Hello and Welcome to the 2024 Amare Games Festival <3

 A celebration of love and diversity in story-focused games! 

What is Amare?

You can find more information about Amare by checking out this explanation, following Twitter, and on Discord!

Guidelines

For this game festival we invite you to create or update an existing game that you believe falls under the theme Amare!

Why a festival?

Jams are an awesome way to get the creative juices flowing and challenge yourself to create a game in a short amount of time. However, there are already a lot of amazing projects in progress, so it's important to celebrate those and give people the opportunity to focus on setting and achieving goals with their existing projects as well.

Examples of Submissions

• A new game.
• A new demo or Vertical slice.
• A new chapter update to an existing game.
• Adding new features or content to an existing game.

The festival has fairly relaxed rules, but in general, we would like all participants to keep these in mind:

Rules:

• You must Release or Update during the festival period. Work can be commenced before the start of the festival.
• Please clearly label demos or first episodes as such. - This is to help us organise the entries
• Please clearly state the exact update or new content that was added during the festival.
• Submissions can be Free or Commercial.
  
• NSFW must be properly labelled, but is fine as long as it adheres to Itch.io's TOS
• No hate speech, (i.e. speech that promotes hatred, violence or discrimination against groups of people based on ethnicity, religion, gender, age, disability or sexual orientation.) or content that is patently offensive or intended to shock or disgust viewers.
• Content Warnings are needed (Here is a link to help you with those if you need it!)
• We currently do not support AI generated games or games that make use of generative AI writing and art. Until legislation is put in place to ensure ethical training models that respect artist and creator copyright and regulate transparency on the use of AI in creative content, we will not allow the submission of games that utilise generative AI.

We kindly ask that you tag your game with the 'Amare' tag here on itch.io. This will ensure people who are watching the tag instead of just the jam page will see your game.

Join the discord to find others who are looking for festival partners, and to talk with other Amare Devs!

Here are some great Amare titles for inspiration

You can find more under the Amare tag Here


Want to post about your entry on social media? Use the hashtags below.