There is a first person grid based dungeon crawler jam that's been running for a number of years now, so you might have seen that one floating around. I have never submitted anything for it (yet), but I usually take the opportunity every year to make progress on my own gridder framework and game during the time frame, as a way to sort of get in on the energy and vibes. The mere possibility that I might be able to submit something is usually enough to motivate me to get a lot of good work done, though I always kind of know in the back of my head that this is not likely (it's an 8 day jam, and I am too disabled to reliably be able to do anything from start to finish in just over a week).

It's a nice community with a lot of nice talented people. My only gripe, and it is a MASSIVE gripe, to be fair, is the fact that generative AI is neither barred nor discouraged. The folks who use it aren't usually malicious, but there is often a generalized ignorance, willful or otherwise, of the problems, ethical, creative, cultural, and environmental, and the negative implications of the "tech" (I use scare quotes because, well, it's not really a unique or new tech at all, just standard transistor based computing dialed to eleven thousand and marketed as something revolutionary, but I digress).

I have to admit, this has also contributed, to a small degree, to my reluctance to submit even unfinished projects in past years. Old school dungeon crawlers are so niche an interest that even I, as someone who frankly hates generative AI with a burning passion, and hates it more and more each passing day, as culture itself becomes increasingly clogged up with slop, not only making it harder for me as an artist to survive (not like it was ever easy), but making it harder for me to find art to enjoy, just can't really bring myself to throw the baby out with the bathwater on that one ... it's generally a decent Jam and community, and I can't even rage against most of the AI users, which make up a minor contingent - I just think they've been duped and bamboozled - most of my rage is usually directed at the companies and the willful exploiters.

That having been said, I am thrilled to see another dungeon crawling jam that has an explicit AI prohibition, has a more general definition of the genre, and lasts a full month.

I've been waiting ... for a jam like this ... to come into my life. 

Sorry ... I kind of went off there ... that's sort of what I do, though. No surprises there.

I was reluctant to join this jam because of the generative AI restrictions. Genai for code completion is godsend, especially as I get older and have to look stuff up more frequently. I also like to use it for brainstorming and scaffolding. I work in tech and live between Meta and Google HQs so there's really no avoiding it for me if I want to stay relevant and have a job.

The less restrictions the better as long as everything is disclosed is my preferred ruleset. Unless the restrictions are central to the objective of the jam.

I love dungeon crawlers, starting with Dungeon Master on my Amiga, so I want to support this jam despite the restrictions.

Good luck with the jam!