Today we are announcing the second official MakeCode Arcade Game Jam!
Our theme this time around is “one room”. In other words, games must take place entirely in one location and use no more than one tilemap. A room can be any enclosed space, so feel free to get creative! Some possible ideas might include:
A game where the player must solve puzzles to escape a locked room
A mystery where the player interrogates suspects at the scene of a crime
A restaurant simulator where you weave through tables to serve hungry guests
A woodpecker defending the hollowed-out inside of a tree from wood-boring beetles
Check out the itch.io page for the full details and rules. The jam will start on Monday, March 16th and end on Monday, March 23rd.
Remember, you need to register for the game jam and submit your entries on itch.io to participate!
This time around, we will not be combining the entries into a single game. Instead, we’ll have a round-up post on the MakeCode blog that highlights some of our favorite submissions. Feel free to post about your games and share ideas in this forum as well! We are especially interested in hearing about any new blocks/APIs that would make the Arcade experience better.
Exciting! Will get my students to submit also. Just making sure I can submit their games/ multiple games under my account. They don’t each need an itch.io account correct?
“In the spirit of WarioWare, Inc., you’ll create a micro-game that can be played in 5 seconds. Afterwards, we’ll combine these individual micro-games into one continuous game so your creation, along with those from everyone else, can be played back-to-back.”
Some of you may have noticed that @shakao, @darzu, and I have been live streaming some arcade coding this week on our youtube channel. Well, this Friday we will be hosting a game jam themed stream.
Tune in to watch us make a one room game from scratch with absolutely no preparation beforehand!
We´re a little makerclub in a little town in Alcantarilla Spain.
Now with the confinement due to the pandemic we cannot go outside. For this reason we have encouraged our students to participate. We have a little problem. They are creating their Itch.io accounts to upload the games but they do not appear on the submissions page, although if they enter their profiles, they are presented. Do you know if it is taking time to update the website or if we are doing something wrong?
Here´s my dashboard, it appears presented
I want to take the opportunity to congratulate you for what you are doing and I encourage you to make more GameJams for kids. They love Arcade Makecode.
Hello and welcome! Hm, so it seems I can see the title of the game on the game jam admin page, but I can’t click on the game itself. The problem might be that the status of the game is set to “Draft” or "Restricted–you can check by going to ‘edit’ the submitted game and scrolling to the bottom of the page:
