Welcome

TL;DR: LÖVE Jam is an awesome gamejam where you make a game using LÖVE!

LÖVE is an amazing, free, open source game framework, with a lovely community full of nice and very creative people.

This jam exists to celebrate everyone making LÖVE and its amazing community possible. This event is intended to spark creativity and a learning opportunity for everyone participating, and we hope this can result in more games and more adoption of this lovely framework, please enjoy and have fun!

Rules

• Your game MUST be made with the LÖVE framework.
  Your game must work with an official version of LÖVE (nightlies are allowed).
  Ports of LÖVE, frameworks based on LÖVE, or any other engine/framework are NOT allowed.
  You can upload additional builds using ports as long as there is a version that can run with an official LÖVE version.
• NSFW / mature / sensitive content MUST be properly disclosed.
  If your game features such content there should be a warning in the description and/or when the game first loads up.
  There may be minors playing your game so please be mindful.
  
• AI usage is NOT allowed.
  AI usage goes against the spirit of the jam. The reasons include copyright infringement and plagiarism over training data and environmental impact of this technology.
• The game MUST be made during the jam.
  You may use basecode and libraries made before the jam.
  Games made before the jam are not basecode, and go against the spirit of the jam.
• Images, music, and other assets SHOULD be made during the jam.
  Any asset made (by you or someone else) before the jam period is considered a pre-made asset.
  If you use pre-made assets, you MUST include a list, giving credit to their author (including those made by you).
  If you can't make assets yourself team up with an artist and/or a musician.
  Voters SHOULD favor games that feature assets made during the jam over those that don't.
• You may work alone or as a team. Find teammates in our Discord!
  There is no restriction team size, but larger teams are harder to organize, so 2/4 works best.
• The jam runs for 10 days, you may use as much time as you need.
  The long duration of the jam is to allow more people to participate, if you want a tighter time constraint you can use just one weekend.
  Some games have been made in under 8 hours, so don’t feel discouraged if you can’t spend much time.
• Do it for the fun and the experience.
  Even though the jam is rated, the most important thing is to enjoy the challenge.

Theme

COUNTER

The theme for this jam is optional, it exists to spark ideas and creativity. If you don't like it, we still hope you join the jam without including the theme as part of your game.

Tips

• Check out these amazing libraries and tools to speed up your game development!
• There is the wiki and some great tutorials out there that teach you how to use LÖVE!
• Join the fabulous Discord to chat with other Lovers! Or discuss with them in the forum and subreddit
• You can share your progress in X or Bluesky using the #lovejam2026 (bsky) hashtag!
• Follow us at @obey_love and @love-framework.bsky.social to find out other cool projects.
• Check past jams from 2013, 2014 (itch.io), 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, (B-Side)
• Here are a few games to get you inspired:

1. Grandma's Computerby Sysl
2. Giftby rxi
3. Complotby Sheepolution