Analogue game jam on folklore (including myths, urban legends, etc.) from your own culture or a place you belong.
Previously held in 2019, 2020 (also secretly in 2023), and 2024, Folklore Jam is back for 2025!
Make a TTRPG, LARP or boardgame inspired by folklore from your culture! It can be a spooky game for Halloween, or a cosy game about the local cryptids having a tea party.
Rules
- Write an analogue game that incorporates elements from folklore (including myths, urban legends, etc) of your own culture or a place you belong.
- An analogue game is a game that can be played in physical space (but with the advance of technology, can also be played online), such as tabletop role-playing game, LARP and board game.
- Games about folklore of your own creation is allowed.
- Games about folklore creation is allowed.
- Old games are allowed, as long as they are updated during the jam period.
- Revisit your old games and see what you can learn/improve from it.
- The update can be trivial, such as fixing typos.
- It is recommended to mention RPG safety tools within the game text or in the description.
- No gen AI content! Entries containing them will be removed.
- No hate speech or bigotry!
- We may remove any submissions that are against the spirit of the jam.
Community
Join us on the Paper Jam Discord server, for discussions on the game jam and game design in general: https://discord.gg/jv65S5ER53
Notable entries from previous Folklore Jams
- Apotheosis by Gordie Murphy (Updated version here)
- Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants by Erik Bernhardt (Updated version here)
- If I Were a Lich, Man by Lucian Kahn (Updated version here)
- Stories of Love in Manila by Rae Nedjadi
- Ma'amser, Saan Po Kayo? by Pam Punzalan
- Nine Pins by Meguey Baker
- The Rake by Jay Dragon
- The Fickle Loom by Jack Harrison
- augur by Caro Asercion
- Tricksters by Kurt Potts
- Panchatantra by Thomas M
- Robber's Kin by Lari Assmuth
- Chupacabra by Lampbane
- Long Meg & Her Daughters by beccamay
- Warning: Waylayer Weeds by Ipomoea
- Quests of Clay by Lucky Newt Games
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This is a card game made for the Folklore Jam 2025
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a solo investigation rpg about train traveling troublemakers!
A creepypasta ttrpg
A solo-first RPG where you play a young king facing forest trials and a mystical ghost
An ancient threat lurks in the night; can you possibly escape it?
A rules lite TTRPG in the Mesoamerican New World of Uay. Compatible with Mork Borg. Free Text Only Edition
a one-page folklore halloween adventure
fuck the mathematics out of me
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Card Game
You are a vampire living alone in a mansion - getting a visitor is an occasion worth documenting!
Every shuffle is a spell, every spell a story, and every witch writes their own endings.
A duet horror TTRPG.
A game of myths and geology that explores stories of how this surreal formation came to be.
An Expansion of Magick and Mystery for the RHP System
A solo forest crawler about starting a ritual in a nightmarish forest filled with horrors.
A solo ttrpg based on Irish folklore and the various types of fey found in our stories.
You’ll get an answer. It may not be one you wish for.
A utopian(?) solo journaling game about coming home.
Steeped in the folklore of the mythological horse
Explore the ruins of a haunted castle.
A ghostly game of fears and obols
A Romani Folk Horror TTRPG
Delve into Pulotu to steal from gods and monsters alike so that when you die the stones and the earth weep.
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