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Here are 185 jam games challenging the FPS formula, from pizza to santaGuns, pizza, santa, and more
Guns, pizza, santa, and more
FPS games—been there done that, right? Maybe so, but the 7 Day FPS game jam is about dumping out the old first person shooting conventions and chambering some new concepts. The jam’s ended now and this year’s submissions include lots of first person puzzling, a santa simulator, and some Cyberpunk homages. Oh and someone’s done Doom. I assume someone always does Doom right? That’s the law.
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My favorite so far is Frequency, a puzzle game where you’re following the sound of a radio to the end of each level. The trick is that as you tune the radio back and forth, parts of the level will shift and change. You’ll tune obstacles in and out of existence while hunting down the chill tunes that are your goal. I’ve seen my share of “change the level around you” puzzle games, but the radio bit is nice and using a scroll wheel to cycle through states just feels right. You can find it overon Itch. It’s a bit hard on the eyes, I’ll warn, but easy on the ears.
In other oddities, here’s afirst-person santa simulatorwhere you’ve got to shoot presents at trees in folks' houses to embiggen them and escape through the chimney before daytime. Ah and here’s aninfinite runner called Infinite Pizzawhere you’re riding to the center of an infinitely large pizza pie equipped with a slicer and a gun. On the Cyber side, here’s a puzzler about snapping together levelscalled CyberSouls III. It’s definitely not the only one of the bunch calling up some neon FPS inspirations.
What about you, reader? What’s caught your eye in the7 Day FPS submissions?
Procjam, the game jam about making procedural games, took place at the same time. You can find those submissionsalso on Itch.
Oh, andhere’s Doom.
