From July seventh to July eleventh, we hosted our first Open Source AI Game Jam, an exciting event that challenged game developers to create progressive games inside a decent 48-hour window using AI.
The first objective was to create games that incorporate at the least one Open Source AI Tool. Although proprietary AI tools were allowed, we encouraged participants to integrate open-source tools into their game or workflow.
The response to our initiative was beyond our expectations, with over 1300 signups and the submission of 88 amazing games.
You may try them here 👉 https://itch.io/jam/open-source-ai-game-jam/entries
The Theme: Expanding
To encourage creativity, we selected the theme of “EXPANDING.” We left it open to interpretation, allowing developers to explore and experiment with their ideas, resulting in a various range of games.
The games were evaluated by their peers and contributors based on three key criteria: fun, creativity, and adherence to the theme.
The highest 10 games were then presented to a few judges (Dylan Ebert, Thomas Simonini and Omar Sanseviero), who chosen one of the best game.
The Winner 🏆🥇
After careful deliberation, the judges crowned one outstanding game because the Winner of the Open Source AI Game Jam.
Code: Ruben Gres
AI assets: Philippe Saade
Music / SFX: Matthieu Deloffre
On this AI-generated game, you visit a museum where the paintings come to life. Snip the objects within the paintings to uncover their hidden secrets.
You may play it here 👉 https://ohmlet.itch.io/snip-it
Participants Selection: Top 10 🥈🥉🏅
Out of the 88 implausible submissions, these impressive games emerged because the Top 11 finalists.
#1: Snip It
Along with be the winner of the Game Jam, Snip it has been chosen as the highest participant selection.
🤖 Open Source Model Used: Stable Diffusion to generate the assets.
🎮👉 https://ohmlet.itch.io/snip-it
#2: Yabbit Attack
In Yabbit Attack, your goal is to beat the continuously adapting neural network behind the Yabbits.
🤖 Used genetic algorithms within the context of natural selection and evolution.
🤖 Backgrounds visuals were generated using Stable Diffusion
🎮👉 https://visionistx.itch.io/yabbit-attack
#3: Fish Dang Bot Rolling Land
On this game, you’re taking control of a fish-shaped robot named Fein, who’s abandoned in a garbage dump with mechanical legs. Unexpectedly, it develops self-awareness, and upon awakening, it sees a dung beetle pushing a dung ball. Naturally, Fein assumes himself to be a dung beetle and harbours a dream of pushing the biggest dung ball. With this dream in mind, it decides to embark by itself adventure.
🤖 Used Text To Speech model to generate the voices.
🎮👉 https://zeenaz.itch.io/fish-dang-rolling-laud
#4: Everchanging Quest
On this game, you might be the village’s last hope. Arm yourself before embarking in your adventure, and do not hesitate to ask the locals for guidance. The world beyond the portal won’t ever be the identical, so be prepared. Defeat your enemies to gather points and find your technique to the top.
🤖 Used GPT-4 to put the tiles and objects (proprietary) but in addition Starcoder to code (open source).
🎮👉 https://jofthomas.itch.io/everchanging-quest
#5: Word Conquest
On this game, it’s good to write as many unrelated words as you may to beat the map. The more unrelated, the farther away and the more rating you get.
🤖 Used embeddings from all-MiniLM-L6-v2 model and GloVe to generate the map.
🎮👉 https://danielquelali.itch.io/wordconquest
#6: Expanding Universe
On this sandbox gravity game, you create an expanding universe and take a look at to finish the challenges.
🤖 Used Dream Textures Blender (Stable Diffusion) add-on to create textures for the entire planets and stars and an LLM model to generate descriptions of the celebs and planets.
🎮👉 https://carsonkatri.itch.io/expanding-universe
#7: Hexagon Tactics: The Expanding Arena
On this game, you might be dropped into an arena battle. Defeat your opponents, then upgrade your deck and the sector expands.
🤖 Stable Diffusion 1.5 to generate your individual character (executable version of the sport).
🎮👉 https://dgeisert.itch.io/hextactics
#8: Galactic Domination
On this game, you embark on an interstellar journey as a spaceship captain, pitted against formidable spaceships in a battle for dominance. Your goal is to be the primary to construct a strong space station that can expand your influence and secure your supremacy within the vast expanse of the cosmos. As you navigate the treacherous battlefield, you will need to gather essential resources to fuel the expansion of your space station. It is a construction race!
🤖 Unity ML-Agents (bot-AI works with reinforcement learning)
🤖 Charmed – Texture Generator
🤖 Soundful – Music generator
🤖 Elevenlabs – Voice generator
🤖 Scenario – Image generator
🎮👉 https://blastergames.itch.io/galactic-domination
#9: Apocalypse Expansion
On this game, you will step into the decaying shoes of a zombie, driven by an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Your objective? To construct the biggest horde of zombies ever seen, while evading the relentless pursuit of the determined police force.
🤖 Used Stable Diffusion to generate the photographs
🤖 Used MusicGen (melody 1.5B) for the music
🎮👉 https://mad25.itch.io/apocalypse-expansion
#10: Galactic Bride: Bullet Ballet
On this game, you dive into an exhilarating bullet-hell journey to turn into the Star Prince’s bride and fulfill your wishes.
🎮👉 https://n30hrtgdv.itch.io/galactic-bride-bullet-ballet
#10: Singularity
This demo is a conceptual demonstration of what could soon be the generation of experiences/games within the near future.
🤖 Used Stable Diffusion
🎮👉 https://ilumine-ai.itch.io/dreamlike-hugging-face-open-source-ai-game-jam
Along with this top 10, don’t hesitate to examine the opposite amazing games (Ghost In Smoke, Outopolis, Dungeons and Decoders…). You can find the entire list here 👉 https://itch.io/jam/open-source-ai-game-jam/entries
The primary-ever Open Source AI Game Jam proved to be an astounding success, exceeding our expectations when it comes to community engagement and the standard of games produced. The overwhelming response has reinforced our belief within the potential of open-source AI tools to revolutionize the gaming industry.
We’re desirous to proceed this initiative and plan to host more sessions in the long run, providing game developers with a possibility to showcase their skills and explore the facility of AI in game development.
For those desirous about AI for games, we have now compiled a listing of beneficial resources, including AI tools for game development and tutorials on integrating AI into game engines like Unity:
To remain connected and stay updated on future events, be happy to drop by our Discord server, where you could find channels dedicated to exchanging ideas about AI for games.
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Thanks to all of the participants, contributors, and supporters who made this event a memorable success!
