This is more like a competition than anything, GameJams is an integral part of the indie games communities and something a fair share of developers likes doing.

It's a way to try to come up with new concepts and get feedback on it. Often with one or more constraints/themes from the specific jam you're participating in

There's chess games in less than 50 bytes.

Many of the earlier SNES games were below 2 MB too, for example, Super Mario World is around half a MB, and A Link to the Past is around 1 MB.

In era of hundreds of GB game, to see someone make game less than 2 MB is very surprising. it's like we going back to NES era where every game fit in one single cartridge, no update, no DLC, and no resources hogging, everything was smooth

As a result of this panic attack, MS Teams will use 30MB more RAM on the next startup. You should know better than to frighten poor MS Teams, when you know it's got poor self-esteem!

We had hundreds with pirated games for our C64. Alongside miles of printouts to see which game is on which disk.

Procedural generation.

Procedural generation everywhere.

And, to further honour the Zip drive, every game submitted must be corrupt and unreadable.

the freshly prepared game must be able to squeeze onto a single HD floppy disk - that’s just 1.44MB

Literally in the first paragraph of the article.

I actually had 5 and a quarter inch floppies as a kid and apparently they cap out at 1.2MB. They had pretty rad games, although I barely remember why we had like, hundreds of them, obtained second hand I guess.

Plus, it lets you cook an egg in the surface of your laptop.

I would love to see a return to the floppy and old-school computing, esp in response to hardware skyrocketing in price... I know it's unrealistic but it hits me right in the nostalgia reading about this stuff

Wait, are entrants allowed to spread their game across multiple floppy disks, as was commonplace in the 90s?

Bonus points for saves being written to the floppy without checking if there is important files there already, leading to a broken game if the save file is put on the wrong floppy.

I have played it, it is a damn cool concept, the graphics looks cool but I found the actual gameplay to be rather sluggish.

Teams does that even when running entirely unconstrained.

MS Teams just had a panic attack.

Best I can do is 60GB of AI generated assets for my farming/life simulator

How about a full 100MB to honor the late not-so-great Zip drive?

I think I can hear .kkrieger laughing scornfully.

What a great idea.

gods forbid people make typos...

Drinking game: drink every time someone misspells rogue as rouge

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totally just posted a screenshot instead of the actual game link... fixed now sigh https://lemjukes.itch.io/kacs

Thank you :)

Those lan parties are part of what inspired me to make this. There are not enough web games nowadays that you can quickly and freely play with your friends either in the same screen, same network, or just online anymore.