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Select and post a meme

Select and post a meme

It spreads on social networks

It spreads on social networks

Acquire and manage your fans

Acquire and manage your fans

In Memes Die Too, post memes on social network, watch them spread and acquire fans! Become so viral you’ll be offered to join the infamous Memelords and Memeladies Society!

I developped Memes Die Too on my own for Game Off 2022. This big game jam hosted by GitHub lasted one month, and the theme was “cliché”. Game Off is dedicated to open source software.

Out of 567 submissions, my game was the 4th most rated game. It was ranked #15 / 567 in Innovation, #28 / 567 in Theme interpretation, and #64 / 567 overall. Within the jam’s voting span (1 month), Memes Die Too was played 364 times.

<aside> ✍️ MEMES DIE TOO is fully playable in browser!

https://itch.io/embed/1815131

→ a game lasts approximately 10 minutes, a gameloop is 30s to 1 min long

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Contents

Designing Memes Die Too

Building a pitch : my creative process

Game OFF’s theme was “cliché”. The jam’s organizers also suggested an approach : choose a proverb and assume it is a literal description.

Here are a few examples from the jam’s homepage :

And the list goes on…

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Creatively speaking, I was not convinced by this process. It felt cheap and I couldn’t find a way to build a high-level vision for an experience with it, only gimmicky concepts. So I went into research.

Game OFF 2022 key art.

Game OFF 2022 key art.