For this Valentine's month,
you can help make romance happen with a smooch!

The Smoochie Jam is a month-long unranked jam for interactive fiction about kisses, love, and romance. 

Games should be about romance, kissing, or the deliberate subversion thereof. Here is an optional list of story ideas and concepts:

♡ first kiss, last kiss
♡ kissing in the rain
♡ kiss of life (or kiss of death)
♡ sealed with a kiss
♡ kiss with a fist
♡ spaghetti kiss

Looking for more kissing tropes? Check this page!

This jam exists in a deep and profoundly charged intimate rivalry with the Anti-Romance Jam. The name and concept of this jam were inspired by the original SmoochieComp in 2001, hosted by Emily Short.

Constraints and Rules:

• Your Entry should relate to romance, love, kisses, or the deliberate subversion thereof.
• 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 maximum length of 15-30 minutes.
• Entries can have NSFW content, as long as you indicate it in your submission.
• Entries should not include any generated AI content.
• Spam or hateful content will not be accepted.
• During the duration of the jam and the two weeks following the deadline, the submissions should be free to play.

Possible programs to create Interactive Fiction:

• Primarily hypertext/choice-based: Twine,  Ink, ChoiceScript, Dendry
• Primarily parser/free-text 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!