Hello and Welcome to the 2025 Amare Games Festival <3

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

What is Amare?

While Amare games share a distinct "vibe," they place no restrictions on the gender of the Main Character or Love Interests, embracing diverse romantic narratives. This includes requiring a gender variable MC. This is not a requirement for Amare and Amare games may have gender-locked MCs.

Please see our FAQ section in the festival's community section for more details. 

Guidelines

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

Changes

This year we have made a couple of changes to the festival to better suit the needs of the community the main change being that the festival now takes place in February and runs for 6 weeks till mid-March. 

For those who have participated in previous Amare Festivals, we kindly ask you to review the rules of the festival so you are aware of any changes that have been made.

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.
• You must tag your game as 'Amare' - This will ensure people who are watching the tag instead of just the jam page will see your game.
  
• 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.

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 games from the previous festivals on our website Amaregames.com or under the Amare tag


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