About
Calling all artists, zinesters, writers, e-lit makers, designers, coders, and creators of all kinds!
Scrollimation Jam invites you to create web-accessible works that either...
- Use scrolling as a creative mechanic or
- Reflect on scrolling as it relates to our modern society — our devices, feeds, interfaces, and gestures.
Whether you love your phone or hate it, are inspired by the millions of cat videos on the web or challenged by the endless sea of content served by the Algorithm, we want to hear from you!
This is an opportunity to hijack the scrolling concept, so often used to create a simple dopamine rush, and bend, question, or recontextualize it in a creative and transformative way.
Make something playful, beautiful, strange, or anything in between, all is welcome!
This jam runs alongside Scrollimation, a curated multimedia anthology. Jam submissions may be considered for inclusion in the publication, but participation in the jam does not require anthology submission.
Rules
Create a piece that does at least one of the following:
- Uses scrolling as a core interaction
- Reflects on scrolling, feeds, interfaces, or digital life
Solo or collaborative entries are welcome.
Open to all experience levels.
Accepted Formats
Submitted works should be accessible via the web and include (but are not limited to):
- HTML / web projects
- Scroll-driven animations or “scrollies”
- Webcomics
- Games
- Zines
- Illustrations
- Video or hybrid media
If it can be shared on the web, it fits!
Tools
You can use any tool. That being said, we recommend:
- Scroll Cinema for scroll-based works
- You can request free access via this signup form or the Scroll Cinema Discord channel
- Twine
- Bitsy
- Custom HTML / JavaScript
- Any publishing, art, or design software
- Any other creative software or engine you’re comfortable with
Judging Criteria
Use of scrolling
How meaningfully the piece engages with scrolling — as an interaction, metaphor, or aspect of digital life and contemporary interfaces
Experience and Flow
How it feels to move through the piece.
Craft (relative to scope)
How well the piece is executed for what it is, whether a web project, zine, poem, game, or anything else.
Entries are not judged on technical complexity or production value.
Example Scrollie Inspiration
If you haven't seen a scrolling movie, aka "scrollie", here are some examples, though it's by no means necessary to make something like this:
Discord
Here's a Discord channel for the jam.
Theme Background
We live in a world dominated by scrolling.
From sleek product pages, to editorial news features, to vibrant social media feeds, our lives are bombarded by infinite streams of hot political takes, inspirational quotes, AI slop, artistic excellence, life updates, and more.
But what if we could harness that energy, invert it… and transform it?
Interpret the theme freely, whether literally, metaphorically, critically, or playfully!