
Game Bytes · September 2023
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!
Last month, we challenged you to create a web-based game loosely built around the theme of forking, branching, cloning, pushing, and/or pulling for our very first game jam, the GitHub…
Last month, we challenged you to create a web-based game loosely built around the theme of forking, branching, cloning, pushing, and/or pulling for our very first game jam, the GitHub Game Off. There were over 1337 forks and almost 200 playable games at the end of the competition. Today, we’re announcing the winners!
Our panel of expert judges played and rated every game; the five winning entries below received the highest overall marks. We would also like to recognize six runners up and seven honorable mentions. Not only are all these awesome games free and available now for anyone to play, the source code is all publicly available on GitHub. If you’re inspired to learn about (or improve your skills with) game development, or even create your own game, just check out the repositories below.
Congratulations to all our winners, and thanks to everyone who took part and made it a success! Special thanks to David Czarnecki, Eric Preisz, Matt Hackett, Romana Ramzan for judging all of the entries, and a nod of appreciation to David Farrell for allowing us to bounce ideas off of him.
The Game Off will be back in 2013!
Help Hotfix collect stargazers and avoid enemies. Collect commits to upgrade hotfix and add new features » play · source
An abstract racing game where you fight against the clock and the computer to get as far as you can in a product’s life-cycle » play · source
Rock Kickass is a shoot’em up platformer about an android who can merge the code of the enemies he kills to gain their powers
» play · source
PolyBranch is a minimalist 3D game. Dodging branches may seem easy at first, but how long can you hold up as you approach terminal velocity? » play · source
An addictive game where you guide little Pappu around obstacles while collecting coins, stars, and berries and avoiding enemies known as Pakias » play · source
Did you know: you can continue your GitHub Game Off entries in the Mozilla Game On competition?
You have until February 24th, 2013 to submit games in one of three categories:
Check out the Mozilla Game On website for more details.