The fourth annual GMTK Game Jam has broken it’s previous year’s record! GMTK Game Jam is a 48-hour game-making competition focused on design, mechanics, and clever ideas. The competition has just ended, and had a record-breaking 5.4k submissions and 18.3k participants on itch.io.
This year’s theme was Out of Control and the quality of entries matched the quantity. Here are a few of my favorite open source games (or with source code available) in no particular order.
ProTip: Be sure to read the controls for each game very carefully as there may be a few surprises!
(Web, Windows, macOS, Linux) · Source (Godot, GDScript)
A Key(s) Path is a fantastically fun puzzle and platformer game with a rather unique game mechanic. @geegaz gives you three movement keys ←
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, the ability to drag them into the game world, and use them as platforms. The key to success here is to think about the movement options that you don’t need.
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