hi, i'm oz and i can't sleep rn, so here is an excerpt from my initial deranged musings after learning of this jam's existence.
maybe they can serve as game jam ideas:
put a pixel budgie in a pixel room with a pixel ball. witness budgie try to balance on said ball. watch until it falls off and gets annoyed and starts pecking at that damn ball. earn in-game currency depending on how long budgie manages to balance. use those in-game earnings to buy cuter balls and budgie outfits and treats to reward it for working so hard. rinse and repeat.
feed the (tsundere) monster under your (aesthetically messy) bed snacks and also read them stories until you become friends (and maybe more?)
ghost therapist: help cute little ghosts work through their emotional baggage so that they can have a happy afterlife
office lady helper: bring a sweet lil teeny-tiny OL on your desktop or phone cups of tea and soothing eye masks for her poor tired peepers; build a rapport to boost her mood, and maybe even motivate her to
quit her dead-end job and run away with youfollow her dreamspaper dolls. digital or analogue. cutesy, grotesque or fashion; doesn't matter. the world needs more paper dolls.