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Costume Jam 2024!

Posted by Thetageist - September 1st, 2024


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It's happening again. Another year of the Costume Jam is upon us, and I'm aiming to go bigger and better!


Once again, if you don't know me already, my name is Theta, and I'm the ghost with the posts! With Halloween coming, everyone’s thinking of a costume - which makes it a perfect time to resurrect a piece of internet history! Dollmakers and dress-up games were a staple of the early days of web games, but they’re still clinging to life even beyond the grave of Flash! So last year, I launched a jam to celebrate the spooky season with some old-school internet flair!


The basic premise of Costume Jam is this: Make a dress-up game with a twist in its game mechanics. It can be something as simple as having the character react to what you put them in, or something as complicated as a whole narrative game where dressing up is the main gameplay. Outfit challenges, minigames to get more clothes, selling to customers, the sky’s the limit! Here's a list of examples I collected for last year's jam.


This year, we have a second optional theme/prompt on top of the regular challenge! It's open-ended on purpose and you can come up with whatever you see fit to go with the theme.

The prompt is "More Like Me".

I'm excited to see how you interpret this for your collab entries! Halloween/horror themes are also encouraged as usual!


Other basic rules:

  • Deadline: October 31st at 11:59 PM. Two months should be enough, I think!
  • Rules: No shovelware, no hateful content, stick to the NG rules about AI art. Nudity is now allowed for artistic purposes, but no outright pornographic content. A-rated submissions will nonetheless be left out of the video review to keep it suitable for YouTube.
  • How to participate: Tag your entry with costumejam2024, and I’ll look through the entries after the deadline has passed!


There is no contest/judging element to this jam, but just like last year, I will do a video review of the entries after the deadline! I'll also ideally be making my own entry again - this time, completely by myself. Last year's fiasco proved to be the kick in the pants I needed to finally start learning to code in an actual game engine.


Alright! Put any questions you have on this post! It’s showtime!


-Theta


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Time to plan out a new dress up game!

Costume jam! IM JOININ THIS!

Is this just an art contest where you give your OC a good costume makeover?

Nope, a game jam! You get to make a dress-up game! Shouldn't be too hard to program.

@Thetageist

Oh it’s a game jam… Nevermind I guess I’m not joining since I know shit about coding! But if anyone needs an OST, feel free to message me!

Count me in! I'm thinking of doing it in Flash 8 as well.

Ooooh, that’s cool.

Imma be honest, I thought the name was supposed to be "The tag geist" cuz I'm stoopeed.

That’s all right. I get that a lot.

Don't do this to me Theta I'm beging you. (I might join if I get a clever but easy to make idea)

Best of luck coming up with one!

I don’t know if I’m good enough at gamedev to attempt a jam (I’m really tempted tho LOL), so I wish everyone participating the best of luck!!

I might end up adding another option for artists who aren’t as experienced with coding, just gotta get the go-ahead from some people with authority over the website I’d be using.

@Thetageist OH, I know how to code! I just don't know the program I've been learning very well or some gamedev concepts in general, honestly I'd really like the challenge

ye i'll make something

Sweet.

I am an Game Developer nerd, i don't know how to use Unity, Godot or any game engine, just i know how to use TurboWarp (Scratch).

Sadly, i cant join this sorry.
I was still thinking about my Dress-Up Game about Random.

You can make a dress-up game in Scratch!

Hy guys

There are eight days until the deadline and we only have two submissions.

Yeah, I’ve noticed that. My reckoning is that either the others are going to be posted last minute, or possibly after the deadline. There is sort of a grace period built in because I will most likely not get around to recording the video rescue until a few days afterwards.

I uploaded my submission, this will probably be the only game jam I'll participate in

Honored to be the one and excited to see your submission! Hope this was fun for you, even if you don’t plan on doing more gamedev or jams.

@Thetageist I will be doing other games, just not game jams