What is Community Game Jam?

Community Game Jam was a seven-day game jam that took place from August 24th, 2019, to August 31st, 2019. This game jam was hosted by an all-star cast in the game development community. The hosts of Community Game Jam were BlackThornProd, Brackeys, Dani, Jabrils, Sykoo, and the Brackey’s Discord server staff team. This powerhouse of influencers made Community Game Jam have the second most users join and second most submissions out of all the Past Game Jams on itch.io as of November 16, 2019. The theme of the game jam was…

The game is a liar!

In this game jam, the participants spent their week making games that would deceive, trick, and lie to the player. Let me be the first to tell you that I have felt like a fool countless times while reviewing the games for the list today. From fake start buttons, exits that make you restart, coins that kill you, and even completely fake games. The games on this list teach the player that no one can be trusted in this cruel world and allows for fantastic mechanics to be explored when you can’t trust the game your playing. In this post, I will share with you ten of my favorite games from the game jam that displayed creative mechanics, deception, fantastic art design, and are overall very entertaining games to play.

The Lying King

You can download The Lying King here

The Lying King was submitted by VidovicArts

The Lying King is a game where you play as a compulsive liar whose only goal is to get as many people to love him by telling them anything they want to hear. The gameplay of The Lying King consists of approaching people in your town and having a conversation with them. You have to listen to what the people are responding to your lies and choose the best lies to win their love. For example, I noticed that the soccer player really loved it when I lied about how strong I was.

I felt like a gif wouldn’t give this game its justice, here is a small video to show off the voice acting this game has to display.

I wanted to feature this game because it struck me as the most polished game I played from the jam. There was a lot of detail spent on the main menu and the art style of this game. This game also features 886 recorded voice lines. The voice lines are well-spoken and funny, especially for an amateur voice actor. I really enjoyed exploring this game world and experiencing what it had to offer. You can tell VidovicArts put a lot of effort into this game during the jam. If you want to support him, you can check out his youtube channel here!

Jimposters

You can download Jimposters here

Jimposters was submitted by SoBad

Jimposters is a 2D horror puzzle game where you must control Jim(s). In this game your taking control of multiple creatures that look and act like Jim, while you look for flashlight batteries which can reveal if a Jim is real or not. Once you find out which Jim is the real Jim, you can hold ‘E’ to kill

the fake Jims when you have them selected. The main mechanic in this game is switching between the Jimposters. You can use multiple Jim(s) to interact and navigate through the levels.

. Jimposters took second place overall in the game jam! The 2D artwork is amazing. I have to admit its morbid when you find out which Jim is real and start sacrificing all the Jimposters. But I think its a genius puzzle mechanic and it was pulled off very well. Sobad and his team did a great job on this one.

The Race: A Track of Lies!

You can play The Race: A Track of Lies! here

The Race: A Track of Lies! was submitted by Shane Hoffa, Audments, Hector Rodrigue2, and Episkeptis

The Race: A Track of Lies! won the “Theme” category of the game jam. It also took 7th place in the overall ratings of the game jam.

Warning I will have to tell you minor spoilers to tell you about this game. The Race: A Track of Lies! is not a racing game, it’s a 2D platformer. This game starts by telling you to collect the gems, the gems kill you. The exit can also be fake and kill you. This game is very creative in the ways it will kill you and has pretty good platforming. The levels can be challenging, but the platforming feels solid. When I die, I never feel like its the game’s fault. The Race: A Track of Lies has very good sprite work and the game felt very fluid.