🦇 🥀 🕯 🪦 🩸 QUEER VAMPIRE GAME JAM 🩸🪦🕯🥀🦇

This is a month-long game jam that will run from January 10 - February 20th, 2025. The goal of this jam is to create more interactive fiction games about queer vampires, focusing both on queer relationships and queer experiences as told through a vampiric narrative.

Check out our 2024 entries here!

JAM RULES:

1. Your project must focus on queer characters and vampires. Relationships, romantic or platonic, as well as queer experiences, whether gay, lesbian, bisexual, ace, aro, trans and nonbinary - this is an inclusive jam. 
2. You can write from a human or vampire perspective (or both!)
3. This jam will accept any program/medium, so long as the work is an Interactive Fiction.
   1. Interactive Fiction is hard to define, so in this instance as long as the game is recognizably interactive fiction - the game has a narrative focus primarily with text, and the player can interact (whether that be with direct choices, clicking through links, or allowing the player to choose how to move around and interact with the world/the game, like in bitsy) then it counts. Parsers, visual novels, choose-your-own-adventures are some of the popular examples of IF, but there are plenty that don't fall within any category, and we're not interested in trying to police a rigid definition.
4. This jam will accept adult content as well as games covering heavy & uncomfortable topics, but please be sure to properly list trigger warnings either in-game or on the the game page.
5. Entries that promote any kind of bigotry will not be accepted.
6. Games should not include any AI generated content.
7. There is no language requirement; we will accept games in any language.
   
8. You can submit as many entries as you'd like.
9. You are allowed to start working on your project early! This is unranked and it's not a contest, this is just for fun.

Submissions open midnight, January 10th EST. They'll close February 20th at 11:59pm EST. Submissions will close February 25th, 11:59pm EST!

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A few possible resources for creating Interactive Fiction:

• Twine
• Ink
• Ren'Py
• Bitsy
• Inform 7
• Narrat
• Choicescript