Bigmode Game Jam 2025
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BIG MO GAME 2025. >> Last year we had 500 entries, which is too many to be honest. So this year we gave developers much less time. That's why this year we only got 800 entries. Ah, you can play them all for free by clicking the link in the description. This game is called Divine Dice and it's really scary. A betrayal of the highest degree. The sacred, the ruler, divine, relegated to the bone blight. Take back your power. Oh, that. Okay, so the theme of the So, the theme of the game jam is power. I forgot to say that. Now, do I need the tutorial? I mean, come on. You guys know me. I don't need the tutorial. What am I, baby? Just born? No. How do you play? I don't get it. What am I doing? Ah, I should have played the tutorial. Jesus. Oh, wait. There we go. Okay. Okay. You go down here. Oh, I'm just a little Oh, this is nice. Okay. I'm rolling for this. Here we go. Okay. Attack one damage. Oh, I can beat this baby eel husk. Boom. He's out of there. He's out of there. Give me that. Give me that bone. What the This is not real. This is Why is this so fancy? This is a game jam game. This is a game that's already out. Didn't this one game of the year? Boom. Big hit on Dark Eye. Come on, Dark Eye. Bam. He's out of there. Give me that polar die in the dice cup. I told you guys I'm really good at these type of games where you're like uh in a realm of dice. Oh god, this thing is insane. It has so much health. No, no, no, no. I'm dead. I'm dead already. Okay, I can afford this. Oh, what was that? Give me the pips. Oh, I don't want to kill this guy. Nice. But I do want to see what do I not a this poor little guys. I'm sorry. I don't mean to kill you. I just like to win on this satanic part. Give me that. What is that health on this guy? What? This is the final boss we're fighting already. Come on. Oh god. Okay, come on. Sixes. All sixes. Give me sixes here. Can I Oh god. Okay, we need a really good roll here or this is it. This is the end if I don't win this. That kills. That kills. THAT DOESN'T KILL. NO, I've been forgotten. Use the wisp. Oh, that got him. Ghost hand. You are out of here. Oh, give me the forgotten dice. It's forgotten like me. Not this guy. This guy is insane. I got a lot of dice though. That is the worst roll ever. Increase dice face by one. What's that? What? What did I do? What is this guy? What is he doing? What does he mean by that? This game is called Power Line Fried Chicken. Now, we have this chicken here. Oh, I like that. I like that feature. Oh, we got all different all different sounds from this. OH, OKAY. I like this. I like this. Oo. Oh, exit. Uh-oh. This is nice. I like this. That's what I'm talking about. All right. Boom. Yeah. Here we go. All right. Oh, it's like a rhythm game. What is this? Daff Punk doing the soundtrack. Boom. Boom. Here we go. Boom. Boom. Here we go. Boom. Boom. Get that bird. Get that guy. Shoot that guy. Get that guy. OH, DON'T POOP. OH, DON'T POOP ON the car. Don't poop on Stop pooping on the car. Stop it. Stop pooping. Stop it off. You done? Are you done? Wait. Wait. What about Wait. What did I just No, not the chicken one. Don't put the chicken one on. No, don't put this chicken trailer. No, you guys, that was the wrong one. That was the wrong guy. Now, this next game, I think this originally came out on the Xbox 360. The game is called Flicker. It's kind of like The Witcher if you ever played that. So, if I hold tab, I got all my challenges here I got to do. So, I should be able to flick this guy. He's just a little man. Oh, he's and he's dead. He's Get in that boat. Oh, that's way too far. Bam. That's it. He's in. HE'S IN. OH, COME ON NOW. WHO IS THIS? Grover from Sesame Street. Did you guys know that Grover is a superhero and he also works at a restaurant? Oh, he can get up there. All right, Grover. Guess we're going in the woodsh. Oh no. OH NO. All these games is just about killing little people that are just nice. Field goal. Boom. Oh, that's right through the field goal. That's what I'm talking about. How big is this game? This is a big world that we're going to the snow level. Boom. Dead. He's dead. Oh, we're playing this. We're playing ski ball. Now, this game is called Clark the Spark. Boom. Was that good? Now, that's called a resistor. I know all about electronics, you guys. I don't know what this is. I blew that thing. Oh, we're going in the thing. Charge that car up. Oh, not enough power. Not enough power. Oh, we're going over here. Whoa. Where are we going? Oh, we're going upstairs. Give me that. The fan. There's a little TV show on down there. What are they watching down there? They're watching the neck video down there. Oh, this game was getting good. This was a good game. They're talking about neck. Oh, I turn on I get I I I gained the power of neck. Look at this. There's a whole world out there. Oh, I'm going in the sink. Neck. The neck 2000 oven. This game needs a ranked mode. I agree. I would be number one right now. I think I can eat the car now. Boom. I ate the car. I'm leaving. What? I'm going outside. What? Oh. Oh, I'm just I'm just eating whole buildings now. Oh, give me that house. Give me this big building. But I'm taking over the whole planet. You are winner. I think I did a really good job with the trailer for this game. That's not right. Game a super duper good game. Super duper good. Don't you over 100 big mode star of proud. Let's load up the next game. Today we playing Thunder Punch. Punch space to start. Oh, you got to punch the space button to start. You can't just tap. You got to hit it. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Hit that damn hit that dinosaur. I'll punch you. POWER READY. WHOA. I killed them all. Thunder punch. Woo. Wave five. This is where I start to win. Don't hit me, horse. Boom. Boom. Bam. Bam. Bam. Bow. Oh, this is slick. And no, no, no. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Whackle whackle. There's like a rainbow worm over here. They're shooting bullets at me. I got a horse going on. Rain. Oh god. Oh my god. this. So no, I'M BEING EATEN. They ate. They're eating me. Oh, that's a new high score. Who holds the power now? Tell me that's not power themed. Who holds the power? Congratulations on your appointment, director. We at EC Corp are very pleased to see you in power. Thank you. We hope to see the status quo maintained and our interest advanced. Well, I'm I'm good at that. Digital identity bill. I'm happy with my life. Drug use. Is that a crime? Is this like social media? Am I like am I the guy that censors Twitter right now? Equal access initiative. Uh, reject. Only I should have access to this stuff. Expanded labor regulations bill plus two crime. Now, see that sounds bad. Plus two crime sounds bad. Two security. Yeah, I do that. Am I doing good or bad? I can't tell. Minus crime. Well, yeah, that's what we like. Minus crime, right? Am I getting political? Director, this policy is of special interest with a EC Corp. Uh-oh. We ask that you approve this policy. Okay. Corporate unification policy. Oh, sure. I accept that. What? You told me to do it? The city has transformed into a corrupt surveillance state. So what? That's what they told me to do. You have been removed from your position. What they said to do it? What did they They're the ones who told me. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Holo holo. Oh, I broke it. Crime has been fully eliminated. Why is that bad? As a result, you have been removed. Oh, not enough crime. I messed up. We got rid of too much crime. Thou shalt parry. And basically, you play as this little guy. I'm dead. Okay, I died. Oh, you can parry the little spikes though. Oh, wait. Okay. You got to parry everybody. This guy parry. Oh yeah. Parried. You're dead. Level two. Huh? Perry. Oh, I'm on his head. All right. Come on. You're out of there. You should have never faced me. Oh. All right. No. Sh. You're out of there. Oh, hit me. You're dead. No. Parry downwards. Oh, now we're talking my language. AH, THERE. THERE. NO. There we go. All right. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Cha cha cha. Okay. No. Oh. Okay. All right. This is getting good. Yeah. Okay. I'm a master. Level seven archer. Yeah. You're out of there. Truly, you did not think that would work. Level eight. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, midair deflection. Do it. You're out of there. This is better than ninja guy. Every time the flute goes off, it just gets funnier. No No. there. AH. AH. OH. OKAY. OKAY. THERE. There we go. Oh. Okay. You're out of there. Boom. Oh, double kill. Oh god. Oh, you fools. Oh, this is getting slick. It was short but slick. You got to respect them for that. Day two, baby. Before we start gaming, I want to give a shout out to various titles from the first game jam that are released or releasing a full version on Steam. Arctic Eggs is already out. It's better than Arc Raiders. You're cooking eggs. You're cooking cigarettes. You're in the North Pole. It's a good Christmas time game. Undust is now on Steam. This is a vacuum-based platformer. I remember saying the word slick several times as I was playing the game. Play as a grammar, which is what we've been saying. Context Catacombs is coming to Steam. It's like a blend of textbased games with 3D exploration. You go back to COD one. Right at that point, you couldn't even open doors yet. In Context Catacombs, you can smell doors. So, I already pre-ordered this one on GameStop, and I pre-ordered Red Snow. >> Even in the darkest snowboarding games like Dark Summit, you're never going to have access to Molotovs, throw the penguin. They're never going to let you play as a yeti shooting at the other racers with a shotgun. >> Yeah, baby. >> If that's what you're looking for, Red Snow is the way to go. All right, let's play some more games. Kalisto Plaza. And you see there. Oh, there's big mode. There we are. We're on the switch. Okay. Oh, I'm in jail. Oh, I'm in that I'm in that wind that screen saver from window. Oh god. Oh. Oh no. Oh no. Oh, it's a stealth game. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Run. WHY? >> >> NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. OKAY. OH, YEAH. Pa Charge it up. Charge it up. Charge it up. I'm going to win. They don't know. They don't know. I'm winning this game. You know what I'm going to play in here? Star providence. Go go go go go go. Run. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. Oh, does the music change depending on what room you're in? That's pretty slick. Go to the exit. But I don't I don't know where the exit is, though. No, no, no, no, no. Pepsi. Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm going in birthday room. That That's got to be the exit. That white. Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. He doesn't know. He doesn't know. He doesn't know. He doesn't know. I'm in the clear. I'm in the clear. I'm so good at like birthday charging up your Switch in the birthday room type games like this. Okay. Look at this. Look at this. We're going to sneak right behind this guy. Doesn't know Look at him. He looks like a toy that my baby plays with. Boom. Yes. And that's how you beat the game. Okay. I like the song. Hey, come on. All right. All right. Run masterpiece. He's saying it before it even starts. He's saying this one is a masterpiece. Remove all the power cues on your power keyboard. Oh god, I just spilled drink everywhere. Gatorade is all over the whole place. Oh. Oh There's Gatorade everywhere. This is a bad start to the game. I don't know why they've made it like this. Gatorade doesn't make your fingers all sticky, does it? Okay. You hit all the keys on the keyboard. Uh-huh. Sure. What? That's it. That's the game. You're one powerful son of a gun. Build a bridge. Okay. Oh. Oh. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, okay. There it is. There it is. Okay, this is cool. Oh, you got a little Oh, Kazouie, catch the power balls. Okay. Boom. I caught that power ball. That power ball. Oh, I caught that one. Boom. Oh, I I'm the master of this game. Look at this. NO. THIS WOULD BE A LOT EASIER if I had the space space bar. Get that ball. Get that ball. NO. NO. OH, YOU SAW THAT. YOU saw what I said there. I tricked this game. Damn it. Look at that double. GET THE BALL. GET THE BALL. I WIN. This is the one I was born to play. Team, here we go. This is the big mall. Oh, you can talk TO THE CAT. I'LL TALK TO you about only once per game. >> Star of Providence. >> Star of Providence coming out. Star of Providence. start February 20th 20th when it's coming out and try and kitty. >> Now this game is called Monkey Mash. Okay, here I go. Now I can punch. I die. Game over. Who's this guy? That's Biggie. Oh, don't kill Biggie. You can't come over here. Yes, he can. Now there's a skull here. What is that? That kills. The skull kills instantly. Okay. Oh, there's a new song in this level. Get him out of there. Get him out of there. Oh, that barrel hit him on the damn head. Killed him. Now, watch this. Watch this. Yeah. Right through the middle. Oh, look at that. Look at the slickness of that. I'm going to bring this guy. Kill him. He's out of there. I'm mastering this game. I'm mastering monkey bash. I'm dying. Hit that crab. Hit that crab. I died. I springed right into a crab's ass. Oh god. Oh god. Get that away from me. Get that. It hit the barrel hit his foot. Get these crabs out of here. They don't know what I'm getting through. I'm get You can tell that I'm getting better at monkey bash. I'm dead. He shouldn't be allowed to do that. Get that. Okay, I'm safe. I am safe here. You can sit. Look, he can't get me here. What in the world? Go, go, go, go, go, GO. WHAT? It shouldn't have been like that. Can you jump over here? Yeah. Whack that guy. Uh-huh. Now look at this. Go, go, go, go, go. I'm safe. I'm safe. I don't I I don't know how you get past this part. I got to be honest. This Okay. Okay. Okay. There. There. NO. NO. You can bounce off the barrels. That doesn't sound right. I doubt we can do that. Let's try it. You can bounce off the barrels. Not if they land on your head. Go, go, go, go, go, go, GO. MONKEY, GO. OH. OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. I know they can bounce on me. Don't worry. I know that part. Get Get up there. Oh, this is the one. This is the one. My monkey foot was sticking out too far like the baboon that I am. Okay, it's been 10 minutes. We got to move on to the next game. I just got to kill Biggie up there. I'm kind of I'm sick of this Okay, go go go go. I'm in the clear. Biggie, you are dead. You are dead. You are dead. You You ARE YOU ARE YOU'RE DONE. YOU'RE DONE. I WIN this game. I win this game. All right, we're going to go to the next game. Okay, we're in Rome. 80 AD. A car appears. It kills those guys. Vinnie Vinnie Broom. Okay, I get the whole story line already. Okay. Okay, we're running these guys over. You can hold space to drift. Oh, and then that zooms you forward. I see. Uh-huh. Boom. You knock him like that. Hey, don't hit me with that. This is a quality vehicle. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Level complete. All right. What are we thinking? Do I want tire? I can't I can't afford any of them except this handling up 11 combo achievement. I got an achievement. Now, originally this was supposed to be uh I think this was supposed to be a license game for Gladiator 2. Uh-oh. Oh no, they're sending this guy in. >> Oh no. He's got his own song. Spart kiss. Spart. That was it. All right. All right. We got him. We beat Spart Kids. That was a little easier than I was expecting, but let's keep Oh, I killed the store keeper. I hope that doesn't uh affect me. Catapole inbound. Oh god. Catapult is a little scarier than Spartacus. And so Honda Civicus won the 96 and the 93rd and the 94 and the 9th and the 95th the prize. He became the Roman emperor. Thanks for playing. They were slick for that one. >> >> Come on. LET'S GET THE OUT OF HERE. Pick the lowest number. 91. Star Pro is coming out February 20th. Power of attorney. Welcome to your office. Here you have one goal. Earn $1 million in 10 days. To ensure you are keeping a good pace, you also have daily quotas to meet. Help clients keep your stress in check and become a millionaire. Good luck. I can do all that. Okay. This is where my documents and their abilities are. Got a cease and desist. Can do all this stuff. Okay. I watch Better Call Saul, so I get this kind of stuff. Here's where my soda machine is. Uh-huh. Upgrade my chair. I like to be in this office. That's me. The employ that's that's who you play as. Here's my law degree. Nice. Okay. Let's do some business. Oh, here's what comes the first customer. This client wants you to create a document for them. Talk with them to figure out which one. What document do you like? They want Oh, that one. You want no one like that? Uh, okay. I got at my desk. Take out a contract. Write the sign the client requested. Oh, this is pretty slick for this one. Boom. A a will. You want a wheel? Oh. Oh no. Are you satisfied with that? Okay, thank you. Now, next customer. What do you want? You want a wheel? I can make you that. Okay. You want It's like like that. You want that? Hey, where you going? Come back. What's happening? What's happening? I'm going I'm going crazy. Why am I being crazy and kicking people? Who's this guy? He wants that. I couldn't do that. Okay, let me draw that. It's like a B and then it's like zoom. Is that how it was? fail to make quote one client of your choosing to the depths of hell for all eternity in exchange for a large monetary award. Okay, he wants that. Boom. Notice of termination. Here you go. Boom. You want that? C D. Boom. Okay, here you go. Boom. What's happening? >> Everyone's telling you the game's not centered. >> Yeah. Okay, now it's fixed, right? >> It's fixed. >> It's better when you can see the game. Leah fixed it. >> Yeah. >> What are you drawing? What is that? Why did you just draw that? >> I'm a lawyer. >> Why didn't you just draw them? >> Said to do that staple to your head now. What's What are you doing? What are you doing with that big sack of money? Hey. Hey. What's going on with that? Hey, what are you Why you spray painting? Are you spray painting that? Hey, what's this guy doing? Why you coming back here? Oh, let's get the luxurious chairs. Yeah. Here you go, buddy. How you doing? You want BS? Boom. I get you, BS. How you like my new chairs? Hey, that guy's stealing all the money again. He just keeps coming in here and stealing all the money. Give my You're so slow at it, too. How do I kill him with this? Why are you GUYS LETTING HIM TAKE ALL MY MONEY? Horse warning. I was super sick for this whole game jam. By day three, my voice went from sounding horse to sounding like a horse ran over it. So that's why I wasn't going to upload this year's game jam. But then I thought, man, it was funny though. So I'll just put a horse warning. Merry Christmas. Bobo's belief system. This is, you know, incredible game. It's about a guy called Bobo. He's got a light bulb for a head. I got bubbler soda. Okay, I can walk now. I'm going to believe in walls. Bobo was isolated, but he didn't understand the gravity of the situation. Oh, he doesn't believe in that. He doesn't believe in gravity. Look at him. He never played Donkey Kong Country 3. Oh, but now he knows how it works. Bobo says he learned to grab and throw. How about you? Wait, wait. I don't have gravity anymore. >> >> Oh no. Oh no. I'll bring this guy. Get over there. Here we go. Oh, they're slick for this one. I can't grab this guy. Huh? What if I forget about gravity? Wee. Oh, there's slick on this one. Wait, I need gravity back. Ah, there. Thank you. Bobo can only believe in four things. That's Well, that's just the same as any person. Empty is just an opinion. This is a very philosophical game in many ways. Relic of ultimate power. There was a relic of ultimate power. Is this the tower of evil? You mean the big tower that says evil on it? Oh, that's Yeah, that's tower evil. Except it's daytime. This has to be where that blue son of a lives. Hey, I know you're up there, idiot. Who dares approach my big awesome evil tower. All right, let's go in there and kill this guy. you, fireball. All right, let's go in. Oh, this guy evil evil wizard. Boom. Entrance gone. You've chosen death. And don't bother attacking me, for I am only a hologram. Uh-uh. It's a real guess the real guy. Kill. Yes, I knew it was him. How did you know I was real? Oh, we got to fight this guy now. Welcome to the first trial of the relic. You must best me in combat. That's it. Oh, what the hell? Can't beat all this. This is too much. Oh. Oh. Kill them all. Oh. Oh, yeah. Me. Well done. Thank you. Hey, buddy. Get out of my way. Should I kill him really bad or kill him really hard? I'm going to kill him really hard. That's kind of scary. Okay, he's leaving. I picked the right one. Are you guys tight? Oh, hell yeah. This guy's my ride or die. Put it there, brother. Love you, man. Whoa, giant. off, beautiful asimodius. Ultimate lightning. Oh, hey, skeleton. He killed my guy. Oh. Oh, kill him. Punch him. Yeah. Yeah. Keep punching. Keep punching. Keep punching. I should have used the boot. Hasta vista. Brother, tell you what, I can bring him back or I can give you the power you seek. But I only have enough ultimate power to do one. Dang. Now I got to choose. Do I want ultimate power or friendship? No. You guys saying friendship are stupid? Cuz if I have ultimate power, then I can just bring him back anyway. See, ultimate power. Easy. I'm going to look so badass. That's what he would have wanted. Oh yeah. Look at that. Yeah. >> Ooh, look at this. Perhaps some animal inspiration. >> This is a good song. >> Oh, yeah. I don't hear this the audio. Jason still have the audio cuz he's the judge. He's cracking up. What's so funny? What is so funny? Jason can't stop laughing at whatever he's hearing. Okay, I'm going to put on a headset here. Can we get a freak chance? Freak >> freak. People are saying freak. No, you guys. It's not freak. It's freak. Freak. Can't hear your voices over the game. Uh-oh. We have to turn down a frame. >> This is a true experience. What is this? I think this is HalfLife 3. I think Valve just submitted HalfLife 3 to the game. Enter in the premises. You acknowledge and agree to be bound by an irrevocable waiver. Forgoing any and all rights to pursue legal action against power innovations or affiliates anytime during your entire life. Okay. Press. I accept that. That's fine. The power sword only $9.99. Put it in there. Oh. Oh. The power blade features 15 m of power cable. Okay. It's got to be plugged in. Otherwise, you can't just chop stuff. All right. Plug it in. Oh, that's There we go. Okay. They're slick for this. Okay. Chop that off. Oh, they're getting slick with this. They're getting the slickness is getting up there. Oh, the the plug is too short. It features a state-of-the-art cable winding mechanic. What? Oh, that's slick. All right, you know what we got to do? We got to jump here. Boom. Zoom. Oh, Zoom beini jump. Yeah. Okay. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. I kill him. Oh, watch this. It can't go that far. I got to do it in midair. Oh, it worked. It worked. Okay, I got to do it again. Got to go. Oh. Uh-oh. You can't go in there. You can't go in there. You stupid as hell. Parry guard. Yeah, you guys saw how good I was at the parrying game. Perry. What? Oh, look at that. Whoa. Whoa. You cannot get out. Ow. >> Power. I'm good. >> Cow. >> Oh. Oh. Oh, >> there's a choo choo at the bottom. What happens with the choo choo? Ah. Alien. >> Alien. >> Someone said, "How is he so good at every single game?" >> To get the ch. >> That's just his power. THAT'S HIS POWER. OH. >> OH MY GOD. YOU get run over. That's >> Oh, you got a barrel. >> Oh, he's out of there. Well, your fist is getting very big. >> Yeah. >> Oh my god. Look at him. >> It's a big punch. >> Yeah. Whoa. >> What the heck? No, wait. The train's coming. You got to get up high. Where's that cow? Get that cow. Oh my god, the train flies up in the air. >> Uhoh. >> Jason said the enemies are color coded. >> It's like radiant silver, dude. >> He's going to win. >> Kill this guy. >> Power duel. >> Get out of here. >> D3. Way to go. You rock big mo with over a hundred to pick from. How dare you? It's not too late to turn your life around, kid. I love this game. Now, let's go back to base. Oh no. Help. Sorry about that. Hey, let's go play Star of Providence coming out February 20th. Where'd the music go? >> We should be pizza Joe or Elvis. >> Elvis? Guys, Elvis was my first crush. >> Elvis has zero wins. Oh, I can't wait for you to try some of this delicious pizza. >> Think a jack like you can be clean like me. >> Come by, Elvis. >> Oh, >> yeah. Give up, Elvis. Watch out for his pizza. >> Hurt. >> He killed pizza. Joe, >> I told you to pick up. I knew it. >> Oh, Luke's got projectiles. Closing in though. He's a more of a He's a grappler. >> What is happening? >> I just thought he's more of a grappler. He's got to get in close. But then he gets >> Well, he's going to take his damn hands out of his pocket so there's no win. >> Lup's got to play that range. >> He's not zoning good. >> How did they animate all this in 10 days, though? >> Get him. He's He's juggling. Look at his blue shoes. It shows you where his shoes are. Like that's the pumpkin from that one game where he goes, "I want the potatoes. Free me the straw. Give me the hot dog. Give me the water." No, I don't want that. >> Watch him. >> He killed the pumpkin. Oh no, he's killing the army. I don't want that. Vicious squash is only good when he has his full squad with him. Come on, squash. >> Yeah. At the end of the day, we lost $49,000. It was a good deal for us. When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. Video game dunkey. That's true. I said that. Oh, that's Biggie. And that's the orange Biggie. And there he is dancing with the Oh, he's dancing with that little yellow guy. Oh. Oh. Oh. Big mode color palette. What? What? Oh, I got to go to big. Look at this. Evil mode wishes to destroy the world with evil power. Oh, not evil mode. I hate those guys. What is your name? You are not powerful enough to use that letter. My name is E. pushing past the Whoa, I went past the limit. Okay, that's enough. Okay, what a powerful name. It's dangerous to go alone. Ah, take these. >> I want it, babe. >> Power mode. What the What is happening? All right, I've unlocked the power to go left. Nice. Power mode. >> Power mode. All right, I'm walk. Oh, who's this wizard? He who looks back is not powerful enough to move forward. >> Power mode. Power mode. Now I can walk to the right. Oh, I'm getting good. Power is in the air. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, babe. Oh yeah. Power. I need the power. Oh no. Oh Okay. Go, go, go. Oh, this is a really good announcer for this game. Oh, that doggy. Oh. Oh, yeah, baby. Oh, yeah. Power. Oh, yeah. I need the power. All right. Come on, doggy. Was that Lacatu? What are you doing up there? >> Power mode. Power wall. Oh, wall jump. Oh, slick. Oh, look at that slick. Look at the slickness on this. >> Dash through enemies. >> Yeah, baby. Power. I hate the power. I hate the power. >> Wait, wait, wait. Oh. Okay. Okay. This is it. THIS IS IT. >> YEAH. OH, DANG. ALMOST. Almost over over 9,000 unlocked. You got to be really good AT THIS PART. NO. OKAY, watch this. Watch this. There. There we go. The orange biggie. Oh no. Evil mode. Ah, take this. >> Power mode. >> Power. Oh, brother. Your power level is off the charts. What a disaster. Get over here, Biggie. I'mma get you. Oh, I don't even care about this stuff anymore. I break all this. You think you can face me? Get over here. You did it. Ah, though. I must come clean. Those power stars were actually just regular powerless stars. There were no powerups. The true power was inside you all along. >> Power mode. >> You unlocked the power of love. Go forth, hero. I wish you a long life full of love and adventure. I have to let it be. Oh, yeah. We bring the funk power. Hey, we bring the power mode. >> >> Wait now. Wait.
Summary
The video showcases gameplay from the Bigmode Game Jam 2025, where developers created games centered around the theme of power. The host plays various indie games, highlighting their unique mechanics, humor, and creativity, while also promoting upcoming titles from the jam.
Key Points
- The Bigmode Game Jam 2025 focused on the theme of power, with over 800 entries despite a shorter development time compared to previous years.
- The host plays multiple games from the jam, including Divine Dice, Power Line Fried Chicken, Flicker, Clark the Spark, Thunder Punch, and Power Mode, showcasing diverse gameplay mechanics.
- Games featured include dice-based combat, rhythm-based action, stealth, platforming, and narrative-driven puzzles, all centered around the concept of power.
- Several games from the jam have been released or are coming to Steam, such as Arctic Eggs, Undust, Context Catacombs, and Red Snow.
- The host provides commentary on game design, humor, and mechanics, often highlighting clever or unexpected features like the power of neck or the ability to bounce off barrels.
- The jam promotes indie game development, with games created in a short time frame that demonstrate creativity and innovation.
- The host emphasizes the importance of game jam experiences in fostering creativity and community within the indie game development scene.
- Games like Power Mode feature meta-commentary on power, where players unlock abilities through narrative choices and character progression.
- The video includes promotional content for upcoming games like Star of Providence, set to release on February 20th, 2025.
- The host's playful and energetic commentary adds entertainment value, making the video both informative and engaging for viewers interested in indie games.
Key Takeaways
- Game jams like Bigmode provide a platform for indie developers to create and showcase innovative games within a tight timeframe.
- Thematic constraints, such as 'power,' can inspire unique and creative game mechanics across different genres.
- Indie games often feature experimental mechanics and humor that stand out from mainstream titles.
- Game jam entries can evolve into full commercial releases, as seen with several titles now available on Steam.
- The community and feedback from game jams can help developers refine their ideas and gain exposure.