The fourth AI Browser Game Jam is open for sign-ups. Submissions run July 31 - August 14, 2026 (opens and closes at 10 PM, the itch page shows the countdown in your local time).

The rules are simple: make a free, browser-playable game in two weeks using AI tools for whatever you want. Code, art, music, design, sound, all of it.

A few things that make this jam different from most:

• No sponsor, no required service or tool. Use whatever AI you want!
• Participants are the judges, so every entry gets played and rated by other jammers.
• Theme is announced when submissions open, but it's a suggestion, not a rule.
• Sharing your process (prompts, pipeline, lessons) is encouraged but optional.
• Solo or team, all skill levels.

This thing has grown every round: Jam 1 had 29 entries, Jam 2 had 47, Jam 3 had 82. Curious whether round 4 breaks 100.

Jam page: https://itch.io/jam/ai-jam-4

Discord: https://discord.gg/86xBnZqHjy

Happy to answer questions in the comments. And if you jammed with us before, share your game and what AI tools you used in the comments.

This sub has been quiet lately, and outside of it Tezos mostly comes up as a punchline these days. I get it, the last few years have been rough. But the way this chain gets talked about and what's actually happening on it are two very different things, and I wanted to write down why.

For context, I'm a generative artist. I've released work on Tezos and so have a lot of artists I know, some of their best stuff, in small digital editions. So I'm biased, obviously. But I've been in this ecosystem through all of it.

The art is the part outsiders don't get. Minting costs pennies here, so artists actually experiment. That's why hic et nunc blew up in 2021 and why fxhash became the home of generative art. Thousands of artists, millions of works. Zancan's Garden, Monoliths gets talked about next to Fidenza. William Mapan dropped Dragons here before Art Blocks made him famous. All that work lives on this chain and nowhere else, and to me the network is sort of backed by it. Not like gold in a vault, more like real people who stayed when the hype moved on because they're here for the work.

Meanwhile the chain never stopped. 21 upgrades since 2018, no forks, no downtime, and the 21st just went live on June 30. Blocks are 6 seconds, and a transfer costs a fraction of a cent.

And there's genuinely interesting stuff ahead. Tezos X, the biggest architecture change in the chain's history, has its testnet live and is aiming for mainnet this summer.

Fair pushback exists: competitors have way more money and attention, the NFT scene is much quieter than 2021, and if Tezos X slips, nobody outside this sub will care.

For me it comes down to one thing: artists kept releasing their best work here through all of it. Chains with actual culture don't just disappear. Or at least I hope not.

XTZ made a fresh all time low about a week ago, around $0.20, and we're barely above it now. Down 97% from the top, below the floor that held since 2018. Market cap is around a quarter billion, which is basically what the ICO raised in 2017. Nine years, round trip. Crypto is rough everywhere right now, but Tezos has been hit harder than most.

For context, I'm a generative artist. I've released work on Tezos and so have a lot of artists I know, some of their best stuff, in small digital editions. So I'm biased, obviously. But I've watched this ecosystem the whole way down, and the gap between what it is and what it's priced at is kind of absurd at this point.

The art is the part outsiders don't get. Minting costs pennies here, so artists actually experiment. That's why hic et nunc blew up in 2021 and why fxhash became the home of generative art. Thousands of artists, millions of works. Zancan's Garden, Monoliths gets talked about next to Fidenza. William Mapan dropped Dragons here before Art Blocks made him famous. All that work lives on this chain and nowhere else, and to me the coin is sort of backed by it. Not like gold in a vault, more like real people who stayed through the whole crash because they're here for the work.

Meanwhile the chain never stopped. 21 upgrades since 2018, no forks, no downtime, and the 21st just went live on June 30. Blocks are 6 seconds, and a transfer costs a fraction of a cent whether it's $10 or $10k.

And there's genuinely interesting stuff ahead. Etherlink (the EVM L2) went from about $1.5M to $82M TVL last year. And Tezos X, the biggest architecture change in the chain's history, has its testnet live and is aiming for mainnet this summer.

Bear case is real: maybe none of this flows to XTZ, competitors have more money and attention, NFT volume is a shadow of 2021, and cheap can always get cheaper. If Tezos X slips, nobody will care.

I hold a little XTZ, so not financial advice. But for me it comes down to one thing: artists kept releasing their best work here through the entire crash. Chains with actual culture don't just disappear. Or at least I hope not.

I made a short Texas political satire game where you play Snake as Ken Paxton.

Every pickup is based on the public record. Eat accountability, grow the baggage, and try not to crash into your own scandals.

Sources are linked in the case file.

The 3rd AI Browser Game Jam just wrapped submissions, and it went really well: 119 people joined and 85 browser games were submitted.

The jam is focused on experimenting with AI-assisted game development. Any tools were allowed for code, art, music, design, sound, etc. The goal was to make something playable, share the process, and see what people could build.

Judging/ratings are open now, so feel free to check out the entries and play some games!