PWR Global Build Challenge — Official Rules

PWR Global Build Challenge — Season 1: Game Jam · Official Rules · Version s1-2026-11-12

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING, YOUR JUDGING SCORE OR YOUR VOTING WEIGHT. OPEN ONLY TO ELIGIBLE ADULTS WHO RESIDE IN A PARTICIPATING JURISDICTION. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

1. Sponsor

The Challenge is sponsored by PWR Build LLC, 11812 Gray Rock Trl, Windermere, FL 34786, United States ("Sponsor"). Contact: support@pwr.build.

The Challenge is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Meta, Facebook, Instagram, GitHub, Anthropic, OpenAI or any other platform or AI tool provider. By entering, you release them from any liability connected with the Challenge.

2. What the Challenge is

The PWR Global Build Challenge recognizes the best original game produced with autonomous AI development agents. You may use PWR or qualifying third-party AI development tools. Entrants who do not use PWR must meet exactly the same requirements and are judged in exactly the same way.

3. Dates

Entries received after the submission deadline are not accepted. The Sponsor's clock is the official clock for the Challenge.

4. Who may enter

You may enter if, when you enter, you:

1. are at least 18 years old and have reached the age of majority where you live;
2. legally reside in a participating jurisdiction listed in section 5;
3. accept these Official Rules;
4. submit an original qualifying game that you have the rights to submit; and
5. meet the AI development requirements in section 7.

Employees, contractors and other personnel of the Sponsor who are directly involved in judging or administering the Challenge, and members of their immediate families and households, may not enter.

One final submission per person. You may not enter through multiple identities or email addresses. Team entries are submitted by one eligible person who takes responsibility for the entry and receives any prize.

5. Participating jurisdictions

Participating jurisdictions:

• United States: all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

• United Kingdom: England, Scotland, Wales only.

• Canada: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon.

• Australia: New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia only.

• New Zealand: nationwide.

• Quebec is not participating at launch. Quebec's Charter of the French Language requires the contest rules and related materials to be available in French. No French version exists yet. (The former Régie filing and duties were abolished in October 2023 and are not the reason.)

Not participating: Brazil, Philippines, Mainland China, India, Singapore, Northern Ireland, Australian Capital Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Northern Territory, every country in the European Union and European Economic Area, and every jurisdiction not listed above.

Residence is declared when you enter and confirmed with documents if you are a potential winner. Location data is never used on its own to accept or reject an entry.

Residents of any jurisdiction not listed as participating are not eligible to enter or win. This does not affect anyone's ability to buy or use PWR where that is lawful.

6. No purchase necessary

No purchase, PWR subscription or payment of any kind to the Sponsor is necessary to enter, to win or to vote. You may build your entry with PWR or with qualifying third-party tools, using your own resources. The Sponsor does not give free PWR credits for the Challenge. Buying PWR does not improve your judging score, your ranking or anyone's voting weight.

7. AI development requirements

This is an autonomous AI game development competition. All production source code in your entry must be generated or modified by AI development agents. Human-authored production code is not allowed.

You may: write prompts; create the game concept; direct agents; approve plans; test gameplay; request revisions; manage the repository; and create or select appropriately licensed creative assets (art, audio, fonts).

Your entry must show at least two separate agent roles:

1. development and implementation; and
2. independent review or QA that evaluated the actual implemented project.

8. What to submit

Submit one public GitHub repository containing:

1. the game's source code;
2. a meaningful Git commit history (the primary evidence of how the game was developed);
3. a product requirements document (PRD);
4. an implementation or development plan;
5. automated unit or integration tests;
6. a code coverage report;
7. the independent AI QA or review findings;
8. a playable build or an accessible deployment;
9. build and run instructions; and
10. known limitations.

Through the entry form you give links to each item, name the development and review agents or tools you used, and confirm that the game is your original work and that you accept these rules.

You do not have to share private credentials or complete agent conversations. If there is a documented concern about authenticity, the Sponsor may ask for additional reasonable evidence. Private repositories are not accepted in Season 1.

9. Verification of entries

Every entry goes through the same checks: the repository and its history, evidence of AI-agent development, a separate review agent, the PRD, plan, tests, coverage and README, a playable build, the declarations, and eligible residence. A check the system cannot judge automatically is reviewed by a person. Entries are not rejected merely because their evidence is in a different format from PWR's.

10. Judging and winner selection

The winner is chosen by skill, never by chance:

• 70% — PWR judging team. At least three judges score each eligible entry, each criterion from 0 to 10:

  Criterion	Weight
  Gameplay and fun	40%
  Creativity and originality	30%
  Polish and presentation	20%
  Technical execution	10%

  A judge with a conflict of interest with an entry does not score it.

• 30% — verified community vote (section 11).

Scoring method (version s1-v1), fixed before voting begins:

• J = the average, across the judges eligible to score the entry, of each judge's weighted score, on a scale of 0 to 100.
• V = the number of counted community votes for the entry.
• C = 100 × V ÷ the highest V of any eligible entry (0 if no entry has a vote).
• Final score = 0.70 × J + 0.30 × C, rounded to two decimals.

The highest final score among eligible entries wins, subject to verification.

Ties are resolved in this order: (1) higher J; (2) higher average gameplay score; (3) higher average creativity score; (4) higher average technical execution score; (5) additional independent judging of the tied entries under the same rubric. Ties are never resolved at random.

11. Community voting

Voting is free and needs no PWR account or subscription. Voters must verify an email address and live in a participating jurisdiction. One vote per person for the whole Challenge. Entrants may not vote for their own entry. Votes cannot be bought, and no one has extra voting power.

To protect the vote, automated submissions are rejected, and unusual activity (for example very fast submissions or many votes from one network) is held for review by a person before it counts. Duplicate identities, purchased votes and coordinated manipulation are not counted and may lead to disqualification of the entry that benefits. Vote records are kept for audit.

12. Prize

One Grand Prize: USD 1,000, paid by the Sponsor. No fee is required to claim it. The winner must provide the information reasonably necessary for lawful payment and tax reporting (for example a Form W-9 in the United States, or the applicable form elsewhere). The prize is paid to the winner only, cannot be transferred, and taxes on it are the winner's responsibility. Payment will be initiated within 30 days after verification is complete and the required documents are received.

13. Winner verification

The potential winner must confirm their identity, age, residence, authorship and rights to the entry, and provide payment details. If the potential winner cannot be verified, does not respond within 10 days of being contacted, or is found ineligible, the entry is disqualified, results are recalculated without it, and the next eligible entry by score becomes the potential winner.

14. Ownership and licence

You keep ownership of your game. You give the Sponsor a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, judge, display and showcase your entry and the material you submitted, in connection with the Challenge, during the Challenge and in its public showcase afterwards. The Sponsor will ask for your separate permission before using your game, footage, name or likeness in paid advertising unrelated to running the Challenge.

15. Disqualification

The Sponsor may disqualify an entry for a documented material violation, including: a false identity; ineligible residence; plagiarism or infringement; human-authored production code; falsified AI development evidence; manipulated voting; a malicious submission; or any other material breach of these rules. Rules are applied consistently to every entrant.

16. Conduct of the Challenge

If the Challenge cannot run as planned because of fraud, technical failure or another cause beyond the Sponsor's control, the Sponsor may suspend it and resume it once the issue is fixed, or, where permitted by law, end it and award the prize from eligible entries received before the problem, judged under these rules. Any change will be posted here and will not unfairly affect entries already made.

17. Privacy

To run the Challenge, the Sponsor collects your email address (to verify you and contact you), your name or display name, your declared residence, your entry links and declarations, and, if you are a potential winner, the documents needed for verification and payment. Voters' email addresses are stored only as keyed hashes. Information is handled under the Privacy Policy. The Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy also apply.

18. General

The Challenge is governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, subject to mandatory laws where you live. By entering, you agree that the Sponsor's decisions on eligibility and on these rules are final, provided they are made consistently with these rules.

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