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EnglishWhat Game Jam Prototypes and Games Are Featured on Deepnight Games?
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Deepnight Games' site is primarily a portfolio of game jam entries and prototypes, most made during Ludum Dare, alongside the studio's commercial projects. The page lists each prototype with a one-line description and its jam rankings (for example, placements in Graphics, Overall, Fun, Mood, or Theme). The most notable entries are Tenjutsu (2023 and 2022 prototypes, the latter a 48-hour jam build), Nuclear Blaze (48-hour version), Dungeon Master III, Game feel demo (v2), and Fort Loop. The site also notes that some prototypes later became full games — Tenjutsu is described as being "right before turning into a rogue."
How the page is organized
The listing mixes three kinds of work:
- Commercial / upcoming games — highlighted at the top with a trailer and wishlist prompt, described as "Combat. City builder. Rogue. From the director of Dead Cells."
- Game jam and prototype entries — the bulk of the page, each with a short tagline and jam results.
- Motion Twin work — a separate section for games the developer worked on or created during 18 years at Motion Twin.
Featured prototypes and jam entries
The table below summarizes the entries named on the page, with their descriptions and any rankings shown.
| Title | Description on page | Jam result shown |
|---|---|---|
| Tenjutsu (2023 prototype) | "Right before turning into a rogue" | — |
| Game feel demo (v2) | "Learning game feel techniques" | 2nd (Graphics), 5th (Overall) |
| Tenjutsu (2022 prototype, 48h jam) | "You don't know it yet, but you're already dead." | — |
| Dungeon prototype | "Dungeon Master III" | 5th (Graphics) |
| Nuclear Blaze (48h version) | "The building is on fiiire... fiiiire" | 3rd (Graphics), 10th (Overall) |
| Fort Loop | "Looping castle" | 1st (My kid loves it) |
| Petit Tracteur Bleu | "Little tractor adventures" | 1st (Top selection) |
| Dumber Dwarves | "Uncontrolled dungeon crawling" | 1st (Fun), 5th (Overall), 10th (Humor) |
| Sabotage | "Colonel Hubert on duty!" | 6th (Theme) |
| Save & Sacrifice | "For the greater good!" | — |
| Blossom | "Plant and run." | — |
| Nightclub Showdown | "John Wick in slow mo" | — |
| Cats are assholes | "Feed me, hooman!" | 4th (Graphics), 6th (Overall) |
| Zero Volt X | "Distribute power" | — |
| Castle of Deception | "Cheat the game" | — |
| Lost in pandation | "Zootopiesque survival" | 5th (Graphics) |
| Sub Dragon | "Snakish Shooter" | 3rd (Graphics) |
| Full Metal Democracy | "Lethal democracy" | 2nd (Overall), 9th (Fun), 9th (Graphics), 9th (Sound) |
| Delicious Cortex | "Eat some brains" | 1st (Graphics), 2nd (Overall), 7th (Mood) |
| Badass Inc | "Unconventional murder" | 3rd (Overall), 8th (Graphics) |
| Law Breaker | "All GTA in one screen" | — |
| Refugees | "Survive the war" | 2nd (Overall), 3rd (Graphics), 4th (Fun) |
| Chipset-0 | "Do the robot!" | 5th (Graphics) |
| Beneath the City | "Turn based infiltration" | — |
| Purpose | "A sad little platformer" | 1st (Fun), 3rd (Overall) |
| Proletarian Ninja X | "Kill everyone in 10 seconds" | 1st (Top selection) |
| Corporate Soccer 2 | "4-players football platformer" | 3rd (Graphics) |
| Minnie & Malism: Budget squad! | "Underwater shoot-em-up" | 1st (Overall), 1st (Graphics), 1st (Fun) |
| Atomic Creep Spawner! | "Defend your dungeon!" | 1st (Fun), 2nd (Graphics), 4th (Overall) |
| Strike of rage! | "Beat colleagues to a pulp" | 1st (Mood), 1st (Graphics), 2nd (Overall) |
| Memento XII | "Jail Point'n'click" | 1st (Graphics), 3rd (Overall), 7th (Mood) |
| Last Breath | "Fight against yourself" | 4th (Graphics) |
| A tale about life, death and a loser | "Weird point'n'click" | 1st (Overall), 1st (Graphics), 10th (Fun) |
| Appy 1000mg | "Be appy, take drugs" | 1st (Overall), 1st (Fun), 1st (Theme), 1st (Humor), 3rd (Graphics) |
| Time Pigmy | "Discover everything!" | — |
| Boulder Slach | "An 'Atomix' clone" | — |
What the rankings tell you
The jam placements are the most useful signal on the page for judging each prototype. A few patterns stand out:
- Graphics-heavy winners — Delicious Cortex, Minnie & Malism, Strike of rage!, Memento XII, and A tale about life, death and a loser all took 1st in Graphics, suggesting the visual presentation of these jam builds was their strongest asset.
- Strong all-rounders — Appy 1000mg swept Overall, Fun, Theme, and Humor; Minnie & Malism took Overall, Graphics, and Fun; Atomic Creep Spawner! took Fun and placed 2nd in Graphics and 4th Overall.
- Theme-driven entries — Sabotage's only listed result is 6th in Theme, and Full Metal Democracy's spread (2nd Overall but 9th in Fun, Graphics, and Sound) shows how rankings can diverge by category.
If you want to see how a small jam concept turns into a commercial release, the Tenjutsu pair is the clearest example: the 2022 48-hour build carries the tagline "You don't know it yet, but you're already dead," and the 2023 prototype is described as being right before the project became a rogue game.
Practical notes for browsing
- The page is in English and presents the prototypes as a flat list rather than a filterable archive, so scanning the taglines and rankings is the fastest way to find a specific genre (roguelike, point-and-click, shoot-em-up, platformer).
- The site does not list prices or download links for the jam prototypes in the provided content, so treat the page as a showcase rather than a storefront for those builds.
- The Motion Twin section at the bottom covers the developer's 18 years of work there, including a 1st place for "Best Action game of the year," which is separate from the jam entries above.