I have a projects I've been wanting to make for a while and this jam seemed like it would work. It's a text-based sandbox RPG. Is that allowed?
Hm, I'm gonna go ahead and say no not really if you're talking about just text like using it as a visual novel? :0c It should be a proper RPG game since the jam was born out of engines like RPG maker and stuff and invokes a pretty clear type of game.
Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean (possibly bc I'm dealing with a flu rn lol)
Hm... My impression is Starlit is asking about a game whose interface is entirely text, and artistotel is talking about a game whose character-actions are basically responding to text. Though... come to think of it, I'm not sure how to tell between the two-- lots of visual novels can have stats + repeated loops, so it's not just a dialogue tree, and if you aren't displaying a map in your text interface, ...