13 barn owls in a trenchcoat<p>Look at this extremely cool game jam that's ongoing with plenty of time still left:</p><p>Narrative Alchemy Jam 2025<br><a href="https://itch.io/jam/narrative-alchemy-jam-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itch.io/jam/narrative-alchemy-</span><span class="invisible">jam-2025</span></a></p><p>*This is a jam for transformative narrative games of all kinds. It will be judged by me (Chance). Since I prefer to cultivate a collaborative rather than a competitive environment, and since judging is often highly subjective, I have chosen to use the word "Favorite" rather than "Best" for the award categories:</p><p>Favorite Educational Game - Open to educators and non-educators, as long as your game teaches something intended to be useful for players' personal growth or learning.</p><p>Favorite Therapeutic Game - Please enter only if you're a therapist, social worker, psychologist, counselor, life coach, neurodiversity researcher, etc. Games about therapy or therapeutic topics are allowed in other categories; this category is specifically for games intended for use as part of a therapy session.</p><p>Favorite Spiritual or Religious Game - You don't need to be clergy to submit to this category. Religious fundamentalists, including militant atheists, are not welcome.</p><p>Favorite Recreational Game - This is for games primarily intended to be fun to play, while also exploring a thought-provoking or emotionally resonant theme / genre.</p><p>Favorite Serious Game - This is for games intended to be thought-provoking, emotionally intense, or culturally important, but not necessarily fun or light-hearted.</p><p>Entering multiple categories is allowed, as long as it makes sense for your game. The only two categories that are mutually exclusive are "Favorite Recreational Game" and "Favorite Serious Game".</p><p>Since I'm a TTRPG and LARP designer with academic training in transformative role-playing game design, this jam is primarily geared toward analog, physical games. But if you're a CRPG or visual novel designer with an idea that fits, go for it! Some of my favorite transformative narrative games are computer games (e.g. The Longest Journey, The Talos Principle, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Disco Elysium).*</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/GameJam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GameJam</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/narrativeGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>narrativeGames</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/TTRPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TTRPG</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CRPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CRPG</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/VisualNovel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VisualNovel</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/transformativeGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transformativeGames</span></a></p>