The PocketQuest game jam has been running on DriveThruRPG every year since 2022, and each year I submit a Tricube Tales one-page RPG for it: I published Summer Camp Slayers in 2022, Paths Between the Stars in 2023, Conniving Cat Burglars in 2024, and Wicked Dreams in 2025.
This year, the theme of the game jam was "time travel". I initially considered going with a "time thieves" concept, where the characters were time travelers who pulled off heists. But then I started thinking, what if they're curators for a "Time Museum", and their job is to go back in time and "acquire" treasures that would otherwise be lost to history? Their goal would be to avoid disrupting the timeline as much as possible, so they can't simply steal things; instead, they have to wait until the moment those things go missing.
And so my submission for 2026, which went live earlier this month, is Curators of the Time Museum!
It was difficult to find suitable artwork for this one, so I actually ended up using a stock art pack by Anqi "Annie" Shi that was created and offered specifically for the PocketQuest 2026 game jam.
This one was a struggle to finish, if I'm honest. The "time travel" theme initially seemed easy, but I had difficulty coming up with a concept I was happy with. Sometimes I hit writer's block with a one-pager, and I'll let it stew for a while and come back to it later, but game jam submissions have a deadline, and I had to push myself to reach it. I think it turned out nicely in the end, though!
