Weekly Roundup, 23 August 2025
Cross-posted to my Neocities site.
Competition/Event News
IF Jams
- The Summer 2025 Narrat Jam has ended with 9 entries.
Other Jams
Jams that aren’t IF-specific, but are IF-friendly
- The 2025 Yaoi Game Jam is open to submissions until 2025-09-15T13:59:00Z.
- The LITHOBREAKERS Jam 03-World Wide Weird has released 11 new games, including IF and VNs.
Publications & Posts
- The latest issue of the fortnightly Amare News Bulletin is out now.
- Wondering what amare is? Read this post!
- Drew Cook’s series on Bee by Emily Short has resumed.
Other
- Another batch of 10 Narrascope videos has dropped on the IFTF Youtube channel.
Spotlight On...
A section for things that aren’t necessarily new, but are worth calling attention to!
Ink Resources
Ink is a “narrative scripting language for games” that can be plugged into non-IF works, but you can also just use it on its own to write IF! Here are some handy tools for writing IF with Ink:
- The Ink IF Story Template by Rémy Vim is a Twine-like Ink template that lets you add multiple save slots, static pages, media, and more to your Ink games.
- The Basic Ink Template by alyshkalia (that’s me!) includes commented CSS so you can easily customize the look of your Ink IF works.
- The Inkberry previewer tool by Daniel Wittgenstein lets you see how your changes will look in your finished game as you make them. (I’ve tested it out and it works great!)
- The Simple Ink Tester by Daniel Wittgenstein will run through your game picking choices at random so you can make sure there aren’t any dead ends or other issues.
That’s what I’ve got for now! If you have any corrections or want to share anything relevant from this past week that I missed, please DM me! And as always, feel free to DM tips/suggestions for next week. 