#scrapped game

[jamesthejammer]

on the wiki page for the horse alpha sophia, it says theres a graphic for her thats from an unused game. do you have any information on this? i find the scrapped content and forgotten alphas super interesting

of course! everything down below is what i know so far 🫡 this is gonna be a long and image-heavy post LOL

Scrapped AJ Classic "Fight!" Game?

source: animal jam classic wiki!

sadly, i don't think the inactive alphas play a major role in this mini-game, aside from Sophia being on the alternative cover!

from what i can understand, this was a scrapped multiplayer game from around 2010-2013, where players would use cards with various elemental abilities to battle one another ⚔️

Examples of the Cards:

on the first three cards, the rainbow squares at the top indicate the power of the attack; blue is the weakest and red is the strongest. on all six cards, the emojis indicate the overall strength attack and defense! four emojis is the highest level, while one emoji is the lowest! the round icons and backgrounds on all six cards show which effect is currently active.

Card Icons:

in order, the icons are: wild, arctic/sleek, soaring, fierce, sneaky, gentle/brave, rugged/tough and swift!

Visual Effects:

in order, the visual effects are: poison, snow, air, fire, scratch, hearts and rock!

Main Icons and Visual Effects:

i believe these are meant to represent attack, mana, and healing/defense, but i'm not 100% sure since these aren't really labelled like the other icons 😔 either way, i really like the concept of this card fighting game, it reminds me of card-jitsu from club penguin!!

[thejazzywaffles]

It’s 2 AM and I've been playing Oracle of Ages a lot

You know, when people talk about The Legend of Zelda: The Mystical Seed of Courage, they say it was “canceled” in the sense of it being some kind of "lost game." But... I'm fairly confident that any completed work and/or concepts were either folded into the two existing Oracle games where possible, or were used as a basis for Capcom's next Zelda game, Minish Cap.

Heck, look at the map of Hyrule in Minish Cap. It doesn't resemble "Hyrule" at all and is more in line with something like Labrynna or Holodrum. To me, this just screams “they had a map sketched out & planned for TMSoC and didn’t wanna scrap all that work.” Obviously they couldn’t reuse any of the actually-programmed stuff, but any development materials could’ve been used as reference...

And if this map was originally planned as a GBC map, I could totally see locations that don’t have a dungeon in the final game having dungeons in the original TMSoC plans, such as the Graveyard area (and it would also explain there being a whole extra filler dungeon in the ruins south of the Tabantha Wilderness).

IDK, maybe I’m chasing shadows here, but I think at least some of the development material from the canceled 3rd Oracle game was used as inspiration for TMC.

[zippydodahgay]

Concept art for a video game I want to make. Here's hope that I can't actually get to making it.

[jamesthejammer]

scrapped ajc frog minigame?

source: animal jam classic wiki

i randomly stumbled across an old? unreleased game that is extremely similar to the armadillo game, long shot!

it definitely makes way more sense as to why they decided to go with an armadillo in the end, but part of me wishes we also had this frog-themed swamp version as well.. 🐸

it looks like the lily pads would act as some kind of launch pad to propel the frog forward, kind of like the geysers in long shot 🪷

there are also a few insects (a fly and a dragonfly?) that seem to be apart of the game, although there is no mention as to what these little guys actually do..

if i had to guess, maybe they would've acted like speed boosts? since frogs actively eat these guys in real life, it would be really strange if they acted like enemies that slowed it down instead 🪰

[chicadelphox]

There was once a time where i wanted to make a fighting game called Claw Fight but I forgot I dunno how to code like AT ALL. So it got abandoned... I still think about them cause I made like 10 characters and managed to make an idle, walk, fight, jump, and victory animation for the first character

Well anyway their name is Codi Coati and their special ability is a triple jump

Also I even made a 3d model that never got finished cuz my laptop can't run blender anymore :/

[some-tiny-dragon]

So my friends and I were making a game for the spooky jam, but had to scrap the whole thing due to networking issues. I don’t like locking this stuff away, so might as well recycle for content.

I was in charge of creating visual assets for battles. All 4 of these guys were playable characters. 3 frames out of a total 10 animations (every entity idle and state is a new animation) were used at all. They just became icons we use. Though I use my dragon the most.

You got the Jam Salesman, Wiz Kid, Chipper and Tall Lanky Dragon Man. All but Wiz Kid were made to represent ourselves.

We really wanted to finish this at some point, but now I’m working on both Cards ‘n Bullets completion and helping the other 2 with Frito And Brock (another game jam game)