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One Game A Week Jam is a weekly game jam built around making small, finished games quickly. Each week gives you four scored challenge categories:
The goal is to make a game in one week that fits as many of those four prompts as possible. You are encouraged to hit all four, but you are still welcome to submit if your game only uses some of them, or even if you mostly use the jam as a reason to finally make something. The point is to make something, finish it, learn from it, and keep moving.
Congratulations to the winners for Week 1! Our current game leaders are:
1. fizzybones
2. Rakadeja
3. Kayakalkuhl
Participate in jams and submit your games to join the running leaderboard! Leaders are ranked first by participation, then by aggregate Challenge Fit scores, then by aggregate overall scores.
After each voting period ends, the top submissions for that week may be featured on the jam page. The complete running leaderboard will be posted in the community board.
You may interpret the prompts creatively. A tiny finished game is better than a huge unfinished one. Scope is part of the challenge!
Submit a playable game, prototype, interactive toy, narrative experiment, or small game-like experience made during the jam. Browser builds are encouraged, but downloads are welcome too.
Your game does not need to be perfect. It does need to be playable enough that someone else can understand what you made.
Ratings use a 1 to 5 star scale.
How well does the game use the weekly genre, theme, wildcard, and ingredient?
How finished and playable does the game feel for a one-week project?
How interesting, surprising, or clever is the idea or execution?
How enjoyable, compelling, atmospheric, funny, tense, or memorable is the experience?
This jam is about momentum. Make small things. Finish them. Try weird ideas. Learn by shipping. Some weeks will produce something good. Some weeks will produce a haunted pile of mechanics wearing a menu screen. Both are useful.
Be kind when rating and commenting. Judge games in the context of a one-week jam, not as if they were commercial releases built by a studio with producers, money, and the tragic optimism of a roadmap.
Hello, I am Jazhikho, the host of One Game A Week Jam. I am a graduate student in the Game Design program at Lindenwood University, projected to graduate in August 2026. I am using this jam as a way to force myself to create small games, and as a way to encourage others to do the same. I believe that you will learn more by pushing out these small games than you will by waiting forever to create one great masterpiece.
If you're here, I assume you want to have some fun and learn along the way. If you submit anything to this jam, finished or not, pat yourself on the back. You've done the hardest part.
I will personally review the games submitted to the jams and provide my own feedback and thoughts on ways to improve your game. I encourage you to share your development process in your submissions as much as possible, and I will give notes on ways to help with that as well.
I also encourage you to do the same for others. Give constructive comments that will help the developer get better. Don't just say "the music sucked lol." What about the music hurt the UX? Did it clash with the theme? Was it too loud or too quiet? How could the developer fix the issue?
If you have ideas for future genres, themes, wildcards, or ingredients, please leave suggestions in the community board. I am open to changing and improving the format as the jam continues.
