WHAT?

A 2 and a bit week game jam in April, for making games using any of the Videotome engines.

THEME? (optional)

"SPECTATOR" - including outsider, witness, voyeur, bystander, watching, stalking, haunting...

VIDEOTOME?

Videotome is a series of small, fairly simple IF/VN engines made by me, Freya. They are:

• Videotome, for linear, no frills text / images / music;
• Videotome ADV, adding a more conventional layout with ignorable choices and branching;
• Super Videotome, for more fully featured and freeform image/canvas use;
• Videotome Heartbreak, adding a stat raising dating sim & storylets structure to the above.

Some further reading on my design thoughts behind these engines can be found in these two blog posts.

WHY?

The last two jams both went well :) And the total number of Videotomes made is sooooooo close to 100 - and might even top that before the jam starts - how exciting!

OKAY. RULES?

• Use one of the Videotome engines above (or a modification of them).
• Adherence to theme is not compulsory - treat it as a prompt or an initial starting idea, or ignore it entirely, up to you!
• This jam is not ranked and not competitive; starting a bit early, resurrecting old ideas etc. is totally OK. I do encourage you not to overwork though; it's 2 weeks for a reason, to not make anyone stress about massive projects.
• As a decent chunk of the existing Videotome userbase makes games featuring NSFW content, these will be allowed and welcomed in submission, so long as clearly tagged as such.
• However, entries with egregiously offensive content are not welcome; when in doubt, if your game features heavy themes that is OK, but if it is promoting bigotry, hate speech, etc then it is not welcome.