Are you just starting out with RPG Maker or are you already familiar with the engine? Do you have trouble finishing your games? Is your project folder full of unfinished games? Do you wish to finally finish a project? Are you looking for a game jam to motivate you to finally finish something? Then this one is for you! Hopefully, at the end of the game jam you will have something playable you can be proud of!

Theme: Heir to the Throne

Bonus Challenges: Unlike the Theme, these are entirely optional. Feel free to do one, two, all of them or ignore them completely.

For this game jam, the optional challenges are the following three:

1 - Runaway Royalty: The protagonist is a prince or a princess. At the start of the game, some kind of event forces them to run from their home.

2 - Be More Responsible: The protagonist learns a lesson about responsibility.

3 - An Important Choice: There's an important choice the player has to make near the end of the game. Depending on what they choose, the final part of the game significantly changes (for example, having to go through a different final dungeon and fight a different final boss depending on their choice), including the ending.

Discord: Here's the link to the Discord server!

Rules:

- You can only start working on the actual game project after the submission period starts, but you can start planning and creating/gathering assets, plugins and other resources before that time.

- You can use whatever assets, resources and scripts/plugins you want, so long as you have the rights to use them, abide by their Terms of Use and give credit.

- Your game must be made in an RPG Maker engine (2000, 2003, XP, VX, VX Ace, MV, MZ, Unite).

- Abide by the EULA of whichever version of RPG Maker you use to make your game.

- Your game must incorporate the Theme in some way,

- Abide by itch.io's Terms of Service.

- There has to be some kind of free version of your game made available for the duration of the both this game jam's submission period and also its rating period, be it a free demo version or the game itself being free for a limited time. This requirement no longer applies after the game jam ends.

- Suggestions: If you use RPG Maker MV or MZ to make your game, try to include a Browser version of your game if you can. It's not a requirement and you don't have to do so, but you will get a lot more people to play your game if it can be played in a browser.