LF Games 2027 rules

LF Games 2027 is a game jam for games made by talking to an AI, hosted on LazyFrog. There are no prizes. LF Games is for the fame of the game: winners and finalists are named on the event's pages and may show a seal on their game. Entering is free.

Dates

• Entries: 15 January 2027 to 31 March 2027.
• The public vote and judging: April 2027.
• Winners: 15 May 2027.

Who can enter

• Makers aged 16 and over. Makers under 18 need the consent of a parent or guardian.
• Some countries may be excluded where the law restricts competitions; the list is settled before the event opens.
• The game's LazyFrog account is on the Hobby plan or higher, both when it enters and when it is judged.
• The game is published and public, and its project has no open security notice. If it stops being public or published, or its project is archived, deleted, suspended or moved to another account, the entry is withdrawn.
• One entry per project; a maker may enter several projects. Teams enter through the project's collaborators, and the entry names them.
• LazyFrog's own exhibition games are shown for fun and can't win.

While a game is in the event

An accepted entry's site shows its visitors a short "An LF Games 2027 entry" splash as it opens, at most once a day and skippable, from the opening of entries until the winners are announced. Afterwards a winner or finalist may show a small seal instead.

Categories

• Best Game: judged by the panel.
• Players' Choice: decided by the public vote alone.
• One Prompt: the game as a single prompt made it, with the prompt published.
• Remix: a remix of another entry, made your own with your AI.
• Multiplayer: more than one player, with a database behind it.
• Newcomer: the first game you ever made.

What a game may contain

• No adult content, gambling, hate or impersonation.
• The Acceptable Use Policy applies to every entry.
• Only assets the maker may use.

Using an AI, said openly

Every entry is built with an AI, and the entry says so. Where an entry claims the One Prompt category, its prompt is published with it.

Rights

The maker keeps everything they made. LazyFrog may show the game's name, a screenshot and the maker's chosen name on the event's pages and in material about the event.

How winners are chosen

LF Games is a competition of skill. A panel judges the entries against five marks: fun in the first minute; originality; polish, on a phone and with a keyboard only; ambition (data, accounts, multiplayer, real content); and honesty (AI use disclosed, the prompt shared where claimed, assets the maker may use). Judges don't judge entries by people they know.

The public vote is one vote per game per signed-in person, never for your own game. It decides Players' Choice alone and counts as one of the five marks in the judged categories, so a vote alone can't decide them.

Winners

Winners and finalists are announced on 15 May 2027 and told by email. No prizes are awarded.

Disqualification

An entry may be disqualified for stolen assets, undisclosed paid promotion, vote manipulation or content against these rules. The maker is told why, in plain words.