Game Jam: Can't Stop Moving

By The Code Zone team 5 December 2022 1 min read

We've had a great time watching our Hackers and Modders taking part in our recent game jam "Can't Stop Moving"!

Hello once again my fellow coders! We've had a great time watching our Hackers and Modders taking part in our recent game jam "Can't Stop Moving"!

Our game jams are a time where our members can have some creative freedom to make a game or animation to a theme set by us, the mentors!

Our theme this time was "Can't Stop Moving" which brings to mind endless runners commonly seen in mobile games. Our members ran with this theme, creating awesome games such as "Space Bar Showdown", "Delivery Alpaca", "Geometry Dash Fail", and more!

Remember to go play these games on the dashboard and give xp to your favourites!

How a game jam works

Six to eight weeks of club
An hour a week, the same mentor, a group of no more than six. Over a term the pieces stack up: events, loops, variables, functions, and whatever else the thing they are building turns out to need.
Then the holidays, and a theme
We announce a theme and stop there. No brief, no worksheet, and no deadline you can fail. It is the one stretch of the year with an unbroken run at a single idea, which is why most of the building happens here rather than in the term.
Then somebody else plays it
Finished games go up on our own platform and on this page, where sharing between members is moderated by mentors. Other children play them and award XP. Having a stranger pick up the thing you made is the part that keeps children coming back.

The games our members made

4 games 4 makers 24 XP awarded by other members Built in Scratch

Every one of these is playable in the browser, no account needed. Have a go at a few.

Scratch 21

Delivery Alpaca

by MiraGlew

Heyo! Just drag the water to the alpaca 'Timothy' and, Once you get 35 points or 36, You get to the end! Good Luck…

Scratch 3

geometery dash fail

by mattcscott

click to jump. space for a tardis. you can win the game it is not infinite

Scratch

Space Bar Showdown

by Franklin

Scratch

Hack Club Game Jam

by JoshWhite

About our game jams

A game jam is a themed build: we announce a theme, and children across the Academy spend a few weeks making something from it. There is no brief beyond the theme and nothing to finish by a deadline you can fail. Children share what they made on our own platform, where chat and sharing between members is moderated by mentors.

Jams are included in Academy membership. They are the part of the Academy where everybody is working on the same thing at once, which for a self-paced course is worth having.

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Club news is the other half, and it is where posts like this one live: game jams, Minecraft builds and weekly roundups, written up by whoever ran the session. Neither is marketing. If you want to know what the work actually looks like before you sign up to anything, club news is the more honest read of the two.

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Game Jam: Can't Stop Moving

How a game jam works

Six to eight weeks of club

Then the holidays, and a theme

Then somebody else plays it