Single Choice Jam 2025

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The jam that makes us all talking is back for a third round!

The Single Choice Jam

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The Jam where you only give 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!

Constraints and Rules:

  • There can only be One Choice in the entire entry: only one page (or room) can have more than one option/action the player can click/pick/use.
    • [Hyperlinks/Choice-Based entries] With the exception of the multi-option passage, 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/Stats/etc…) do not count under this rule.
    • [Parser] With the exception of the multi-action room, 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.
  • The Jam is open to 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 should be properly credited.

Entries can be as long or as short as you want, though we recommend you should aim for a 15-30min max gameplay.

Come have some fun with us:

Need some inspiration/example? Check out our previous editions.

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Today is the first day of submissions :partying_face:

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Each year this competition comes along and I am intrigued by its premise. I ask a dumb question, but never quite get a game done. My Neo-Twiny jam entry this year started as my last year’s Single-Choice jam entry that I didn’t finish that I was pulling teeth to get something out of it. It also didn’t end up as a single choice at each step. :_( Currently, I am staying at the Hotel Congress in Tuscon which is supposedly haunted. Last night I was meditating how every clink of the old plumbing could be misinterpreted in different ways at different time scales, so I thought of a game mechanic that could be interesting. ..You have a single rail game, but how long you click the “next” button controls how far you advance along the rail between passages. The difference in the time scales then gives you completely different interpretations of what is happening. So my dumb question for this year is: Would this mechanic work for the single choice jam? Please answer soon – the ghosts want to know.

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That would be a-ok!

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