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Skeleton of the game is done now, I can play through it from beginning to end but there's endless amount of details and extra stuff I'll start adding now. I'm not going to show/explain much more what the game contains, because it is all about finding and looking at all kinds of different (hopefully sometimes amusing or interesting) lightly interactive stuff. Still here's new street ads (I traced from those source pics). ...and speaking of ads: Make small fake pop-up ads for me! I have a crowdsourcing idea: I need lots of fake internet ads. These would start to fill up a screen area that is 960 pixels wide and only 124 pixels high. The game's cyberpunk setting could be reflected somehow in the ads ('Hot Scandinavian love bots are waiting for you') but they don't need to be referential or humoristic necessarily (player probably doesn't even have time to see them clearly). Your contribution could be a rough concept with some text and a image (can be in separate files) or a fully realized ad. I will edit them, if needed, to fit the game. Here's some examples of the type of ads I'm thinking about: - I make 4000€ in a day. find out how - Play discreetly my lord - one weird trick... - 10 things you didn't know about. - online betting, get 500 free credits now And here's an early example with Mythalore's NatureBitz ad and a banner composed from things dibs sent me. I would like a variety of styles, from flashy neon horrors to plain and boring office aesthetics. __ edit: ok, the ads idea was not that interesting - still, that dibs banner made that idea worth having.

Well this is interesting! You can use my forum profile/history.

Strong GOSOTY contender (game over screen of the year)! It's a pretty deep metaphor for something when the selfie blocks the view for a while ("Cannot see the road with tubes for the selfies"). I was a confused modern idiot at first because the secret to vaping wasn't explained (<- collect 5 juices, then left click).

You know it's a nice gif, when you can't look at it without thinking about potential sound effects! Also, that looks kind of like the world's worst Shoryuken! (as in how effective it would be, probably gives your opponent the invincibility frames). ps. I really hope you're able to find/make/include the freestyle sax solo.

All the interactions and gameplay will probably be working in some form in about 3 days, then rest of the jam is about adding sound, more graphics and random tuning and fixing. Here's some more gifs. Hacker's different levels of alertness (you can see the player getting hit in the radar!): Storage area's light puzzling: Transitioning to next scene:

My Wizard Jam Legacy Collection: AttesWJLegacyGraphics.zip

That's what the private Slack messages are for dibs. Here's a song that plays faintly in the background in the alley scene (the bassline imitates a certain appropriate song) BitsRave.mp3 And two BitSGIFs:

Although this looks a bit like somekind of an action platformer, it's more like a simple adventure game where you try to find a way to progress into the next area. There probably will be no fail state / dying, maybe somekind of grading in the end. I now have constructed early versions of all the scenes in Photoshop. Next I will start building the areas in Gamemaker and see if I want/need to make some changes to the progression of the game. ps: I love that Bogost in the Shell's acronym is BITS!

Thank you! My ancient computer crashed in a scary way today, I hope it doesn't completely die on me during the jam (my personal cyberpunk motto seems to be 'Low Tech, Low Life') Anyhow, here's rough wip versions of the first three scenes (there will be 5 in total, I already scrapped one). In the next post I will write more about the gameplay and progression.

FNB (Frantic Nick Breckon)

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If you want to reach beyond the episode titles or need more inspiration for jamming, here's a list of random game ideas and jokes that I've found (by looking through the youtube annotations of every episode and copying time stamps that sounded interesting). If you find or have something in mind that is not in here, please post your findings in this thread so I can update the list. Idle Thumbs 287 - The Fun Cast 27:17 — Battlefield 1 - Watch out for the Hanna-Barbera sound effects mod Idle Thumbs 286 - I Can't Do It, Gilgamesh 1:03:48 — Reader Mail - Nintendo Theme Parks - We have some ideas, mostly involving Waluigi Idle Thumbs 259 - Breckon's Similar Sausage Face 11:58 — Dark Souls III - A 3D platformer that Chris just made up Idle Thumbs 250 - A Palpable Dream 35:18 — Surprise Games - Like when you play snake and then there’s a scary face 35:45 — Salacious Crumb - He can feel love Idle Thumbs 247 - The Clone Progenitors 10:41 — Mario Game Jam - Just take Mario and put him in every game Idle Thumbs 246 - Mesmerized, Process, and Anxiety 12:33 — Rylo Ken - He’s the palette swap Mortal Kombat Ninja of Kylo Ren Idle Thumbs 235 - Plaited Haircut of the Whale 39:22 — Cyberwarfare - Some games should model that Idle Thumbs 223 - Troll Clone Today 47:58 — Troll Clones - A recurring segment and an Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode Idle Thumbs 220 - Life Finds a Way 11:49 — Terry Gilliam’s Evo - There’s fresnel lenses everywhere Idle Thumbs 216 - Super Hypercast 44:25 — Nintendo - Coming out with that new Yoshi game on Twine Idle Thumbs 215 - Flirtation & Procreation 44:44 — Theoretical New York Anno Game - That Chris and Nick dream up in this segment Idle Thumbs 211 - Spector's Oil 14:27 — Random Multiplayer Modifiers - Maybe you break your leg jumping too high Idle Thumbs 207 - Bublé Bloodborne Bloodbeef 49:11 — Post-Apocalyptic Games - It’s possible to make one with no humans, like Tokyo Jungle Idle Thumbs 195 - Business Guys On Planes 1:09:47 — Randomized Storytelling - One player in 1,000 gets told “Fuck You” Idle Thumbs 189 - Serious Ma'am 15:32 — Serious Ma’am - With Ms. Pac-Man Idle Thumbs 185 - Beppo's Hole 54:13 — Unity Asset Jam - The Iron Chef of game jams Idle Thumbs 182 - I Am Suspicious of Myself 1:28:02 — Super Briefly - Coming soon from Idle Thumbs Games 1:42:21 — Games Discussed - Time-Honored Roo Idle Thumbs 180 - Wars & Pieces 35:13 — Danielle’s LAX Nightmare - A weird tower defense game Idle Thumbs 177 - The Good Ones 37:14 — Donkey Kong Doom - Donkey Kong open the Ridonkulous Rift to Hell Idle Thumbs 168 - I Like the Hair 1:08:20 — The Bungling Empire - That’s not in my almanac Idle Thumbs 167 - And That's Why Skeletons Fart That Way 1:56:12 — J Allard’s Dreamscape - A Google Glass inside an Oculus Rift Idle Thumbs 159 - Wilson's Ghoulish Countenance 02:23 — Home Improvement - An ancient evil (Wilson) awakens 1:28:02 — I'm Horse - Wake up, Sheeple! Idle Thumbs 158 - P is For Podcast 32:36 — Year of Luigi - For Steam and Xbox 360 // Chris' Waluigi game Idle Thumbs 157 - Molymoto 22:08 — Groundhog Day 3 - Opens on a leather-bound tome Idle Thumbs 153 - Blondie, Freckles, and Glasses 1:18:53 — Overlapping Universes - It's more effective with a light touch 1:22:39 — Crossover Fiction - Don't waste time tying things together for it's own sake Idle Thumbs 148 - The Octopus in My Mind 39:03 — Precocious Attorney - A visual novel featuring Jake and his faces and his mustaches Idle Thumbs 136 - No Man's Guy 21:49 — No Man's Sky - You're Norman Sky, no man's guy 1:11:45 — Reader Mail - J Allard - The Legend of Allard Idle Thumbs 135 - That's My Goof 58:30 — That's My Goof! - On the Wings Network Idle Thumbs 133 - Johann's Baton 45:25 — Thanks 4 Obama - The conclusion to the Obama Quadrilogy 1:08:24 — Outro - Dash Rendar, Slash Wizard Idle Thumbs 125 - Eyes of the G-Man 08:39 — Year of Luigi - Satyr Luigi will appear if you leave your door open on Seder Idle Thumbs 124 - Blockbuster Black Case 13:22 — The Walking Dead - "That's The Stuff!" Build Idle Thumbs 122 - Mario's Picnic 26:47 — Mario - A tale of ruined picnics, eternally retold Idle Thumbs 115 - Robot News 1:00:58 — Ghost: Gone Home - DLC for the movie Ghost Idle Thumbs 113 - Shoot That Pizza 43:05 — Canada Rising - Culminating in New Canada (aka Space) Idle Thumbs 102 - Standing on the Shoulders of Babies 1:03:28 — Gone Home - If you are an orc then Hans Zimmer music plays Idle Thumbs 98 - Happy Dishonored Return of Nick Breckon 1:19:52 — Zuma - Stay tuned for Z-Uma Idle Thumbs 95 - H.D. Cool Spot 1:15:11 — Journey 2: Burrito Supreme - Starring Cool Spot Idle Thumbs 92 - The Mind-Tech Contingency 1:40:19 — Return of Gordon/Ganon - Double Dribble Idle Thumbs 78 - The Ruinationcast 16:34 — 11: Game Jam Themes - @igndotcom maybe? 23:08 — 16: Waluigi - Game pitches from Idle Thumbs 1:09:37 — 40: A nonviolent Systems Game - Chris would enjoy it 1:55:42 — 80: The Idle Thumbs Board Game - Idlehandler, maybe 3:13:50 — 130: Unexplored Gaming Experiences - Sean sill wants to experience specific moments in history Idle Thumbs 71 - Nothing's as Good as Ya Eat 'Em 1:05:23 — That's the Stuff! - Jake collects bananas in Gone Home Idle Thumbs 68 - That's the Stuff 14:42 — That's The Stuff! - Collecting bananas in The Walking Dead Idle Thumbs 67 - Dot Gobbler 17:52 — Dot Gobbler - One fat kid's horrible Halloween Idle Thumbs 65 - Dance of the Treasure Goblin 44:04 — Jaw's Checkin' In - That is a contraction and not a possessive 47:43 — Max Payne 3 - Treasure Goblin DLC 1:15:53 — Baboo Kazoo - By PodCap games Idle Thumbs - GDC '11: Games Kasavin 31:32 — Mario - It's a gritty reboot Idle Thumbs 62 - The Silken Goku 27:14 — High School Baby - No available on UMD 29:23 — Look Who's Talking Now - Featuring Sean Vanaman being pushed down a flight of stairs 46:51 — StarCraft II - WebMD: Reckoning Idle Thumbs 61 - Diplomatic Pouch 47:07 — Jurassic Park - With the in-game arcade game Back into Samuel L. Jackson's Arm 1:02:52 — Samuel L. Jackson's Cyborg Arm - Cutting up raptors left and right Idle Thumbs 60 - Nasty/Good/Badass 41:40 — Snaps n' Claps - Origins 43:03 — Rayman: Origins - Lieutenant Rayman Canon's dark past 1:24:34 — Back Into Samuel L. Jackson's Arm - On XBLIG 1:39:49 — Outro - Rayman: Rise of the Apollo Quadrant Idle Thumbs 59 - Rolling With the Pope 31:35 — Max Ides - Origins Idle Thumbs 58 - A Castro Situation 08:37 — The Legend of Zelda - Navi makes the baboo and an MPEG appears Idle Thumbs 56 - Shoveling Your Hat and Crow 32:41 — Oops! All Bullet Time - The Thumbs lazyweb a sweet multiplayer game 1:30:02 — Ides of April - This is not the origin of Max Ides Idle Thumbs 53 - "Your Buddy, Space Marine" or "The Capper" 36:32 — Boost Bindburn - Either Chris or a Suda51 character Idle Thumbs 51 - THE GREAT GATLING-GUNSBY 02:57 — Match-3 Massager - Steve's new game Idle Thumbs 49 - Bargo Busters 1:29:43 — Outro - Ed Wynn's The Legend of Zeldoo Idle Thumbs 48 - In Space 14:19 — Demon's Souls - The Japanese Far Cry 2 Idle Thumbs 45 - Episode Forty-Five 13:34 — Pumping the Stone - Probably a weird King's Quest game Idle Thumbs 44 - Salacious Thumb 13:14 — Halo 3: ODST - Solving mysteries as Salacious Crumb PI Idle Thumbs 38 - Up On This Boss 53:56 — Waluigi - His hypothetical game that features strings or something Idle Thumbs 37 - You Gotta Have Spice 1:07:27 — Reader Mail - The Wizard - He has a drinking game now Idle Thumbs 33 - "The Kane of Lynch" or "This Crazy Robot" or "Rock the Mouse" 31:42 — Will Wright's Call of Juarez - Which game is it!? (Rated RP) 1:33:58 — WizaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAaAAArd!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Sorcery Idle Thumbs 32 - The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of 00:39 — Intro - Super Casts 'n' Blasts Idle Thumbs 29 - Dreaming of Gillen 11:12 — Game Objectives - Explaining them to parents Idle Thumbs 28 - Other People Get It 1:03:58 — Traveling Through Time - To find the parts to build your time machine Idle Thumbs 26 - Raising the 'Bargo 53:32 — Reader Mail - Shadow of the Colossus - Streets of LA Idle Thumbs 24 - Shadow and Colossus: Back in Action 01:30 — Shadow and Colossus: Back in Action - "IIIII geeeeet resuuuuults!" 26:25 — Farts Cry - In-stinks Idle Thumbs - GDC 09 - A Fish Called Xtreme 32:45 — SSX Kane - Upgrade Rosebud with some sweet bling Idle Thumbs 23 - At the Mountains of Money 27:03 — Old Man Clancy's H.A.W. - It's airplanes for folks that don't know what airplanes is Idle Thumbs 22 - Put On the Top Ghost 28:33 — Cheats - Jake uses his Game Genie to wallhack a hole to China Idle Thumbs 21 - The Hypersonic Effect 15:53 — Jurassic Park: Total War - Hold On to Your Butts 41:17 — Turrets - You are the Turret King Idle Thumbs - With Joe Pesci 11:51 — Left 4 Dead Too - Starring Joe Pesci Idle Thumbs 14 - Interface with the Animus 16:38 — Old Cartoon Style Game - Playing GTA while driving past the same three buildings 22:53 — Old Cartoon Style Game - Someone make it 1:29:11 — Outro - Contextual real-time walkthrough system

Here is the eternal enigma. Also, Chris's Waluigi voice is amazing.

Celebrating the hot new branding I want to photoshop everything that has a 4 in it.

I was brushing up my Goldblum knowledge on IMDB and noticed this topical TV film: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980) It has been uploaded to youtube and I think I already found the scariest scene.

Let's settle the jam #brand. I'm happy with both keeping the Winter name and renaming. This is not a serious dilemma but hey I like to overthink stuff sometimes. Here's my musings at the moment: 1. Winter Wizard Jam (2016) + Is already established. Sounds catchy. Has kind of a real world analogy with Olympics/Winter Olympics. - Would have to make clear that 'winter' is not the theme (anymore). 2. Dishonored Wizard Jam (2016) + Good way of describing a second, alternative version using a well known Idle Thumbs joke. - New, long name, does not sound very catchy. 3. Wizard Jam 4 (Unifying the naming with the spring jam) + Clear, traditional way of naming a thing. - Doesn't indicate that there is some differences between the jams. 4. [Theme] Wizard Jam (e.g. Winter Wizard Jam, Cyber Wizard Jam, Space Wizard Jam) + Prefix tells this is a spinoff jam. - Could be confusing especially after a few years.

Sounds cool, it's a little DibsJam inside the WizJam. And like the famous documentary Inception demonstrated, time moves slower in these kind of nested things so everyone has time to participate (in other words, I will do something).

Maybe this for a sweet Poirot cosplay? "Play Now, Chew Later!"

When this current/upcoming jam has its own subforum I'll make a thread for the "(Game) Ideas from the Episodes" list - where people can easily find ideas and share if they've found new ones.

There's a good interview with Messhof on RPS regarding why they wanted to make a sequel. Multiple weapon types is probably the biggest change/addition gameplaywise. "Kristy and I have been playing the game quite a bit since it was released, and it’s hard not to see little things that could be changed or added. I started keeping a list, and eventually it became pretty long. I started seeing ideas connect to each other and it felt like a sequel would make sense. I also wanted to tweak a few things with the original moveset, and it felt wrong to rewrite history for a game that so many people still play. Better to make it its own thing."

That looks like a perfect toothpaste mascot! "Let's make those teeth shine! / What, you use another brand?!"

Seeing "Home Video" in some VHS films as a kid was pretty strange because home means mold (the stuff that grows on spoiled food) in Finnish, and video is just video.

I really enjoyed this! It's frustrating (but understandable) that it can't be openly available anymore but at least the developer is handling the situation well. Edited from the dev blog: Of course with all the modernization, while improving many things, the remake loses some of the original's magic. And that reminded me of this very personal and thorough Metroid 2 blog post on Gamasutra: A Maze of Murderscapes: Metroid II

Game is here now: https://atteo.itch.io/thefirstageofextreme The First Age of Extreme - An action platformer inspired by NES and Amiga games like Rygar, Castlevania, Turrican and Shadow of the Beast. I love traditional 2D platformers, and this is another chance for me to practice making them. I'm using GameMaker again and for the scary movement/collision stuff I'll probably use HeartBeast's Movement Engine. It took me this long to start this thread because I was away for the start of the jam and then for some reason decided that I needed to finish a rough version of the complete map before posting anything... Here's what I have done in Photoshop so far.

Two days for making the game, 14 days for creating an elaborate Tips&Tricks Guidebook full of useful cheat codes.