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[prokopetz]

Say what you will about Tumblr as a community, we know how to commit to a fucking bit.

[eternalgirlscout]

Who They Forgot by Sarah & Miranda

A collaborative mystery storytelling game for 2-5 players

Someone is missing. You can’t remember who. As if through foggy glass, you struggle to make out the details. You trace your finger around the shape of the absence. You fail to find the clarity you crave. To fill in the gaps, you’ll need a little help. There are more questions than you will ever be able to answer, but you insist upon asking them anyway: When? Where? Why? And, most importantly, who?

Who They Forgot is a game about creating a mystery and then solving it. Players discover the timeline, setting, events, and their own characters through drawing cards and responding to prompts. Many of the prompts focus on fleshing out the knowledge and perspective of each player character as they pertain to the mystery of the Forgotten; other prompts add detail to the world; some prompts require the players to make hard choices about difficult truths.

The prompts correspond to the 78 cards in a traditional tarot deck, though you may choose to treat the lists as tables and roll dice or use a random number generator instead.

Who They Forgot is a roleplaying game designed by @eternalgirlscout & @freelanceplatypus, created for WTFJam 2025, hosted by @prokopetz. Inspirations include The Quiet Year by Avery Alder, The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro, and Twin Peaks by David Lynch.

As of 4/1/2026, the rules document has been updated for clarity. There is also a printable booklet format that will allow you to make your own zine version of the game!

[thefallingdream]

really thinking about doing a second game for WTFjam

[pechebeche]

Wherever There are Flowers THE WORLD has ended. Every skyscraper has toppled, every power grid has sparked out; civilization as we know it is over. If help is out there, it is not coming for you. You are stranded miles from food, water, or people. Like the crew of the Titanic, you will die doing what you have always done: your job. In your case, that job is a grave tender. WHEREVER THERE ARE FLOWERS is a game wherein one player – hereby referred to as the gardener - plays one of the few surviving members of humanity in an utterly devastated world, and the other players are ghosts among the graveyard. The ghosts can communicate freely with each other, and the gardener can make all decisions relating to the state of the living world. However, the two groups can only communicate with each other through the flowers that the gardener leaves on each of the graves every day. The goal of the game is for the gardener to put all of the spirits to rest, passing away peacefully with their work done.

the concept of my game for wtfjam, a short ttrpg about grief and moving on, which i am posting to avoid having to don the visual design hat orz

[witchchick1228]

WAKING THE FIREBIRD by CardboardSwords

An alternate history World War II TTRPG for 2-6 players

Our very first completed project as Cardboard Swords™️! [Stay tuned for more on that]

Waking the Firebird is a tabletop roleplaying game for two or more people that explores an alternate history of World War II. One person will take on the role of the Game Master (GM) and the others are Players, who will take on the roles of adorable forest creatures drafted to fight in the war.

It’s been a blast making a game with my friends and I cannot wait for the next one.

[adrift-press]

Weather This Fall by Adrift Press

Play Aspects in the mind of a depressed, self-destructive, amnesiac Cop.

Just published our little game for @prokopetz WTF jam. It was fun to write, even if I put off finishing it until the last minute, and had to get school essay crunch flashbacks the whole time I was wrapping it up.

It's a game about being the aspects of a very pathetic, amnesiac cop's personality, trying to steer him right and get him to solve his case. Hope folks like it!

[prokopetz]

I'm quite curious to see how these last few days of WTFjam will shake out. In my admittedly anecdotal experience, between one in five and one in three folks who sign up to participate actually end up submitting something in jams of this type, which would translate to between 40 and 70 total entries here, and we're sitting just a shade under 30 at the time of this posting. I suspect there's a fair amount of final-weekend crunch time in the offing!

[prokopetz]

I didn't see the game jam until after the fact, but I got inspired and made a game anyway! It's "Walrus to Fairy" on itch, just letting you know since it's inspired by your challenge o/ (Cannot link because tumblr, but hopefully it's find-able.)

Walrus to Fairy by Meredith Katz

A 1-pg RPG about who you should let in your door at a party.

I don't usually publicly respond to self-promotional DMs, but I'm making a specific exception in this particular case because I know this game will annoy certain of this blog's followers so much.