Personally, I was just tired of making my game (a bit) and i want to do something on the weekend! Finally somethin to do! And I have figured out how to use MS paint so it's a perfect opportunity!
well, i was working on my really hard first project which is on 10% done and i got very tired and realised that i ALWAYS wanted to participate in a game jam no matter what, and i signed up on itch.io just to find random game jam that starts soon and i saw this and since im not that good in coding and drawing i decided to join this :P hope this will be fun for everyone
1. I've never done (completed) a game jam before.
2. I have this goofy/dumb game idea, and I've procrastinated on it for years. Well, more like forgot.
3. I really need to keep adding to my library of actual (finished) games. My country's government loves to make my life hell so writing games has been on the backburner for years off and on.
4. When done (as in, not just after the gamejam but when I'm satisfied with it), I'll release it as a free game on the Windows store. And yeah, I'll port it to macOS and Linux too, when I feel like it. A game jam seems like a decent way to advertise if it's popular.
-Shogunate
I’ve never completed a jam or a game because I loose interest very quickly. like I am really good at making systems, coding, and stuff but I suck at the story/system part and the perfectionist in me says all ideas or story’s I make are horrible so I lose interest and motivation. If I do a short game jam like this, and I don’t need to make anything good — since it’s supposed to be bad — then I’m not limited by my inner perfectionist and can actually finish something.
