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!

So, pick up an IF engine you've never used before or a program not meant to create IF... Get set... And GO!

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...

Possible IF softwares:

Primarily HyperText/Choice-Based: Twine,  Ink, ChoiceScript, Dendry

Primarily Parser/Input: Inform 6, Inform 7, PunyInform, Adventuron, ADRIFT

Other: Bitsy, Binksi, Ren'Py

and many more can be found listed in the IF Wiki.

Possible NON-IF softwares:

Office Suites and Text processors: Microsoft Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Sharepoint, etc.); Google Docs/Sheets/Slides, Google Forms, Maps, etc.; LibreOffice/OpenOffice, etc...;  LaTeX...

Static Sites: Raw HTML/CSS (no javascript),  Github (presenting your game as a repository),  Wordpress, MKDocs, Forums, Carrd

Others: 

Jupyter notebooks; R Shiny, Plotly Dash, Tableau; MediaWiki; uQuiz