Engine Jam 2026

Here’s the latest game jam from the Neo-Interactives!

Deadline for the jam submission

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!

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…

More rules and suggestions for possible engines are on the Engine Jam page on itch.

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This is a great idea, looking forward to seeing what people come up with!

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Why I keep thinking it is about “build your own IF engine”…

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Ooh, seems like a good opportunity to fully try out Loreline.

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