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QGDC Winter 2026 Game Jam

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Submitted by flaming910, A Roaming Camel — 26 minutes, 28 seconds before the deadline
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CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Gameplay - How does the game feel? Is it fun to play?#63.0093.250
Stability - Does the game crash unexplainably and unexpectedly?#133.7804.083
Audio - Does the game have audio? Does the audio fit the game?#152.4692.667
Theme Interpretation - How well does the game adhere to the chosen theme?#161.7741.917
Overall#162.5592.764
Graphics - Does the game look visually appealing?#162.3922.583
Novelty - Did the game do something new and never seen before?#171.9292.083

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Credit anyone who worked with you creating this jam submission!
Ahmad Al Shafie[/profile/a-roaming-camel]

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Vivian WebsterSubmitted254 days ago

I'm not sure this game works correctly. The asteroids don't seem to do any damage, and the glitches just sort of sometimes freeze your whole application. Love me a good space game though.

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A Roaming CamelDeveloper254 days ago

Thank you for the feedback!

So the damage: they do, it's just an insignificant amount of damage at the beginning of a run cause thematically, the asteroids get tougher as time goes in due to the glitch worsening. So damage taken is very low until like the 2 minute mark giving you leeway to grab some upgrades. By the 10 minute mark, every hit is disastrous.

The freeze issue: I couldn't recreate it. Can you provide some info about how exactly it happened so I can try mimicking that?

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Vivian WebsterSubmitted253 days ago

When just starting the game, I was running into the glitches to see what they would do. I'd give it a roughly 50% chance that the first one I ran into froze the screen, otherwise it would do nothing. The second one always froze it, though I only tried this process like 5 or 6 times in total. When the screen would freeze, the audio would keep going, but all the visual elements would stop. A translucent orange bar would appear and cover the whole horizontal of the screen, and most of the vertical, starting from the centre and going outwards. At that point, I would have to force close the game. What does running into a glitch usually do?

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A Roaming CamelDeveloper253 days ago

INTERESTING.
It's doing all the right stuff, but it seems to not be Spawning the upgrade cards.
It's supposed to pause the game and give you 3 upgrade cards to choose from (only 33% of glitches do so). You cannot pause or move until you choose a card so that's why you're freezing.

The only idea I have rn is perhaps the cards are showing up UNDER the orange banner due to Sprite Render Order. I could look into that and upload a new patch, but I think that would be against the rules of the game jam?

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Vivian WebsterSubmitted252 days ago

You can resubmit after voting period ends, which is a couple days from now. Jam games will be rated as is, but can be added to after so that returning players will see the new stuff.

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