🐀 GENERATIVE AI GAME SHOWCASE 🧪
📅 SUBMISSIONS OPEN UNTIL AUGUST 17, 2026
AI REQUIRED · HUMAN DIRECTION EXPECTED · FULL DISCLOSURE
Bring us the game artificial intelligence helped you make possible.
Mauspi Lab Jam is a bimonthly themed showcase for games that use generative artificial intelligence as a meaningful part of their creative process.
We believe AI can help independent developers prototype faster, explore unfamiliar creative territory, overcome production limits and transform ambitious ideas into playable experiences.
This is not a traditional development sprint.
Your project does not need to be created during the submission period. Existing games, public demos, prototypes and works in progress are welcome.
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Generative AI
Required and publicly documented. |
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Minimum submission
A playable demo. |
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Eligible projects
Unreleased or first fully released during 2026. |
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Languages
English or Spanish. |
THIS EDITION'S THEME
Your game must include at least one artificial character whose nature meaningfully affects the experience.
The character may be an artificial intelligence, android, robot, synthetic consciousness, virtual assistant, generated personality, digital imitation or another recognizable reflection of the current AI boom.
They may be the protagonist, the antagonist, a secondary character or even an indirect presence influencing the events of the game.
When the harmless tutorial assistant says it remembers your previous save file.
⚠️ A decorative robot is not enough.
A toaster with glowing eyes does not automatically count as an important artificial character.
Unless the toaster ruins somebody's life. Then we can talk.
Horror, comedy, romance, adventure, puzzle, simulation, visual novel, experimental game and every strange combination between them are welcome.
Generative AI is the central focus of Mauspi Lab Jam because we are interested in what these tools make possible for solo developers and small teams.
AI can help someone build a system they could not program alone, prototype an unusual visual direction, develop characters, compose music, test a mechanic, translate a game or finally turn a long-standing idea into something playable.
We are not looking for the project that generated the largest amount of content.
We are looking for the project where AI most effectively strengthens a human creative vision.
| 💻 Programming and debugging | ✍️ Writing and worldbuilding |
| 🎲 Mechanics and game systems | 🎨 Visual art and animation |
| 🎵 Music, sound and voices | 🔬 Testing, localization and production |
Participants must explain which tools they used, what they used them for, what the tools produced, how those results were selected or transformed and which creative decisions remained in human hands.
Basic spellchecking, simple autocomplete or one isolated question with no meaningful influence on the project does not satisfy this requirement.
When AI fixes the bug but also creates three new endings and a religion inside the save system.
Participants retain full ownership of their projects and remain responsible for having the rights necessary to publish everything included in their submission.
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AI as a Creative CatalystPRIMARY CRITERION How effectively did generative AI expand what the creator or team was able to build, express or explore? |
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Theme IntegrationHow meaningfully does the artificial character influence the story, mechanics, relationships, decisions or world? |
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Overall ExperienceHow successfully do the design, writing, visuals, audio and playability work together? |
One eligible project will receive this honorary recognition for the most creative, meaningful and well-integrated use of generative artificial intelligence.
The selected game will be featured in the official Mauspi Lab Jam collection and highlighted in the Mauspi Lab itch.io feed.
This recognition does not include a cash or physical prize.
No. We are not the timeline police. This is a themed showcase, not a development sprint.
Yes. A playable demo, prototype, alpha or beta is enough.
Yes, provided that a free playable version remains available throughout the evaluation period.
Yes. Previous participation in jams, festivals and showcases is allowed.
Yes. Games may be submitted in English or Spanish.
No. Meaningful integration and human creative direction matter more than the amount of generated content.
Submit your demo, experiment or next ambitious project and show us how generative AI strengthened your creative vision.
ENTER THE LAB · DOCUMENT THE PROCESS · SHOW US SOMETHING STRANGE
Mauspi Lab Jam es una convocatoria temática bimestral para descubrir videojuegos que utilicen IA generativa como una herramienta creativa significativa.
No hace falta desarrollar el proyecto durante las fechas de la jam. Se aceptan demos, prototipos, juegos en desarrollo y títulos cuyo lanzamiento completo haya ocurrido durante 2026.
Para esta edición, el juego deberá incluir un personaje artificial cuya naturaleza afecte significativamente la historia, las mecánicas, las decisiones, los vínculos o la interpretación del mundo.
El uso de IA generativa es obligatorio y deberá documentarse públicamente. Un proyecto recibirá el reconocimiento honorífico Mauspi AI Catalyst Award y será destacado en la colección oficial Mauspi Lab Jam y en el feed de Mauspi Lab en itch.io.
