The Games I Want to Make

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This little manifesto was made for the Manifesto Jam 2022.

I still remember the first Manifesto Jam, it was 2018, and at that time it was something that left a huge impression on me. I tried to do something for the jam but I felt so frustrated. I had never thought about what types of games I wanted to do or how I wanted to do them, so when I finally sat down to write about it there was... nothing. At that moment I was already working in the games industry, but it felt like I was just surviving, I never had a moment to think about it. 

Reading people's manifestos helped a lot, it was encouraging. There was a lot I didn't know yet about myself as a creator (and in general tbh),  but it gave me the determination I needed to start a journey of self discovery.

There's still a lot I don't know, a lot I need to experiment, and I'm human, so I could change my mind at any moment xD but at least now I know about what really drives me as a creator. It made me so happy to write an entry for this year's jam, even if it's just a little thing :)

There's been a lot more things that have inspired me along this journey, like the Alternative Ecologies Jam, the work and phylosophy of amazing people like Hundred Rabbits or  alienmelon, and great articles like Divest from the Video Games Industry! by Marina Kittaka. I can't recommend them enough.

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- Godot

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- Font: Like a Cave by Brainwash Gang

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 🌿THE GAMES I WANT TO MAKE 🌿

I want to make small games, tiny experiences that you can play in your low spec ten years old laptop

I also want to make buggy games, games that are not good, games that even some people will not consider games

I want to make games and leave them unfinished, games that I will keep as a secret, and will remain unpublished

I want to make games as an act of rebellion

I want to represent the place I live in, the people around me, things that feel familiar to me

I want to represent intimacy,  ordinary things,  queerness,  sadness... and euphoria too, things that feel personal to me

I want to make games for myself, games for gay people, with gay characters and gay dramas (btw if you play one of my games you can assume all characters are gay :D)

I want to make games where violence doesn't drive the action

(but I also want to make games about lesbian magical girls that are also hackers and kill giant robots)

I want to make mistakes, and just have fun

I don't want to make games with the best graphics, I want to make crappy games that can be played in crappy computers 

(I don’t care about the f****** ray tracing tbh)

I just want to make games that are accessible, and reimagine an industry where sustainability drives creativity

I want to support small communities of creators that help each other, support nice people creating tools so everybody can make games, support open source tools developed by people and not by big companies

(f*** big companies hehe)

And I guess I just... want to make games to connect with others,  to empower others, to encourage others to create more games or whatever, just create

:D