It was so fun making a new interface for Sarah's short, wonderfully crafted Swap Wand User! I hope this gives more folks a chance to experience the great word-swapping puzzles and intriguing story. Tip: We added some different modes to adjust the difficulty, check the settings!

Sarah W.@silvercypher.bsky.social · last wk.

My little narrative puzzle game Swap Wand User has just gotten a UI swap thanks to @celia-14.bsky.social! It’s far more user-friendly and mobile-friendly, plus it just looks cool. I’m so grateful and excited to see something I wrote looking so legit! passerine.itch.io/swap-user-wand

My little narrative puzzle game Swap Wand User has just gotten a UI swap thanks to @celia-14.bsky.social! It’s far more user-friendly and mobile-friendly, plus it just looks cool. I’m so grateful and excited to see something I wrote looking so legit! passerine.itch.io/swap-user-wand

Swap Wand User by Passerine

A word-swapping puzzle game

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New Jamwitch mailing list! As a reward for signing up: how would you like to play a small, free, narrative word puzzle game? I've been helping out with a really cool one as a side side project, and I'll share that with mailing list subscribees this weekend.

jamwitch@jamwitch.com · 2w ago

Hey folks, we're starting a Jamwitch mailing list if you'd like occasional emails when we have something to share! Sign up for the mailing list to get key updates: mail.jamwitch.com Or to get more involved, you can join our Discord: discord.jamwitch.com

had some fun and made a zine for manifesto jam

The Future is Possible! by sweetfish

manifesto for the NEW and the NOW

sweetfish.itch.io

It's almost EnigMarch! If you want to level up your puzzle design skills, try making 31 puzzles in a month. Plus it's nice to focus on a low-stakes challenge. Check @enigmarchhq.bsky.social or enigmarch.com for daily prompts, and make some puzzles or just see what everyone else is making. It's fun!

EnigMarch

a month of puzzle design challenges

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Submit your narrative games to the Showcase! We want your cool games! Deadline Jan 31st. #interactivefiction #narrativegames #NarraScope

NarraScope 2026 | Showcase

NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.

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The 2025 edition of ECTOCOMP, the interactive fiction community's annual spooky competition, is here! Submissions open on October 1, but you can begin working on your spooky IF now. Rules and more info on the jam page: itch.io/jam/ectocomp...

ECTOCOMP 2025

A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-12-01 hosted by rubereaglenest & alyshkalia. There's a full moon rising Let's go dancing in the light We know where the music's playing Let’s go out and feel the nig...

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We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 28th More info 👇 grants.draknek.org

What would you do if you only have ONE choice? Come participate in the next Neo-Interactive jam and show us how you used the ONE choice! itch.io/jam/single-c... #interactivefiction #visualnovel #gamedev #singlechoicejam #neointeractives

Single Choice Jam

A game jam from 2025-07-15 to 2025-08-16 hosted by manonamora, Autumn Chen & Lapin Lunaire Games. The Jam where you give only ONE CHOICE to the player! The Single Choice Jam is a short unranked jam wh...

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The subject of "full playthroughs of escape rooms" came up in a Discord I'm in, and I didn't actually have those archival links in a convenient place. So, time for a (somewhat slowly updated) thread!

Everyone get real excited -- huge huge news -- @heavyweight.bsky.social is coming back. I am so so excited, I can't begin to tell you. Also, I am here to tell you that Jonathan Goldstein is the rare human being who is exactly like he is on the radio IRL. He's humble, kind, curious, and so so funny.

‘Heavyweight,’ an Acclaimed Narrative Podcast, Returns

Pushkin Industries, the podcast company that will release the show, is betting that documentary-style audio programs can still win an audience.

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I played The Purple Pearl, a two-player escape room text adventure, and now I wish there were more multiplayer parser games. It takes about an hour to set things up and play over voice chat with a friend. If the format sounds interesting, give it a try! amanda-walker.itch.io/the-purple-p...

The Purple Pearl-- A Two-Player Text Adventure by Amanda Walker

A stolen treasure. A desperate king. Two valorous volunteers.

amanda-walker.itch.io

Hello! I am excited to announce my new Anti-Match Quiz inspired by the nominees for Best Picture. Each question has multiple answers; you want one given by the fewest other people. To play, go to www.tinyurl.com/AMOscars25 Entries are due by 2/20 at 5:00 PM EST. Happy quizzing! #trivia #oscars

Anti-Match Oscars 2025

In this game, you want the lowest possible score! If you've never played an Anti-Match Quiz before, please read the remainder of the instructions after this paragraph carefully; the format here is dif...

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After decades of searching for a form of exercise I don't hate, I have discovered...PILATES. My doctor recommended it to me years ago, but it seemed like a fad for a certain type of person that I'm not. Turns out trying to keep your body from falling apart from disuse is good no matter who you are!

It’s February 1 and #EnigMarch2025 is just one month away! We’re making the prompt list (and checking it twice) in preparation for another daily puzzlemaking frenzy. Are you going to be participating this year? Let us know!

Shufflecomp games are up! Check all 19 of them out right here: itch.io/jam/shufflec... My entry Anolelona has a bug, which I will leave in for now, in order to atone and because it's funny: if you get in the hammock the game will not ever let you leave it. Oops 🥲

Submissions to ShuffleComp 2024

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I wish there was more of a push from writers/websites to have people use RSS. I know Google Reader's death made it harder, but there's apps now like Inoreader and Feedly that work on phones that I think people would use. It's just easier to see something through RSS feeds than checking social media

Thinking about the day before Miitomo shut down in 2018 (artist unknown)

Hey so I made a David Lynch Game Jam. use the #davidlynchgamejam to follow along, tag your entries, and if you can't join, share. Go here to join: itch.io/jam/fix-your...

FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE - A David Lynch Game Jam

A game jam from 2025-01-20 to 2025-02-21 hosted by Jellyfishlines. With the news of the passing of David Lynch, I want to take the moment and honor his legacy by holding a game jam. David was a person...

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I saw a post on Facebook yesterday about a swan frozen to the ice on Reykjavík pond. People were wondering what could be done and there was a comment from this absolute legend pictured below saying: "I am on my way with the necessary gear". And there is just nothing cooler than people like this.

Björguðu álftarunga vopnaðar hitabrúsa og brimbretti - RÚV.is

Náttúruverndarsinni segir mikilvægt að huga að fuglunum þegar frostið bítur sem mest. Álftarunga sem sat frosinn fastur á ísilagðri Reykjavíkurtjörn var bjargað um helgina af náttúruverndarsinnum sem ...

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Remember, every big IP & everything you love, was originally someone's OC Be cringe. Be free.

Looking forward to the Gaming Like It’s 1929 Jam, where people make digital and tabletop games based on things entering the public domain in 2025. Plenty of examples listed on the page for the jam itch.io/jam/gaming-l...

Gaming Like It's 1929

A game jam from 2025-01-01 to 2025-02-01 hosted by Randy Lubin & Copia Gaming. A new year means new material entering the public domain! Starting January 1st 2025, works from 1929 are free to use and ...

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If you like • puppets • puzzles • musicals then you will LOVE this

Kathryn Yu #OpenToWork@kathrynyu.com · 2y ago

Does a LIVE PUPPET ROCK MUSICAL ESCAPE ROOM sound like something you might enjoy? Headlock is bringing back their two delightful ONLINE escape games, ONLY Dec 13-15. Highly recommended. headlockescaperooms.co.uk (There’s two games, but you can play in any order. Note all times are UK.)

Thank you everyone who has been helping spread the word about the game jam! We are up to 50 sign ups, which when it's still more than 2 months away is a fantastic amount of sign ups! Every sign up is someone wanting to make more accessible games, so each one is precious! itch.io/jam/games-fo...

Games for Blind Gamers 4

A game jam from 2025-02-01 to 2025-03-10 hosted by NightBlade. Welcome, Blind and Sighted Game Developers! Welcome to the fourth annual Games for Blind Gamers jam! The goal of this jam is to build awa...

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Today is @itch.io creator day where 100% of revenue goes to the creators! Buy some indie games today. Our games are all discounted right now BTW: draknek.itch.io

I'm not a person who likes *brands* but I gotta hand it to @chooseadventure.bsky.social for going out on this particular limb this week. It's bizarre, vulnerable, and unmistakably 2024. Gratitudes.

Hey, just FYI, AI art sucks, and generating it to demonstrate how bad it sucks also sucks. Just don’t use it. It is an unconscionable polluter and is costing people their livelihoods. Don’t normalize it

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

Every time I question whether it's worth it to spend time making games with things as they are, I remind myself why I do it: to empower people and expand their ideas of what's possible. Games are great at that, and it's very important, and relevant, and something worth improving at.

Come tell us about neat facts through IF: itch.io/jam/educatio... #interactivefiction #gamejam

Educational Jam

A game jam from 2024-11-16 to 2024-11-26 hosted by manonamora, Lapin Lunaire Games & Autumn Chen. The Jam where the player learns something! The Educational Jam is a short unranked jam where (fun) fac...

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