Here's my "I'm in!" post, but with a twist: my partner (Angel) and I are analog tabletop creators. We've made tabletop stuff, solo journaling stuff, and tabletop stuff with optional journaling prompts.

It's always fun to consider all of the potential themes as both video games and analog games. For example, a few jams ago, "every 10 seconds" won. I was so upset: with video games, you can automatically have a timer count down and make things happen. With tabletop, it meant getting people to set a timer for 10 seconds and then obeying that timer. But I'm really happy with what we made: a push-your-luck real-time game of racing along different tracks. It's not something I would've even considered making before that, and it was a great growth opportunity!

Both digital and analog have negatives and positives: we get you rolling physical dice and playing with cards, which just FEELS cool! But it requires more setup (you can't just click around and figure the game out), reading (you have to LEARN how to manage and play the game), and potentially even other players (we do everything we can to ensure that isn't the case). But with making analog games, there are no coding bugs, we can make a prototype in minutes, and development takes FAR less time.

Anyway, I just wanted to give a little insight into my development point of view and say hello! 🙋‍♀️ I'm excited to see what everyone comes up with, no matter what the theme is (unless it's side effects lol).