Q. What is this?

We're making loads of awesome and/or terrible games and taking them to GDC to blow minds with them! Over the weekend of February 25th-26th, everyone is invited to make as many games as they can and submit them here! After the event is over, we will package the games up into a launcher like we did with previous Pirate Karts! And then this March we will be showing them off in a kiosk at the Game Developer's Conference!!!

Q. Who can participate?

ANYONE! EVERYONE! If you or anyone you know makes games, or even just has an interest in making games, we would love to have you all participate! If you've never made a game before, we think Klik & Play is pretty easy to learn! but any tool is allowed and there are lots of great ones out there!

Q. What are the rules? What kind of games are allowed?

Pretty much anything you want to make is allowed! This isn't a competition, there are no prizes, and we want as many people and as many games as we can get, so we probably wouldn't turn you away for any of these, but here's what to aim for:

Try to make each game in 2 hours or less! Don't worry if you go over, though.
Unlike the recent IGF Pirate Kart, with this one we're looking for games made for this Pirate Kart instead of games you've already made!


Q. THIS IS AWESOME! HOW DO I PARTICIPATE?

Get yourself comfortable with some development environment, then when Pirate Kart Weekend arrives, MAKE GAMES LIKE CRAZY!!!

Q. I MADE A GAME(S)! HOW DO I SUBMIT IT/THEM?

SWEET! First, sign up for a Glorious Trainwrecks account if you haven't yet (you can do that ). Then click [url=http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/add/game]this, fill in the form, upload a game and a screenshot and submit and then YOUR GAME IS IN THE KART!

Q. I want to make a game, but don't know how to code one!

No prob! There is a lot of free tools for your game-making needs. Some more obscure than the others.

Klik n' Play is the classic. Outdated, limited, buggy and absolutely wonderful for churning masses of games.
Construct 2 uses HTML5 and you can create a nifty on-line game.
Official Hamster Republic RPG Construction Engine
(converter to standalone exe files: [url=http://chirp.scratchr.org/dl/ChirpCompiler-setup.exe]http://chirp.scratchr.org/dl/ChirpCompiler-setup.exe
Oh! My! Game!
BYOND (simple programming language)
Novashell (script-based)
The Scrolling Game Development Kit
The Scrolling Game Development Kit 2
Adventure Game Studio
Game Maker Lite
Ray Game Designer II
ZGameEditor
Processing
MegaZeux
ZZT
Unity 3D

Go on! Make a game you always wanted, and join the madness!

Official website of the event

Oh hey! That bit you added at the end about game-making tools should definitely be on the website! *yoink*

Looks interesting... someone likes to team up to put something funny together on Oh! My! Game! ?

Online game creation tool (no download required), and as I understood you can build together on a project :)

Thanks for compiling the original Pirate Kart! Had fun with it.

This sounds really fun. I'll try and make something.

Oh, hi Mike! Thanks for posting it on the GT :)

Made some grammar and BBCode corrections, should be more understandable now.

Just wanted to add one more Game Engine to the list :)

http://www.3drad.com

3D Game Engine, Royalte Free for commercial use, absolutely free to use, no programming needed to create a game but can be expanded by self written plugins.

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