DEADLINE: 00:00 GMT, 01/05/2020

Notice: Submissions must be TTRPGs or Bitsy/IF/narrative games. Anything else will be removed from the jam. To avoid wasting time, please do not submit games outside these categories.

This is a jam for tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) and Bitsy/IF/narrative games on the theme of 'house' or 'home' (or both)! They could be about staying home, being in your home or a house, doing things you'd normally do at home, or anything else like that.

This isn't super strict – you could make a game where 'home' is part of a frame story or meta-story – but submissions should not be about going home  or leaving home unless most of the game is about being at home. That might sound restrictive, but there's a lot you can do: for example, house by Marn S is a horror game about a sinister house that may be trying to eat you; House & Home by Jason Brown is a bittersweet look at the changes wrought in a family by time, and by that family on their home; and Life On Mars by Heart of the Deernicorn is about astronauts struggling with isolation, expectation, and each other while they set up a colony on Mars.

This jam is open to previously-published works, playtest versions, and works-in-progress!

EXAMPLES

• house
  
• House & Home
• The Lodger
• House of Reeds
• Life On Mars
• A Place to Fuck Each Other
  
• Behind a Truck Near the Docks to the S.S. Anne
• The Skeletons

RULES

• Submissions to this jam should be about staying home or being at home in some way
• Any state of work is fair to submit - previously-published, freshly-designed, works-in-progress, playtest versions, etc.
• Games in any language are fine to submit.
• You can submit any number of games as long as they fit the other requirements.
• License and price your games as you see fit!
• Include content notices or other precautions on both the game's page and in its file(s) if your game includes any material that could be considered adult or sensitive.
  • Look into the Support Tools Compilation and/or TTRPG Safety Toolkit for more help, if your game covers any difficult ground.
• Bigoted content of any kind is not allowed and will be removed from the jam.

ACCESSIBILITY

Here are some easy ways of boosting your game's accessibility:

• Plain text (e.g. .txt) versions for text-to-speech apps (you can check how it sounds using free online apps like the free version of Natural Reader, to make sure it reads well)
• Community copies and/or opt-in discounts (see this Twitter thread for a tutorial)
• Print-friendly versions (black and white, and optionally formatted to easily be printed as a booklet)

CREDITS

Title font: Yumaro by monocotype via 1001fonts

This jam is hosted by Speak the Sky (@SpeaktheSky / speak-the-sky.itch.io/)