[Announcement] MakeCode Arcade Mini Game Jam #38 - Puzzle Jam Part Two!

Better, better.
Update 1.3

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Can people tell me what they want in Cuble 1.4? I’m already working on a save game, and, I’m just wondering if there’s anything people want to see.

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How are you supposed to beat it look at the amount of 6 7 and 8

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add coins you need to collect before you enter the next level

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A level editor ? Maybe larger than screen levels

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You should add sound effects to the UI!

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I was going to join this jam and make a 3d escape room game, but it proved itself to be too difficult so I gave up.

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vro we need boss battle pt2

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blocks that ocassionally start and stop being solid (pink and cyan blocks in my game)

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No more ideas!

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Introducing: Countdown

While the link will work for either solo play or local multiplayer, you also can play over the network … and multiplayer is much more fun!

MakeCode Arcade Multiplayer
https://arcade.makecode.com/--multiplayer?host=S15833-26854-36199-43103

This project is based off the U.K game show. If you’re not familiar with Countdown, then please play with tutorials turned on. They will walk you through each phase of the game. The Quick Game has four rounds and will give you a good idea of how the game works.

The host computer should be a rather beefy computer, as the project needs some serious compute power to load the word lists and to solve the numbers rounds. The word lists load during the “wait screen” at the beginning.

Sample load times
  • On my primary dev machine (AMD Ryzen 7 @ 3.8 GHz), the word lists take between 10 and 15 seconds to load.
  • On my office machine, which is quite a bit older (Intel Xeon Silver @ 2.10 GHz), the word lists take about 30 seconds to load.
  • My laptop (Intel Core i5 10gen @ 1.60 GHz) only takes about 20 seconds.
  • On my old Chromebook (Intel Celeron N3350 @ 1.10 GHz), the word lists take a hilarious minute and a half to load.
  • My fairly new Android phone takes about 30 seconds to load.
  • My Xbox One X takes about a minute to load.

If the word lists take longer than about 30 seconds to load, then your machine probably will struggle a bit when solving the numbers round. It will only really affect the background music playing while the computer (and the players!) are solving the round.

You can find more information in my dev log. Have pencil and paper handy, and enjoy Countdown!


Full credits are provided in the code. Key credits:

  • Music: William Alan Hackshaw, arranged by Leo
  • Algorithms for letters and numbers rounds: Christopher Jennings
  • Word lists: Game Words 2020
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I saw this post on Thursday the 11th, and was working to make my game, then I recently saw that you have to enter before the last Friday of the month, does this mean I can not participate?

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I may try this out

Wait, I’m just starting the game jam now. Is multiplayer games allowed?

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@BraveNewt48 you can still participate! just submit your game before next friday

@Spike of course!

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Hey, welcome to the forums!

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Welcome to the forums!

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welcome to da forums!

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Do not use save or load buttons. your game will do this:

This Will Be Yall: KA-BOOM Explosion

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would plinko count as a puzzle game?

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