Game Jam on you might find me here https://hideout.ink/tags/game-jam/ Recent content in Game Jam on you might find me here you might find me here https://hideout.ink/images/dead.gif https://hideout.ink/images/dead.gif Hugo -- 0.146.5 en-us Wed, 21 May 2025 22:26:19 +0100 Call of the Kraken, a Playdate game https://hideout.ink/notes/ldj55/ Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://hideout.ink/notes/ldj55/ <blockquote> <p>I made my first Playdate game for the Ludum Dare Jam 55 and lived to tell about it.</p></blockquote> <p>The Playdate is a small fantasy console in which one can develop games using their SDK. The cool thing about the console is that it has a crank that you can use in your games. For development, you can choose to either work with Lua or the C language.</p> <p>I&rsquo;ve had my eyes on this device for a few months now, so when I saw them for sale at GDC, I bought one without hesitation. I also convinced a couple of Colombian game developer friends to buy one with the excuse that we would make games and at least get 1 USD in sales back.</p>

I made my first Playdate game for the Ludum Dare Jam 55 and lived to tell about it.

The Playdate is a small fantasy console in which one can develop games using their SDK. The cool thing about the console is that it has a crank that you can use in your games. For development, you can choose to either work with Lua or the C language.

I’ve had my eyes on this device for a few months now, so when I saw them for sale at GDC, I bought one without hesitation. I also convinced a couple of Colombian game developer friends to buy one with the excuse that we would make games and at least get 1 USD in sales back.

A few weeks passed after my GDC trip, and the Ludum Dare was just around the corner. We decided it was a great opportunity for us to start developing on the platform, so we put up a team of three to make a small Playdate game.

You can test the game (and rate it if you feel like it) by going to the game's Ludum Dare Jam site .

]]> rise and dice https://hideout.ink/notes/mfgj/ Sat, 11 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://hideout.ink/notes/mfgj/ A Micro Fiction Game Jam 2023 game I recently found out about the Micro Fiction Games Jam which, to quote its website, “it is intended to be a yearly game jam where people write and submit very short format games, on a theme, just for fun.” This year’s rules are Rule, Topple and Renew.

I made this small game to play when I wake up.

The Rules:

  1. Wake up
  2. Roll the dice (D6)
  3. If roll falls in the number of day of the week, sleep 5 more minutes
  4. Wait 24h and start again
  5. If Sunday (7), free pass, sleep 5 more minutes
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