You can. It is not a game and always that it doesn’t include a link or anything else playable you can put a snippet. Same that you can put a paragraph or code to ask for issues
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I’ve outlined the theme and main characters as well as several important story points. I have a few game mechanics which I want to play with, but I’m not sure they’ll work in IF format, but I’m fine with scraping them if I can’t make them fun. So far, I’ve written about 3k words and plan to continue next week. I’m aiming to finish writing around 2/3 of the narative by the end of the month, so I have more time to experiment with game mechanics in october.
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My personal advice is to go WILD. It is the same advice I gave Eiw last year. Her game had a very very complex and different approach to a game and to investigation and she was afraid it wouldn’t work.
If there is a place to go wild it is this jam. There is no scores nor a commercial price or a media trend. If it doesn’t work, you have earned a clear example of what doesn’t work for a real project.
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Finally picked one idea and started to work on it! The hardest part is trimming back the world-building and characters so they don’t get too big and overwhelming this year.
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i think i’m going to follow mara’s advice and just full send whatever i want here. i was thinking of something more literal to follow the theme at first (celtic faeries folklore especially, and how roses are conceptualized in that folklore etc etc) but now i think i might just not do that and do something fun and silly and not super serious. we shall see
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A jam is basically for that. So go and do what you want inside the theme. A Celtic folk story can also be silly and wild; or scary.
Imagination is the limit and deadline
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I just planned my game’s opening. 
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Well I was bored on my break so I’ve officially started my entry in note form.
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Has the note a rose on it? XD
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I’ve already mentioned a rose. 
I just need to message to Eiwynn’s partner as I’d like permission to base a character off her.
Also need your permission to base a character off you too 
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You have mine always is evil and charismatic.
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I had expected last week to be my most productive, for this jam, but it ended up suddenly being very filled, and stressful, and in the end, I wrote almost nothing 
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Inspired by the bravery and creativity from others in this thread, I decided to get reeeeaaaalll weeeird with this story. Don’t know if anyone will actually read it or enjoy it, but who cares?
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People will read it. People love read complete games and voting. That is a cool feature of jams.
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Weird is good! I’m curious already!
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Question, so can I just use the name night roses of an object and that passes, or do I need to incorporate the meanings of each of those concepts.
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Yep. Imagination is the limit.
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So I was finally able to finish Chapter Three of Quiver. Which took 3 times longer to write than the first two chapters which I’d done in a month.
So now I can officially start work on my entry. Ive ended up going for a completely different concept to my last message.
@poison_mara can I announce the title of my entry or do I need to keep it hush until it’s time to submit my entry?
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You can announce your title, show art, and even snippets! If it is not a link to the playable game or the entire code it is fine
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Good to know. Thanks for the clarification.
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