🌀 BF Jam 2025: Make the Impossible, Playable

Welcome to the BF Jam 2025, where brave souls gather to do the unthinkable: build actual games in the esoteric nightmare known as Brainf*k.

Forget Unity. Forget Unreal. Forget sanity. Here, your toolbox is eight commands, a tape of cells, and sheer determination.

Do you have what it takes to create something playable in a language that was never meant for this?

📜 Rules

1. Language:
   • Your entire game must be in Brainf*k.
   • You may use variants or a custom interpreter, but explain any extensions clearly.
   • The use of the freeboardtortoise online brainf**k game engine is encoraged
2. Originality:
   • Games must be made during the jam (reuse of interpreters/tools is fine).
   • No recycling old BF doodles unless they’re expanded into a game.
3. Submission:
   • Upload a ZIP with ONLY:
     • Source code (.bfi or equivalent).
     • README.md (description, controls, interpreter info).
     • Optional: screenshots/GIFs.
   • If playable in-browser → submit .html build.
   • If command-line only → provide run instructions.
4. Limits:
   • No NSFW/offensive content (keep it fun and chaotic, not gross).
   • Joke submissions are allowed if technically runnable.

🏆 Prizes

This jam is for bragging rights and eternal glory, not money.
But you can still earn shiny titles:

• 🥇 Best Tape Torturer 2025 – most impressive/creative game overall.
• 🎨 Most Creative Chaos 2025  – weirdest yet wonderful design.
• 💀 Most Hours Suffered 2025 – you clearly sacrificed the most sanity.
• 🧠 Certified Esoteric Engineer 2025 – because you survived.

(Winners get digital certificates & badges to flex online.)

🗳️ Voting Format

• Community voting for all awards.
• Voting categories: Creativity, Playability and Madness Factor

📅 Format & Timeline

• Jam length: 7 days (1 week of pure tape-based suffering).
• Voting period: 1 week after submissions close.
• Theme: Cycles

🔧 Tools & Engines

This jam is all about Brainf*k games.

You can:

• Write your own interpreter if you’re a true masochist, OR
• Use the BF Game Engine by FreeboardTortoise (built specifically with this jam in mind).

👉 Using the engine is encouraged — it makes submissions easier to build and easier to play, while still leaving plenty of room for creativity.

Online version link: [https://freeboardtortoise.github.io/brain**k-game-engine(without the *'s)]

Docs for engine: https://github.com/Freeboardtortoise/brainf**k-game-engine without **'s.