The first Open Source AI Game Jam, held from July 7th to July 11th, challenged developers to create innovative games in just 48 hours using at least one open-source AI tool. With over 1,300 sign-ups and 88 game submissions, the event showcased a remarkable range of creativity.
The Theme: Expanding
Participants were asked to interpret the theme of "Expanding" in any way they saw fit, leading to a diverse set of entries. Games were judged on fun, creativity, and adherence to the theme, with the top 10 advancing to a panel of three judges.
The Winner 🏆🥇
After careful deliberation, the judges selected Snip It by ohmlet as the overall winner. In this AI-generated game, players visit a museum where paintings come to life. The objective is to snip objects within the paintings to uncover hidden secrets. The game uses Stable Diffusion for asset generation.
Participants' Top 10 🥈🥉🏅
The community also voted on their favorites, resulting in this top 11 (with a tie for 10th place):
- Snip It – Use scissors to reveal secrets in living paintings.
- Yabbit Attack – Battle an adapting neural network with genetic algorithms.
- Fish Dang Bot Rolling Land – A fish-shaped robot dreams of pushing the largest dung ball.
- Everchanging Quest – A fantasy adventure with procedurally generated tiles via GPT-4 and StarCoder.
- Word Conquest – Conquer a map by writing unrelated words using embeddings from all-MiniLM-L6-v2.
- Expanding Universe – A gravity sandbox with AI-generated textures and descriptions.
- Hexagon Tactics: The Expanding Arena – An arena battle where defeating opponents expands the map.
- Galactic Domination –
- Apocalypse Expansion –
- Galactic Bride: Bullet Ballet –
- Singularity –
All winning games can be played at the Open Source AI Game Jam page on Itch.io.
Congratulations to all participants for pushing the boundaries of AI-assisted game development!