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One secret to winning

A topic by Luxodd Games created Mar 02, 2026 Views: 174 Replies: 6
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Host

Quick reality check for everyone building:

This is an arcade-first jam, so ask yourself:

•	Can someone understand my game in 5 seconds?
•	Are runs short?
•	Can players instantly retry?
•	Is the core loop obvious?

If someone walks up mid-game, can they tell what’s happening? If not, pls simplify.

This jam reward: • Clarity • Tension • Replayability

Not feature overload.

Submitted

Question: Do you get extra points for using Scratch, which is a block-based, limited kind of video game development, where its practictly impossible to make anything good>\?

Host (1 edit)

Please don’t do that 🤣😉

Submitted

well im a semi-professional in Scratch and on a school Chromebook XD, so I'm limited to ONLY that if i get any money from any jams IM GETING A COMPUTER  this can barely BARELY handle  Godot

Submitted

but I do use Turbowarp and its runs the blocks of code into javascript and i can add extensions to do ANYTHING a real game would do but on scratch you cant only turbowarp

Submitted

Is it okay if the game only has keyboard controls at the moment, and if our game is chosen for a cabinet, we can add joystick controls at that time?

Host

You’ll want joystick and buttons to be mapped to be competitive