Eniko Fox1d ago

here's a free idea: RAM shortage jam, where you have to make a game for a system with low RAM capacity. like maybe less than 128mb or something

edit: OOM jam is a much better name than what i came up with https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aeva/116362518081235814

aeva (@[email protected])

@eniko "oom jam" has a nice ring to it

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Show threadaeva1d ago
@eniko i like that threshold. 128 megs is positively roomy for us custom engine folks but haw good luck submitting anything made in unreal or electron or whatever
Show threadaeva1d ago
@eniko each successive jam should lower the threshold a touch until we find the sweet spot :3
Show threadV1d ago
@aeva @eniko I love the idea of progressively tightening the memory constraints... 128MB is a lot... the playstation 1 had like 2MB+1MB vram (if you include vram), the ps2 had like 32MB+4MB vram. The gameboy has 8KB+8KBvram, [up to 128KB with expansions on-cart (yay bank switching!)] which I think is the smallest I've done anything on.
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@miss_rodent @aeva @eniko yeah, and at what video resolution? Kids hate those low-res 320x240-ish games now
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