#wizardjam

Download Ms. Petman Here. 

Although maybe you shouldn’t.

It is a product of over-ambition, bad time management, and not fully knowing the certain “quirks” of the Clickteam Fusion engine.

It’s functional, it works... Although it almost didn’t for a while.

I made a game for Wizard Jam: https://oddjumper.itch.io/zombietrain

We’re working on another game as part of  the Wizard Jam, which in comparison to usual two days, gives us whole two weeks to make something nice! It will be also the first game where we actually have textures so I’m having lots of fun with that and learning/remembering things. Given the time constrains and other factors, we’re going for a psx style. We will be finished by next sunday!

Before you is a glimpse of Wizard Jam. What is Wizard Jam, you ask? It is two things: Wizard Jam is a two week long game jam, themed around Idle Thumbs episode titles, created and run by the Idle Forum community. Wizard Jam is also one of the most insane things I think we’ve ever seen.

The forums are only three days into the jam but what’s come out of it is already incredible! Do you want to contribute to Wizard Jam? Stop by the Team Building Thread to see if anyone is looking for help, or start your own game! 

Just want to browse? You can look around the Wizard Jam forums to see what’s going on in way more depth (many participants are running dev log threads which they’re keeping updated with in progress images and builds so you can follow along) but here is a quick tour of the images above, in order of left to right, top to bottom:

“Robot News” by dinosaursss, looks like a Paperboy-inspired game in which a BigDog delivers the news of humanity’s demise. (One of two Robot News-inspired games on the forums.)

“A Grave Ghost” by Twig. The contents of this game are as mysterious as the ghost in its title.

“The Legend of Big Bird’s Bones” by BigJKO, is also a mystery but involves many Idle Thumbs hosts, an explorable world with openable chests, and possibly the bones of a popular children’s mascot. (TBD)

The startup screen to “Shoot That Pizza” by RubixsQube (one of at least two “Shoot That Pizza” games being made!), a rhythm game about shooting or not shooting that pizza.

The “The Holo-Violator” mini-game within atte’s “Introduction To Video Games” game. Check out that Dot Gobbler art while you’re there too!

“(I Know You’re Having Fun But) I’m Still Working,” by a wooden leg named smith and Symbiotik, a visual novel about someone who just wants to get some work done. 

... the logo for Wizard Jam. Check out the official Wizard Jam thread!

“Pause Theme From BattleToads” by z_bill is also an unknown commodity, but you’ve got to love taking the sprites from BattleToads and deliberately misinterpreting them as other characters, following recent Reader Mail trends.

Fhnuzoag has taken The Wizard and Sports and combined them to create “WIZARD SPORTS,” an all-wizard game of soccer in which you can freeze time to enter a more tactical space where you can summon spells.

“Mayday Mayday - Cockpit Freakout” by hedgefield is one of a few “90s Cockpit Freakout” inspired games being worked on. 

This is just a small sample of what people are working on in there, and it admittedly skews towards the visual. There are TON of great looking Twine concepts, visual novels, and things so abstract or early-on that they don’t have any associated art yet.