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Ghost Jam 2023 Results!
Hey folks! Ghost Jam 2023 has concluded, and now it’s time to share the results! We have, once again, had a rather large turnout, so buckle up for a long post!
This year we had 25 submissions by 31 different developers. That’s 2 more submissions than last year!
Of those submissions, 6 of them were made in the first 72 hours of the jam, qualifying for our 72 hour challenge. 3 of those were even done within the first 24 hours!? That’s a first!
13 of the ghosts were made from scratch/just a single template, with no other pre-made assets, qualifying for our New Assets Only challenge!
Additionally, this year we saw a little more variety in the languages, both spoken language and coding language, used to make the ghosts! One ghost was submitted in Japanese, and another in Russian and Belarusian!
As far as coding languages go, most English ghosts use a language called YAYA (or sometimes the older version, AYA), but we had one entry in Satori, and one in Kawari!
Of the participants in the event, 20 of them were participating in a ghost jam for the first time, and 15 of them released their first ghost as a part of the jam!
Harder to quantify with stats, but still very interesting to note, was the great variety in ghosts that we saw this year! There are a lot of really creative entries that deviate from the standard ghost style. Some are desktop buds, some are focused on a single concept, some pull you into the character’s world, and some are entire games! Give them all a try, there’s a lot of cool stuff here!
With all of that out of the way, let’s see the ghosts! As mentioned, it’s a long post, so check under the cut for the listing!
ButtonToy, by OdieDogXP:
[Download]
Enjoy pressing buttons to activate different activities!
Listen to randomized stories, or play various minigames!
Don’t miss the functional power button in the corner!
Camp Camp, by CaptainKiwi and KFC:
[Ghost download] [Balloon download]
Meet your camp guides for the day, counselor David and camper Max!
Learn about the inhabitants of the camp, the good and the bad...
Give them treats!
Comes with a unique balloon!
Captain (DEMO), by Percival / Azazel:
[Download]
Keep the captain company during his breaks!
Overhear the ship logs and strange jobs the crew have encountered!
Chat about cats!
Made with new assets only!
Faeia & Tahir, by WhatAPhantasia:
[Download]
Find yourself in a rich and expansive world to learn all about!
Get to know Faeia and Tahir, denizens of two lands at war that have become friends!
Comes with a unique balloon!
Gallery 512, by Galla, Kat, and Zichqec:
[Download]
Decorate your desktop with 1 of 4 canvas styles, each with their own animated painting and a selection of frames!
Have up to 100 lil guys wobwobwob around your screen!
Comes with a unique balloon!
Made in just 72 hours, with new assets only!
Kafe Kareopsis Hutarkam, by Smoky and sacrificedbuns:
[Download]
Sit down for a nice chat, and order some food!
Throw the food on the floor and/or eat it!
Written in Russian and Belarusian!
Made in just 72 hours, with new assets only!
Macaque, by Venelona (Tumblr / Twitter):
[Download]
Mind his moods if you want to stay on his good side!
Comes with two different shells, to change the look of his ears!
Comes with a unique balloon!
Made with new assets only!
Maxumus the Cat, by Bitzen:
[Download]
Very animated shell, including a satisfying pickup animation!
High quality recommendations... from a cat!
Comes with a unique balloon!
Nanika Atsume, by Okuajub:
[Download]
Set out food and wait for cats to come visit!
Enjoy surreal idle dialogue while you wait!
Comes with a unique modification of the Star Cloud balloon!
The first jam ghost to be made with the SHIORI Kawari!
Please arrive 15 minutes before your scheduled interview time, by Galla, Naryu, and Zichqec:
[Download]
Prepare your résumé and steel yourself for an important interview!
Answer questions, and ask questions of your own! Learn about your workplace-to-be!
Comes with a unique balloon!
Made with new assets only!
Presentable Can, by KFC:
[Download]
Stare at the can! Tap the can! Pet the can!
Comes with a unique balloon!
Made in 72 hours, with new assets only! (Actually, made in less than 24 hours!)
Rock Blue and Peach, by JopsyJop and Waffles:
[Download]
Get to know a couple of besties and learn about the inhabitants of their town!
Discuss various types of media!
Comes with a unique balloon!
Shigure, by TechNekoKit:
[Download]
Bring a rainstorm right to your desktop
Enjoy the company of a mysterious spirit
Beautiful mixed media shell
Made with new assets only!
Skrunkly, by StrangelyKai:
[Download] (Mind the content warnings in the readme!)
Enjoy a wide variety of skrunkle quotes!
Use dressups to modify the outline of Skrunkly, or invert the colors!
Made with new assets only!
Slime Fighter 2000, by Smoky:
[Download]
Fight terrifying household objects!
Play as multiple different classes!
Made with new assets only!
Slugcat, by Percival:
[Download]
It’s a slug! It’s a cat! It’s a slugcat!
Watch it loaf!
Made in 72 hours, with new assets only! (Actually, made in less than 24 hours!)
sNO - STORMBRINGER!!, by WhatAPhantasia:
[Download]
Deal with a demigod villain existing on what you thought was your balcony!
Get predictions about the weather, using actual weather data!
Comes with a unique balloon!
Made in just 72 hours!
Styrmir, by Galehaut and Ecclysium:
[Download]
Assist a god with their pet project - an island of humans!
Manipulate their mood to provide different weather variants to the humans
Help the island survive, and with a little work, thrive!
Comes with a unique balloon!
Team Snakemouth, by Adante:
[Download]
Pay for the assistance of the reliable team snakemouth!
They'll assist you with keeping your computer tidy and give peptalks whenever you need!
Help them collect items and berries along the way!
The Poke!Partner Program [BETA], by Rosenheim, Okuajub, Harmony, Blackfyre, @ohnoitsme / PEANUT, and ChatGPT (by OpenAI):
[Download]
Multiple shells, one for Professor Azalea and one for Porygon!
Nuzlocke tracker system with custom rules!
Send your pokemon on adventures and let it collect berries!
The Rain Station, by Digi_056:
[Download]
Dictate the weather and temperature!
Watch as the environment outside changes based on the time of day and weather conditions!
Images for the ghost made with clean 3D models!
Toad, by Galehaut, Secret Pie, and Ecclysium:
[Download]
Comes with a unique balloon!
Made in 72 hours, with new assets only! (Actually, made in just 2½ hours!?)
Kick the toad!
Wally Darling / Welcome Home, by idk and thebubble-mancer:
[Download]
Friendly dialogue
A toggle for horror elements, so you can play safely
Rare events made to spook you in the darkest hours of the night
Made with new assets only!
Witching Hour, by Zdzisiu:
[Download]
Take up the mantle of elder witch to guide and reform a delinquent apprentice!
Gather and study magical ingredients to fill your grimoire!
Brew your inventory into potions and test them on your pupil!
ヒカリキツネ@hikarikitsune, by ななっち:
[Download]
Spend calming days with hikari, a kitsune that relies on you to interact with the world!
Chat about your plans for the day and places you'd like to go to support her hobby as a photographer!
Made by our first ghost jam participant from the Japanese community! for jam regulars, that means an interesting structure and style not yet seen among English devs!
The first jam ghost to be made with the SHIORI Satori!
#Ukagaka#Ukagaka Ghost#English Ukagaka#Ghost Jam#Ghost Jam 2023#Ukagaka Dream Team#New Release#Event#Camp Camp#Risk of Rain#Lego Monkie Kid#Neko Atsume#Presentable Liberty#Exoptable Money#Rain World#Bug Fables#Pokemon#Don't Starve#Infinity Train#Wally Darling#Welcome Home#Original Character
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Friends
#Salvadore#Prisoner#Charlotte#Mr Smiley#Dr Money#presentable liberty#exoptable money#menagerie archives#digital art#illustrations#fanart#videogames#character design#cartoonish style
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Oh hey, an incorrect quotes blog for Presentable Liberty and Exoptable Money! Feel free to submit your own quotes, asks and submit are open!
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IM SO SURE THAT MR. SMILEY WOULD UNIRONICALLY LISTEN TO LEMON DEMON !!! (I am PROJECTING)
#presentable liberty#the raccoon speaks#presentable liberty exoptable money#exoptable money#mr smiley#lemon demon#HED SPECIFICALLY LOVE TO LISTEN TO FINE AND TOUCH-TONE TELEPHONE!!#hes just so silly#i love gim
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Tfw when you’re trying to bust some guy you just met out of prison and he has to bring his twink boy best friend who can’t drive a car
#presentable liberty#menagerie 2: presentable Liberty#salvadore#menagerie#fanart#presentable liberty fanart#menagerie archives#charlotte#exoptable money
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Old sticker designs from a year ago!! I want to make these real so bad
#presentable liberty#dr money#menagerie#exoptable money#menagerie archive#mr smiley#salvadore#charlotte
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Just finished watching a retrospective on Wertpol and the Menagerie series and man. I saw Mark’s playthrough of Presentable Liberty when I was… 15? And I was really starting to struggle with my depression for the first time in my life. Presentable Liberty gave me a weird sort of catharsis to sort through the feelings I was having in a safe way. I know I tend to focus on the wackier and more lighthearted parts of the games (yes, these lighthearted parts exist!), but I hope that doesn’t come across as being disrespectful of Robert’s legacy. I respect him immensely as both a creator and a person. To be more frank, I miss him, as I’m sure many others do as well, not just for what he made, but for who he was.
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Various portraits I’ve made during 2020-2021
I am @qotice, this is my menagerie blog.
#menagerie#presentable liberty#exoptable money#my art#menagerie 2: presentable liberty#charlotte#mr smiley#salvadore the traveler#dr money#madame sinclaire
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WOE.BEGONE x Presentable Liberty crossover AU when
The idea of Doctor Money joining/leading the Flinchites is actually kinda scary.
If he finds out you can just copy+paste people as many times as you want and then steal all their organs, W.BG would turn even more gorey really quickly
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top 5 video games :)!
Obvious top answer Minecraft the special interest of all time. Been playing for over a decade. Half of my fuckin lifetime. And I continue to be so bad at the game despite having so much intensely specific expertise
Stardew Valley. Game i come back to the most often besides minecraft. Again. Games i am so bad at despite playing so often. Over half a decade and I've never properly beaten it or gotten perfection
What Remains of Edith Finch. Game that makes you cry 5000 times no matter the circumstance. Was watching a video about the game the other week and kept tearing up just hearing the guy talk about it
Firewatch. Beautiful scenery. Beautifully complex stories and characters. Ending that is both melancholy and cathartic. Love this game
Was gonna be pretentious and say Presentable Liberty but honestly it's fucking Mario Kart. I play it constantly bc it is the only video game my mom likes so it's the only thing my family can play together lol
#atlas speaks#ask game#presentable liberty was wild though#and the prequel game. exoptable money. equally so but in a completely different way
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having my partner play exoptable money and it's tryina purchase the cat
I can assure you it does not want the cat
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Okay this is a stupid question
but I keep seeing this “undertale yellow” thing
and seeing as the last time I asked someone in the tadoccblr mod menagerie to explain a fandom/piece of media I knew nothing about everything went to heck in a hand basket /silly, PLEASE EXPLAIN
(I asked Autumn to explain IZ and ummm I am almost as confused as before I asked)
menagerie ehheheheh presentable liberty/exoptable money reference
AHEM anyway
give me a solid minute to type this explanation out
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The Prisoner: I'll be like "I've had it" and two seconds later I will start enduring
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Due to totally foreseen circumstances, I am unfortunately still alive
- Charlotte
#the raccoon speaks#presentable liberty#presentable liberty exoptable money#exoptable money#charlotte#guyd pls this is how i cope#(im ok now i swear)
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What are your favorite videogames?
Thanks for the great question, I have so much to say! I will avoid mentioning any VN as I don't consider them games really..
I am a fan of surreal and weird games in general, if it's out there then I will be interested and play it; I also constantly search for raising sims where you raise a character (Typically a daughter or son.) till they turn into an adult.
Menagerie Series -> I love this series, I am very thankful that it exists as I love the game's art style and atmosphere it gives:
Presentable Liberty, I consider this game as one of the best, it is a first person story driven game where you play as a prisoner that has no choice but to wait for someone to send you a letter and play through the games given to you just to pass time. It is part of a Menagerie series created by the creator.
Years ago, this game changed my god damn life. I was so invested in it, it is rare to find something that understands what it feels like to actually be helpless and depressed. The need to tell those few people left that you're still alive and can't is a frustrating hurdle.
Exoptable Money, Another part of the Menagerie Series, this time it is a point and click format. You play as a business man trying to find ways in how you earned your fame and piece together what happened to the world in itself. I also recommend recommend as I do like the creator's style.
It is also quite depressing but if you like strange visuals then I'm sure you'd enjoy it.
Menagerie Archive, The last part of the Menagerie Series, another point and click format. You play as an archivist in a dystopian world where you are forced to share your earnings between three citizen from each status. If you don't have enough funds, they will go hungry for a week while at the same time, keeping yourself also fed.
There are multiple endings, and it is also part of the worldbuilding from the two games, Presentable Liberty and Exoptable Money.
Mogeko Castle -> RPG, just pure unfiltered dark humor.
Hylics -> RPG, just straight up surreal and aesthetic fun.
The witch's House -> RPG, a good horror game, I consider it a classic so you should play it, I don't wanna spoil the fun.
Zelle -> Occult Adventure, 2nd person dungeon crawler/point and click game where you are a young boy trying to escape the grim reaper's castle in order to get back to your mother.
TMGS Series -> Otome, a stat raising dating game where you have 3 years in high school to get close to the guy you like; (I also want to play the original ones where you date the girls eventually.)
LovePLus -> DS, another stat raising dating game where you have a virtual girlfriend. My sister and I used to fight over the DS because we wanted to collect dreams and go on dates with the girl we chose lol.
Princess Maker Series -> Raising sim, stat raising game where you raise a girl till she turns into an independent adult, either from a princess or any job you want her to get.
Teaching Feeling -> Raising sim, you take care of an abused girl and have a relationship with her. (I am still upset to this very day the creator blocked me all because he had a tantrum over his english speaking fans and that I was speaking in english.)
My Child Lebensborn -> Raising sim, story driven where you're raising a child of a german soldier in norway after the war and try your best to give him/her the best childhood as much as you can.
Harvester -> Point and click adventure, classic surreal and just weird game where you play as a man who has amnesia and has to figure out the world he's in.
LION -> Life sim, dosbox game. You just play as a lion lol
WOLF -> Life sim, dosbox game. You play as a wolf, that's it lol.
PETZ -> Life sim, old game where you just take care of pets till old age in your desktop. That's it. I cherish this game to the bottom of my heart.
Creatures Series -> Life sim, my favorite of all time as possibly the best out all life simulations. You take care of these alien creatures, teach them how to talk and watch them interact with their surroundings. The person who made this is an actual roboticist btw, and it has a complex system where the activities in their brain are monitored to even their genetic make up. I remember one of my norns kept calling me mama and then taught it to the others to also refer to me as that.
Yames Games -> Best horror games out there, there's a lot to say but I suggest you check it out yourself if you're into the eldritch variety.
Rimworld -> Colony sim, a sci-fi management game where you try to survive the planet and get out of there with the rest of your colony. It is also a classic, especially with mods.
Crusader Kings Series -> Strategy game where you try to keep your dynasty from dying as much as you can. I play it to see how far I can turn my family into a family circle, basically incest. But the fun is making your own story and messing around. Be warned, to this fucking day the devs cannot be bothered to fix their shitty loading screens. A spreadsheet of a game shouldn't be asking for large fucking specs just to play.
Tale of Immortal -> Open world sandbox game, Wuxia shit and cultivation.
ELONA -> Rougelike game. You can do so many things in this game that I can hardly list it, just go play it.
Amazing Cultivation Simulator -> You know what it's already about based on the title, wuxia and cultivation shit except it is a colony sim this time. Inanimate objects can come to life, your furry will turn into a literal demonic animal and grief you if you take too long to cultivate him/her, your character will turn into a loli/shota when turning near immortal. It is fun but fuck that chat mechanic. You need mods.
I don't think I've listed all of my favorites but these were the ones I thought from the top of my head. If you're ever interested in any of them just try it out.
Virtual Villagers Series -> Real time simulation management game, you take care of a bunch of people in a lone village and do your best to improve their life. You act as a god, at least in some of the other sequels, and try your best to find ways to find better food resource and unlock the mysteries of the island.
Be warned as this isn't the kind where everything you'll be able to unlock everything in one go as it where you'll need to wait real time for it to unlock on it's own.
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Dear fellow traveller!
#presentable liberty#exoptable money#menagerie#salvadore#menagerie archive#salvadore the Traveller#digital art#digital painting#art#discarded wip#wip#vibrant colors#ooo pretty man :)#and Salvadore the traveler#since my man spells it both ways#goofy ahh
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