We're nearing the end of our series of posts showcasing the winners in all six categories of the fifth annual public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1927. So far we’ve featured Best Remix winner Lucia, Best Visuals winner Urbanity, Best Adaptation winner To And Again, and Best Deep Cut winner The Pigeon Wager. Today,…
In January, we asked designers to create games based on works that entered the public domain this year for our fifth annual public domain game jam, Gaming Like It's 1927! It took us a little while to get through all the entries, but now it's time to announce the winners, and it was not an…
The Great Gatsby and the winner of the Best Digital Game category:
From the name alone, you can probably guess what the game is: rhythm action games are a popular genre, and hey, why not make one for
The Great Gatsby? The premise is presented as a joke, with the designer describing it as the way F. Scott Fitzgerald would have wanted his legacy to be maintained but the game doesn t just lean on this one bit of amusing silliness, nor does it cut any corners in fulfilling its promise. Rather, it s
full of handcrafted original material.
But before we get to all of that, there s another thing that makes