just cranked out a code skeleton while sitting around on my phone. was getting “stage fright” thinking about it on my computer/at my desk, hut i just sent it in an email to myself and got an entire skelly done that i hope to fill in soon. should be a very simple game but i think its fun and surreal? excited to have a bit of progress made.
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It’s cool to see everyone sharing their jam entries. I haven’t got a title yet, but I can share the synopsis of my story. You play as an elderly person with dementia who struggles with hallucinations, paranoia, and memory loss. The story starts when your daughter discharges you, from the asylum where you were treated, against your will, suspecting the treatments were worsening your condition. A series of events happen on the way home, and you stumble into a forest where eerie events unravel. Without your regular medication, you have to figure out which horrible events are real or mere figments of your imagination while trying to maintain your sanity until you can finally make sense of what is going on.
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This sounds really interesting! I’m a sucker for this kind of story.
I was just talking about wanting to play as an elderly person the other day lmao. Good luck!
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Sounds great. Also the elderly main character is so interesting as to show how many people treat elders badly nowadays and all that generational struggles
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That sounds super interesting and there’s so much that can be done with that premise! Funnily enough, the original twist of my story was that your character had dementia and was wandering aimlessly through the woods while they conflated their memories of their life with the stories they heard growing up. But I’ve since changed it because I ended up liking the ‘fiction’ the character exists in better.
Good luck and hope writing goes smoothly!
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Not sure how I am going to tackle the code aspects of my story, but I don’t think the stat screen will have much detail. But I have figured out the basic story concept.
The PC wakes up in a hospital with no memory on how they got there, they will have to explore the hospital and find out that they are no longer on “earth” and have to battle twisted monsters and fight to reach the “exit”.
Don’t know how much I am allowed to say on the concept and so this is the vague version of things.
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That’s fine, just make sure it exists or you’ll get technical problems. (I have a habit of just putting “This game has no stats!” in it.)
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Its combination of that and the fact that well, Besides the usage
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You dont need stats or a stat screen for the jam entry. So you dont need to worry about that and do what you felt better. Explore and experiment
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You could actually work the memory loss into the stat screen, code it so its starts of practically bare but as you remember more, more information shows up.
Here is a brief mock up to show what I mean.
*if (memory < 25)
Your name is the only thing you remember...${name} ${surname}.
*goto end_stats
*elseif (memory < 50)
You know your name is ${name} ${surname}, and you know you're a novelist who loves writing horror stories.
*goto end_stats
*elseif (memory < 75)
You're ${name} ${surname}, a best-selling horror novelist, and you were working on your latest novel "The Halloween Jam" before you lost your memory.
*goto end_stats
*else
You're ${name} ${surname}, not only are you a best-selling novelist who writes some of the best horror fiction, you're also engaged to your partner, who you met while they were starring in the movie of one of your first ever novels.
*goto end_stat
*label end_stat
You are currently searching the ${location}.
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That’s actually a good idea, I can have the mc piece together the information as to what happened to the lead up to their current situation. Would even help with the endings.
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That’s the beauty of the stats screen it doesn’t alway just have to be a bunch of stats. 
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How is everyone’s entries going?
I am pleased to say that [b]The Hedge Witch[/b] is going well and has now passed the 10,000 word mark (story + code) although a lot of today has been regoing over previous stuff as I wasn’t happy with some of the world building so it’s been cleaned up and rewritten with a few things added/removed etc.
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Poorly. 
(Your hidden text isn’t actually hidden, you may want to check it!)
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Haven’t started mine besides planning, been procrastinating on it and my main wip. Bad times overall, but college is just half the blame. Plan to write it all during my mid semester break, it shouldn’t take that long since it’s short anyway.
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Thanks for letting me know. I think I’ve sorted it now.
I deleted that bit as it was still showing up
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I haven’t progressed much despite being literally jobless now. I think part of it is feeling stalled on account of still needing to get my employment insurance claim stuff re-sorted (since my previous claim got interrupted by my new job, and now I also have a possible claim from losing my new job, and oh gosh, doing stuff is such a chore! but I gotta) Anyway. I’m gonna work on that after the next two days’ birthday dealings. And then I’ll figure out what direction I’m going for the Halloween Jam (or, more likely, I’ll be starting a first draft purely on vibes (i.e I’m gonna be pantsing the hell out of it))
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Taking a break at the moment (hopefully, not for long). I’ve already written and coded 2 chapters out of 4, but honestly it just might end up with 3 in total. My plan is to write a chapter per week. Since there’s only two more weeks left until the deadline, I’ll have to get off my bum soon lest I end up hating what I’ve already written so far.
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@LiliArch @Fraud_Writer @Foxcat @TonyG
Just remember the Jam is for fun, it doesn’t matter how much or how little you write, as long as you make sure you have fun doing it!
Keep writing and enjoying the worlds you create
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I have been with a high fever and oxygen, so I couldn’t advance a lot.
A jam is to have fun and you can always add stuff later on with time or even use it as a NaNoWriMo project
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