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Mission Statement

The 4MB Jam, as an organisation, has both an ideological mission and a core mission. The core mission is more important than the ideological mission.

• The core mission is to continue the existence of the 4MB Jam community for as long as possible.
• In this modern era many mainstream applications and games have become bloated. Whether it's CPU cycles, memory usage, storage space, or network traffic there is usually room to improve! The goal of the 4MB Jam is to educate developers, new and experienced alike, about the tools and techniques which can be used to produce an application while using as little computer resources as possible. Consider the following benefits:
  1. Respect of client resources; the current situation is that developers treat the local storage and the bandwith of their clients as free real estate.

• Considering the cost of storage nowadays, the callous disregard for storage forces uncomfortable choices for gamers: one either has to pay for more storage or uni

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This list of resources was built over time by the 4MB Game Jam Discord community;

• https://github.com/SheatNoisette/potetre2d A game engine made specifically for the 4MB Game Jam.
• https://github.com/CrazyInfin8/Mino A minimalistic game framework that was also made within the context of the 4MB Game Jam.
• https://github.com/shybyte/zig-micro-game How to make a very small game in Zig, written by community member and winner of the 2023 edition of the 4MB Game Jam
• https://github.com/tophat2d/tophat A small 2D game framework for the Umka programming language created by a fellow member of the 4MB Game Jam community. It wasn't created for the jam, but it's worth taking a look anyway.
• https://github.com/thedmd/pixeltoaster C++ framebuffer library for writing your own software rendering routines.
• https://gist.github.com/mmozeiko/5a5b168e61aff4c1eaec0381da62808f WASAPI C Wrapper for playing audio samples.
• https://gist.github.com/d7samurai/6d24d0ba93f8c8fe6b4f02b92d4c8ce0 Minimal WASAPI reference implementat

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4MB Jam 2025 Rules

You must submit a standard Linux Mint, MacOS or Windows desktop application which adheres to the following conditions:

1. Excluding readme and copyright attribution, the project is under 4 megabytes in size using the power of 2 system also known as Mebibytes (MiB).
   • It is the size of the entire unpacked project which is counted, not the compressed archive size.
   • Anything that needs to be downloaded to make the project work, like say python packages for example, will count towards size.
2. It doesn't contain anything that violates any Canadian federal law.
   • We don't want a repeat of last time, please.
   • Don't ask what happened last time.
3. Isn't porn, doesn't have gratuitous nudity and explicit or implict sexual acts.

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4MB Jam Rules

You must submit a Ubuntu or Windows desktop (x64) application which adheres to the following conditions:

1. Excluding readme and copyright attribution, it is under 4 megabytes in size using the power of 2 system also known as Mebibytes (MiB).
   • It is the size of the unpacked project which is counted, not the compressed archive size.
2. It doesn't contain anything that violates any Canadian federal law.
3. Isn't porn, doesn't have gratuitous nudity and explicit or implict sexual acts.
4. It is a video game.
5. You have a full month to do it, so it is expected it will be made during that month (may 2023).

• Premade art, sound assets engine code are allowed.

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Catch-23

The language has keywords and operators formed out of the glyphs below only:

• !@#$%^&*()[]{}<>,.;:?|+-="'~/\

Because the theme is interpreted as being nonsense, the language is full of ambiguities and contradictions, which all amount to nonsense.

Variables and Types

The language doesn't come with traditional types, instead it comes in three types: