QB64 Game Jam

[qbkiller101]

Hey!

So I've made this game jam on itch.io for games made with QB64.
It is a 10-day jam from 1st Feb till 10 Feb. And 10 to 14 is the rating and voting period.

You can join it at https://itch.io/jam/qb64-game-jam.

Please try to make builds for all three operating systems: Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

[FellippeHeitor]

🤩

[qbkiller101]

The Judges and Hosts are:

me
@FellippeHeitor

The theme will be discussed between us and posted here, on discord, twitter, and itch.

[johannhowitzer]

I've joined, very excited about this!  Never done a game jam before, though I've been doing game design all my life.

[johannhowitzer]

Where can I find info on building for Linux and Mac?  I've only ever compiled programs for Windows.

[FellippeHeitor]

Although we do support all three platforms, we don't do cross-compilation. You must be running QB64 in those systems to generate a binary for them.

At present, our sound library became incompatible for compilation in the latest macOS Big Sur - but binaries precompiled in other versions of the os still work fine. If you can, target macOS Catalina or Mojave. That way your compiled game will be able to work fine from there up.

[qbkiller101]

10 Days to start

[qbkiller101]

Where can I find info on building for Linux and Mac?  I've only ever compiled programs for Windows.

For Linux, you can use WSL.
More on that here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

Its easy to install.
From windows store get ubuntu, kali, or any linux distro, (not all are there), and some more steps, then compile.

You'll have to get qb64 and use command line arguments to compile as it has no display, tho you can get displays: https://medium.com/for-linux-users/gui-linux-on-windows-is-coming-7c199b15b72
Shift to discord ill tell you.

[blametroi]

I've run QB64 on WSL using VcXsrv and it works OK. There are tearing effects when I move or resize windows. Since I could fall back to native windows, I never dug in deeper.

[qbkiller101]

7 Days to go!
and 7 people joined :|
Please join people.

[Dav]

Sounds kind of fun. Im thinking of entering, but not sure yet. Are there any restrictions on using external files? (Sounds, images, etcs)

Edit: I just read where to make builds for all os, i do t think I could do that here.

- Dav

[qbkiller101]

No no you can freely use libraries, c++, sounds, images, everything
and its not required to make builds for all OSes, just preferred in case you have another os lying somewhere
and you need to post source code
so people with other OSes can build in case you haven't.
If you made builds for all then no need.

[Pete]

Or is this just a way to collect free games without searching the archives or building them yourself? Are you sure it's not hosted on Scamazon.com?

Pete

[johnno56]

7 Days to go!
and 7 people joined :|
Please join people.

In 1964, Simon and Garfunkel, release a song entitled, "The Sparrow"

To quote line 5 of the third stanza, "I would if I could but I cannot I know."

Thank you for the invitation. I look forward to seeing the results.

J

[Dav]

Thanks for clarifying for me, @qbkiller101. 

- Dav