.

Can we expect more titles in the Detective Grimoire series?

Is it possible to maintain a downloadable version? I’d like to be able to continue to play the game as a stand-alone. It’s not mandatory, but it’d be nice.

Sounds awesome! I would love to play the updated version after this Jam ends!

Buon Natale! 🎄🎅🏻

(Translator again, although I can actually spell and say it.)

Please don’t let this discourage you from making more games! If you need any help, just ask the itch.io community! Other game devs have joined TGif Gamer, as well, so that’s someplace else you can ask your game making questions.

Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅🏻

This reminds me a lot of Mutant Mudds, a game I’ve enjoyed on multiple Nintendo platforms, and on Steam as well. There are only four levels, which is fine for starters, however I would love to see more levels and interactive elements being added in the future.

The pixel graphics are great. The gameplay is challenging enough to make you want to finish it. If I was to complain about it at all, it’d be the fact that the game’s text is not in English, but rather Italian. The ability to change languages would be nice. I also noticed that the game doesn’t close when you choose the option for “Exit”, but instead just hangs up and requires you to close the window - a bug that can be fixed easily, I’m sure.

Great game! *Ottimo lavoro!*👍🏻(Yes, I used a translator. I can’t really speak Italian!)

I’m gonna try to be a bit forgiving here, since the person who made this game probably doesn’t know much about coding, and is using a third-party website to learn his coding skills.

That said, I do wish that the game didn’t require the Scratch website in order to play the game. Having not been to Scratch before attempting to play this, loading the game was somewhat confusing. Even if I did know how to use Scratch, having to play a game through a development website isn’t ideal, which is why this game didn’t get high marks in “Ease of Playability” by me.

Still, the graphics aren’t horrible, although it’s possible that some of it is stock assets from the site itself. There are no sounds or music, which would have made the experience more immersive. There is some originality, although we have seen the “Santa is in trouble with the law” aspect before, however I don’t recall any medium with this theme having tax evasion as a reason, so there’s that.

Overall, my biggest gripe is the need for an external website, but everything else is not bad.

Good to know! Thanks!

I get it, TGif Gamer isn’t for everybody. So, for anyone who participates and doesn’t want to join my server, either DM me on Discord or message me here on itch to let me know your Discord handle, so I can DM your prizes (if you win). Please don’t spam me; you will be blocked if you do, and your submission will also be disqualified.

If you have any feedback on this, let me know below.

…Ok what? 🤔 Ok, you’ll join, or ok, you did join? If you haven’t joined yet, please do. If you’ve already joined, I don’t know your Discord handle, so please point it out to me.

Did you join Discord? I can’t find you.

Going on now! Submit a game to potentially get one of FOUR titles on GOG.com - Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Hive Jump 2: Survivors, The Falconeer, and Shogun Showdown!

https://itch.io/jam/tgif-gamer-christmas-jam

Congrats on winning my Game Jam! I look forward to seeing what else you’ll make in the future!

To clarify, @ThankGodItsFriday@vivaldi.net is the correct format for my username, but it doesn’t mean my posts reside on vivaldi.net. Vivaldi probably took a shortcut in adding the server name to the end of usernames because you do need a Vivaldi account in order to use their Mastodon instance. Even so, the correct domain for Vivaldi Social is social.vivaldi.net.

I’m having trouble adding my Mastodon instance from Vivaldi Social. It keeps directing me to a dead page:

I think it’s because it goes to https://vivaldi.net/@ThankGodItsFriday, and NOT https://social.vivaldi.net/@ThankGodItsFriday. The domain vivaldi.net is NOT the Mastodon instance, while social.vivaldi.net IS. That mistake needs to be fixed.

VOTING IS NOW OPEN! Go vote for each one of the submissions!

Basically, it’s a hide-and-seek game. That’s what it is, pure and simple.

It has a story, which is not really relevant to the game, but it is interesting. Taking place during the same time period as the Salem Witch trials, you are a stereotypical witch, who owns a black cat that must find the villagers trying to attack the witch so she can escape the village. It’s extremely short, and I only played three levels before it was over.

Visually, the art is pretty good. The music is tolerable, as it’s basically just piano music, but it’s the only track in the game AFAIK. I was not pleased with it being fullscreen-only, as I literally had to change the resolution of my widescreen monitor in order to play the game properly. If it ran in a window, or had the ability to change the game’s resolution, I would not have knocked off a star on “Ease of Playability”.

Overall, not a bad game. I would not mind seeing more of this in the future.

Please either join my Discord server or supply a Discord handle I can reach you by. I can’t give out prizes to you if I don’t have some way to DM you.

It’s not bad for a simple shooter game. It reminds me of some basic Flash games I used to play back in the days when MiniClip, Armor Games, and Newgrounds were big on that sort of thing. It’s quite rudimentary, but it shows that you did take some time to put something together, as I don’t recognize those assets from any other game I’ve run across.

It’s very unfortunate that you can’t make it work without linking to an external website, which is why I subtracted a star from “Ease of Playability”. While the game itself is easy enough, I would think most people don’t want to have to go to another site just to play the game.

Even so, it’s a funny little game, one I wouldn’t mind seeing more of in the future, especially if you can find out how to make them either by tricking JavaScript to use a local server for verification, or using some other code base entirely.

It’s an interesting concept where you run across a mythical creature of unknown origin. It’s almost like it’s both sci-fi and fantasy, incorporating traditional Halloween tropes while also messing with portals of some sort.

I gave the graphical detail a rating, even though no graphics are being shown, because it’s intended to paint a picture of what is happening, and it does it well enough to count as a proper game. There’s no music or sound, which is understandable considering it’s an HTML5 game, and such elements might make it harder to maintain and guarantee playability across different browsers.

NGL, it’s pretty good, even despite the typos in programming. It’s very short, however, as you can finish it in mere minutes, but if this is a taste of your typical writing style, it’s a pretty decent morsel.

Have you joined Discord? I don’t know what your Discord handle is.

@chapankorn You’ve joined a little late, didn’t you? Unfortunately, unless you have a game already ready for submission, you won’t be eligible for getting one of the three games. Also, you absolutely HAVE to have Discord, as I can’t send you gifts any other way.

What would you guys be genuinely interested in? Let me know in the comments!

THE FINAL EXTENSION. I added one more week.

Submissions end November 14th. Judging ends November 21st.

The message was for others who would run across this game.

To other players: The downloaded game doesn’t work, due to a JavaScript error. Please use the included web link for now.

To other players: This game has some unclickable links, which are because of a typo in the HTML. Before launching, open the HTML document in a text editor, search for each instance of herf and replace them all with href. Some text editors have the ability to batch-replace, and I recommend doing that.