Now that it's becoming more acceptable to actually charge for jam games, I am a lot more interested in the prospect of participating in future jams. I had promised my therapist to mostly stop releasing free stuff, so now I can do jams and not break my promise! Yay! Hopefully, there will be more ttrpg and tabletop jams popping up. I might resurrect Tarot Jam, which I hosted a few years ago, with more of a storytelling ttrpg focus. The result of that jam was the first tabletop rpg I actually published, and it wasn't exactly great, but it definitely sparked something in me.
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That sounds great! I've seen a lot of tarot-inspired work out there. I'd love to see how those develop along side each other.
I hear you on charging for games as well. I felt a bit weird charging for my mech game, but I definitely think it's important to show our work has value (a conversation I've had in many spaces with a lot of folks that actually started for me when I was trying to get my foot in the door as a semi-professional improviser.)
Would absolutely love a Tarot inspired game jam! IMHO tarot and divination in general (this is one of my favorite wikipedia pages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_divination) are such precursors to so many of the techniques in storygames. Would love an excuse to dive deeper