Welcome to the Isekai Jam!

Isekai: Isekai is a Japanese genre of speculative fiction—both portal fantasy and science fiction are included. It includes novels, light novels, films, manga, anime and video games that revolve around a displaced person or people who are transported to and have to survive in another world, such as a fantasy world, virtual world, etc. - (Wikipedia)

This is a jam with a lot of creative liberty! Isekai with romance, isekai with horror, isekai with fantasy, anything.

With this trope that had practically taken over the world for a few months to a year, it might be considered both overused or a classic.

We're all excited on what you can bring to the table for isekai!

1. You can't work on your submission before the deadline. As with most jams, light planning and pondering over it is allowed, but not working on it to ensure fairness, effectiveness and motivation!

2. Isekai is used as a very loose term. This means you can make your MC end up in a different universe, or a fictional character end up in our world! Don't try to use cliché tropes, creative liberty is encouraged.

3. Make sure to submit before the deadline. It's a month-long jam, inspired by NaNoRenO to push you to your limits.

4. Bookmark or keep an eye on this jam to see the other submissions :)

6. The submission can be as complex or simple as you want, which means any number of people are allowed to collaborate with you to jam. This jam is aimed at indie-developers, though, but in the end, is inviting to all.

7. No hate, bigotry, loli, shota, or incest work allowed UNLESS explicity stated. You can make things R18 or otherwise age-restricted/sensitive, but make sure to add: TWs (trigger warnings), and make it immediately conspicuous in your submission.

8. Make sure to add full credits.

9. AI tools used, such as art generators, code, text, music, any generators/chatbots are allowed IF explicitly stated that it is AI, credited, and doesn't infringe on legal issues.

10. I have said this and I will say this again. No rigging the votes.

Okay, it's pretty clear what's going on, but just to make sure, this jam accepts anything creative. ANY piece of intellectual property, as in, games, writing, art, comic, anything and everything, as long as it's related to isekai can be submitted.

A list of works related to isekai as found on Wikipedia. Inspiration!

Make sure to hashtag #isekai and #isekaijam anything you're submitting.

Your submission can be in any language, although English remains the most popular.

Things you're gonna do when you submit, if you do

A field to fill out with any trigger warnings/sensitive content/age-restrictions.
Submission files (...yes, surprisingly).
If you're tweeting about it, #isekaijam.

To make this jam interesting, there's ranking! Submissions will be open for people to see, with 2 weeks for people to vote. It will be based on;

Experience

How well made is the submission? How engaging was it for your audience? How skilled, detailed, complex was the submission?

Visuals

Self-explanatory. How visually appealing is the submission? How detailed, thoughtful, colourful, themed is the submission?

Creativity

How creative, thoughtful, liberal is the submission? Isekai can be used in many forms. Did it/they figure out an interesting way?

There is a rating queue of 3 entries to make sure that every submission gets a chance to be seen, avoiding popularity contests; without being an inconvenience for the voter.

Public voting usually means cheating. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Do not, under any circumstances, do the following or anything similar to achieve the end goal of corrupting end votes;

1. Making extra accounts.
2. Convincing followers/friends/contributers to vote.
3. Influencing voters in any way.
4. Using bots/programs for votes.
...Anything of the sort.

This is made purely for the joy and love isekai has brought us.