The 30-Minute AI Game Jam: Flappy Bird Edition
Bring a laptop. Prompt a game. Play it on the big screen.
You get a plain Flappy Bird, an AI and 30 minutes. Turn it into something nobody's seen before: a boss fight, webcam controls, 2-player, a Portsmouth campus reskin. Up to you.
Try the base game you'll be remixing: https://uopaisociety.github.io/flappy-ai-jam/
How it works
Turn up, open your laptop, grab a seat.
We help you set up Gemini (free for students). Any AI tool is fine.
We share the base Flappy Bird repo.
The timer starts: 30 minutes, prompts only.
Every game goes on the projector and we play them live.
Star and fork the repo to enter judging.
Three awards: Best Engineered, Most Unhinged Prompt (no coding needed) and People's Choice (room vote).
What you leave with
A working game you can share with a link and keep on your GitHub, plus real practice getting an AI to write, fix and change code for you.
Who it's for
Students only. Open to University of Portsmouth students on any course, in any year. No coding needed. If you can type a sentence, you can make a game. Bring a charged laptop and your charger.
Before Thursday
Optional: claim Google AI Plus, free for 12 months for UK students (then £4.49/mo unless you cancel). Go to one.google.com/ai-student with your personal Gmail. Do it early, because student verification can take a few days. 18+, redeem by 31 Dec. Free Gemini works too.
Recommended: make a free GitHub account at github.com/signup (about 2 minutes). No account? Build in Gemini Canvas and submit its Share link instead.
We'll confirm the room here and on WhatsApp as soon as it's booked.
Free and for students only. Run by the University of Portsmouth AI Society.