Fractured Birthday TTRPG Game Jam (tiny prizes!)

[radiantfracture]

Okay, I'm going to do it!

Fractured Birthday TTRPG Game Jam
Runs Nov 1 - Dec 22
Results released Dec 31

It's my birthday. I would like there to be more small weird TTRPGs (Table-Top Role-Playing Games) in the world. Make my birthday wish come true. Create a TTRPG on the theme of fracture, breakage, and/or repair. Win a cup of coffee!

This jam comes with a tiny prize! Up to 3 (three) of my fave games will receive $10 (Canadian) so that the designer can buy themselves a congratulatory coffee.

More details and the jam submission page here: itch.io/jam/fractured-birthday-game-jam

Some Examples of Games I Like

I like spooky games, horror games, and games about feelings.

Ten Candles (beautiful doom ritual)
1000-Year-Old Vampire (roll & write delight)
This Vineyard Will Be Our Salvation (quirky, smart, critical)
Quietus
Pull Me From the Earth (Q&A excellence)
Star Crossed / Dread
Brindlewood Bay (love the crime-solving mechanic)
The Quiet Year
Debrief

Other Things I Like in Games

Collaborative storytelling
Queer & trans content / vibe
Solo journalling games, other writing games, other solo games
Unusual and / or witty mechanics (esp. physical objects)
Low-prep, improvisational games with a few rules to anchor play
Games about feeeeelings but also about story
Gamification of hard real-life activities or experiences
Games with aspects of ceremony or ritual

My Games

I think my most successful games are these, if you want to see the kinds of things I make:

You Are a Beacon (solo journalling game)
Getting There (2-player Q&A storytelling mini-game)
The Fledgling and the Vale (2-player Q&A story game)

Comments

[radiantfracture]

And if nobody submits, I guess I can buy myself a coffee.

[pantherinsnow]

I may take a crack at this. I don't know about a whole booklet but I'm interested in those ultra-compact one page RPG's people come up with.

[radiantfracture]

One-page is awesome -- "booklet" was meant to indicate small, so I will change the wording!

[sabotabby]

This is so cool! Though like, I have no idea how to construct a game and no time to do so. But I hope you get amazing games.

[radiantfracture]

You could do a game where the mechanic is smashing plates

[sabotabby]

That does sound appealing.

One day I'll write out my spy LARP, but I think it takes someone who has game-type thinking to actually make it a game.

[radiantfracture]

I feel like you've mentioned this before, but I kind of want to hear all about it again. Anyway, feel free to brainstorm here if that's a useful distraction…

[sabotabby]

The idea is there's a big international conference happening in a hotel, and you are trying to gain intel and steal a McGuffin before the players on the opposing team find it or out you. You are armed with a gun, but if you actually fire it, you blow your own cover and are out. Otherwise, you can do all manner of sneaky things, attempt to turn agents of the opposing side, etc. Oh and the other thing is that it takes place in an actual hotel full of people staying there for normal reasons, and if you draw their suspicion (or, if someone witnesses you drawing their suspicion), again, your cover is blown.

That's about as far as I got.

[yhlee]

I'm in! Ahahahaha this will be an interesting stretch for me. :)

[radiantfracture]

Yesssss

feel free to involve breaking lots of things

[pantherinsnow]

Oh! I would *love* to hear about your playthrough of TYOV. I went the journaling route with mine and ended up with an epic.

[contrarywise]

Happyhappy Birthday! I doubt my capacity to create a game anyone would or could play, but I hope your call for such produces much thinky entertainment for you and others!

[radiantfracture]

Thanks!

You know a game can be just one really good prompt and one instruction about what to do with it.....

(wild grin)