The Familiar Game Jam Volume 3 is a 48 hour game jam where people can gather in Spain (or enter online) to create a game. The themes chosen for this game jam are Misanthropy and Neon Colors. The games entered into this game jam are of pretty high quality and all of them were fun to play. I was able to play all 27 of them in a video series for YouTube. Here are some of my favorites:

AngryBurger is a game where the player is to fill orders for customers at a burger joint. There are conveyor belts filled with different foods whizzing past the player, who must drag and drop the correct foods into the bag to get the order complete. These customers are not all happy and friendly, but more of the demanding, spiteful type. The player is to exact revenge for the spiteful customers by spitting or smudging on their food, or grabbing a rat or cockroach from the conveyor belt and put it into the bag. This game is timed, so do not take too long to get the food into the bag!

Valkyria Revenge is a game where the player plays a revengeful dog, who is flying around in a spaceship, taking revenge on other flying enemies for killing her owner. The player controls an alien space ship which can shoot colorful neon blue bullets at enemies, in a side scroller game. The base color of everything in this game is gray, but there are tons of little neon highlights that seem to really make the game. This game also contains many, many enemies, some shooting different types of bullets. The game gets more and more intense the farther the player gets.

Involution is another side scroller game where the player plays as a man who is sick of the evolution of humankind. In order to correct the faults of humans, he must destroy humans, as well as heavily populated areas. Cops will shoot back at this menace, but he must continue forward, setting fire to humans and buildings alike. The graphics in this game are super well done, giving an almost hand drawn look to the game.

Misanthrotype In this game, the player controls a man who just simply wants to get to work. However, there are tons and tons of musicians littering the sidewalk. The player must type phrases from a speech bubble in order to pass by the musicians without doing harm to the man. This game may not have much gameplay yet, but the graphics are super unique in a paper-cut out sort of way. The main character, a grumpy business man, also entertained me.

Friendly Peter is a game about a man who does not like people. He is sent on an errand by his sister. This errand involves leaving his house and traveling around his town to various vending machines. If Peter is around people, however, his patience lowers. Some people are even the chatty type, who find Peter and wish to speak to him. Once his patience bar runs out, he has failed his sister and must face her wrath. This game is super fun to play. The map is big enough that it takes some time to find all the vending machines. It is fun.

Those were some of my favorite games from this game jam, though all of the games were really good. If you want to check out all 27 games from this game jam, you can do so here.

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