Technically this doesn't start for another couple of days, but I'm starting early to work around a busy holiday schedule. I checked the rules and they seem to say it's ok

Game jam thread time! Ok. I don't have it all worked out yet, but here is my vague plan:

I'm interested in doing some first person platforming, doing something a little bit masocore. I know a lot of people really hate first person platforming, but yaknow, it's 2022, it's time to try again

Here are some things I'm inspired by at the moment, and am hoping to draw from for this:

Been playing some old DOS games recently. In particular, I've rediscovered this old maze game Get Lost!, which came out in 1996 (but got rereleased as freeware a few years back!). I really love how evocative the huge open spaces are, and how it does so much with really simple mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O_waoEhd0I

Another old DOS game I've rediscovered, 1992's Clyde's Adventure, which I just 100% completed for the first time a few days ago. It has this almost Kaizo Mario thing going on with the level design, and it's another game that's doing a lot with very little:

Have you seen those TikTok videos that are like, a robot voice reads out a reddit post while somebody does minecraft parkour in the background? Fascinating! https://www.tiktok.com/@the.vault.of.reddit/video/7113716800696651014