Theme

"Please Don’t Do That"

In this season of love, we chose a theme about breaking expectations 💔
Think about the one thing players assume your game will do, then don’t do it. 
The game should make players think:

“Wait… please don’t do that.”

And then do it anyway.

That might mean:

• The menu is part of the challenge

• Gravity works the opposite of what you expect

• The game reacts before the player does

If it feels a little uncomfortable, surprising, or rude, you’re probably doing it right.

Starts on Valentine’s Day

We’re starting on February 14th for a reason
If you’ve got no love in your life — this is it
If you’ve got too much love — ruin it with a game jam 💔
This theme is about breaking expectations, rules, and sometimes hearts

Prizes

Cash on the Table, Cabinets in Your Future

If we move forward with a port, we’ll support Luxodd SDK integration, input and pacing tweaks for arcade play, and placement in our internal test network with potential to appear on live cabinets. 

Winners we move forward with will also be given access to our graphics and music specialists if you want to better refine anything about your game.

Sponsored Prize

Thanks to CraftPix, our Top 3 overall winners will receive a full 1-year premium membership to their asset library.

What This Means for You:

✔ Unlimited access to thousands of high-quality 2D game assets
✔ Characters, UI kits, backgrounds, icons, VFX, and environment packs
✔ Commercial-use ready assets
✔ Speed up your next project massively
✔ Save hundreds of dollars on art production

Dev Choice Award

Chosen by the Devs. Backed by the Community

Alongside the main prizes, we’re introducing a Dev Choice Award —voted on by our Luxodd Dev Legion on Discord

Our Dev Legion is made up of creators from this jam and previous Luxodd jams — people actively building, breaking, and sharing ideas together. Throughout the jam, devs hang out in Discord, trade feedback, post experiments, and help each other push their games further

When voting opens, they decide

How to Win

Must-Haves

• Fast, replayable loop
• Easy to grasp by just watching a few seconds
• Clear failure state (there is something you SHOULD NOT DO)
• Runs in a window, WebGL, or fullscreen without setup drama

Not a Fit

• Clickers / idle games
• Pure text adventures or visual novels
• Anything that takes 15+ minutes to understand or complete one run

Things you MUST NOT DO (remember the theme... ;)

1. Click Join Jam on this page
2. Build your game in any engine or language you like
3. Make sure it clearly fits “One More Run” + "Please Don’t Do That"
4. Upload your game in a Web Accessible format (we won't run executables) before the deadline, then play and rate other entries

Building your Game, Best Practice

One of our past 1st place game jam participants, TheDollarGameStore, put together a genuinely solid guide on
how to build and submit a game for itch.io game jams

If you want practical advice on scope, presentation, and avoiding common jam pitfalls, we highly recommend giving it a read and following him for more dev-focused articles like it.

Timeline (UTC)

Submissions open from February 14th, 2026 at 9:00 AM

If any dates shift, we’ll update this page and post in the community

🚨You may submit multiple games, but only one can qualify for prizes.

About Luxodd

We’re Luxodd Games, and we’re building a connected indie-to-arcade network. We’ve already taken games like Wabisabi (mobile) and Star Carrier Catalyst (PC) and rebuilt them for physical cabinets, shown at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo and in early pilot venues

If you’ve ever dreamed of walking into a bar and seeing a crowd around your game on a glowing cabinet, not buried in an app store thumbnail, ONE MORE RUN IV is where that story can start

Questions or looking for feedback? Drop a post in the jam community or ping us on Discord