You need to incorporate the Theme into your game in some way and before you submit it, you will need to write atleast 1 short sentence about how your game fits the Theme of the game jam. It's completely up to you how you interpret the theme. Feel free to be creative with it.

Theme: Academy of Magic

Bonus Challenges: Unlike the Theme, these are entirely optional. Feel free to do one, two, all of them or ignore them completely.

For this game jam, the optional challenges are the following three:

1 - Student or Teacher: The protagonist is either a student or a teacher at an academy of magic.

2 - Timetable: Each in-game day is split into several parts during which the player is able to attend certain events or perform set activities, such as attending or teaching classes, studying, going shopping, meeting with friends and allies etc.

3 - Dorm Room: The protagonist has some kind of dwelling that the player can customize.