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]

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.