Note: I wrote this at the same time as everythingstaken, hence our near-identical opening paragraphs.

SpindleyQ is less active here at the moment, but would still be very relevant to talk to. everythingstaken set up the last couple of KotM events and has uploaded at least 3 games every month this year. Dattorz runs the Sekret Santa event and was working on a (presumably abandoned) site upgrade a while back. I'd also suggest talking to all the other recent event creators, or frequent supporters such as ghettoshamrock a.k.a. bc_.

Most of my favourites are on my list. It includes several of thecatamites' marker games, which are available as a fabulous compilation being discussed at length here. It excludes games submitted as blog entries or comments; everything prior to the system set up for Pirate Kart 2. I'd have to do some digging for some real golden oldies. But offhand, I'm a massive fan of snapman's klik masterpieces, like Fred's Exciting Adventure 1& 2 and Scorpion Psychiatrists of Saturn.

Glorious Trainwrecks feels to me like a place that will always be receptive towards the games I make, whatever they may be, even if they aren't trainwrecks. It's somewhere I can usually go to get out of a game development slump. It's a place where cool things happen, regardless of who make up the community (the regulars have changed a lot as time's gone by). Or something like that, idk.

One thing I like about Glorious Trainwrecks is the wide variety of games that folks make for it. The site started out as mostly a place for hastily made Klik & Play games but now you can find all kinds of stuff here:

- Klik & Play games using the stock assets. I feel like there ought to be a term for this. Like Klikcore or Klikwave or something? The fun, inviting side of Klik.
- Klik games with more original assets - perhaps the campier side of Klik.
- Games made in other 2D game making tools, like Game-Maker, Game Maker, Construct, RPG Maker, ZZT, among others.
- Games programmed in LOVE2D and PyGame, among others.
- Puzzle games made in PuzzleScript.
- Interactive fiction made in Twine, Inform, and RenPy.
- Experimental Unity games - these are often beautifully minimalist.
- Levels and level packs for existing games like Knytt Stories and Chip's Challenge.
- Probably a lot of other things I've missed.

Style now varies a lot too, as do the motivations. I think when GT was originally founded it was meant as a relief from overly ambitious projects, since throwing together a two-hour game in Klik & Play at least feels like you did something. This also often meant liberal use of Klik & Play's pre-packaged assets, as you could get your ideas on screen a lot quicker than with making your own graphics. Now we're seeing some bigger projects, too, and plenty of games that have had more than two hours put into them.

We also used to primarily focus on "Klik of the Month Klub" where everyone would gather once a month to make games. Now we have folks submitting games whenever, and I think that's pretty neat. We even have people setting up their own events. We allow any user to create a new event - there is no central authority to go through. As a result folks are participating in new ways, which is cool.

Some games I like:

Why do musicians always have to wear a hat, a very surreal game that I think nails the Klik & Play aesthetic quite nicely.

Yoshi's Whaley World, a super campy fangame I made using The Games Factory, an outdated direct sequel to Klik & Play.

100 Free Assets, a Unity world created entirely using 3D models from the Asset Store.

Heart Pounding TrainWreck Marathon, a collection of fun, short games mostly involving action and conversation puzzles.

Glorious Trainwrecks is a place for stuff. And I mean that in more than just terms of storing the files for a silly game you dashed off for the heck of it, but as a place for that singular idea to live and breathe. Glorious Trainwrecks and its community are welcoming in a way the internet has long forgotten about. Thanks in part to its weird structure, the site has never suffered a major influx of new users that might have crowded out your chances of someone seeing what you did and having something interesting or appreciative to say back about it. And yet somehow it has also never stagnated with the same crowd making the same things forever. As time went on, new users came and went, each finding their own purpose for the site and the community's open-ended challenge of "make a game." Glorious Trainwrecks has done big things and small things. It has produced tremendous, inscrutable Karts that grabbed headlines and left people scratching their heads in stunned, comic awe. It has celebrated the tools of digital creation, ranging from the new, to the old, to depricated, to deceased. Glorious Trainwrecks has had a booth at GDC, played host to personal stories in interactive form, introduced newcomers to the principles of game development, and welcomed back old-timers with the nostalgia (and untapped possibilities) of tools they had discarded years ago. Glorious Trainwrecks is a very important place to me. It's a place for stuff. It's a place for stuff you won't find anywhere else, because everywhere else isn't Glorious Trainwrecks.

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As far as recommending games on here, I'd be remiss to not include Baby Kicker Pro for its subtle and clever progression, Can You Jump It? for its unbridled joy, and Burrito Adventure for its tasty burritos. thesycophant already linked River Stay Away from my Door, so consider this another vote for that one.

Of my own games, I'll only mention MicroMove, because it is secretly a game about this website.