Game Bytes · April 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!
Lee Reilly
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Godot 4.0 Release Party 🎉
We are delighted to host the Godot 4.0 Release Party at GitHub HQ on Wednesday, March 22 from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. And you’re invited!
See you at SCaLE! 🐧
SCaLE is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America. It takes place next week in Pasadena, CA from March 9-12, 2023 and we’ll be there!
Ludum Dare 52 staff picks 🕹
We’ve got ten top games from the latest Ludum Dare game jam plus source code for you to check out. Pun intended.
13 tiny, terrific, and terrifying games to hack, slay, and play this Halloween 🧛🏻♀️
Some seriously spooktacular open source games for the web, Windows, macOS, and Linux with all sorts of fun hacks for infinite lives, invulnerability, and playing with time.
Build a game this November with Game Off 2022
Save the date! Game Off returns on November 1 for its 10th year! 🎉
Git Merge 2022 – that’s a wrap! 🎬
Git Merge 2022 just wrapped up bringing the community together for 16 talks, three workshops, one Git Contributor Summit, and lots of great conversations over two days. Read on for more info, photos from the event, and all of the session recordings.
JS13K 2022 winners 🏆
The eleventh annual js13kGames coding competition, challenging participants to create games in 13kB or less of JavaScript in a month, just wrapped up. This post highlights the top thirteen entries.
The full lineup for Git Merge 2022 revealed
We are pleased to announce the full lineup of talks and workshops for this year’s Git Merge conference in Chicago. 17 talks, 3 workshops, 1 panel, and some great company!
Git Merge 2022
Git Merge, the conference dedicated to bringing the Git community together returns on September 14-15 in Chicago, Illinois.
20 of our favorite games + source code from Ludum Dare 50
20 of our favorite games plus source code from the latest Ludum Dare competition.
Celebrating 40 years of ZX Spectrum ❤️ 💛 💚 💙
The ZX Spectrum, one of the best-selling microcomputers of all time, celebrates its 40 years anniversary today. Read more about how the community is still active – creating new content, archiving old content, and hacking on all sorts of hardware.
Top-rated entries from Game Off 2021
Here are the top games created in our annual game jam as rated and reviewed by the developers that made them. Game On! 🤘🏻
Game Off 2021 theme announcement
The theme for this year’s Game Off is… …BUG! Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a game between now and December 1 incorporating the theme…