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“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” — Robert Green Ingersoll
TL;DR: This is a jam about celebrating hope, community, sustainability, and human kindness. The first step to radical change is dreaming of it, and in this jam, your task is to do just that. Create an analog TTRPG game, supplement, hack, subclass, asset, module, etc. that looks towards a hopeful future, and together, we can bundle those dreams and turn them into funds for Honor The Earth. Join our Discord Server!
The theme of this game jam is "hopeful futures." As we face changing climates, both ecological and geopolitical, it's no shock that so many of our narratives end in apocalypse. Global colonial capitalism has grown so impenetrable that now our art reflects a feeling of perpetual helplessness. It's heart-wrenching to feel unable to curb our nations' carbon footprints, affinities for nuclear weaponry, and the deconstruction of diverse communities. And we feel that all the time.
But this jam is not about helplessness. It's about hope.
Hopepunk, solarpunk, and similar genres are a reflection of a collective rebellion against the notion that people are inherently bad. It rejects the idea that the only happy ending for this planet is one in which we've been removed from the story, and instead, it believes in our ability to stop the trolley. Furthermore:
And it's right. The only way to stop the trolley is to stop the trolley.
So, really, this game jam is asking you to love yourself, the Earth, and its inhabitants hard enough to believe some combination of the three can coexist in harmony until the stars burn out. It's about social sustainability just as much as it is about ecological sustainability. If the question is "Will everything really be okay?" then, despite what you've been led to believe, your answer for this game jam should be "Yes, and here's how!"
Blanket statement: Probably.
I don't think it's up to me or anyone else to decide what the "correct" world is for you to imagine, or even how it should translate to tabletop games. All it has to be is hopeful in some way! This prompt is vague because hope is also vague. Follow where it takes you and make something that gives you hope.
Here is an incomplete list of hopes to help guide you in your hoping:
When submitting, you have the option to opt in to having your paid submission included in the upcoming Hope Jam Bundle. 50% of the proceeds from this bundle will go towards Honor The Earth, and the rest will be split evenly between the developers. If you would like to increase your contribution to 100%, send me an email at meangreenpress@gmail.com or message _natenate on Discord!
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