Crow Jam

Georgia, Miriam and special guest Leo put stress on 'emphasis'. They design a surreal game of dinner-table conversation with shifting rules, bizarre pieces and dreamlike characters. Want to see the video? It's on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Loh9XlzfZNg

For this minisode, the sisters draw on things closer to home. In minute 10 a picture emerges of a simple, pen-and-paper narrative mapmaking game.

The sisters dig deep and read widely to try and deliver a subterranean library exploration game. They devise a unique dice & tile puzzler, citing Boggle, L-space, and dungeon-crawler games as their inspiration.

In this 10-minute minisode the sisters stick their heads together to make a big-table, cubic katamari dice game.

Georgia and Miriam try to balance a see-saw area-control game with all the fun of the fair. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PAsuXVGU6cI

Miriam and Georgia try to keep a cool head as they race against the clock to design a co-operative maze-crawler game of spiralling thoughts.

Miriam, Georgia and special guest Tom get their brains buzzing on the theme of 'bee'. They create a hidden-role limited communication party game of bear-faced bee-trayal. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/C0gdXfqtPPc

Georgia and Miriam leave their birthday celebrations to chance. Will it be a sensory house party or team sports on the beach? Turns out neither as we make a tactile drafting game where you literally feather your nest, inspired by Hand to Hand Wombat, Grand Designs, and The Most Wonderful Egg in the World.

Georgia, Miriam and special guest Nye bounce some ideas around. They come up with a weird and wonderful game of geological golf. Geolf. Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/BEMWdXlNV1g

Miriam and Georgia get the ball rolling with a Racing Game mechanic. They scramble for ideas, passing at breakneck speed through Wacky Races, Wallace & Gromit, and Living Forest. Revisting their roots, they capture the imagination with a cheese-rolling push-your-luck game concept delivered in record time.

Miriam, Georgia and special guest Amelie catch a wave and create a mash-up tower defence game of pirates and surfers battling on the high seas. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/LFLyjtqTEDA

Georgia and Miriam run all over the map via 'mousemate', Captain Sonar, and treehouse fantasies. They lightning round rush six games ideas, and at least one of them is half decent.

Miriam, Georgia and special guest Will try to make the connection for a game about synaesthesia. They co-operate on a game of communication, linking and concepts. Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/dyW9W8blmhg

Miriam and Georgia put in 110%, think synergistically, represent the company values, go the extra mile... and come up with an ok tile-laying game for 3+ players.

Miriam, Georgia and special guest Suzanna go jumping through loopholes in pursuit of a game idea. They come up with a curtain-twitching game of malicious compliance set in a sweetly twisted gated community. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WqBAv7OB_08

Miriam and Georgia juggle ideas inspired by Insane Clown Posse, set-collection, and Hungry Hungry Hippos. They build a frenetic, family-friendly dice game with observation, reflexes and giant clowns. 

Miriam, Georgia and guest Marc explore the theme of 'survival' and develop a solo adventure about escaping the soul-sucking entity that lives inside your smartphone. Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/8YAFmoVIybM

Georgia and Miriam sniff around sand-timer games, anthropomorphic foodstuffs, and underworld myths. They cook up a resource-management game with time and space-handling mechanics and an anti food waste message, themed around an increasingly grody shared fridge. 

Miriam, Georgia and special guest Anna take inspiration from the reptile world to create a psychedelic, infinitely replayable and flexible dexterity game for all ages. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YuQA4pT1pQA

Georgia and Miriam dig into Mandala, Gnomeo and Juliet, and Plants vs Zombies. They design a multi-layered epic strategy game about three gnome sisters' battle for backyard dominance. 

Miriam, Georgia and special guest Kieran take inspiration from shadow puppets, charades, A Christmas Carol and Mysterium to create an unseasonably spooky limited-communication game of corporate paranormal investigation. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/osKwyY-gS00

Georgia and Miriam delve into Dicey Dungeons, Warhammer, Talisman and The Trap Door. They make a super cute cooperative adventure team/deck-builder about labyrinth monsters taking back their home turf from a sinister invader. 

Miriam, Georgia and special guest Charlotte jam on the theme of 'dash'. Taking inspiration from The Initiative, ASCII art, and the Tuesday Next novels (among other things), they make a pun-ctuation themed interactive story game starring detective Sam Interrobang. Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/2K_S2q9Po7g

Miriam and Georgia dive in to memory games, View-Master goggles, and therapy sessions. They face a few demons but struggle through to emerge with a lightweight, small-box solo matching game about clearing your thoughts. 

In a Halloween special episode, Miriam, Georgia and lovely guest Alex jam on the theme of 'Pumpkin.' Taking inspiration from Three Sisters, Nightmare Before Christmas and village fetes, they come up with a weird, point-salad action-choice game where you ARE the pumpkin. Watch the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OmFD2W8FYHc