Welcome to the 2025 Anti-Romance Jam, an exploration of all the messy spaces and sensations that exist against and around romance! 

This jam exists in a deep and profoundly charged intimate rivalry with Smoochie Jam. What is anti-romance? That, dear jammer is up to you: 

• The opposite of romance, the absence of it, or something else? Maybe more than one at the same time?
• Does anti-romance require romance? Can they coexist? 
• What's love got to do with it?
• Is anti-romance a resistance, subversion, or reclamation?

The right answer is one that gets your heart beating, your gut churning, and your inspiration raring to go! 

Details & Rules

• Solo- and team-created submissions allowed
•  All kinds of games, art, and other media are encouraged 
  • Including but not limited to: interactive & kinetic/dynamic fiction or poetry; visual novels; TTRPGs; academic essays; zines; scripts; fiction; visual art; etc.
• NSFW content allowed with appropriate content warnings and categorisation included
• Previously published work?
  • Revisiting an old flame of a project is encouraged, so long as there is something new and substantial involved. This could include translations, substantial edits or expansions, adaptations, etc. If you aren't sure if your idea would be eligible, feel free to ask!
• Multiple entries (up to a maximum of 3 per creator)
• For the duration of the jam submission period and two weeks immediately following, submissions should be free to play/view/etc.
• All submissions must be related to anti-romance in some way; spam entries and hateful content will be removed.
• Submissions must not contain AI-generated content of any kind.

The jam will open for submissions at midnight on 18 May 2024 and will close on 22 July 2024 (PST; please check above for your local timezone).

Browse past years' Anti-Romance Jams: 2024, 2023