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"At the start of this year, for the sixth time in a row, we launched the latest
edition of our public domain game jam,
Gaming Like It’s 1928! Once again, we
got a whole bunch of fantastic entries making use of newly public domain
materials to create games of all types. And now it’s time to announce the
winners!
Every year, it gets more and more painful to choose the final slate of winners
in all six categories, because there are so many entries that deserve
recognition. So before we get to the winners, I want to acknowledge a few
fantastic games that didn’t quite make the cut.
Leaving Cambridge is the third entry in these jams from designer Nora Katz,
who won Best Analog Game with
Nude On A Yellow Sofa in 2022 and got a nod for
The Chess Player in 2023, and like those last two entries it’s a thoughtful
and intimate roleplaying experience, this time inspired by a 1928 poem.
Ladies
of the Almanack by dandelion dino is an unfinished but extremely promising
start to an adventure-game-esque adaptation of
Ladies Almanack by Djuna
Barnes, with fantastic visuals and subject matter.
1928 Author Clicker Tycoon
by gogp is a creative minimalist browser game that slowly reveals amusing new
mechanics and draws on a huge corpus of text from 1928 books, and is notable
for being coded from scratch rather than using any kind of engine.
M3KMarch
by A.M.Homunculus is a robust solo pen-and-paper roleplaying game that feels a
little like an analogue roguelike.
Soulless Children and
Troika 19280!,
both by xiombarg, are clever modifications/extensions to existing roleplaying
systems.
The Steamboat of Madness by Digital Phoenix UG is a twisted,
visually-striking platformer. And
20 Hrs. 40 Min. by aeta is rich and playful
roleplaying/storytelling game about Amelia Earhart with excellent rotoscoped
pixel art.
I strongly encourage everyone to check out all these games and the other
entries over on Itch, but now without further delay, on to the winners…"
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
