Rainbow Game Jam 2020: Top 5 ranked games
This summer saw the return of the Rainbow Game Jam for its fifth consecutive year. This year saw 39 games be made in the two-week jam and you can check all of them out here on itch.io.
Rainbow Game Jam encourages participants to create games exploring and celebrating identity, gender, sexuality, sex, life, Intersectionality, being queer, yourself and your community, pride, protests, and love!
This year, Rainbow Game Jam worked in collaboration with Out Making Games (OMG), the UK video games industry network for the LGBTQ+ community.
Games made in the Jam were rated based on a number of criteria including ‘use of theme’, ‘fun’, ‘art’ and ‘narrative’. You can check out the full rankings on itch.io.
2020’s game jam theme was ‘Strength in Numbers’ – here are the top five games, based on the criteria ‘Use of Theme’:
1st: There’s A Protest In Town
There’s a protest in town… and nobody showed up. We are going to change that!
Find other people and convince them to join the protest. To convince them, repeat their input tasks and stay in rythm. The bigger the protest gets, the easier is it to convince larger groups of people.
Submitted by fenchel (@fenchel_), Dare Looks (@DareLooks)
Play the game here: There’s A Protest in Town
2nd: Heart to Heart
An abstract, interactive story on the theme “Strength in Numbers” for Rainbow Jam 2020.
Use the mouse to guide your friends through this abstract, hand drawn story. Click elements to interact and overcome obstacles.
Submitted by definitelymango (@definitelymango), GiantPeachAudio (@GiantPeach_OYG)
Play the game here: Heart to Heart
3rd: Strength In Blobs
Guide the Blobs to freedom! Pick up all their buddies along the way and use walls to split your buddies up to solve the puzzles and escape!
Submitted by Hellion Anarchist
Play the game here: Strength in Blobs
4th: Strength Is Other People
Navigate the maze. Find lights. Know you are not weak for seeking help.
Submitted by Drazillion (@drazillion)
Play the game here: Strength is Other People
5th: Traversal
Try to traverse each maze to get to the Gems at the end.
Submitted by Skully B (@Skully_B)
Play the game here: Traversal
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