My Games Design

Godot winter icon A game dev jam to create a winter-themed open source game was community-initiated at the Godot forums . The (vote-determined) winner will get a budget of USD 50 to have donated to an open source project of their choice. What is Godot? Godot editor Godot  is a game engine. No wait, it's actually a game development IDE with its own Lua-based scripting language. As far as I can tell, it's a promising project that is a bit buggy, especially when it comes to mobile exports. It has some UI flaws  (subjectivity warning) but still, open source Godot is more appealing than proprietary Unity 3D. If you want to try making a game in Godot, I recommend this official tutorial as a starting point. Good luck & great success to you! What else? Another way to support Godot: "like" it as a Unity 3D alternative on alternativeTo .

PyWeek #16 in April PyWeek logo PyWeek is a game jam that obviously goes on for one week and requires the use of Python. It takes place online and there are overall winners in team and solo categories, as well as awards. The dates of the 16th PyWeek challenge are 00:00 UTC April 14, 2013 to 00:00 UTC April 21, 2013. Registration opens on 15. March 2013. There is a message board for the community and there are interesting methods to publish Python games as HTML/JavaScript using pyjs , as demonstrated by the PyWeek #15 entry  Kaos . License Requirements : At least Shared Source required . Free software licenses recommended. PyWeek #15 Entry: Rainbow Rooms Rainbow Rooms Video Rainbow Rooms is a physical-nonsense-maze puzzle game based on libtcod . Various fonts are being used, some of which might be problematic license-wise for including in for example Debian's official repositories but it should be possible to replace them in less than two hours including research and documen...