Suggest this Years Gain Jam Theme!
Good day everyone! Its starting to get close to our 4th annual Gain Jam so we are opening the floor to theme suggestions! A few quick things to note though.
1. Themes based around a game mechanic, a general mechanic, or forces users to think out of the box will have a higher likelihood of being chose
2. Suggested themes will be weighed against our internal suggestions as well
To suggest a theme comment below.
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In the future (or an alternate present), the masses once again view gaining weight, replete bellies, and curvy figures as a symbol of wealth, prosperity, and attractiveness. This can be worked into game mechanics focused on status and story progression: as the character eat or gain weight, NPCs become more receptive to them for example. Perhaps in this new reality, the size of your belly plays such an important role that without an adequate size, doors simply won't open for you, and you would have to find ways to get bigger in order to access other parts of a game level. Maybe, in order to be promoted at your job, you must out-eat your coworkers and competition! As societies once viewed the ability to keep yourself well-fed and large as a sign of wealth and high status, the world will once again return to that state, and it will definitely be interesting to see how each creator interprets the possibilities and changes in a world that has returned to those views.
Shapes and Sizes: Make a game where the mechanics depend on the shape and/or size of the player character or npcs. For example, a 2D infinite runner game where the player runner has three shapes they can turn into: a bottom-heavy pear shape that causes platforms to collapse, moving the player to a lower level; a flabby apple shape that allows the runner to bash through walls; and an inflated spherical shape that causes the player to float to a higher level.
We are the world - This theme will be an international based theme aimed to see who can create a WG based game around a unique culture from the world. As someone who regularly plays and even records a lot of games from this community it does get repetitive when games only seem to be set in USA or Japan, I personally would like to see what entrants can do with a place like Africa, Mexico, Russia, India or even the middle east. It would open up the creative mind of some of the creators too to learn and even spread their cultural findings as well as make it interesting for the players who wish to try all the games for themselves :)