The Best Games from GMTK Game Jam 2021

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Mark: *held a game jam The puzzle games genre: whomst has summoned me

You know, in my opinion if you managed to make a game in 48 hours you are already a winner! Good job everyone :)

I just wanted to thank all 11 people who downloaded my game. No seriously, every single download made me really happy.

The "Baba Is You" influence cannot be understated this year

Our team failed to deliver a game so we just ended up with a soundtrack only lol can't wait to see the best games!!

I can't believe my game got featured! 9:03 I made I gacha head and I didn't even think it was good enough to get close to top 100. I may have cried a little because it was so un-expected and I have been learning almost all my game design from these videos for over 3 or 4 years now I think. I have loved this channel for so long and have watched and loved every best of jam video since it has started and this was the first time I actually decided to join even though I still really didn't think I was good enough yet. This is one of the biggest accomplishments for me after feeling like I wasn't good at anything and felt lost because of it. This is a big deal for me because it was something that felt like it was completely out of reach. Thank you so much.

Well done to everyone who participated, no matter the state of your game! I'm proud of you just for trying!

If you feel a bit let down because you didn't see your game. Try to look up and see how much you've learned during the jam! There will be many more opportunities like this where you will be able to use this new knowledge! Thank you so much for participating everyone!

0:15 and 19:27 This is our game "MOM" !!! Thank you, everyone.

Ending up in 101st place: suffering from success (actually happened to us lol)

The first time I participated in the jam, I just made my game, replied to the few comments left and then waited for the results. Of course I did not win and it left me feeling kind of empty and disappointed... This year I focused on the community, played everyone's game who left a comment on mine, rated random games, games with few ratings and tried to leave some useful feedback everywhere. I got a lot of comments and ratings back from them and it was such a wholesome experience compared to last year... :D And I got a cool idea out from this jam! Congrats to every one who made a game and/or tried his/her best at it! See you on the next one. :)

12:36 there I am Gary, there I am!!! Congrats to everyone who participated!!!

"It's not the most attractive game in the jam" -Looks 1,000,000 times more polished than my game

As 1/3 of Star Garden Games, I think I can speak on behalf of the team that we are amazed and humbled to be on this list, sharing a spot with incredible games. Thank you so much to all the amazing people who came and told us how much they loved our game, and to all the random people I found talking about factori in the GMTK discord. The support has been incredible, and it came at such a difficult time of my life, so the love and support has completely lifted me up again. Thanks so much to Mark for enjoying our game enough to feature it as well... I'm just so lost for words, but seriously thank you everyone. Thanks for playing factori, we can't wait to show you v1.0, we hope you love it.

Hey Mark, this was my first game jam ever! Thanks for organizing it, I had an absolute blast for those 48 hours!!

Fun fact about Static Cling: 3 of the artists of that game (SnakeBlock, orisghost and Not Your Sagittarius) actually were either directly responsible for the art in The Binding of Isaac: Repentance, or did some promotional art for the game, commissioned by Edmund McMillen himself. So yeah, to say that game's artstyle is made by absolute pros is very much an understatement.

I can imagine a lot of cool speedruns of the parrot game

Our team were the makers of Loop! Thanks to all who took time to play and review it, and big thanks to Mark for featuring it! This means a lot to me as one of my first game jams was GMTK 2020, although we were not able to finish our game last year! After the 2020 Jam I promised myself I'd just get in the top 100 next year. And the Marmalads with Loop got featured in the top 20! (We're all students!) Thanks to all the great people I met this last year, and I'm so happy to be able to say I followed through with my promise last year!

Woooow I'm so happy we made it this year! Felt crazy waiting and thinking we were done for but then number 20 shows up and it's sparklink! All the games were incredibly polished this year, which really shines through this video, props to all devs! And thanks for hosting this :)