Thumby Micro Game Jam (French) - a Gamecodeur Game Jam

A game jam is a period of time dedicated to making games with a set of parameters or limitations that community members work on individually, or sometimes collaboratively, to create a playable game by the end of the jam time. 

Thumby has a small (72 by 40 pixels) monochrome OLED display, so the limitations of the screen alone make it a great candidate for a game jam! Using the sprite editor from the Thumby Code Editor, prototyping and building a quick micro game is very approachable for beginners and experts alike in game-making and pixel art. Here are the challenges that were outlined for the game jam: 

✅ Code a microgame on a virtual console inspired by the Thumby, the smallest console in the world

✅ Use (without modifying it) the "Virtual Thumby" Framework that I programmed especially for the occasion -- Download link: https://www.gamecodeur.fr/telechargement-du-framework-virtual-thumby/ 

✅ Use, for display, only the virtual API offered by the framework ( see the documentation ) 

Note: The official Thumby Documentation by TinyCircuits is different from the above information and includes a MicroPython API, Blockly block-based programming support, and Arduino C/C++ support. 

While the game jam takes points from Thumby's limitations, the games themselves were not written in MicroPython and, unfortunately, are not playable on Thumby itself. Here's a description that was posted in the TinyCircuits Discord from the game jam creator, Gamecodeur on YouTube:

"Hey community. If you can read french, I created a virtual Thumby with Lua and Love2d and launched a game jam on it. This is not an emulator. I just reproduce[d] the constraints of the original hardware: low FPS, resolution, use of get/setpixel API only for display. https://itch.io/jam/gamecodeur-gamejam-36 It spreads the love for the Thumby and many participants bought a real Thumby for the occasion. I have one of course and it gave me the idea for this event."

Their official announcement on the game jam from YouTube: 

Check out some of the 25 game submissions that were made:

To read more about any of the individual games, check out the game jam page and view the submission pages of each game with full details!