The start of December marks the beginning of one of the most eventful months yet for the Thinky Games scene! Two big community events have just started: our "Case of the Thinky Game Jam" runs until December 17th, and over 400 people have now signed up to make innovative and thinky detective games, while the Confounding Calendar has begun rolling out daily mini-puzzle games for the 3rd year running.
The Case of the Thinky Game Jam started with a kick-off talk from the creators and developers of the IGF award winning detective mystery game The Case of the Golden Idol, which you'll find linked above. If you want to join the growing crowd trying their hands at crafting some mysteries for us to investigate, the talk may provide some inspiration or useful insights into how they went about designing that kind of experience. Check out the jam page for more info on the theme and guidelines, and join our discord to find some dedicated discussion channels for the jam.
(Pictured are many of the 2021 Confounding Calendar games.)
If you're more interested in playing thinky games, rather than making them, there's good news for you too: creative developers in the community were hard at work last month devising tiny little puzzle-toys so that we could surprise you with them all month long on the Confounding Calendar. Every day of the month we'll be publishing new games on the page, all of them small, one-screen puzzles that you can check out for a few minutes or occasionally dig into for a bit longer.
There are already several new games up from this year, not to mention the huge catalogue of games from our first 2 years running. If you needed yet another reason to join our discord server, we'll be posting the new games there every day in our Thinky Games Club.
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