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Earlier this month, I challenged 23,000

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game designers to create a 
brand new game - in just 48 hours.

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And, what's more - the game had 
to fit a very difficult theme...

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That's right. Roles reversed.

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I wanted to see games that let us become a 
character that we don't normally get to play.

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Like, instead of controlling 
the buff knight in a suit of

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armour - what happens if we get to play 
as the army of enemy skeletons, instead?

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As always, the community rose to the challenge.

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They submitted over 6,800 games.

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Making it, once again, the 
biggest jam in itch.io's history.

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Sorry about the servers.

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I played through the top 100 rated games, 
and picked out my 20 absolute favourites.

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These games are clever, creative, inventive,

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and annoyingly good for games 
made in a single weekend.

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As always, the results are in 
no particular order or ranking -

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and this year, I've bundled them into groups 
that show off different takes on the theme.

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Okay. So, a very popular take on the theme 
was to make a game with a hero character,

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who moves through the level by themselves.

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And you've got to help or hinder them, 
by taking on a completely different role.

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Take, for instance, Princess Paladin.

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Here, the titular princess is 
very much the main character

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as she takes on waves of demonic 
bats and slime-spitting snakes.

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You, on the other hand, play 
as her measly minion sidekick.

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So you dash around the level to 
pick up weapons and health potions,

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which you can then yeet towards 
to the princess to help her out.

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Which means you're basically playing 
as Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite.

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But it's surprisingly fun 
to play in the support role.

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For one, while it can be tricky to 
work alongside an autonomous AI,

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these cute thought bubbles help make the 
princess's decision-making more transparent.

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And there's some clever design here as you juggle 
your own needs with those of the so-called hero.

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When you pick up a health potion, for instance 
- you have to ask yourself: who needs this more?

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You or me?

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Another take on this idea 
can be seen in LedgePainter.

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You're a game dev making a fancy 
3D shooter but - alas - your

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playtesters can't seem to navigate 
the level without some assistance.

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So, it's time to do what all 
triple A games do and paint

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the way forward with bright yellow splotches.

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The game's split into two halves:

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you've got the editor where you lay 
down your paint, from a limited supply.

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And then you can hit play to see how the 
AI-controlled character handles your stage.

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You can also look at The Tutorial,

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which is also about painting a level layout 
to give commands to an autonomous hero.

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So those are games where you help the 
AI-driven character reach their goal.

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But plenty of games went the other way, and 
instead pitted you against the protagonist.

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Bready or Not is clearly inspired by 
the breakout hit Vampire Survivors.

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But instead of playing as the whip-wielding 
hero, you're now commanding the army of enemies.

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Each one is on a different cooldown timer,

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so you need to bounce between the 
different birds to create a varied team.

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When you do enough damage, you can pick 
from a random selection of upgrades -

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from faster cooldowns, to twice-as-many spawns.

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Now I have to admit, the similar entry, Vampire:

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No Survivors, is probably a little bit 
smarter as you must carefully spend a

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limited pool of resources to build 
the most effective army of enemies.

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But I slightly preferred playing Bready or Not -

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probably because there's something wickedly 
fun about spawning such a massive pool

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of pigeons that it literally 
breaks the game's audio system.

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Another popular approach for this 
theme was to take a well-known game,

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and completely flip it on its head.

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So, Inside Job is an upside-down tower defence

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game where you place down the 
minions, rather than the towers.

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You've got a bunch of different baddies to 
pick from - each on different cooldowns -

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and you have to carefully deploy them 
to overwhelm the opponent's defences.

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Sometimes that means making 
sure many enemies arrive at

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the towers simultaneously, 
so some slip by unharmed.

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Or using a costly power-up to 
temporarily shut down the defences.

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Bonus points to Tower Attack, which also 
toyed with the "tower offence" concept.

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Another genre that's ripe for 
reversal is the stealth game.

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In Sneakerdoodle, we actually want 
to be spotted by patrolling guards.

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You play as an attention-hungry pooch 
who wants to be chased by humans.

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But not caught and cuddled.

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So you need to intentionally trip 
these wandering view-cones...

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and then make a dash for it 
before you're actually caught.

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This leads to some surprisingly clever levels as 
you dart under tables, squeeze through tight gaps,

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and carefully choose the order in which you get 
spotted, so you don't find yourself trapped.

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Retro games also provided a good 
opportunity for role reversal.

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In Bricker Breaks Free, the game 
starts with a very familiar set-up:

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a paddle firing a ball towards a bundle of blocks.

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But then things change: the camera 
swaps into an isometric view and

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you're now controlling the entire field of 
blocks as a single, amorphous character.

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Now you're moving through corridors 
of enemy paddles and wandering balls.

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You can shoot at the paddles to destroy 
them, but this actually uses your blocks

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as ammo - making you a tiny bit 
smaller with every shot you take.

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And the smaller you get, the more 
vulnerable your core becomes.

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However, it's not all bad being small - you can

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use your slimmed-down structure 
to sneak through tight gaps.

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This is a fun, frantic, and very 
clever twist on an arcade favourite.

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I just love games that use the 
character's shifting size and

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shape to organically change 
the way you play the game.

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Kinda like... Snake, which actually 
inspired two games in the top 100.

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My favourite, though, was VERSUS SNAKE,

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which turns the sedate Nokia phone favourite into 
a legitimately scary first-person horror game.

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So you need to find all the apples in 
the room and feed them to the snake.

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Or you can throw them far away 
from you to distract the giant

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cobra and give yourself a chance to get away.

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It plays on the familiar AI 
patterns of the original game,

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but turns it into something completely fresh.

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Real-world games were also at the 
mercy of our clever game jammers.

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Descriptionary is a really 
imaginative rethink of Pictionary.

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Basically, the character tells 
you what to draw - just squares,

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lines, arches, and circles, with vague 
directions for where they should go.

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You can then doodle that in the box below.

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Your job is to guess what you've just drawn.

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It's a bit like translating the same message 
through 4 languages on Google Translate -

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you know, things start getting a bit wonky, but 
you can still figure out the original intent.

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This game is super polished and well worth a play.

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I also want to give props 
to The Last Piece Standing,

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for being a rare chess-based 
game that I actually enjoy.

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You play as the king, and have 
to destroy a bunch of enemy

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pieces that are slowly marching towards your army.

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However, you can borrow the powers of the other

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pieces to make massive jumps and 
diagonal leaps across the board.

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This turns each bout into a 
careful positioning puzzle.

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Good stuff.

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Another way to interpret the theme was to look at 
the different roles in games and relationships,

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and let us take the side that 
we don't usually get to play.

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Take, for instance, Get Packing where we become 
the shopkeeper NPC from your typical RPG.

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In each round you have a limited amount 
of money to spend on the weapons, shields,

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food, and potions, brought in by the 
brave and copyright-dodging adventurer.

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You then flip to the store room where you 
embrace your inner Leon S. Kennedy and

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try to squish all this stuff into 
the cramped confines of a crate.

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What's more, certain items can 
affect their surroundings - so

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don't put a magic flame sword next to 
your bananas, because the fruit will go bad.

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Sure, we have seen games about being a shopkeeper,

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but this was still a cute game, 
and is worth checking out.

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Another game to do this was Crabjuice.

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It's clearly inspired by the horrible headcrabs

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from the Half-Life games - those mutant 
chicken nuggets who pounce on your face.

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But here, it's used to make 
a excellent puzzle game.

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Playing as the headcrab, you have to get around

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these cramped levels by leaping 
from one human's face to another.

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Soon you'll be flinging yourself into switches to 
open doors, narrowly avoiding enemies with guns,

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and ricocheting yourself off 
walls for a better vantage point.

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Pets and Pokemon were also 
common targets for role reversal.

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We're so used to playing as the human that

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we don't stop to think what 
it's like to be the animal.

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Not so in Walkies - a game where 
you play as a bone-hungry dog,

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who is cruelly constrained by a 
tight leash and a strong owner.

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So the owner wanders around 
the town automatically,

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giving you a small radius to explore for bones.

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And also ways to gain power - you 
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say, or use fire hydrants as a handy toilet.

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Once you're powered up completely, the screen 
zooms out and now the dog is totally in charge.

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You can zoom around at double speed 
and the human is powerless to stop you.

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It's a fun back and forth 
of power and powerlessness.

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Meanwhile, in One Day Better, you play as a 
cat who tries to help its depressed human.

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The dude wakes up in a funk - a fuzzy 
fog of thoughts clouding their mind.

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Left to their own devices 
they'd happily sleep in all day.

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But their faithful moggy can use 
a few tools to get them going.

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So you can meow to get the human's attention.

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Scratch at stuff to make 
them move towards objects.

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And even headbutt the human's legs 
to get them to move between rooms.

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Using these three commands you can make your owner 
tidy their room, have a shower, and eat breakfast.

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It's a heartfelt and touching little game

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about the restorative power of 
animals, and I really liked it.

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Another take on the theme was to 
give you a pretty standard game.

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and then pull the rug from beneath 
your feet by reversing the roles.

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Take UVSU.

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It's a platformer where you have to get 
the angel to the goal before time runs out.

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Seems simple enough? But 
then you replay the level,

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but now as an imp who has to kill the 
angel before they reach the door.

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And then you play it AGAIN, but as 
another angel who now has to reach

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the door while dodging the imp and its bullets.

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Hopefully that made some sense.

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Basically, you're simultaneously 
killing and dodging yourself and

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must think several steps ahead so you 
don't screw yourself over in future runs.

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I think you just need to 
play this to really get it.

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It's a wonderfully clever game.

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Not surprising, when you learn that 
it was made by the developer behind

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Toodee and Topdee - which also 
started life as a game jam game.

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Reversal Rooms also begins as a basic platformer.

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But then, in level two, your jump 
button actually controls the spikes.

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Then you control the spring.

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And then the door.

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It's a manic context-switching headscratcher that

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basically feels like Wario Ware as 
a platformer, and I really dig it.

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And then Ragdolf looks like your average 
putting simulator - but then this happens.

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Oops.

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Turns out you need to use the ball as a 
bounce pad to get you around the level.

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It's actually way more than a 
slapstick sight gag, though:

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it quickly turns into a tricky platformer where

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you must carefully time your swings 
for the correct power and angle.

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I played through this entire 
game with a big smile on my face.

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Highly recommend this one.

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And then the final twist on the 
theme was to go completely meta.

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Let's start with Pause to Play, which makes the 
pause menu an active participant in the puzzles.

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So pausing the game doesn't actually 
stop the action - but it does flash

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up some buttons which can be 
used as platforms to get around.

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Then, the options sliders 
can be used as lifts - but

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they change the settings as you go up and down.

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You can zoom the camera, for instance, 
to turn your character into a tiny speck.

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More ideas are explored as the levels go on.

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It's an inventive puzzle platformer with 
plenty of room to grow into a full game,

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if the designer wishes.

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A tip of the hat to The Adventures of Raddish Boy, 
which also uses pause as a game mechanic.

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We also saw games that reversed the 
roles between player and designer.

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In Making the Game, you start with 
a platformer that is far too easy:

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just a brief stroll from start to finish.

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So you have to choose the next avenue for the 
designer, from a list of three random choices.

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Each time you expand the game, 
it gets harder and harder,

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but you've got to complete the level to carry on.

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When the game gets so difficult that 
it's just incredibly tedious to play...

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it's time to hit release.

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Maybe a little dig at your humble host? I 
dunno - but I still liked this game a lot.

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We also saw games that reversed the roles so hard,

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that they actually incorporated 
the game jam into the game itself.

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There was, of course, Video Editor's Toolkit which 
lets you play as me, editing this video right now.

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AI MARK: "A brief interlude for our 
sponsor, please check them out".

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But I'm gonna give the win to Our Dearest Player,

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which emulates the experience of being 
a game jam judge, in this exact jam.

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You play through a handful of simple 
reversed-role games - including a

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surprisingly good Flappy Bird clone - before 
handing out stars in different categories.

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There's even a broken Web GL page, which 
makes the whole thing super authentic.

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And then finally...

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Streamer Screamer is a wonderful 
fourth-wall-breaking meta comedy.

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This game features a jibbering Twitch streamer,

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who is showing off some low-rent 
horror game with a spooky villain.

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But then... the screen pans up to reveal 
that you are actually playing as the villain.

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You're carrying an iPad showing 
the stream, meaning that you can

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triangulate the location of the streamer 
and sneak up behind them for a jump scare.

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You don't want to make the 
game too scary though - you

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want to vary your approach to build 
tension - and raise viewer numbers.

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Plus, you'll want to hold 
back to hear the streamer's

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inane babbling about Disney World and dreams.

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This is a genuinely galaxy-brained game 
idea and needs to be explored further.

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STREAMER: "Oh my god!!"

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So, there we have it! By reversing roles,

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these clever game designers found 
fertile ground for brand new game ideas.

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We helped and hindered AI-driven heroes.

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We turned classic game ideas on their heads.

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We took on unfamiliar roles.

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We saw surprising twists on familiar concepts.

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And we went so meta that the fourth 
wall shattered into a thousand pieces.

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As always, I want to shout 
out some honourable mentions.

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Firehose is a manic score-chasing

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arcade game where you play as a 
firefighter... who starts fires.

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You can only move as far as your hose 
will allow - so you'll then need to

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hop into the firetruck and drive somewhere else.

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The Contrarian Press sees you make 
the judicious use of censor bars to

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rewrite newspaper headlines, and make new stories.

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It's all presented with 
arty cut-out collage images.

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And Spared is a bowling game 
where you play as the pins.

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You've got to dodge at the last 
minute to avoid being struck down,

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and different bowlers with special 
powers are introduced to mix things up.

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To be honest, I can easily recommend a dozen more.

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So you can now head to itch.io and find the full

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list of games - and the public's 
rankings for all the entries.

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Have a look through the top 
100 titles, at the very least.

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Thank you so much to everyone who took 
part in the jam, or rated some games.

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Thanks to all the mods on Discord,

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to everyone who made our awesome Team 
Finder app, and to Leaf over at Itch.io.

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An extra huge thank you to my Patrons 
who fund GMTK Game Jam - and mean we

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don't have to get corporate sponsors involved.

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The jam will be back in 2024.

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So subscribe to this channel to receive 
the date announcement next year.

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AI MARK: "And that's a wrap 
for 2023. See you next year".