Welcome to the first Finish Your Project game jam!

This jam is designed for people like me who work well with deadlines, and sometimes need them to be arbitrarily assigned. From April 1 to June 30, dust off that thing you've had sitting in your drafts forever and finish it!

We now have a Discord server for this jam! Click here to join if you'd like to share your progress and chat with other designers. [Link last updated 5/1.]

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Jam details

This is a casual, unranked game jam meant to inspire creativity! There will be no voting on submissions, and no awards.

If you haven't participated in a jam before, you can make a free itch.io account (if you don't have one already), click "join jam" on this page, and then submit your piece!

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Jam guidelines

📜 By finish, I really mean get it out there. You can absolutely release a draft, an ashcan, or a demo — your piece doesn't need to be fully polished and playtested.

📜 Use whatever format you like! If you can publish it on itch, you can submit it to this jam. I'm a TTRPG designer myself, but any form of design is welcome.

📜 Submit as many things as you like! Go wild finishing those drafts!

📜 Charge or don't charge: you can submit free works, pay-what-you-want works, or paid works. If your submissions is paid, you might want to consider including community copies so other jam participants can check it out.

📜 You can submit NSFW projects, but please indicate that your project is for a mature audience

📜 No AI-generated content, including artwork and writing.

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Resources for creativity

I've gotten a lot out of these creative resources. Maybe you'll find something too!

Books:

💌 The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
💌 Getting to Center by Cody Cook-Parrott (published as M@rlee Gr@ce)
💌 A Year in Practice by Jacqueline Suskin

Newsletters & Podcasts:

💌 Monday Monday, also by Cody-Cook Parrott
💌 See You by Carolyn Yoo
💌 botanical studies of internet magic by kening zhu

Good luck, & have fun!

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