March 15, 2025: Imaginary Cards Jam On Itch.Io

When you're sifting through your TCG collection, do you ever find a card that you don't recognize? An artifact from a totally unfamiliar game, maybe one that doesn't exist in this reality?

. . . No? Just me, then?

If you would like an excuse to create such an artifact, look no further than the Imaginary Cards Jam on itch.io, with submissions open through March 24, 2025. The contest is hosted by Sharang Biswas, Pam Punzalan, and Viditya Voleti with bonus mystery judge John Harper (!!!), and the itch page promises that there WILL be prizes for the winners.

I love this sort of open-ended prompt; my first attempt at creating something similar was for the System Fictional Game Jam back in 2022, and I had a blast.