Introduction

Garden of Forking Paths is a one of its kind game jam inspired by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges where your goal is to make a choose-your-adventure game using nothing but your choosing operating systems folder structure, .txt files and ascii art and .mp3.

The theme for this jam is: The Garden

How it works

The rules are simple: try your best to make the game interpreting the theme with some sort of narrative, you have 24 hours for building your game, which includes, writing the narrative, making sound effects/music, art, and other assets. Writing a design doc, coming up with ideas, compiling your game, or making the itch.io page for it does not!

You can split your time into however many chunks you want, too - work on it for 3 hours straight, or for one hour each session, or any other way you may prefer!

Have a team? Great! Everyone on your team gets their own 3 hours! One person may focus on one part, another on another, and so on. There are no restrictions on team sizes, so invite your friends!

Using pre-made assets is no problem, just make sure that you have the necessary rights to use them, and attribute them in your game’s description properly.

The Rules

1. Games must only include the following file formats. (.zip), (.txt), (.mp3), (.wav).

2. Games must include a .txt file in the root folder including an introduction to the game and any credits for assets used.

3. Games should not use any images (unless turned to ascii art and presented within a txt file).

4. Submissions should be submitted as a (.zip) folder

5. Please be respectful, any discriminatory language, racism, homophobia, transphobia etc will not be tolerated.