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+title: I Test Out Making a JRPG in GameMaker With My Latest Game Jam Project
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+This summer I made a point to connect with new kinds of data nerds: indie video game developers. I gravitate towards video game genres I like to play: horror, visual novels, and RPGs. Yet, a good chunk of my new friends like Japanese Role Playing Games (JRPGs). I'm between major jams where I'm the main developer, and I wanted to stretch my game dev comfort zone. I teamed up with my friend [Wujak](https://m.twitch.tv/wujak/home) and others in the Robot Party Discord community to make a JRPG in an engine called [GameMaker](https://gamemaker.io/en). 
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+"The Smoke Box: Big Birthday Quest," is not a horror game. It reminds me of the "Rocky and Bullwinkle" movie from the early 2000s. I feel this is in part because this game jam had plot constraints, which I'm not used to for my game jams. Regardless, I had fun writing puns and fighting dialogue between the player and mascot characters. 
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+Play the game for free with your controller on itchio: https://wujak.itch.io/the-smoke-box-big-birthday-quest
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+![c44xDV](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1202453d-953d-4933-a4bd-d87c28aad036)