JAM RULES & FAQs
I’ve moved a lot of the information from the jam page to the community tab including topics of:
- What content is/is not allowed
- What kinds of projects can be submitted (i.e. format, 2D vs £d etc.)
- Information about resubmitting a previous yan jam project
- Difference between trigger VS content warnings
For the extra challenges/themes and accessibility tips, please read the other thread I have sticky’ed here.
What kind of content is not allowed?
- Beastiality
- Loli/Shota/Underage
- Any sort of incest/pseudo-incestual content
- No entries which contain and advocate hate speech, discrimination or bigotry
- As with last year’s clarification on the bigotry rule: ** please make sure any content that is sensitive or potentially triggering is tagged in your work, both on the game page and inside the game**.
- Entries that fail to provide proper content and/or trigger warnings in game and/or in the game page will be removed from the jam
- REGARDING A.I. TOOLS: Yandere Jam no longer accepts any submissions made with the help or use of A.I. tools (including generated text, audio, images, effects etc.) I strongly ask participants to not use A.I., as if your entry is found to have used A.I. assets your entry will be removed and you’ll be banned from the game jam for the foreseeable future. This game jam is about uplifting human creators and storytellers, not plagiarism machines.
What kind of game formats are allowed?
- Demos
- Full games
- Pre-existing projects that fit the jam’s theme (including previously submitted entries WHICH HAVE NEW CONTENT.)
- Anything 2D (visual novel, interactive fiction, point & click etc.)
- Anything 3D (board games, card games, games using 3D assets or game engines etc.)
Resubmitting a previous years’ entry?
- This jam is made to showcase new projects and encourage newer devs with little to no experience in game creation to make their first game. Because of this, if you would like to submit an entry you have already submitted in a previous year of Yan Jam, please make sure that the entry has new content so people are not playing the same entries and detracting from newer projects/devs.
- For example, if your initial entry included a ‘day 1’ but since you have added more in-game days for players to enjoy, it’s okay to resubmit the entry as people will be experiencing new scenes and content beyond the pre-existing things available.
- If your entry has changed things only visually (such as new sprites or UI) I wouldn’t say that is enough for re-entry, as the gameplay content itself has not changed.
Difference between trigger VS. content warning?
- Look at the table below to see some examples of what topics/actions counts would go under a content warning VS. a trigger warning. This is not a full list, just a few examples if you need some direction on what kind of content falls into what space!
[Alt: A table with two columns, on the left it is titled ‘content warning examples’ with a list of examples (Gore, blood, vomit, insects, alcohol use, drug use.) On the right is a similar list, titled ‘trigger warning examples’ with a list of examples (sexual assault, verbal/physical violence, child abuse, self harm, non-consensual use of drugs or alcohol). /EndAlt] - Entries with sensitive content, which do not contain any sort of warnings on the game page and/or inside the game, will be removed and disqualified from submissions.
- Trigger/content warnings are essential to the safety of the players and consumers, even if we all know what kind of content we are going to engage with might be upsetting.