#barebonesjam

Let's make some super bare games :D

No customisation allowed!

We will track entries on Tumblr with the #barebonesjam, but you can also tag @neointeractives!

But anyway—

Here's my entry! I'm the first to submit into the jam help. 😭

A short experience about looking for something.

If there are any bugs or grammar errors, please tell me so I can fix them ASAP.

Make sure to look at the other jam entries too in the coming weeks! Give them all the support and love. >:]

Forever and Ever is a short, interactive horror story written in Ink. Halloween night comes to a close and you're just settling in to get a good night's sleep when your son Lucas lets you know there are monsters in his room. Again. A father's work is never done.

Play the Game | Ko-fi

Happy Friday the 13th and hold on to your butts, folks! My second-ever interactive fiction game is here!!

Forever and Ever is an entrant into the La Petite Mort English division of ECTOCOMP 2023--meaning the game was written and coded in under 4 hours; as well as the Bare-Bones Game Jam--meaning it's published without any alteration or customization of the default UI.

This short, horror story clocks in at about 3,800 words with three possible endings. Hopefully, it's a seasonally appropriate, unsettling tale that leaves you feeling awful and uncomfortable.

As the Eye Can See - A short story about the day before Halloween. Made and written in 4 hours for ECTOCOMP 2024 and Bare-Bones Jam.

Play it here

IFDB - Game - @cyberpunklesbian Note: this was a La Petite Mort entry, and submitted to the Bare-Bones Jam

Summary: ConfigurationUploader is a program for uploading configurations.

When I saw the game pop up on my feed, I honestly thought Autumn had built a new program and had just uploaded a legit but bare documentation for it. But now, this is an actual IF, pure science fiction (I hope...) bundled up in an unusual format.

The whole gameplay feels like going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole (you know the ones, where you open links on the current page into a new tab to read later, because who knows if you'll find them again, and now your browser is lagging and it is 5h later) mixed with an incomplete and obtuse documentation for a program that doesn't exist (at least here) and doesn't seem to have a clear use (by going from the starting page/game blurb).

As you go deeper into the pages, finding that this program was lead by a university professor and eir students (some of which have left the projects in suspicious ways), it is possible to piece the mystery together (or the big picture at least). The implications of what is afoot is quite frightening, and bleak.

Have you ever wanted to create a game, but felt overwhelmed by the visual aspects? Or wished you didn't need to edit the UI?  This jam is for you!

The Bare-Bones Jam is a month-long game jam (Oct 1st - 31st) for text-based games where you cannot change the formatting of the chosen program. Not only are graphics prohibited, but so is changing the interface or presentation in any way from the engine defaults.

During the jam, the focus is on the text only. After the jam, you can do whatever you like with your game.

This jam was inspired by the Naked Twine Jam from 2014, but it is not restricted to Twine.

Constraints and Rules:

You cannot make changes to the visual of the game, and must keep the basic UI and formatting of the chosen program. [This rule doesn't apply to basic text formatting (italics, bold, underline, etc...), lists and tables.]

Games should not include assets, like images or sound - the focus should be on the text.

Games should not include any generated AI content (incl. Cover Image/Game Page). Entries using AI/LLM will be removed.

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 (in the Content Warning of the form).

Spam or hateful content will be removed!

During the duration of the jam and the two weeks following the deadline, the submissions should be free to play.

You can submit up to 3 entries!

Join the Jam!

We will track entries on Tumblr with the #barebonesjam, but you can also tag @neointeractives!

Only the barest of interface is allowed :D

We will track entries on Tumblr with the #barebonesjam, but you can also tag @neointeractives!