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You are absolutely right about that, but people did it anyway.

Back then, we have decided to let those people submit their games to the game jam, so long as they disclosed that their games contain AI generated assets like on stem. Our community's feedback for those games then tried to point them towards other sources of free to use assets, without the use of generative AI. I know of a few game devs who have since stopped using AI generated assets through this approach.

However, this approach is no longer feasible with the recently increase in completely AI generated games (and even AI generated game reviews) and we have thus decided to ban AI generated assets from all of our future game jams.

AI generated assets have already been banned from any future game jams hosted by us. This specific game jam already started by the time the decision to ban AI generated assets was made, so we decided it wouldn't be fair to change the rules of the game jam in the middle of it.

Month of Horror #2 and following game jams already had their rules updated to reflect our new policy of banning AI generated assets.

Our original policy required the games with AI generated assets to disclose their use of generative AI during the submission, which allowed people to "filter out" submissions containing AI generated assets if they wished to.

We always discouraged the use of generative AI, viewing it as something beginners would use as placeholders sometime, before hopefully moving on from it. In that time, submissions with AI generated assets were mostly limited to one part of the game, like AI generated voice acting or a few AI generated posters, for which we felt a generative AI disclosure requirement like on Steam was sufficient.

However, the nature of generative AI and its uses in game development has changed a lot during the last year, as well as the frequency of mostly AI generated games. As such, we have decided that the best way forward is to finally ban AI generated assets from our subsequent game jams.

As for the amount of submissions, there are still four days left, two of those are weekend days. The vast majority of game jam submissions are submitted during the last two days, so we do expect there to be more submissions.

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The only issue is that I couldn't use Enter to interact with things, despite what the game page claimed. I had to use Space.

This was for the Browser Version, if that matters

This game is messed up, in the best way possible :D

Nice to see an entry made in Godot! I really liked the graphics in particular!

The artstyle is really great!

This game has really great potential! Liked the puzzles a lot!

Just out of curiosity, which parts of the game use  AI-generated assets?

I'd advise you replace them with non-AI generated assets for the full version of the game, a lot of people avoid games with AI-generated assets just on principle.

As for the softlock issue, maybe just don't allow players to go through the crack until they find the two pieces of paper they need? Have the protagonist think to herself about how she still needs to look around some more or something like that.

Other than that, great work!

Nice PSX-style game with a classic premise. Like the environment, especially the fountain area. Hope you decide to participate in more game jams in the future!

If you are using RPG Maker MV or MZ and want to include a Browser version of your game (which will ensure more people will play it), here's a quick guide on how to do that:

1) When you are deploying the game, choose the Web Browsers platform.

2) Locate your deployed game folder and once you have everything you need inside it, compress the folder into a .zip format (by default on Windows, you can right-click the folder, select Send to and choose Compressed (zipped) folder).

3) Create a Project page on itch.io or edit an existing one. Under Kind of Project, choose HTML (you will still be able to add downloadable versions for other platforms like Windows, so don't worry).

4) Upload the zipped folder of your deployed game to your Project page on itch.io.

5) Mark "This file will be played in a browser" for the uploaded .zip game folder.

6) Scroll down to "Embed options", under "Viewport dimension", enter the resolution of your game. The default resolution for both RPG Maker MV and MZ games is Width: 816 and Height: 624

7) Under Frame Options, mark whatever options you think will be useful for your game.

8) Save the changes, then go to your project page. Click Run Game. This will configure the Browser version of the game for the first time and make it playable. After some time, the game should load and from now on, it should be playable in browser.

If you don't manage to submit your project to the game jam before the submission period ends, you can post a link to your game in this thread and I will give you a late submission link that will allow you to submit the game anyway.

You have time to do so until the rating period has ended.

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I have replayed your game recently and it's still as good as I remember. Definitely in my top 3 games from the House of Remembrance game jam.

Recently, we have decided to ban AI-generated assets from the game jams we host, so if you were interested in participating in another one of these jams at some point in the future, we'd be glad to have you participate.

Regardless, I wish you well and I hope you will make more games like this in the future!

The jam rules have been changed and AI-generated assets are no longer allowed to be used in the games submitted to this game jam.

Text to Speech programs that don't employ generative AI, such as SAM TTS, are ok to use.

The jam rules have been changed and AI-generated assets are no longer allowed to be used in the games submitted to this game jam.

Text to Speech programs that don't employ generative AI, such as SAM TTS, are ok to use.

The jam rules have been changed and AI-generated assets are no longer allowed to be used in the games submitted to this game jam.

Text to Speech programs that don't employ generative AI, such as SAM TTS, are ok to use.

The jam rules have been changed and AI-generated assets are no longer allowed to be used in the games submitted to this game jam.

Text to Speech programs that don't employ generative AI, such as SAM TTS, are ok to use.

The jam rules have been changed and AI-generated assets are no longer allowed to be used in the games submitted to this game jam.

Text to Speech programs that don't employ generative AI, such as SAM TTS, are ok to use.

The jam rules have been changed and AI-generated assets are no longer allowed to be used in the games submitted to this game jam.

Text to Speech programs that don't employ generative AI, such as SAM TTS, are ok to use.

The jam rules have been changed and AI-generated assets are no longer allowed to be used in the games submitted to this game jam.

Text to Speech programs that don't employ generative AI, such as SAM TTS, are ok to use.

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I can't access the page. Make sure that it is published, then let me know.

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If you mean Jam Calendar, then game jams that last longer than 30 days disappear from it once they start and only reappear after less than 30 days of the submission period remain.

This game jam lasts 32 days, so it will reappear on the jam calendar after 2 days.

A bit late to this, but I just wanted to say, this was my favourite out of all the entries to this game jam!

This game was awesome, all the stories were great. My absolute favourite one out of them was Wander067, the one where the protagonist is searching for his wife in the Appalachian Mountains and you use pixelated photos for the backgrounds. You should consider making a full-length game with a similar style sometime, it was really great, the atmosphere especially!

This was my favourite game from this game jam, great job!

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Hi, please post a link to your projects game page, can't generate the link without it.

The game jam has just started!

The game jam has just started!

One set theme and they will last about a month. The jams will also happen a bit more frequently. Other than that, nothing much.