#interact-if game jam

[twinegardening]

Rougi by Lapin Lunaire Games

The Palais Garnier, home to the renowned Paris Opéra Ballet, is set to premiere Les Souliers Rouges, a ballet whose very name is rumored to carry a formidable curse. As the premiere draws ever nearer, a series of inexplicable incidents in the opera house stir up a maelstrom of terror and intrigue. With whispers of illicit affairs, sinister motives, and hauntings around every corner, tensions—and the stakes—have never been higher. Here, everyone has a part to play…and everyone is playing a part.

Delve through rumour and reason into the glittering Belle Époque world of the Paris Opéra Ballet and unravel what’s really going on in the wings. After all, the show must go on…

#interactive fiction #twine gardening #rougi #lapin lunaire games #interact-if game jam

[kithj]

Announcing the Queer Vampire IF Jam!

This is a month-long game jam that will run from January 10 - February 20th. The goal of this jam is to create more interactive fiction games about queer vampires, focusing both on queer relationships and queer experiences as told through a vampiric narrative.

JAM RULES:

Your project must focus on queer characters and vampires. Queer relationships, romantic or platonic, as well as other queer experiences, whether gay, lesbian, bisexual, ace, aro, trans and nonbinary - this is an inclusive jam. 

You can write from a human or vampire perspective (or both!)

This jam will accept any medium, so long as the work is an Interactive Fiction.

This jam will accept adult content as well as games covering heavy & uncomfortable topics, but please be sure to properly list trigger warnings either in-game or on the game page.

Entries that promote any kind of bigotry will not be accepted.

Games should not include any AI generated content.

You can submit as many entries as you'd like.

You are allowed to start working on your project early! That's why I'm announcing it now. This jam is unranked and it's not a contest, this is just for fun.

Submissions open midnight, January 10th EST. They'll close February 20th at 11:59pm EST.

Join the jam here!

🩸​Get dark and bloody and nasty.​🩸​

hosted by me, @nyehilismwriting, @attollogame

#interactive fiction #games #itch.io #game jam #umm idk. how to tag this #vampjamp #is the official jam hashtag tho none of us even use twitter but. vampjamp!

[lapinlunaire-games]

Links...buttons...action!

Pellicule is a minimalist UI template for use with Twine's Sugarcube format, inspired by professional screenplay formatting and analog photography.

Use built-in widgets to format passage text like a script, classic snail mail letters, or take advantage of a crisp, clean layout to comfortably display dense prose. Showcase your writing with bold, sophisticated display themes or create your own with custom colors.

Features:

Crisp minimalist design

Light/dark display themes

Custom plug-and-play widgets to format screenplay and letter essentials

Pre-styled template options for choice links and buttons

Built-in keybinds to toggle menu & close dialogs

Responsive design for desktop, tablets, and mobile devices

Annotated passages, stylesheet, and JavaScript for plug-and-play convenience

This template is free to use! Comes with detailed instructions on how to use the built-in widgets and commented code, ready for your story!

#twine template #template #psst if you're thinking about joining the Dialogue Jam... #I made the template v plug-n-play wink-wonk ;) #twine games #interactive fiction #indie game dev #game assets #lapinlunaire.pellicule #baby's first template! hehe #twine game

[ethersic]

PLAY HERE

17+ Through Death We Become — An interactive fiction story about grief. [Submission to Queer Vampire Jam — Other Entries]

Years ago, your life was taken from you, stolen by the teeth of a vampire. For a long time, anger at losing all you were had festered inside, building and boiling, threatening to pour out, but you had maintained it.

Until you heard that the vampire who turned you had shown up in some state, and it all came rushing forth.

Not wanting to lose your chance at revenge, you hunt him down, but before you get to him, you wind up in a random town with a stranger who wants to help you.

7.5k words

1 human (non-binary) love interest

Lots of angst

#interactive fiction #game jam #vampjamp #through death we become #twine #twine game #twine if #itch.io #if wip #my game

[manonamora-if]

Interactive Fiction Showcase 2024

Showcase your Game!

The Interactive Fiction Showcase is a year-long "jam" meant to collect and showcase Interactive Fiction games completed in 2024, and show how diverse the Interactive Fiction scene is! And maybe: build more bridges between the community, help people finding their new favourite game/author...

Whether it is long or short, an easy adventure or a complicated puzzle, a strange experiment, a quick creation, or a years-in-the-making game, come show off what you've made!

Are you more of a player? Then, come check this page regularly for new submissions! Maybe leave a rating or a comment too :)

This is an unranked event.

Rules:

The Showcase is open to IF games in all of its forms: kinetic, choice-based, hyperlinks, parser, visual novels... As long as it is Interactive Fiction (there is interactivity and the focus of the game is on the text), the entry will be accepted.

The Showcase is open to IF games in any language.

Entries must be playable and in its complete form when submitted. Completed games in 2024, whose demo was previously public, are welcome. Games submitted to other events (jams/competitions) are welcome.

Entries can include NSFW content, as long as it is indicated in the submission.

Entries should not include any generated AI content - or it will be removed.

Spam or hateful content will be removed.

Creating Interactive Fiction:

Interactive Fiction is a text-based narrative medium, where players can interact with the story in some fashion (input commands, click a link/button, press key). There are many different ways of creating IF, and many different programs to do so. You can find some mentioned below:

Primarily HyperText/Choice-Based: Twine,  Ink, ChoiceScript, Dendry

Primarily Parser/Input: Inform 6, Inform 7, PunyInform, Adventuron, ADRIFT

Other: Bitsy, Binksi, Ren'Py

and many more can be found listed in the IF Wiki.

If you are looking for other Interactive Fiction Events, discuss general IF, or ask question, you can visit the IntFiction Forum. (we also have monthly IF events over at @neointeractives)

Interactive Fiction Database and Archive:

IFDB

The IFDB, or Interactive Fiction Database, is an IF game information catalogue, creating a historical record of the IF landscape. The database is a community project, updated by its members, by adding titles to the directory, ratings games, writing reviews... If a listing has not yet been created for your game, please consider making one!

IF Archive

The IF Archive is an archive of Interactive Fiction games, and IF-related elements (walkthroughs, interpreters, articles, collections...). The Archive’s mission is to preserve the history and practice of interactive fiction and make it freely available to the public. If you wish to, you can upload a copy of your game to the IFArchive, through the IFDB listing of your game (recommended) or directly to the archive.

The IFDB and IFArchive, as well as the IntFiction Forum and Twine, are managed by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation. These programs are funded through individual donations.

Visual Novel Database

The VNDB, or Visual Novel Database, is a community project that strives to be a comprehensive database for information about visual novels. The database is updated by its members, by adding titles to the directory, ratings games, writing reviews... If a listing has not yet been created for your visual novel, please consider making one!

#interactive fiction showcase #itch io #interactive games #interactive fiction #interactive story #visual novel #IF #VN #IFDB #IFArhive #Sidenote: the real reason was wanting to better keep up with independent releases #(outside of competition/jams) and itch is not great at finding stuff…

[zorlok-if]

Still can't find a working link for Goncharov (1973), but...

Creating Goncharov is live on Itch.io!

Everyone knows Goncharov. Martin Scorsese's 1973 film is a cult classic, a true masterpiece of cinema. To celebrate its upcoming 50th anniversary, you, an office drone working at a major media corporation, have to create a pitch for a 2023 remake. It's an amazing opportunity that could launch your career. There's just one problem.

You haven't seen Goncharov.

Unable to turn down your corporate overlords, you and an indecisive colleague throw together a story based solely on information you can quickly find or invent.

How will you reimagine the greatest mafia movie ever made and what will you do to turn your ideas into reality?

Creating Goncharov is a surreal interactive fiction game created for Autumn Chen's Goncharov game jam. This game was written and coded by Albie. For more games by Albie, click here.

Play it here!

CW: Unreality and brief descriptions of smoking, violence, and death

Featuring the song "Main Theme from Goncharov" by @caramiaaddio. Original poster by @beelzeebub. Game screenshots below the cut.

Check out the other games made for the game jam here.

Goncharov is a fake film. Read more on it here.

#goncharov #martin scorsese #interactive fiction #surreal #lgbtq #fanfic #indie game #game dev #goncharov 1973 #twine game #game jam #comedy #goncharov game #metafiction #goncharov meta #creating goncharov #unreality #cw unreality

[iamnowhere-if]

I am Now Here // To Nowhere

I am Now Here // To Nowhere is an in-development Sugarcube Twine Interactive Fiction written for the Smoochie Jam 2024.

You are a cowboy in the post-apocalypse, tasked with the important job to deliver the mail across the ice-sheets and endless polar desert of a frozen earth. Following the shortwave radio signals of forgotten towns, and the occasional helpful traveler, you and your partner navigate this wasteland for a hope of humanity at dawn.

Features + Semi-Customizable Player Character; appearance, pronouns, gender, sexuality. Play as a middle-aged person navigating a world you no longer recognise. + A singular, established romantic relationship with your pardner. + A focus on building platonic and professional relationships with others; finding that balance between work and self in a world that no longer has the luxury to separate each. + Name your horse.

Characters

Intros

Davi | Your partner in life and in the wasteland amab . they/he 47 . 5'8" | 173cm

Cinta | A familiar scavenger afab . she/her 52 . 5'9" | 178cm

#interactive fiction #if game #if intro #interactive game #twine game #interactive novel #current wip #post-apocalyptic #romance #smoochie jam #i am now here // to nowhere

[amaregames]

Announcing the Amare Games Festival 2024

Amare Games Festival 2024

Join us in April for the 2024 Amare Games Festival, a celebration of love and diversity in story-focused games!

For this festival we invite you to create or update a game that you believe falls under the Amare Genre tag!

What is Amare?

Why a festival?

Jams are an awesome way to get the creative juices flowing and challenge yourself to create a game in a short amount of time. However, there are already a lot of amazing projects in progress, so it's important to celebrate those and give people the opportunity to focus on setting and achieving goals with their existing projects as well.

Examples of Submissions

A new game.

A new demo or Vertical slice.

A new chapter update to an existing game.

Adding new features or content to an existing game.

The festival has fairly relaxed rules, but in general, we would like all participants to keep these in mind:

Rules:

You must Release or Update during the festival period. Work can be commenced before the start of the festival.

Please clearly label demos or first episodes as such. - This is to help us organise the entries

Please clearly state the exact update or new content that was added during the festival.

Submissions can be Free or Commercial.

NSFW must be properly labelled, but is fine as long as it adheres to Itch.io's TOS

No hate speech, (i.e. speech that promotes hatred, violence or discrimination against groups of people based on ethnicity, religion, gender, age, disability or sexual orientation.) or content that is patently offensive or intended to shock or disgust viewers.

Content Warnings are needed (Here is a link to help you with those if you need it!)

We currently do not support AI-generated games or games that make use of generative AI writing and art. Until legislation is put in place to ensure ethical training models that respect artist and creator copyright and regulate transparency on the use of AI in creative content, we will not allow the submission of games that utilise generative AI.

We kindly ask that you tag your game with the 'Amare' tag here on itch.io. This will ensure people who are watching the tag instead of just the jam page will see your game.

Join the discord to find others who are looking for festival partners, and to talk with other Amare Devs!

Sign up for the Festival on the Amare Games Festival Itch Page.

#Amare Games festival #Amare Game #Otome Game #Diverse Games #LGBTQA+ Games #Visual Novel #interactive fiction #text-based game #Romance Game #Game Jam #indie dev #Amare #Otome #indie game

[neointeractives]

Smoochie Jam!

A Valentine's Interactive Fiction Jam

For this Valentine's month, you can help make romance happen with a smooch!

The Smoochie Jam is a month-long unranked jam all about kisses, real or imagined, love and romance.  The name and concept of this jam were inspired the original SmoochieComp in 2001, hosted by Emily Short.

Games should be about romance, kissing, or the deliberate subversion thereof. Here is an optional list of story ideas and concepts:

♡ first kiss, last kiss ♡ kissing in the rain ♡ kiss of life (or kiss of death) ♡ sealed with a kiss ♡ kiss with a fist ♡ spaghetti kiss

Constraints and Rules:

Your Entry should relate to romance, love, kisses, or the deliberate subversion thereof.

The Jam is open to any program/medium, as long as the piece can be considered Interactive Fiction (i.e. the game is interactive, and its focus is on the text).

The Jam is open to any language.

You can submit up to 3 entries!

You should aim for a 15-30min maximum gameplay.

Entries can have NSFW content, as long as you indicate it in your submission.

Entries should not include any generated AI content.

Spam or hateful content will not be accepted.

Join the Neo-Interactive Discord 

#smoochiejam #neointeractives #interactive fiction #game jam #itch jam #itch.io #gamedev #game submission #jam #unranked

[kinglyqueenly]

Who said the apocalypse couldn’t be fun?

DOOMSDATE: I Accidentally Summoned The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse And Now They Want To DATE Me??? is a short visual novel about getting to start the apocalypse alongside the four horsemen. You know, the ones from the Bible.

Get to know each of them, and choose who you want to spend your doomsday with now!

A kind of weird, not-quite-dating sim from Stratoswing (StormCat, squazz13, zephyreds). Play now on itch.io!

Made for the PIGSquad Narrative Summer Slow Jam.

#visual novel #indie game #vn #indie dev #interactive fiction #if #comedy #funny #summer slow jam #game jam #game dev #game development #love 2d #love2d #photoshop #portland indie game squad #please play our game its very silly and fun #mac #windows #web #all three builds! #woo!

[twinegardening]

the hanging heart by raindev

The hungering tree stands tall on the hill beyond the village.

it is a beautiful but dangerous, almost malicious thing. it rises high, trunk white as snow, leaves a mix of gold and crimson. no one dares to approach it, not anymore - too many lost their minds to its vicious pull, but none can resist casting a quick glance, admiring its vibrancy against the dead sky or even coveting the shimmering heart hanging from its lower branches. you most of all.

in a world where people wear their glimmering hearts, sources of power and magic, in bracelets and in chains around their necks, you have none. your chest is empty like theirs, but you have no heart to call your our own. you don’t know - or don’t remember - why, which isn’t surprising; the last years are foggy for many, since the war of the angels ended and the world, shattered and hurting, started healing.

for a heartless being like you, nothing is as tempting as the hanging heart on the branches of the hungering tree.

but claiming it as your own might be even more dangerous than you thought. something watches from amidst the tree’s leaves and some villagers might know more than they let on - about you, about the tree, and about the war that ravaged the world.

you might get more than you bargained for.

#interactive fiction #twine gardening #the hanging heart #add to ifdb #interact-if game jam #this game ranked 1st in the interact-if game jam #horror #to play

[faedrian]

Itch.io

What's this?

Summers with the Sea King is a short interactive story created in one month (a lot less, honestly) for the ShuffleComp 2023 game jam.

It's a summer romance about the main character and a boy named Caspian, told in the past tense by a narrator in the present. It's a story about endings, and wishing the end would never come.

Features:

First-person POV

Nameable MC

UI that changes with MC's attitude

Just one stat

Four endings

Approx. 10k words

Bug-fixing patch to come after the judging period has ended.

#my first ever game jam project #so proud of myself for finishing #looking forward to updating my main project after this #interactive fiction #if #SwtSK

[paw-prints-vn]

Stumped and searching for the perfect premise, you stumble upon a lone library and the cat people living within.

In Paw Prints you play as an aspiring writer who turns to their dreams for ideas. With only 2 weeks left and a completely blank script, will you make it in time to join the contest and get published?

Paw Prints is a quick and easy read. Enjoy the winter vibes, and embrace the nonsensical yet inspiring nature of your dreaming mind.

~11,000 words

2 endings

3 cat-tastic characters who only want what's best for you

Mad Libs minigame

Your nameable purr-fect pet cat (who also wants to help)

Play it here!

This project was made for Winter Visual Novel Jam 2023

#if #interactive fiction #visual novel #renpy #renpy visual novel #Winter Visual Novel Jam 2023 #if game #intro post #no longer a wip YAY

[studioghostlegs]

"With every wave, a new adventure..."🌊

With four unique endings, Pearlglow Cafe: Sweet Crumb Kisses is a cozy otome visual novel about...

🌞New beginnings

🌞Gentle romances

🌞Delectably sweet treats

✨ PLAY IT NOW✨

#oelvn #visual novel #interactive fiction #otome #otome game #cozy games #pearlglow cafe #cozy #fantasy romance #dating sim #indie otome #otome guys #otome jam #english otome #indie dev #game release

[manonamora-if]

Eir life is slipping away. Ey is forever stuck on this couch, flipping through the channels. But Alex's life will never be the same after tonight. A chance encounter, or a surreal experience, will push em to have tea with a particular vampire... Or will ey?

Teatime with a Vampire is a semi-horror semi-surreal interactive story made in Twine. It was made for the Queer Vampire Jam and Smoochie Jam.

Features:

20k+ words

13~ endings

Mobile Accessible

Content Warnings:

NSFW passages (heavy makeout scenes)

Depiction or mention of: abuse, trauma, depression, prejudices, disgusting food, nausea, vomit

Flickering elements animation

PLAY THE GAME | RATE ON ITCH | REVIEW ON IFBD | 

#teatime with a vampire #interactive fiction #twine game #queer vampire jam #smoochie jam #I need to fix some UI stuff tho #and add more settings #but the game is playable~!

[the-kingshound]

CINDERELLA - happily ever after is my entry for the Anti-Romance Jam.

Following the lyrics of Labour (Paris Paloma), it explores the happily ever after of Cinderella, ten years after she became Queen. Or, rather, how little things have changed.

Status: completed

Length: 1.5k words

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported and encouraged me in times of need.❤

#anti-romance jam #interactive fiction #twine game #completed game