I cant use ai at all? can i use it to help me at coding?
I think the main idea of game jams is to challenge yourself to create something within a certain time limit. It doesn't matter if the game comes out good or bad, but what you learn within the game dev process that matters.
Using AI tools can surely help speed up the process, but then you just end up relying on it more and more leaving little space for your creativity.
Just art assets. Think of it like, would someone get paid to make this for me? Like for art assets yeah (or at least want credit), but coding you'd probably go look at api, manuals, docs, forums, stuff like that for free if you couldn't do something yourself anyway. In that sense AI is basically just a fancy search engine/feedback loop to speed up coding. They're starting to teach prompt engineering in schools and shit so employers for programing are probably going to start expecting everyone to use AI for coding in the future anyway, may as well start getting used to it. Besides, who better to understand how to communicate with computers via code than the computers themselves? Seriously though, don't just copy and paste, at least read and try to understand what you are doing though.