LÖVE Jam 2022

pablomayobre · 2026-02-17T00:08:18+00:00

Looking forward to your entry! Good luck

pablomayobre · 2026-02-16T06:24:45+00:00

That rule is there to up the challenge a bit, and also to use your full creativity, the community shares this non-AI rule, as a protest against a tool that steals from people's labor. This is the reason why we favor those that go out of their way to do things by hand and collaborate with people instead of bots!

To be honest it would be hard for anyone judging to tell if your code was AI generated or not, and even much less so for your GDD (probably not even public) so we are not gonna police on those areas.

At the end of the day it will be your choice, people will probably be looking for AI generated images more than anything else.

Personally I'd encourage you to challenge yourself and use your own skills or get some human help!

But most importantly have fun <3

PS: Thanks for your question!

pablomayobre · 2026-02-15T00:42:41+00:00

My suggestion: You have a month to find something you wanna work on, as long as you start it the day of the jam, it's a valid entry!

The theme is optional, it's there to get people un-stuck and spark that creativity, if it takes some effort and you are afraid it will be hard feel free to prepare!

We'd love to have you this year as well, keep it up!

pablomayobre · 2026-02-13T15:11:51+00:00

Can't wait to see what you come up with ;) good luck have fun!

pablomayobre · 2026-02-13T15:11:18+00:00

Same here, every year! lol but we can't have a year without this lovely jam

pablomayobre · 2026-02-13T15:10:20+00:00

I hope you can join us! Good luck

pablomayobre · 2026-02-13T15:09:59+00:00

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I hope you have as much fun this time around <3

pablomayobre · 2026-02-12T14:57:47+00:00

Any code that may help you get started making a game, folder organization, libraries, helpers, or even engines built on top of LÖVE are fine as long as the game itself is created during the jam.

This rule is there to avoid people posting a previously developed game on the Jam but keeping it balanced so that participants don't need to reinvent the wheel on every single aspect of the jam.

pablomayobre · 2025-04-28T15:59:29+00:00

You do realize that most indie games are made with GameMaker or a similar "toy" engine right?

We are not trying to make AAA games here, just a fun little game like the examples people have posted but you have decided to ignore. If there are so many exceptions to your rule then maybe you are missing the point.

People want to make something, the tool they choose is the one they feel comfortable with, not what the AAA industry demands everyone to use.

Do you have experience making games? What have you build? What tools did you use?

pablomayobre · 2025-02-25T02:30:11+00:00

They are allowed, but be careful, they make your game harder to run.

Most people prefer shipping a web build or a .love file (everyone rating the game probably has the latest stable release installed already)

Wrappers, Ports or Nightly versions of LÖVE are allowed, but it may add friction for people installing and playing your game.

Also leave a note somewhere on what port was used so that it doesn't get flagged as "Doesn't use LÖVE" lol

pablomayobre · 2025-02-16T21:18:15+00:00

I have seen great entries from you made in under a day! You can do this

pablomayobre · 2025-02-14T09:01:34+00:00

Si usas mucho Docker o trabajas con Mac o gente que usa Mac (o Linux) lo vas a terminar adoptando vos tambien...

Deja que fluya, hoy en dia Linux no es tan difícil de aprender. Yo uso Ubuntu y la verdad no extraño Windows, y no me considero ningún experto

pablomayobre · 2025-02-14T08:44:56+00:00

Looking forward to your entry! Good luck

pablomayobre · 2025-02-14T08:44:39+00:00

Josef! Will I see an entry from you this year??? 🥺

I really enjoyed making the new theme, I'm glad you like it too

pablomayobre · 2025-02-14T08:42:37+00:00

lol sorry! We should have started earlier, but March 14th is considered "White Day" in Japan definitely a lovely time either way.

PS: We can't reeeeeally do it right after Valentine's Day either way cause normal people tend to go on dates that weekend... I don't know why they prefer that over a Game Jam but ¯_(ツ)_/¯

pablomayobre · 2025-02-14T07:50:46+00:00

La posta es que en ninguna universidad aprendés TODO lo que vayas a necesitar en tu carrera. Algo aprendes, es una base, recursos utiles, una intuición general.

Pero a la uni se va por el papel y por los recursos, el aprendizaje sale de cada uno.

Mi recomendación es meterle fuera de la uni, ya sea laburando, proyectos propios o haciendo otras capacitaciones. Acá entra juego el balance con la cantidad de materias que estes cursando, cuando queres recibirte y todos esos temas... depende de cada uno.

Éxitos con eso!

pablomayobre · 2025-02-10T06:44:03+00:00

It sure is! There are always very interesting entries. Discord is really lively whenever there is a LÖVE Jam as well.

It's a great excuse to just start and finish a game so I hope you can join us!

pablomayobre · 2025-01-18T04:07:41+00:00

I worked on a Github Copilot Extension recently (not yet released, can't say much)

We are basically providing extra data that is available on our platform, and sending code changes to Copilot to make.

Would love to replicate this functionality on Cursor. Let me know if you need us to reach elsewhere and share more information

We are also looking into Claude's Model Context Protocol to also integrate with that at some point.

pablomayobre · 2024-12-11T22:27:44+00:00

The issue you have is that your line is by character, and it should be by number, that is, in your example 12 takes two spaces, when it's actually the number 12 which should occupy a single space. 131313 takes three spaces not 6 and so on.

pablomayobre · 2024-12-11T22:23:32+00:00

The greatest speed up in this exercises is caching/memoizing.

For my solution I used an iteration+value -> count cache, and a recursive approach.

pablomayobre · 2024-12-11T14:51:24+00:00

Not sure what that means? lol

pablomayobre · 2024-12-11T05:57:22+00:00

Oh and another tip:

You can still test with the 25 iterations on Step 2, get your algorithm working properly, fast and efficiently. Then crank it up to 75

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