With a name inspired by what I’m eating at this time, I’m proud to announce the 1st Beans Game Jam on Starmen.net. Any program can be used, games should be uploaded to itch.io and linked, and it is encouraged, but not required, that you make a game around the theme. This year’s theme is “Animals and Boxes”. The game jam begins September 18th, and ends September 19th. The games won’t be judged like a standard game jam, but giving feedback to your fellow developers is always appreciated. Like always, have fun, and Happy developing!
Beans Game Jam
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Here is my game, Long Animals:
https://cassowary.itch.io/long-animals
It’s a little game/webtoy based on the famous Tower of Hanoi puzzle. Your goal is to move all the animals to the space marked “goal”, without ever putting a longer animal on top of a shorter animal. This puzzle has many interesting mathematical properties; see this video for example.
Once you get them to the other side, you will be rewarded with a new animal, and the goal will move to the opposite side.
Controls are J/K/L to pick up/drop off an animal from/to the three different piles, and R to reset the entire game (and choose different animals
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If you’re trying to get to the right, your first move should be moving the smallest animal to the furthest-right space.
If you’re trying to get to the left, your first move should be moving the smallest animal to the middle space.
You should always move the biggest animal you can, except if that would result in you undoing your last move, in which case you should move the smallest animal one space to the left (or to the furthest-right space if it can’t move further left).
