Welcome to Moop! We want to promote open-source in games development by hosting Game Jams. 

PEN x Moop is a collaboration between a new online community forum called 'Paper Empathy Network' (more offline hobby related) and Moop, aka us!

Moop will be a bi-monthly game jam where the limitation is 'open-source', meaning your game has to be made using some open-source!

The theme will be different each time and suggestions are always welcome in the Community tab on itch io, or in our section of the PEN x Moop online forum.

Be it solo developement, in teams, beginners or veteran game devs, everyone is welcome!

You get 2 weeks to work on it, and then 2 weeks for playing everyone else's game submissions and voting. We then take a month off so that people can join other Game Jams on Itch IO or just to have a little rest as a treat lol

RULES:

- Open-source software needs to be used,  it doesn't have to be 100% open source (although that'd be amazing!) but at least some open-source software needs to be used during development (e.g. any open-source game engines (like Godot, Ren'Py, etc) and/or art/modelling programs (like Krita, Blender, etc)).

- No Gen AI is allowed (we want games made with love by real people, it doesn't have to be a massive or fully fledged out AAA game submission, it's ok if it has a few bugs or you couldn't fully finish it on time, it just has to be done by humans).

- Try to keep it generally SFW (general fighting games and horrors are fine but no sexual content, please).

- No discrimination and/or hate speech against any marginilised communities.