>Make small games. Make a lot of them.<

20 Small Games Jam runs 5 times a year — Spring, two in Summer, Fall, and Winter. Each jam is one month long with 4 weekly prompts. Complete all 5 jams across the year and you've shipped 20 games.

<How It Works>

Each week a new prompt drops: a theme set by Me (Is@@c) and a genre randomly selected from the pool. Every participant gets the same prompt. You have one week to build something that fits it.

Your game must be completable in under an hour — but it should make people want to play it again.

<Rules>

1. <li>One game per weekly prompt
2. Under 1 hour per playthrough
3. Must be highly replayable
4. Any engine, any platform, any team size
5. Partial submissions count — every game you finish matters

<Scoring>

Games are scored by the organizer until the jam grows large enough to move to community voting.

<table>

<tr><th>Criteria</th><th>Max Points</th></tr>

<tr><td>Replayability</td><td>40</td></tr>

<tr><td>Theme & Genre Accuracy</td><td>40</td></tr>

<tr><td>Bugs</td><td>15</td></tr>

<tr><td>Scope / Time Respect</td><td>5</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>Total</b></td><td><b>100</b></td></tr>

</table>

<>The Yearly Arc<>

Complete all 5 jams (20 games total) → Hall of Fame

Finish the year in the top 10 → weighted random entry into Best Small Game of the Year

>Genre Pool<

Each week's genre is randomly drawn from this list. One per week, no repeats across the year.

Roguelite · Roguelike · Dungeon Crawler · Metroidvania · Beat 'em Up · Hack and Slash · RPG · Tower Defense · Deckbuilder · Auto Battler · Platformer · Clicker · Survival · Bullet Hell · Fighting · Puzzle · Simulation · Soulslike · Rhythm · Pinball