Is AI allowed in Out of the Drawer Jam?

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Checked 2026-10-18 · keyword rules · confidence: low. Rules can change. Confirm on the jam page ↗

Jam facts

Host

TM code, #OutOfTheDrawerJam

Source

itch.io

Starts

Wed Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 UTC

Submissions end

Sat Oct 17, 2026, 12:00 UTC

Voting ends

Sat Oct 24, 2026, 12:00 UTC

Joined

37

Prizes

Yes (see rules)

From the jam page

🗄️ Out of the Drawer Jam Every dev has that project sitting in a folder, gathering dust. It’s time to give it a second chance, or to start something brand new. The Idea Grab a game you started and abandoned, blow off the dust, and transform it using the jam’s limitation. Nothing in your drawer? No problem: you can build a game from scratch. New and revived projects compete on equal footing, because what matters is what you do with the limitation. 🎨 The Limitation: Bring Back the Colors Your game must start without color (gray, desaturated, or monochrome), and color has to return as the player progresses. How and why the colors come back is up to you, as long as restoring color is a real part of the experience and not just a visual detail. Some ways to interpret it: Each level, area, or objective completed brings a new color back to the world Colors are mechanics: a platform only becomes solid, an enemy only becomes visible, or a door only opens once its color has returned The player collects, steals, mixes, or paints colors to change the world around them The story is about a world, character, or memory that lost its color, and the gameplay is the journey to recover it The color comes back gradually as a reward, a progress meter, or even a resource you have to manage Fitting an old project to the limitation counts too: turning your dusty prototype gray and making the player earn its colors back is a perfectly valid (and fitting!) approach. How It Works ⏱️ Duration: 72 hours (…

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