Seven days. Infinite possibilities. Real rewards. 

Turn simple combinations into endless discovery.

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THE WINNERS

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in first Playful.AI jam! You showed just how much creativity is flowing into AI-native games — from cozy cafes to experimental world creation.

It was extremely hard to pick winners, but without further ado:
🥇Champion—$4K: Make it Weirder 
🥈 Excellence Awards—$1k each: Galactic Marbles  and Off the Menu
🏆 People’s Choice (ranked voting winner)— $1k: Xenomerge

RUNNERS UP
Finalists : Delichemy, Signal Splicer, Coffee Break,  Dragon Collector 
Honorable Mentions: Arcane Echoes , Towers of Mergethorne, DoorsOS, Conciousness Craft

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Build a game where A + B = something magical. We're hunting for systems that start small but explode into infinite play loops.

Inspiration: Think Infinite Craft, Atomas, Little Alchemy—but make it uniquely yours.

Core Requirements:

• 🔀 Combination mechanics are at the heart of your game
• 📦 Minimum 25 discoverable combinations
• 🤯 At least one "holy shit" moment that catches players off-guard
• 🤖 At least one AI enhanced element or mechanic
• 🗣️ It must be accessible in English 
• 🚀 It must have the potential to scale to a full length game
• ♾️  Upload your game here or on any platform (like Roblox!)  with a link to play

Bonus Points if you also include:

• 🎯 Mobile-friendly web experience
  
• 📃 A Game Design Doc with your full vision
• 👥  An engaging social gaming layer
• ⚡️ Multiple innovative uses of AI

Duration: 168 hours (one week) of pure creation

Total Rewards: $7,000 + launch partnership 

We want games that grow beyond their code:

• Fusion systems that feel alive
• Discovery loops you can't put down
• Emergent complexity from simple rules
• Moments where the game surprises its own creator

Genre doesn't matter. Weird is welcome. Just make something people can't stop playing.

Perfect For

• Rapid prototypers who thrive under pressure
• Builders obsessed with elegant systems
• Creative coders, modders, and digital alchemists
• Anyone who played Infinite Craft and thought "I see the pattern"

🥇 Champion: $4,000 + the potential to help develop your jam into a full game 
🥈 Excellence Awards: $1,000 each (2 winners)
🏆 People's Choice: $1,000 (community voted)

• AI Integration — Did you use AI in a novel way? How did it amplify your creativity?
• Core Loop Mastery — Is your main mechanic genuinely compelling?
• Scale Potential — Could this prototype become a breakout hit?

AI Required

Mandatory: AI is part of your story, either in how you built it, or how it works, or both!

New to AI coding? Try these:

• Replit:  Most versatile, handles everything
• Bolt: Lightning-fast iterations, clean output
• Lovable:  Beginner-friendly interface
• Other options—rosebud, solar2d, spawn, waffle

Comfortable with AI tools? Check these out:

• Windsurf/Cursor: Integrated AI pair programming
• Claude Code: Advanced terminal-based agent
• Custom API integration: Keys provided for ChatGPT/Claude

• Solo artists or squads up to 5
• Any tech stack, any approach
• Must be 18+ 
• Game can be hosted on itch or externally with a playable link
• Game design doc not required, but encouraged
• No hate speech, no adult content. Keep it PG. 
• Deadline: [8/17/25 11:59 PT]
• Your IP stays yours (until we potentially partner)
  
• Bonus: runs smoothly on mobile browsers

Please reference the Official Rules for all the details. 

Ready to architect the next obsession-worthy game loop?

JOIN THE DISCORD

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