Happy places or spots of nightmares...
Bring that locus to life!

The Locus Jam is an interactive fiction mini-jam all about places, spaces, and rooms. Come create an IF piece set in one specific place!

This jam is a commemoration of Porpentine's Locus Jam.

Constraints and Rules:

• The Setting of the game must be confined to a single building/location.
  • The smaller the location, the better!
  • [OPTIONAL] The story of the game only happens inside ONE room.
  • [OPTIONAL - PARSER] The entry only includes ONE room/location (code).
• The Jam is open to any program/medium, as long as the piece can be considered Interactive Fiction (i.e. the game is interactive, and its focus is on the text).
• The Jam is open to any language.
• You can submit up to 3 entries!
• You should aim for a 15-30min maximum gameplay.
• Entries can have NSFW content, as long as it is indicated in your submission.
• You must credit any asset used in your entry, or it will be removed (ex: code, images, sound, etc...)
• Entries using AI or LLM will be removed.
• Spam or hateful content will be removed.
• During the duration of the jam and the two weeks following the deadline, the submissions should be free to play.

Possible Softwares to create Interactive Fiction:

• Primarily HyperText/Choice-Based: Twine,  Ink, ChoiceScript, Dendry
• Primarily Parser/Input: Inform 6, Inform 7, PunyInform, Adventuron, ADRIFT
• Other: Bitsy, Binksi, Ren'Py
• and many more can be found listed in the IF Wiki.

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At the end of the Jam, we will create an IFDB page for every entry. The IFDB, or Interactive Fiction Database, is an IF game information catalogue, creating a historical record of the IF landscape. You can also create this page yourself before the end of the Jam! Contact the organisers for questions or if you'd rather not be included.

You can also opt-in to see your entry submitted to the IF Archive (the entry will be playable from its IFDB page) or submit it yourself!