Key Information

1. What is this jam about?

Unlock your creativity using AI tools in game development. In this jam, you're encouraged to incorporate modern AI tools either within your game or as part of your workflow.

2. What do you mean AI tools?

Generative AI tools such as Stable Diffusion allow accelerated and new possibilities in game development, both in the workflow and in-game. Some examples include texture generation, AI NPCs, and realistic text-to-speech.

3. Who can participate?

Anyone, anywhere, at any skill level can participate. You can work alone or in a team of any size.

4. What are the requirements?

Your game needs to be accessible in English and run in web (i.e. on itch.io) or on Windows. You are required to use at least one open source AI tool in your workflow or in your game. More details to follow!

5. Can I use existing assets?

Yes, you can use any existing assets, code, or AI tools you have the legal right to.

6. Is there a theme?

The theme is EXPANDING. Interpret this however you want.

7. How will the games be judged?

Submitters and contributors will rate other games according to 3 criteria: fun, creativity, and theme. The winner will be chosen by the judges from the Top 10.

8. Where I can find teammates?

Our Discord Server is the central place to create teams, exchange with other teams, ask questions, and get the latest updates 👉https://hf.co/join/discord

We built different channels:

FAQ

Do you have some examples of AI in Games?

Here some example of games that use AI models:

Example 1: Detective Game

You can play it here 👉 https://google.github.io/mysteryofthreebots/

Example 2: Action Game 

You can play it here 👉 https://huggingface.co/spaces/ThomasSimonini/SmartRobot

Learn to make yours here 👉https://thomassimonini.substack.com/p/building-a-smart-robot-ai-using-hugging

Example 3: AI NPC with Unity MLAgents

You can play it here 👉 https://danielk0703.itch.io/ship-jam

Example 4: Doodle Dash

Play it here 👉 https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/doodle-dash

Learn to make your own with this tutorial 👉 https://huggingface.co/blog/ml-web-games

Do you have some helpful tutorials?

Here's some:

• How to install the Unity Hugging Face API: https://huggingface.co/blog/unity-api
• AI Speech Recognition in Unity: https://huggingface.co/blog/unity-asr
• Making ML-powered web games with Transformers.js: https://huggingface.co/blog/ml-web-games
• Using AI to make a Farming Game in 5 days

Are proprietary AI tools (Midjourney, ChatGPT) allowed?

• Yes! As long as at least one open-source tool is part of the game or workflow.

Does my game need to be in English?

• Yes, so that your game can be played and rated by the broader community.

What example of tools can I use?

Here's some:

• Texture Generation 🖼️🖌️ DreamTextures (Open Source, Free): Create different types of textures with a simple text prompt.
• Voice Generation 🗣️ Coqui Studio (Sign Up, Proprietary, Free): realistic, emotive text-to-speech through generative AI.
• Speech Recognition 💬 OpenAI Whisper: model for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech translation.
• Hugging Face API Unity Integration (Open Source, Apache 2, Free): Integration for the Hugging Face Inference API and Unity
• UnityMLPySocket (Open Source, Free): Perform local machine learning (ML) inference with Unity using a Python socket server.

We wrote a full list here: Compilation of AI tools for Game Dev

I don't know anything about AI models. Can I still participate?

• Yes! You don't need to understand how AI models work. Just what you can do with it. We wrote https://huggingface.co/tasks to help you understand what you can do with these models.

Who are the Organizers?