A new year brings with it a lot of pressure. Resolutions, failing those resolutions a few weeks later... it's a rough cycle. Let's do something about that!

This jam is all about creating things to encourage people to try new things, stick to their resolutions, or even just learn to relax. Heck, make something that reminds people that time is endless and choosing to start new things on January 1st is no different than starting on May 7th or September 12th. Or a zine about how resolutions suck. Anything to do with the new year will do!

Rules

There are only four rules:

1. You must release your creation during the jam period (from November 26th to December 23rd). Nothing released before November 26th can be entered, even if you made a huge update to it after then but released it before.
2. It has to be a game (video game or analog/tabletop/card/TTRPG game) or a zine. Feel free to take liberties with what a "game" is, but if making a zine, make sure it's something that can be printed and folded into a readable zine. Plain, unfoldable PDFs do not count as zines!
3. It has to be related to the new year. But you have LOTS of room to play with there. It can be about Chinese new year (despite this being December), the ceaseless passing of time, focus on empowering people to grow in the new year, or even encourage people to come up with totally ridiculous resolutions like walking to the moon. You can focus on the weather of the new year, regardless of what that is. Or Janus (who January was named after), or calendars, whatever! 
4. No NSFW (sexually explicit or overly violent) work please (I forgot to include this when I made the jam).

Bundle

We'll be collecting creations after the jam ends to put together a co-op bundle. This will be a pay-what-you-want bundle, so people can get it for $0 if they so choose. Any payments will be equally split amongst the creators, or at least the best I can since itch won't split percentages (like 4.5%). This is by CREATOR, not CREATION: if you enter 5 things, you still get a single share.

If we get more than 50 people to submit things, I will pick 50, so that everyone will earn at least 2%. But our jams generally get 20-25 people anyway :D

You can choose whether you want to be in the bundle or not by entering your email (if you want to be in the bundle) in the submission form or not. If you don't enter your email, you will not be added to the bundle.

Once the bundle is assembled, I'll need to get approval from every creator. This will go on a one-week-at-a-time cycle: I'll reach out and give everyone a week to approve, and whoever doesn't approve will be removed from the bundle and a new one will need to be approved, until everyone approves it within the single week.

Since this jam doesn't end until the 23rd, if it has to be given a second cycle of approval, it won't launch until after 2025 stars. But that's fine - it'll still be early in the new year! 

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