[Announcement] MakeCode Arcade Mini Game Jam #23 - Tiny Worlds Jam!

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Hey folks!

It’s the first, ahem, Wednesday of the month which means it’s time for a new mini game jam! This month’s theme comes to us from @osullivp, Tiny Worlds jam!

So what exactly is a tiny world? Well that’s up to you to decide! Some good interpretations of this theme are:

…boy I really enjoy coming up with lists of games for these!

Rules

  1. Games should be built in MakeCode Arcade
  2. Games should clearly adhere to the theme without the need for any extra explanation
  3. Keep the games PG: no NSFW, offensive, or excessively violent content.
  4. You must be at least 9 years old to participate.
  5. All games must be submitted by someone who is at least 13 years old. Younger students are welcome to participate, but it must be in partnership with an adult and with parent permission.

You have three weeks to enter! The jam will close at 11:59 PM PDT on Monday, September 23rd 2024. We will be playing all the submissions on our livestream on the Friday after the jam closes, so look forward to that!

Submit your games by posting them in this thread!

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Ooh! What a stupendous theme. It is a lot larger than most mini-jam themes, and I can not wait to see how people interpret it.

cogs in head whirring noise

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lol
i wonder if we can make combo games

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Count me in!

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oh reminds me of that super Mario 64 world where your either very big or very small.

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this sounds fun I have never done one of these before so i might as well do this one

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time to make Tiny Platformer

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Guess who just finished most of the generation of my game! not the finished product but thought I would show my progress for fun.

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Didn’t I just post a game called tinytown

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Where can the livestream be found

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Welcome, @TheJetPack !

The team streams live on Twitch. The livestream usually is simulcast to YouTube. The recording will be posted to YouTube afterward, too.

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soo I wasn’t able to make a actual game and probably won’t be able to, but I’ve made a tiny world so I’m happy :slight_smile: .

eventually, this is just a base for any sort of survival game or colony game anyone wants to make using it, so yeah. (also PS, I worked off of TZG’s code but ended up just using some of the idea while writing my own code, just wanted to say before someone mentions it doesn’t look to similar)

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currently i am making a game were you are small and the world is also small/normal sized and you are going to have to find a evil elf that made you short and there are birds that insult you because your short

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i have fixed what was marked as a bad word (swizz) to crap

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Yes, that was the inspiration. Oddly I actually preferred wet dry world. The music was so atmospheric and I loved the pond skaters.

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Hi all,

My entry to the Jam (assuming I am allowed to enter as the theme proposer!) is called ‘Raindrop Dash’.

In the game you play a girl called Lila who after reading a fairy tale, find herself transported to a little big world where she is tiny and the raindrops are massive.

The aim of the game is to avoid the raindrops and last as long as possible. Controls are just left and right:

Raindrop Dash

Enjoy!

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screams of joy

really interesting theme. I’m looking forward to see what people come up with!

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I have an n64 and super mario 64 but i’ve seen too many super mario 64 analog horror and i’m sometimes paranoid that something scary is gonna happen so i haven’t played it much.

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Professor Layton had a movie with an original story.

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