(Previous editions: 2025 (https://itch.io/jam/trans-mlm-jam-2025))

Welcome to TRANS MLM JAM 2026!

This is a jam for creating things with a focus on trans-masculine and MLM characters! Any form of media is accepted: games, visual novels, comic PDFs, or whatever else you can come up with!

How does this jam define "Trans MLM"?

• Your project must contain at least one main character that is both non-cisgender and masculine-aligned in identity. So long as the character's identity otherwise fits with both of those identifiers, the character does not need to be AFAB to qualify. (For example, a character who is an AMAB demiboy and pan would still qualify just as much as a character who is AFAB transgender male and gay would, because both of these characters are having their own versions of simultaneous trans and MLM experiences.)
• Your project must also have a focus on some sort of MLM/Achillean experience that directly involves at least one trans-masculine main character (as defined by the point above.) (This is not only limited to direct depictions of MLM romance; it could also simply be about the experience of being MLM while trans-masculine.)

Rules

• Be respectful of other participants: The last thing that queer people need nowadays is more gatekeeping. If you see an entry that you believe does not fit the spirit of the jam, then please report it. However, let's be kind and not admonish anyone's projects for simply not being "trans enough" or anything like that. If the project is "trans MLM" to the creator, then it is "trans MLM" to us. Queer experiences are highly individualized.
• Your project cannot contain any AI-generated content: Make it with your own brain and hands. Reach out to others and collaborate. Why should anyone bother to engage with something that nobody even bothered to create?
• Mature content is allowed with appropriate content warnings: This includes darker and heavier subjects as well as explicit/NSFW content. However, even if your project contains this sort of content, your project's thumbnail must still be SFW.
• Your project doesn't have to have been made exclusively within the jam's duration: You can start early, pick up working on an older project, etc. You are also welcome to continue working on your project after the jam has concluded. The goal of this jam is simply to compile together a collection of trans MLM works, and to encourage each other to make things.
• Multiple entries are allowed: If you want to make multiple projects, then be our guest!
• You can submit unfinished entries: If you don't finish your project by the end of the jam, then you can still submit it. Just make sure to mention on your project's page somewhere that it is unfinished. As mentioned above, you are welcome to keep working on it after the jam if you still want to finish it.