🎮 StoryCode Jam: A Beginner-Friendly Text Adventure Challenge 📖
Do you love storytelling and coding? This is your chance to create a **text-based adventure**, even if you’ve never made a game before!
📜 What is StoryCode Jam?
This game jam is all about **interactive fiction and text-based games**! Whether you use **Twine, Python, AdventureLib, Ink, Ren'Py**, or something entirely new, your mission is to craft a **fun, engaging, and creative story** that players can experience through text.
🏴☠️ Theme: "Lost & Found" 🔍
In this jam, your game must revolve around something **lost... and found.** Will it be a **missing treasure, a forgotten memory, a stolen artifact,** or something stranger?
💡 Theme Inspiration
- 🗺️ A lost treasure waiting to be uncovered.
- 🧠 A character with no memory trying to find out who they are.
- 🔑 A key to a mystery that was lost… but maybe shouldn’t have been found.
- 🚀 A lost spaceship sending distress signals from an unknown location.
- 📜 A letter from the past that arrives in the wrong hands.
- 🌎 A world where things disappear—and one day, it’s **you.**
📝 Example Story Prompts
- 📖 "You wake up in a strange town with no memory. All you have is a note that says, 'Find the lighthouse before it's too late.'"
- 🔦 "Every day, something disappears from the world. One morning, you wake up and realize… your **name** is gone."
- 🎩 "You find a dusty, locked journal in an abandoned bookstore. The first page reads: 'Whoever finds this, I need your help…'"
- 🕵️ "You’re a detective in a city where lost objects whisper secrets—one day, a missing umbrella tells you something shocking."
🔥 Ready to Write the Ultimate Lost & Found Adventure? 🔥
🎯 Rules & Requirements
- ✅ Your game must be **text-based** (interactive fiction, text adventure, or narrative-driven game).
- ✅ You can use **any tool** (Python, Twine, Ink, Ren'Py, or a custom engine).
- ✅ **Solo or team submissions** are allowed.
- ✅ The game must be **playable in a browser or downloadable**.
- ✅ Provide a **description and controls** so players know how to play.
🚀 Important Dates
- 🕹 Jam Starts: March 12, 2025
- ⏳ Submission Deadline: March 21, 2025
- 🏆 Voting Ends: April 2, 2025
🗳️ How Voting Works
Submissions will be ranked based on **four fun categories**:
- 📝 Story & Writing: How engaging is your narrative?
- 🎮 Gameplay & Interactivity: Can players shape the story?
- 💡 Creativity & Originality: Is your game fresh and exciting?
- 🌱 Beginner-Friendliness: Fun for all experience levels!
🔧 Submission Details
When submitting, please include:
- 🖥 **What tool you used** (Python, Twine, Ren’Py, etc.)
- 🤝 **Did you work solo or in a team?**
- 🎮 **Is this your first game jam?**
📢 Join the Fun!
Use the hashtag #StoryCodeJam on social media to share your progress and connect with fellow devs!
🔥 Ready to Create Your First Text Adventure? 🔥
Let’s make some awesome stories together! 🚀