
Jared Nolen
Programmer • Developer • Game Designer • QA Tester
Tune In: A Moderator Sim
5 Player Team | BigMode Jam 2025
January 2025
Fill the shoes of the moderator of your favorite stream! Foster an enriching chat for channel Buddies, Non-Buddies, and Very important Buddies alike. It's an easy job and even easier not to power trip! Test your moderation skills in this hectic management sim game.
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On Itch here!
On GitHub here!
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Responsibilities:
I was a programmer and helped with a few other misc. things on this team jam project.​​
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Design
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Gameplay
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Visuals
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Programming
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UI Function
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Chat message manager and function
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Art​
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Some UI element design
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Recognition:
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Tools / Languages Used:
Unity, C#, Visual Studio, GitHub, Inkscape
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Design Process:
The first thing I did when this game jam started is meet with my team for a brainstorming session after the theme was revealed. The theme was 'Power' and we started by writing out notes and ideas on a Miro board. We had a few different ideas we liked. Ruling over a world as an evil dictator in a giant robot, using optical power to zoom in and out in a puzzle solving game, and bringing inanimate objects to life to escape a dungeon. The idea we ended up settling on was a fast paced hectic management type game where you moderated a live stream chat. The game would involve you searching through a constantly scrolling text chat and taking appropriate action based on a number of growing rules.
Over the next week we met each evening to work together on the different game systems, playtesting where we could along the way. I ended up creating most of the chat management and moderation function. In the end we were able to finish most all the gameplay elements we had planned and applied a good coat of polish.
