*Austin Walker has not endorsed this jam, and is not affiliated with this jam.*

No GMs, No Settings, No Campaigns.

Also, feel free to use #NoNoNoJam to talk about the jam on Twitter thank ya!

We are interested in making games that have the following qualities:

1. Games that have a tight structure for telling stories about a group of people linked by community or circumstance.
2. Games that guarantee an inevitable end state for any narrative that is generated.
3. Games that begin with worldbuilding and/or character building, but are not overly concerned with front-loading such world and character building.
4. Games that rely heavily on player creativity to fill in the gaps where other, more setting-robust games provide assistance.
5. Games that, in order to allow players to better rely on their own creativity in these moments, consists of prompts, questions and interaction between players on a meta level.
6. Games that encourage or require incorporating and building off the contributions that others have made.
7. Games that delineate who speaks, when, and about what. That adjudicate authorial authority and responsibility in very particular and clearly-defined ways.
8. Games whose resolution systems resolve entire scenes, not individual tasks or stakes. That care about outcomes for the group, not the details of success/failure at individual action or schemes.

What we are attempting to do here is a bit more complex than some of the other jams I've seen, so here's an addendum if you can't write a complete game within the time frame (you likely won't).

1. Submit one phase of the game, be it world building, character creation, a scene resolution system, or anything else.
2. Submit a game with a setting, with a commitment to writing a system-agnostic SRD or such at a later date.
3. Submit an experimental system that delineates how you would adjudicate authorial control in your game.
4. Submit a game about speech, language, journeys, parenting, romance, or other evocative, yet setting-agnostic themes.
5. Submit a system that allows people to build off of each other's characters within a scene in interesting ways.
6. Submit a hack of any of the games that are listed above, or any other game you feel inspired by.

As you can see, there are many ways to participate in the jam. Whatever you do is fine. Let's build out this design space a bit more, and think through these concepts together. Also, feel free to submit something you’re submitting to another jam as well.

That's it. That's the jam. Be kind and respectful in your content, and in your responses to the other participants. Anything that promotes any unbecoming -isms, prisons, or policing will be disqualified.

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*A clarification: this jam is for games that are designed for multiple players. Thank you.*