Hello! Joining game jams is a great way to practice gamedev, but I realized most jams are very short which can be very inconvenient: They encourage crunch, which is counterproductive. They make it hard to fit a game that you actually would like to make within the timeframe. And they aren't meant to be done successively, unless you want to burn out.

I think that one month is a great timeframe to make a small game comfortably and on your own terms, and still get feedback for it. This is where the challenge comes in: make one game every month, no matter how small, and publish it on itch.io for others to play and provide feedback.

Also, it doesn't matter how long you keep up with the challenge, there are no prizes and it's not supposed to be competitive. So don't feel pressured in that way. The point is to build a community where we encourage each other to keep making games and improving on a regular basis.

Here is the discord server: https://discord.gg/5CHZ5GVMgY

And here is the jam's page:https://itch.io/jam/one-game-a-month

P.S. Board games count too!

There were GameDev.net challenges some time back. I believe another one may happen at some point - but I guess it took a long time for @khawk to make, and not many actually finished it. Also, the number of participants tends to be somewhat smaller (yet it is mostly from scratch or on people's own engines - which I personally appreciate by far more than using Unity/Unreal Engine).

I'd participate again, but no idea whether I would finish it at all (life and work tends to take quite a lot of my time, yet I always enjoy participating in a jam). The longer ones are more appreciated the older you get (making 72 hours in "single slot" free for game jam is a lot harder, than making few hours every day or two).

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As for your jam, if nothing else is around - I may join - we will see. Month is still not that much time, but it is enough to make something working.