I want a game with:
- shootemups
- explosions
- googly eyes
- penguins
- house-flipping

Best part of the year!

Wish list:

* Something easy-going
* Bright happy colors
* Problem/Puzzle solving
* Top-down 2D perspective
* Winter or Summer

May update more before the 3rd... Feel free to go with everything on the list or pick and choose

i want:
prosthetic limbs
neon and bubblegum and pastel and velvet
quirky sound fx
stolen assets
endless
crime
french subtitles
arbor day

feel free to ignore some of these
it's whatever

Dear Santa,

for klikmas i would like a game that i can use to make assets for other games. maybe it's a painting game where you can take screenshots and use them as textures, or a music making game that allows you to export the sounds.

mods for old games, games made with old tools, hackable games, vertex colours, blurry n64 textures, crimes, františek kobliha, peter tscherkassky, stenberg brothers, second person perspective, file_id.diz, unrealised futures, bootleg indonesian GTA, virtual machine, resolution mismatch, on which page of the manual does this appear?, fog, steve moraff, lyle in cube sector, out of memory, cracktros, keygens, good for screenshots, big money, big prizes, 4d sports tennis, australian christmas, have fun

*bump*

Please put the word out, spread it around, and see if we can drum up some more participants before the drawing.

If you're thinking of jumping in on this, go for it! Please add your wish list here. :)

-Exploration
-People you can talk to
-readable books
-secrets
-lots of secrets
-chiptunes, midis
-mysterious forests, caves, towers, etc.
-weird towns
-Cool architecture
-Mystical junk

I may add in stuff later. Don't feel like you have to include everything in your game.

At least one Treehouse, maybe multiple tree houses
Airplanes
talking animals
one duck
honk sound effect
ambient wind noise

I would humbly request a game involving:
-travel
-maps
-exploration
-slight melancholy or loneliness
-cute and/or interesting characters
-liminal spaces
-cities vs. nature

Please interpret these however you like!

I'm a bit indecisive; you may choose either of the following prompts.

1) A little trading card game demo. Don't go overboard, maybe the player makes tiny 10-20 card decks out of a selection of 2 or 3 dozen cards? Local multiplayer or against a simple AI.

2) A narrative-centric game set in a restaurant, coffee shop, or other customer service/retail environment. Something that's less like Diner Dash and more like Va-11 Hall-A.

If you're feeling gutsy and think you can pull these both off in one small game, more power to you.

hello santa, this year I would like Donkey Kong

Hello , mortal !!

A list! Of possibilities! Pick between 0-13 of these, please!

♥ An input dedicated to [a normal human action] that doesn't affect gameplay at all ♥
♥ A demake of the first level of your third favourite game, but no-one would actually know it's referencing that game unless you told them ♥
♥ Hidden quote from Helen Keller (it can't be the main objective, it's a SECRET! SHHHHHH!) ♥
♥ Imprecise photogrammetry* for 3.5 objects (*photo textures on a mesh) ♥
♥ Sensory overload that will definitely not crash the game on any computer ♥
♥ Gameplay is restricted to 1 dimension (i.e. can move along the Z-axis only), though the world can be 2D or 3D ♥
♥ Someone under 10 or over 60 is the director and/or level designer and/or environment artist and/or foley artist for this ♥
♥ The largest bag of milk in the world. I'm not kidding ♥
♥ The skybox subtly reminds you of your dad, without actually looking like him (alt: a friend with really great teeth) ♥
♥ This was made in the level editor of a game you wish more people would play (if it's not a free game, or if it's on a console, make it an auto level [completed without any input] and record it to video please, but if it's the video then it would be funny if you used a bad camera to record the screen and you have to run an executable to see the video instead of posting it to a video hosting site lol) ♥
♥ You need to get this off your chest, so just dump it in this game ♥
♥ You never thought you would make a game this tiny ♥
♥ You really just wanted to make some characters that you would date if they were real ♥

PLEASE PLEASE make sure it's fun to make and you don't stress out at all.

I've been informed the name draw is complete, and a message has been sent to everyone letting you know whose wish list you should let inspire you. Any problems or questions, please let me know ASAP and I can help sort it out.

STOKED!!!

For those of you who celebrate the actual Christmas, I hope you had a wonderful, serene holiday full of good times with friends and family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jccLuSZBOM

It's the final weekend coming up, folks! Be sure to do your best and complete your games. I'm sure your recipient is eagerly awaiting whatever you've made from their list.

Please post your game by the end of Sunday, 7th January.

Have fun game-making, everyone! :)

What a haul this year, eh?!?!?

As the official deadline closes in on us, I'd like to wish all of you have nothing but a prosperous, purposeful New Year full of worthwhile challenges and successes.

I'm a big fan of hobby game-making (I design tabletop board games and card games in my spare time, as well), and since they can often be a long slog of a process, I always have a blast seeing what everyone comes up with in events like these. And giving gifts to others isn't something I often do. So bearing witness to gift-giving and cheerful, constructive comments is always an upper for me. And I presume I'm not alone when I mention that I'm relieved to see something so overwhelmingly positive come out of this.

To those of you still waiting on games: be patient. They're on the way. :)

Those of you still working on games for your recipients, please follow through with the commitment! Your efforts can completely brighten someone's day.

"Merry Chistmas" to all. :)

Oh dear! I'm going to be late this year too. A bit of it is unforeseen goblins of time, but most of it is loving the content of the prompt so much it's hard to relax and stop fretting about whether each mote and morsel is or will be as good as I want it to be.

Luckily, the gods of completion are relentless and without mercy for ideals: "keep going," they say. "Lower your standards and never give up."

So: the little dream hobbles on.

Apologies for the delay!