This Island Comes with me
is a beginner-friendly Jam for making and publishing (TT)RPG & Storytelling Games (including journaling)
For whom is this for?
This Island Comes with me Jam is meant for everyone who wants to participate! This can be your first jam, your 1000th jam, or your last jam. You can be a beginning jammer or a veteran jammer. You can be a starting writer, artist, game designer, or a person who has published this and that here and there. I really honestly do mean, everyone who wants to participate, can participate!
For what kind of material is this?
This Island Comes with me Jam is a jam meant for making and publishing (Tabletop) Role-Playing Games & Storytelling Games, including journaling games. So your submission(s) can be in many formats.
Your submission can be in any digital form that Itch.io supports. It can be a tabletop RPG-styled digital game or it can be a concrete tabletop roleplaying game played with pen & paper. Your game can be a storytelling game in your preferred format. Your game can be a card game or a board game. It can be a dice game. It can be Live Action Role-Playing rules or LARP adventure. Or it can be a web-based story and adventure game. Your game can be in a fanzine format. Your game can be a journaling game. Your game can be a solo game, a 1+1 game, a 1 vs 1, or a group-play game.
It doesn't even have to be a game per se. It can be an adventure supplement or a module for an existing game. Or it can be an art pack for gamers or game publishers. The material you submit to this jam can be a thematical guide for LARPing. Or your music soundtrack for use in playing sessions.
Your material can be a Work In Progress and You can update it while jamming, or even after the jam. Your submitted material can be a first draft or an early sketch. It can be a test file or a playtest. Or a DEMO. It can be an SRD.
Is there a certain theme and how can I interpret it?
This Island Comes with me Jam carries proudly its theme, openly, on its name. The theme is: "This Island Comes with me". Or if You like the theme in a briefer form: "This Island". Or just simply "The Island". It can be a real place where You have been and have nice memories. Or it can be a fantasy island that exists only in your imagination. Or in a shared experience at a gaming table. Or something in between, or some kind of a mix of all those. Or maybe it is not exactly an island at all. The Island is actually some kind of haven. A good fond memory that soothes You. A portal in form of a painting of an island. So the Island can be many things. It can be a literal island. Or it can be a metaphorical island. Or some kind of figurative concept. After all, it is Your Island. The Island that comes with You. So let Your Island be Anything You want or need it to be. Take it, use it, mold it and interpret it as You want.
Why does this Jam exist?
Because I strongly feel there is a real need for it. The whole point of this jam is to be able to offer a theme (check it above), time (check below), and a virtual place (Itch.io and this Jam) to get myself & I, You and yourself, and us all in this jam, to do, finish and publish something... like anything. :-) And to have fun while at it.
Your material can be fun, quirky, perky, sad, glorious, weird, odd, cool, witty, clip & paste, click & paste, totally full of outsider and misfit experiences, it can be Queer, can be LbthgiqaT+, can be about AD(H)D experiences, can be about Autistic spectrum, can be about living with disabilities, on poverty, on mental health, on health issues, on Love and Loving, on Loneliness, On Discrimination... or a fantastic fantasy trip about trans wizard lizard mutant kids on a field trip of their lives. So all I am saying is don't let your or anyone else's imagination be a restrictive element. Let your mind, fantasies, thoughts, imaginations, and everything move, jump, run, fly and crawl FREE!
As a game jam curator, I am very open to many kinds of submissions. If You feel, at all, that your material is meant for the jam, then it is and I suggest You submit it. And then tell about it to us, your fellow jammers. I always love to hear and read about the thoughts and ideas of other people who make games and gaming material.
When can I send my submission for the jam?
Starting time for your submissions 2023-02-03 18:00:00
Ending time, the Deadline for submitting your submissions is 2023-03-08 at 13:00:00
MORE INFO:
https://itch.io/jam/this-island-comes-with-me-jam
https://itch.io/t/2625424/this-island-comes-with-me-jam#post-7243582
