You need to incorporate the Theme into your game in some way and before you submit it, you will need to write atleast 1 short sentence about how your game fits the Theme of the game jam. It's completely up to you how you interpret the theme. Feel free to be creative with it.

Theme: Emperor's Tyranny

Bonus Challenges: Unlike the Theme, these are entirely optional. Feel free to do one, two, all of them or ignore them completely.

For this game jam, the optional challenges are the following three:

1 - Evil Empire: The protagonist is fighting against an evil empire.

2 - Prison Break: There's a part in the game during which the protagonist either escapes from prison or breaks someone out of prison (or both).

3 - Inspiring Speech: There's a scene in the game during which the protagonist gives an inspiring speech to rally people to their side.