{"id":1576011,"date":"2026-05-11T11:22:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cuDkjER6MkJLeCdGPRgZF4"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:22:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:22:53","slug":"elder-scrolls-6-is-a-ways-off-but-who-needs-it-the-worlds-most-specific-game-jam-is-back-with-40-playable-entries-all-based-off-oblivions-wonderful-awful-persuade-o-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/elder-scrolls-6-is-a-ways-off-but-who-needs-it-the-worlds-most-specific-game-jam-is-back-with-40-playable-entries-all-based-off-oblivions-wonderful-awful-persuade-o-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Elder Scrolls 6 is a ways off, but who needs it? The world’s most specific game jam is back with 40 playable entries all based off Oblivion’s wonderful\/awful persuade-o-wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Remember Oblivion’s wheel system for grinding NPC disposition? You probably do, since a very popular remastered version<\/a> of that game came out a single year ago. But if not then, well, you Skyrim <\/a>kids don’t know what you’re missing. Where the most recent Elder Scrolls<\/a> (the one that’s 15 years old), only let you affect your relationship with NPCs by completing quests and joining factions, Oblivion would let you affect everyone’s opinion of you granularly, via a wheel-based minigame you could drop into mid-conversation.<\/p>\n

Was it good? No. Was it intuitive? No. But was it representative of the actual experience of building up a rapport with other human beings? Again, no. No wonder then that it has become an object of cathexis for a certain generation of videogame players who found themselves developmentally T-boned by Oblivion’s jelly-clockwork world at precisely the right age. We miss it, we yearn for it, and some of us have brought it back\u2014for the second<\/em> time.<\/p>\n

Wheeljam 2<\/a> is the second iteration of a game jam that tasks participants with the speedy creation of playable things<\/em> that feature “either the lockpicking minigame or persuasion wheel in some capacity.” That’s right, folks, the lockpicking minigame is in there too now.<\/p>\n

Last year’s entry ended up with 32 entries and some actually cool ideas<\/a>, but 2026’s edition has just wrapped up with a total of 40 submissions. <\/p>\n

Voting is currently ongoing to pick the winner (who will get, uh, nothing tangible\u2014”DO IT FOR THE LOVE OF THE WHEEL,” beseech the jam’s organisers), but the submissions are all playable<\/a> now. Heck, you can fire up 27 of them in your browser, just as the flash games of olde.<\/p>\n

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