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Is Game Engine / Graphics Library Allowed?

A topic by largenumbergoeshere created 39 days ago Views: 149 Replies: 4
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Hi there,
I'm curious about this Jam but I have no experience with the specific tooling listed. Am I allowed to use a conventional game engine or graphics library for a submission?

For example, I could use Godot and put a plain text input box and submit button at the bottom with plain text at the top. I would use the engine's default UI styling choices and none of its graphical featuresoutside of text formatting and that mentioned. Another similar approach I had in mind is to use the raylib library and similarly draw a plain text box and submit button and program the text formatting and everything else by hand.

I'm not fussed on the exact details, my preference here is to use what I am familiar with and make it fit with within the rules given. 

Would this category of submission have potential to be accepted? If so, are there any other explicit criteria I should be aware of that pertain to my unusual case? 

Thank you for your time.

I had the same question. I was planning on using Unity Engine, if it is allowed.

Jam Host(+1)

Hi, thank you for your interest in the jam and sorry for the late reply! We’re not very familiar with Godot or Unity so it’s hard to say for sure. Designing a new UI or using external libraries to the engine would not be allowed, but only using default engine features to display text and buttons would be fine.

yo, i have a question too, my computer is too slow to make games with engines, and i was thinking about using pygame for making my submittion, what would be the "default ui" for the "engine"?

Jam Host

Sorry, I’m not very familiar with pygame. If you can make a view with just displayed text, user input (choices or text input), and nothing else, that should be okay.

Honestly, I would generally recommend using an IF-specific tool such as twine or something like that.