EngineJam 2026
A game jam from 2026-07-14 to 2026-08-24 hosted by manonamora, Autumn Chen & Lapin Lunaire Games. The Engine Jam is a month-long Interactive
The Engine Jam is a month-long Interactive Fiction unranked jam for you to explore a new or unusual engine to create text-based games. As an offshoot of our previous Anti-Productivity mini-jam, the goal of this jam is to try something new!
So, pick up an IF engine you've never used before or a program not meant to create IF... Get set... And GO!
Constraint (pick one):
New-to-you Engine: choose an IF engine you've not used before and create a game!
For example, if you've only used Inform before, maybe try out Ink. Or reversely, if you're a Twine user, why not test out Adventuron? If you don't know where to start, check out a non-exhaustive list of IF engines below!
Non-IF Engine: in the spirit of the Anti-Productivity mini-jam, choose an engine or program that was never meant to create IF games in the first place.
For example, any office suite (Word/Docs), state websites (HTML), quiz/survey systems, etc...
Possible IF softwares:
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.
Possible NON-IF softwares:
Office Suites and Text processors: Microsoft Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Sharepoint, etc.); Google Docs/Sheets/Slides, Google Forms, Maps, etc.; LibreOffice/OpenOffice, etc...; LaTeX...
Static Sites: Raw HTML/CSS (no javascript), Github (presenting your game as a repository), Wordpress, MKDocs, Forums, Carrd
Others:
Jupyter notebooks; R Shiny, Plotly Dash, Tableau; MediaWiki; uQuiz
Contact the organizers if you have other ideas.