The Best Games from GMTK Game Jam 2023
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Published 2023-07-18
The GMTK Game Jam for 2023 was - once again! - our biggest yet. In this video, Mark runs down his 20 favourite games, from a jam where every game fit the theme āRoles Reversed".
Play the GMTK Game Jam 2023 games - itch.io/jam/gmtk-2023
=== Winning Games ===
00:00 - Intro
01:20 - Princess Paladin - woutervanvugt.itch.io/princess-paladin
02:10 - LedgePainter - charlie-wagner.itch.io/ledgepainter
02:53 - Bready or not... - aramilion.itch.io/bready-or-not-unsurvivor
03:49 - Inside Job - featurekreep.itch.io/inside-job
04:23 - Sneakerdoodle - pulni.itch.io/sneakerdoodle
04:55 - Bricker Breaks Free - angry-armadillo-games.itch.io/bricker-breaks-free
05:52 - VERSUS SNAKE - pizzart.itch.io/versus-snake
06:21 - Descriptionary - fingerclap.itch.io/descriptionary
06:53 - Last Piece Standing - sandroleon.itch.io/the-last-piece-standing
07:27 - Get Packing - dawnscythe.itch.io/get-packing
08:06 - Crabjuice - dev-dwarf.itch.io/crabjuice
08:42 - Walkies - tosmaster.itch.io/walkies
09:19 - One Day Better - aquanoctis.itch.io/onedaybetter
10:07 - UVSU - dietzribi.itch.io/uvsu
10:49 - Reversal Rooms - taelsdafoox.itch.io/reversal-rooms
11:08 - RAGDOLF - weentermakesgames.itch.io/ragdolf
11:40 - Pause to Play - ecremprown.itch.io/pause-to-play
12:22 - Making the Game - kindanice.itch.io/making-the-game
13:11 - Our Dearest Player - blazerchlopiec.itch.io/our-dearest-player
13:32 - Streamer Screamer - organzola.itch.io/streamer-screamer
14:15 - Honourable Mentions
=== Credits ===
Music provided by Epidemic Sound - www.epidemicsound.com/referral/vtdu5y (Referral Link)
=== Subtitles ===
Contribute translated subtitles - amara.org/videos/hKlrG1vUeVQd/
All Comments (21)
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Want to join GMTK Game Jam 2024? Register your interest here to get an email when the jam's date is announced - itch.io/jam/gmtk-2024
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The true game jam experience is the friends we made along the way staying awake until 3 am for the jam results. Never gets old!
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The game where you play as the monster who scares the streamer was easily my favorite out of all of these lmao! š¤£
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Our game "Bready or not" is there! I'm so proud of my team! Good job everyone! Some lovely games were made this year!
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One Day Better melts my heart, what a clever and emotional concept with well polished and fitting aesthetics
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'One Day Better' almost had me crying. What a touching game that should become a fully released title.
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I spent 48 hours working on an entry, pulled at least one all nighter to get about 100mb of pixel art sprites and an entire game coded in time, all for all my work to go to waste because the site crashed and I missed the deadline. Best game jam ever, and Iād do all of it again and not change a single thing. I donāt even want to play my game again, let alone finish everything I didnāt get done in the jam and upload an updated version to itch, but Iām proud of it, itās the only game Iāve ever finished. See you all next year Edit: the game is Super Labyrinth for all of yāall who keep on asking, itās not very good but Iāll finish it some day
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Thank you to everyone who played and rated Descriptionary! We had a great time making it.
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Man this was a blast, so glad I held my promise in participating. Hope everyone here enjoyed it as much as I did!
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Immediately this topic made me think of the Reddit post of a game idea where you play as the NPC whose stuff keeps being looted by main characters, so you build up a fortress with supportive industries in order to protect your stuff, and in the process getting more stuff, and then you realize you are becoming the final boss.
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These are all listed games, if you want to skip around 1:21 Princess Paladin 2:11 LedgePainter 2:54 Bready or not... and 3:18 Vampire: No Survivors 3:50 Inside Job 4:24 Sneakerdoodle 4:56 Bricker Breaks Free 5:55 versus snake 6:21 Descriptionary 6:55 The Last Piece Standing 7:30 Get Packing 8:06 Crabjuice 8:43 Walkies 9:21 One Day Better 10:09 UVSU 10:51 Reversal Rooms 11:11 Ragdolf 11:42 Pause To Play 12:22 Making the Game 13:09 Our Dearest Player 13:32 Streamer Screamer Honorable mentions: 14:41 firehose 14:54 The Contrarian Press 15:07 Spared!
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Woah! It's an HONOUR to be in the top 100 again this year. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to everyone to played and rated Beswitched! And congrats to everyone else in the video :)
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thank you for featuring One Day Better, and thank you so much to everyone for your kind comments and for letting us know that it resonated with you! our team is beyond grateful that our little game was able to touch so many people, there are no words. š„²š:chillwcat:
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The one about the cat helping their depressed human hits home SO HARD for me. My cat Maya actually basically saved me from myself, once, when I was in a really dark place. Whoever came up with the idea for that one, bless their heart.
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I did three backflips when 0:25 showed up! ā¤ Thank you so much for hosting the jam, Mark!
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The moment I heard the premise for One Day Better I almost sobbed. We need a full release of this ASAP; such a beautiful, wholesome concept, and impeccably visually designed. Hats off to Team SlimeHeart.
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āOne Day Betterā had me immediately sobbing, such an emotional concept
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One Day Better made me cry for the first time in months. Not even playing it, just seeing it in this video. What an amazing concept that, from the looks of it, is extremely well executed
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so excited. this was my first game jam; so excited to see what others have come up with!
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one of the devs of 'magnetism rally' here! it was my first time entering a big game jam that wasn't just for some school event so seeing that we managed to get top 100 is so insane!! thank you for playing our game and for your hard in rating these entries ! it was a wonderful experience and i'm so excited for next year : DD
