The theme for this month is:

Jesus / Christianity

Your submission should be a game that is based on Christianity or Jesus in some way. The game can be promoting, parodying, criticizing, or just themed around Christianity.

This jam is a part of the Game a Month series of jams.

Example of Christian games, or games about Jesus:

I Am Jesus Christ - A first person retelling of Jesus's story

The Secrets of Jesus - a comedic (Alternative history?) point and click adventure game about what happened after Jesus was crucified

Jesus Christ RPG Trilogy - Retelling of Jesus's story with an RPGMaker Turn based RPG

Moderation

In past jams I haven't had to remove games for anything other than spam, but this theme has the potential to be controversial because it's about a religion. I may remove games that I view as containing "Hate Speech". The bar would have be pretty high for me to do it, but just going to mention it. If it does happen I will reach out to you first via the jam submission page to ask some questions.

This should only be a concern if you are actively trying to be offensive or provocative for no good reason. (i.e. making a troll game).

Here are some examples of potential hateful things I will not allow to be submitted, not necessarily related to Christianity:

• Low effort dehumanizing depictions of people that follow a certain religion (Depicting all Jews as evil conspirators, depicting all Muslims as violent terrorists, all priests or Christians as evil pedophiles, etc)
• Encouraging any real life violence towards a group of people (A game where you just shoot/massacre people of a certain religion, and that is depicted as a good thing)

Enforcement of these rules is totally subjective, in the end I will just have to chose if a game is hate speech or too offensive, so understand that coming in. I am an Atheist so I have no preference for any religion. You can ask in the forums or discord about your idea if you want.

About

Although this is a month long jam, you should not necessarily work on your project all month. Hopefully you will be able to complete your core idea in a couple days and then polish the idea over the course of the month. Try making new things/ideas rather than a polished game with a lot of content. Large polished projects are still welcome though.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please join the Discord or post in the Itch Community for the jam.

RULES

1. Submissions can be in ANY format (Windows, Web, GB Studio, Pen and Paper, Smart Fridge App,  ANYTHING). However you may not get many ratings if you pick a weird format so I recommend making sure your game is playable on Windows or Web.

2. Game must be started and "finished" within the month.

3. Reusing old code and assets is totally fine. Using an old project and updating it is fine, as long as:

• Its a relatively incomplete/small project
• You haven't submitted it to a previous "Minigame A Month" jam
• You significantly develop/improve it this month.

4. Teams of any size are allowed

5. You must have permission/rights for any 3rd party asset you use

Spam Rules

I've done a couple of these jams and noticed a lot of spam games are submitted to month long jams. Entering multiple jams is OK but if your game seems really low effort and unrelated to the jam I may remove it. I've made some rules about spam games:

1. People should not need to spend any money to play your game. Games should be free to play, or offer a free demo/web build over the course of the jam, and during the rating period. ANY GAME NOT FOLLOWING THIS RULE WILL BE REMOVED.

2.You can submit your game to other jams, however if I see the game is not following the theme and has been submitted to 10+ jams, I may remove it based on it looking like spam. Post in the community if you feel your game was unfairly removed, and I may revert it.

3. A lot of the spam games tend to be android games with only APKs and terrible descriptions (ChatGPT nonsense). I will remove most APKs that look like spam, and advise people to not download them.