SUGGESTIONS CLOSED. Help us pick our optional themes here: https://forms.gle/4FJ3roLd7pb3DV4Y6

Post up to three (3) optional theme ideas here. You can reply to each other’s ideas and modify your own up until the deadline.

Themes are due by Sunday, August 2nd at 11:59pm EDT (UTC-4).

If you need inspiration/examples of themes, check out themes from prior years: 2026 Sci-Fi One-Shot Jam, the Cyberpunk Jam’s optional themes, the Derelict Jam’s optional themes, 2025, 2024, 2023, or 2022.

Sammy’s Optional Theme Ideas

1. Cancelled Projects (Apollo Venus Flyby, Artemis II Asteroid Redirect, LM X-33/VentureStar, Russian Znamya space mirror, etc)

2. Interstellar interloper (rogue planets, objects like ʻOumuamua, etc)

3. Last-minute budget cuts

1: Time to get off this rock

2: Controlled burn

3: Full decompression

1. Mission with ulterior motive

2. Last-chance rescue

3. First FTL flight

1. Orbital Defection

2. Weapons Test

3. Crash Landing

1. window of opportunity

2. not enough Delta-v

3.bingo fuel

1. Measurement errors
2. Organizational/bureaucratic disagreements
3. Eclipse