These are seasonal jams focused on a casual and beginner friendly game jams that our community, “The Artists Tavern” take part in.

This month we are collaborating with the hottest of Sci-Fi horror Tabletop RPG:
Mothership and running our first  mixed Physical/Digital RPG jam.

Our Goal:

To use a Sci-Fi Horror setting to create some spooky games, assets and stories!

Theme: "Desolation"

Watch this video to get the full breakdown of the theme and more!

What you'll be making:

This time we are focusing on

• Physical Games, as well as supplement material
• Tools, that Wardens can use in games
  
• Assets, either physical, digital or both!

PLEASE NOTE: You will find suggestions and examples at the bottom of the page

If you plan to make a Digital Game, try your best to incorporate that with other submissions and collaborating with other teams (like a digital puzzle for the 3rd party adventure). 

The idea is to find some wonderful people to collab with and make something cool, sinister or practical for use in Sci-Fi roleplaying games. 

Last bit, Artists, musicians, writers and programmers are all welcome aboard.

Duration:

 We are generous with deadlines so no pressure if you are from other time zones! 

The jam will last 3 around weeks, but use that time to do as much or as little as you can!

🕹️Tools:

Anything for physical assets, same for digital assets as long as it can run on Windows, Browsers or Mobile and does not require additional software or hardware to use!

🎨Assets:

Participants are encouraged to make their own assets during the jam. 

But, if you are going solo or lack the experience, you may use existing code and whatever legal uses of sound and art assets you can get hold of or make [For A.I. use see next rule]. Make sure to credit anything that isn’t yours! 

⛔A.I. Tools for art, code, music and writing:

Strictly NOT ALLOWED, even to brainstorm, we have plenty of help on the server and else where, for the spirit of the jam no use of AI in any way please. 

What type of art / asset can I make? 

✅As long as you follow our community rules (found in our discord)

⛔NSFW art or bigotry, including but not limited to discrimination or hate speech based on race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, or any other attacks on one’s personhood, will not be tolerated. (Also please no violation of Discord community guidelines)

🍻Teams

No limit, you can choose as many people as u can manage, or you can go solo!

⬇️ PLEASE FIND  A TEAM USING OUR DISCORD! ⬇️

The Artists Tavern Discord server:

Highly recommended to join as this is where we will communicate updates and help sort you out with any teams members, team searching or any help you may need!

⬇️ CLICK THIS IMAGE TO JOIN ⬇️

Mothership Discord server:

We also highly recommend checking out Mothership community . There you can also grab a PDF of Players Survival Guide for free!

Please use the Itch.io site to submit an itch.io page, and make sure you check these off when submitting! 

Must Haves:

• Discord names, of you and your teams (if you have one)
• List of resources used that weren’t yours
• Screenshots of your game / assets  (to use for socials)
• If not already included, Instructions on how to use

If it something you've been working for quite some time already - use this opportunity to finish it!

But please don't submit something you already posted.

Here are some suggestions for submissions for this jam: 

Physical submission ideas:

• Unconfirmed Report - a monster, an anomaly or a villain for a sci-fi horror campaign
• Equipment (a piece or a set) - something characters can use during the play
• Manual - for how to use something (or act) in a fictional world
• Spaceship or Space Station Design - something to board or fly (and crash)
• 3rd party module - a small (or BIG) adventure for fans to enjoy
• Tile set - for tactical spaceship plans
• Hexes - for a hex-crawl style adventure both on a planet surface or in space

Digital ,  SFX and Music submission ideas:

• Generator of spaceship plans - room and corridor tiles, room descriptions or interconnected spaceship systems
• Blueprint for a futuristic terminal - something to be be accessed during play.
• Sound modulator - with glitches and static for communication,
• Motion Tracker - app where GM can give hints about something coming
• Music - cool tracks to listen to while your beacon sends a SOS signal
• Docking minigame - because why not

Come talk to us to discuss ideas, find collabs and join a team. We'll be glad to answer questions and show some cool examples other creative people made!

Only people who submit something can rate other submissions. The criteria for ratings this jam are:

🏆Judging Criteria:

• Aesthetic: How pleasant/appealing it is?
• Function: How easy it is to use/does it contain any unfinished or frustrating parts?
• Fun: How much you personally like this one?

How Voting Works:

Once the submission ends, you will have 7 days to vote on as many submissions as you can! 

We will try our best to review and promote the winners as well as just some projects that we find cool. 

We understand it's impossible to rate an ambient music vs illustrated manual for artificial gravity boots in the same way, so we promise to figure something out and organize everything in a meaningful way.