Smoochie Jam!
The returning Valentine's Interactive Fiction Jam!
For this Valentine's month, you can help make romance happen with a smooch!
Smoochie Jam is a month-long unranked jam all about kisses, real or imagined, love and romance. The name and concept of this jam were inspired the original SmoochieComp in 2001, hosted by Emily Short.
A game jam from 2026-01-31 to 2026-03-01 hosted by manonamora, Lapin Lunaire Games & Autumn Chen. For this Valentine's month, you can help m
Games should be about romance, kissing, or the deliberate subversion thereof. Here is an optional list of story ideas and concepts:
♡ first kiss, last kiss ♡ kissing in the rain ♡ kiss of life (or kiss of death) ♡ sealed with a kiss ♡ kiss with a fist ♡ spaghetti kiss
Constraints and Rules:
Your Entry should relate to romance, love, kisses, or the deliberate subversion thereof.
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.
You can submit up to 3 entries!
You should aim for a 15-30min maximum gameplay.
Entries can have 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 used must be properly credited.
Spam or hateful content will not be accepted.
Join the Jam!
We will track entries on Tumblr with #smoochiejam, but you can also tag @neointeractives!
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