This is a jam for transformative games of all kinds. It will be judged by me (Chance). Since I prefer to cultivate a collaborative rather than a competitive environment, and since judging is often highly subjective, I have chosen to use the word "Favorite" rather than "Best" for the award categories:

Favorite Educational Game (open to educators and non-educators, as long as your game teaches something that could change the players)

Favorite Therapeutic Game (please enter only if you're a therapist, social worker, psychologist, or counselor)

Favorite Spiritual or Religious Game (religious fundamentalists, including militant atheists, are not welcome for this category)

Favorite Recreational Game (This is for games intended to be fun to play)

Favorite Serious Game (This is for games intended to be thought-provoking, but not necessarily fun or light-hearted)

Entering multiple categories is allowed, as long as it makes sense for your game. The only two categories that are mutually exclusive are "Favorite Recreational Game" and "Favorite Serious Game".

Since I'm a TTRPG and LARP designer with academic training in transformative role-playing game design, this jam is primarily geared toward analog, physical games. But if you're a CRPG or visual novel designer with an idea that fits, go for it! Some of my favorite transformative narrative games are computer games (e.g. The Longest Journey, The Talos Principle, I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream).

Rules:

1. Multiple submissions are fine, but I'm just one person, so I'll only be judging one submission. Please clearly mark the one you'd like me to judge.

1a. I will do my very best to give at least a one-paragraph review of each game submitted, whether it was judged for the awards or not. This will depend on how many total submissions there are, though.

2. Work solo or in a group, whichever you prefer. 

3. Making a new game for this jam is encouraged, but not required.

4. Games containing out-of-character bigotry of any kind - including the ones many people overlook, like fat shaming, slut shaming, kink shaming, ableism, and speciesism - will be disqualified and removed. The judge is a queer, non-binary, neurodivergent, pagan anarcho-socialist Jew. Zero tolerance for any kind of prejudice.

4a. Criticism of the Israeli government does not count as anti-Semitism in any way. Bibi Netanyahu is well to the right of Donald Trump - in other words, a raging fascist monster, guilty of crimes against humanity - and he has been for a very long time.

5. Games exploring the in-character experience and meaning of bigotry are allowed, but they're disqualified from the Favorite Recreational Game category.