The Neo-Interactives

a hub for exchanging information and ideas about interactive fiction jams

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Neo Interactives!

The Neo-Interactives is a hub for Interactive Fiction and IF-adjacent jams, moderated by Autumn Chen, Lapin Lunaire Games (Jinx), and Manonamora.

We organise small and unranked game jams throughout the year, each with different constraints, rules, and length!

We welcome any form of IF: from parser, to choice-based, to visual novels, and even kinetic pieces! We do not restrict creators to any program or format, or language. If your entry is interactive and focuses on the text, come submit it! We only ask that you include trigger warnings when relevant.

If you have any questions, shoot us an ask!

Join our Discord! - Join the current Jam!

At the end of each jam*, we will create an IFDB page for every entry. The IFDB, or Interactive Fiction Database, is an IF game information catalogue, creating a historical record of the IF landscape. *Contact the mods for question or if you don't want to be included. BOYG is also excluded.

If you share your submission on Tumblr, tag @neointeractives or tag the relevant jam so we can find you!

List of Jams:

Bare-Bones Jam, where creators must keep the basic UI of their chosen program.

Bring Out Your Ghost, for abandoned or forgotten projects.

Neo Twiny Jam, where creators can only write 500 words.

Single Choice Jam, where creators can only give the player one choice.

And more!

Past Events:

Feb-2024: Smoochie Jam - ongoing

Jan-2024: Recipe Jam - 11 entries (IFDB)

Dec-2023: ShuffleComp - 15 entries (IFDB)

Oct-2023: Bare-Bones Jam - 28 entries (IFDB)

Aug-2023: Bring Out Your Ghost - 35 entries (itch)

Jul-2023: Single Choice Jam - 46 entries (IFDB)

Jun-2023: Neo Twiny Jam - 124 entries (IFDB)

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Neo-Twiny Jam 2026

Neo-Twiny Jam

A game jam from 2026-05-31 to 2026-06-30 hosted by manonamora, Autumn Chen & Lapin Lunaire Games. Create a tiny Interactive Fiction piece in

Returning for a 4th edition!

The Neo-Twiny Jam is an interactive fiction game jam with one primary rule:

Don't write more than 500 words.

Any type of Interactive Fiction is welcome, from any kind of IF system/format, regardless of genre/theme.

Other rules:

Unlike the original Twiny Jam, you can use 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, as long as the word count is respected.

Sounds, graphics and code are not included in the word count.

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

You must credit any asset used.

No AI/LLM generated content, incl. game cover/title card.

No Hate/Spam submissions.

The Neo Twiny Jam will run from June 1st 2026 (3:00 PM PDT) to June 30th 2026 (11:59 PM PDT).

The inspiration for this jam comes from Porpentine's Twiny jam, which ran in 2015. During the original three-week jam, creators were asked to submit a Twine game with no more than 300 words.

As in previous years, we will be matching the number of entries into a donation to an LGBTQ+ charity. This year's chosen organisations include Point of Pride, Campaign for Southern Equality, and Transgender Law Center. Please contact us if you would like to donate as well.

Join the Jam!

We will track entries on Tumblr with the #neotwinyjam, but you can also tag @neointeractives/@neo-twiny-jam!

Join the Neo-Interactive Discord 

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Smoochie Jam!

The returning Valentine's Interactive Fiction Jam!

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

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.

Smoochie Jam

A game jam from 2026-01-31 to 2026-03-01 hosted by manonamora, Lapin Lunaire Games & Autumn Chen. For this Valentine's month, you can help m

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.

Games should not include any generated AI content (incl. cover image/game page). Entries using AI/LLM will be removed.

Assets used must be properly credited.

Spam or hateful content will not be accepted.

Join the Jam!

We will track entries on Tumblr with #smoochiejam, but you can also tag @neointeractives!

Join the Neo-Interactive Discord

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ShuffleComp 2025

ShuffleComp 2025

A game jam from 2025-12-21 to 2026-02-03 hosted by manonamora, Autumn Chen & Lapin Lunaire Games. ShuffleComp 2025 ShuffleComp is a musical

ShuffleComp is a musical interactive fiction competition, first ran in 2014, where you make games based on songs chosen by fellow entrants. It has two phases: first, entrants submit a playlist of 8 songs. Then, playlists will be randomly created from the provided songs and sent to the entrants, and you’ll make games based on these playlists.

How it works:

Sign up for the game jam and/or submit a playlist of up to 8 songs here. This is due by December 15, 2025. You can make games without submitting songs, or submit songs without making games, but it is recommended that you do both. Songs from people not making games will only be used if there are not enough songs otherwise.

By December 20, if you indicated that you're interested in the jam, you'll receive a list of 8 songs by email, randomly selected from other participants' submissions. Now, you'll write a game (or up to 3 games) based on some of these songs. You can submit songs to this jam page.

Games are due by January 19, 2026. After which, you'll be able to vote for the following two weeks.

Rules for games:

Games should be interactive fiction in some way.

Games should be based on at least one of the songs you received, but can use any number of songs. You can interpret “based on a song” however you’d like.

Games should not include any generated AI content.

You can submit up to 3 games, using different songs or the same songs.

Voting will be based on the use of songs and the overall game goodness.

Sign-ups and music submissions

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One Week left!

Only the barest of interface is allowed :D

The Bare-Bones Jam

A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-11-01 hosted by manonamora, Autumn Chen & Lapin Lunaire Games. The Bare-Bones Jam Games Stripped to the B

We will track entries on Tumblr with the #barebonesjam, but you can also tag @neointeractives!

Join the Neo-Interactives Discord 

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Bare-Bones Jam starts today!

Let's make some super bare games :D

No customisation allowed!

The Bare-Bones Jam

A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-11-01 hosted by manonamora, Autumn Chen & Lapin Lunaire Games. The Bare-Bones Jam Games Stripped to the B

We will track entries on Tumblr with the #barebonesjam, but you can also tag @neointeractives!

Join the Neo-Interactives Discord 

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Bare-Bones Jam!

Have you ever wanted to create a game, but felt overwhelmed by the visual aspects? Or wished you didn't need to edit the UI?  This jam is for you!

The Bare-Bones Jam is a month-long game jam (Oct 1st - 31st) for text-based games where you cannot change the formatting of the chosen program. Not only are graphics prohibited, but so is changing the interface or presentation in any way from the engine defaults.

During the jam, the focus is on the text only. After the jam, you can do whatever you like with your game.

This jam was inspired by the Naked Twine Jam from 2014, but it is not restricted to Twine.

The Bare-Bones Jam

A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-11-01 hosted by manonamora, Autumn Chen & Lapin Lunaire Games. The Bare-Bones Jam Games Stripped to the B

Constraints and Rules:

You cannot make changes to the visual of the game, and must keep the basic UI and formatting of the chosen program. [This rule doesn't apply to basic text formatting (italics, bold, underline, etc...), lists and tables.]

Games should not include assets, like images or sound - the focus should be on the text.

Games should not include any generated AI content (incl. Cover Image/Game Page). Entries using AI/LLM will be removed.

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.

The Jam is open to NSFW content, as long as you indicate it in your submission (in the Content Warning of the form).

Spam or hateful content will be removed!

During the duration of the jam and the two weeks following the deadline, the submissions should be free to play.

You can submit up to 3 entries!

Join the Jam!

We will track entries on Tumblr with the #barebonesjam, but you can also tag @neointeractives!

Join the Neo-Interactives Discord 

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Bring Out Your Ghosts

Do you have WIPs that you've put on indefinite hiatus?Projects you've started and then abandoned or forgotten?Then this is the place for you.

The Bring Out Your Ghosts Jam is a place to show off the ghosts of the game development process. Abandoned or forgotten WIPs. Overly ambitious projects that never got off the ground. Notes and ideas for games that never came to be.

The name and timing of the jam is inspired by the Ghost Festival (or Zhongyuanjie) in East Asian tradition, a time when the ghosts of the deceased are said to visit the living. Imagine being visited by the ghosts of dead WIPs. What would they say?

Inspired by the Bring Out Your Dead Jam, hosted by Emily Short.

Rules

Incomplete and abandoned games, ideas, notes, etc. are all welcome.

Projects updated because of this jam are also okay. If you decide to revisit (or finish!) an old abandoned project because of this jam, that's great!

As with the original Bring Out Your Dead Jam, it would be nice if you include some context in the Author's Notes when submitting. How did your project come about? Why was it abandoned or forgotten? What lessons can be learned from the process? This is optional but encouraged :)

While the creators of this jam come from the interactive fiction community, any games, physical games, text, etc. are allowed.

Games should not include any generated AI content (incl. Cover Image/Game Page). Entries using AI/LLM will be removed.

Assets used must be listed and credited.

No hate speech or spam entries.

Limit of 3 submissions per person.

The Jam is open to any language.

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The One Choice...

The Single Choice Jam is now over!

Come see how many choices you have in the submissions:

https://itch.io/jam/single-choice-jam-25/entries

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One week left!

Still time to give just one choice to players :D

Single Choice Jam

A game jam from 2025-07-15 to 2025-08-16 hosted by manonamora, Autumn Chen & Lapin Lunaire Games. The Jam where you give only ONE CHOICE to

We will track entries on Tumblr with the #singlechoicejam, but you can also tag @neointeractives!

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Could you explain the one choice jam? I m a bit confused

Sure thing! For the Single Choice Jam, the player can only make one choice throughout the entire game.

For choice-based IF where you play by clicking links (like Choicescript or most Twine games), only one page can have multiple options to choose from on it. The rest of the pages must only have text and one playable link (like a continue link). For example, you could have a story that goes A -> B -> C, and on C, the player can choose between going to D, E, or F. That choice would be the single choice allowed.

For parser IF where you play by typing commands (like Inform/TADS/Adventuron/etc games), only one room can have multiple actions available to the player, and all story verbs count as an action. For example, you could have one room with exits to the north, east, south, and west. Choosing which direction to go in would be the single choice allowed.

Hope that helps! If not, feel free to send another ask!

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Single Choice Jam starts today!

Come restrict player's choices with us :)

Single Choice Jam

A game jam from 2025-07-15 to 2025-08-16 hosted by manonamora, Autumn Chen & Lapin Lunaire Games. The Jam where you give only ONE CHOICE to

We will track entries on Tumblr with the #singlechoicejam, but you can also tag @neointeractives!

Join the Neo-Interactive Discord

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Single Choice Jam!

The Jam where you give only ONE CHOICE to the player!

The Single Choice Jam is a short unranked jam where there is only one restriction: you can give players only one choice or action in the game!

The rest... is up to you!

Single Choice Jam

A game jam from 2025-07-15 to 2025-08-16 hosted by manonamora, Autumn Chen & Lapin Lunaire Games. The Jam where you give only ONE CHOICE to

Constraints and Rules:

There can only be One Choice in the entire entry: only one page can have more than one option/action the player can pick/use.

With the exception of the multi-option passage (hyperlinks), there can only be one playable link on the page. Non-story passages, such as Title/Landing Pages and Menus (i.e. Settings/Codex/Credits/etc...) do not count under this rule.

With the exception of the multi-action room (parser), there can only be one playable action per coded room. Movement (i.e. N-S-E-W) and Inspection (X, LOOK AT, SEARCH, ...), and other active verbs, all count as ONE action. Non-story verbs, such as HELP, WALKTHROUGH, CREDITS, do not count as an action.

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.

Games should not include any generated AI content (incl. Cover Image/Game Page). Entries using AI/LLM will be removed.

Assets used must be listed and credited.

The Jam is open to NSFW content, as long as you indicate it in your submission.

Spam or hateful content will not be accepted.

During the duration of the jam and the two weeks following the deadline, the submissions should be free to play.

You can submit up to 3 entries!

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

Join the Jam!

We will track entries on Tumblr with the #singlechoicejam, but you can also tag @neointeractives!

Join the Neo-Interactive Discord

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hi, i wanted to ask to make sure, do the characters' names count for the world count? is there an instance they do (like for maybe a chat-sim where you see the username repeated for every message)?

Hi! Characters' names would count in most cases, but only once. For the chat-sim example, it wouldn't count!

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Neo-Twiny Jam 2025

Hi, everyone! Just got done doing my entry for Neo-Twiny 2025~

Go check it out: https://bottlecaprabbitgames.itch.io/a-cup-of-coffee

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…for, bleak as it may be, there is an end to this beginning…

Compendium II is the second chapter of a volume dedicated to stories of the decline. This gilt-golden age of magic and doctrine, empire and war is dying. These things were preordained in premonition long ago and recorded thusly.

Created for the Neo-Twiny Jam (2025), with the stipulation that the game be shorter than 500 words in length, Compendium II is precisely 500 words in length, excluding code.

No generative AI was used in this project or will ever be used in any of my projects. All art and writing was created by a human, by hand. Do not use code from or re-upload this work without permission. Do not distribute, repost, or use this work for the purpose of training generative AI or any other AI training.

Play Compendium II

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Cassandra

A Neo-Twiny Jam game (and for the Decker VN and pink decker jams)

Cassandra by manonamora

Fire rages on.

Fire rages on. Warnings dismissed by thousands. If only they had listen… Would it truly change a thing?

Cassandra is a tiny Interactive Fiction game made in Decker, based on the mythological character.