JBDVGDBB v1.0 // NODE-05
SYS · STANDBY
EVENT · BIRTHDAY BASH DURATION · 9H HUMANS · 5 TARGET · BROWSER · 2D · MULTIPLAYER

JAKE'S/
B-DAY JAM

video game devving birthday bash

Five humans. One game. One repo. One build. Nine hours of vibe-coded, AI-everything chaos. We ship something playable by 9pm or we ship the bug as a feature.

COUNTDOWN

[ FRI · 2026-05-01 · 1:00 PM ]
T-MINUS // KICKOFF
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START > Fri 01 May 2026 · 1:00 PM
END > Fri 01 May 2026 · 10:00 PM
YOUR > computing…
SYSTEMS ARMING
STAGE TRACKER // 5 NODES
1:00 PM
KICKOFF
Theme · engine · roles · 15m
1:15 PM
BUILD
Hands on keyboards
4:00 PM
MVP+
Playable checkpoint
7:00 PM
POLISH
Feature freeze
9:00 PM
SHOW
Submit · play · vote · cake

CREW

[ 5 HUMANS · 1 GAME ]
DEV
NODE_01
Gameplay / Glue
Systems, gameplay code, owns the repo + main branch. Last word on merges.
DEV
NODE_02
Engine / Build
Engine integration, scenes, the build that ships at 9pm. Rebases when it matters.
OPEN
NODE_03
Pick Your Class
Art · audio · level design · writing · producer. You choose at 1pm.
OPEN
NODE_04
Pick Your Class
Same menu. Swap mid-jam if you're blocked. Help the bottleneck.
OPEN
NODE_05
Pick Your Class
Floater. Whatever the team needs most. Snack runs count.

RULES.TXT

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One game. One repo. One build.
Theme drawn from the hat at 1pm. No pre-planning.
AI everything allowed and encouraged. Vibe-code, vibe-model, vibe-score.
Browser-only build. Phaser · PixiJS · p5.js · Three.js · Construct · Godot-web.
MVP playable by 4pm. If not, cut features. Cut harder.
No new features after 7pm. Polish only.
Standups every 2 hours: done · blocked · cut.
Snacks on the table, not at desks. Crumbs are exploits.
Final hour is fun. Vote: best moment · biggest surprise · would-ship.

AI TOOLBOX

[ ALL PERMITTED · ALL ENCOURAGED ]

$ CODE

  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Windsurf
  • v0
  • Lovable
  • Bolt
  • Copilot
  • Codeium

$ 3D

  • Meshy
  • Tripo
  • Rodin
  • Luma Genie
  • Trellis
  • CSM
  • Hunyuan3D

$ 2D / ART

  • Midjourney
  • Flux
  • Ideogram
  • Recraft
  • Krea
  • Pixellab
  • Scenario

$ MUSIC / SFX

  • Suno
  • Udio
  • Riffusion
  • ElevenLabs SFX
  • AudioGen
  • Stable Audio

$ VOICE

  • ElevenLabs
  • Cartesia
  • PlayHT
  • Hume
  • OpenAI TTS

$ ANIM / VFX

  • Kling
  • Runway
  • Sora
  • Veo
  • Cascadeur
  • Move.ai

$ NETCODE

  • Colyseus
  • PartyKit
  • Liveblocks
  • Geckos.io
  • Trystero
  • Socket.io
  • Rune

$ 2D ENGINES

  • Phaser
  • PixiJS
  • p5.js
  • Kaplay
  • Construct
  • Defold-web
  • Godot-web

$ HOSTING

  • Vercel
  • Cloudflare Pages
  • itch.io
  • Netlify
  • Railway
  • Fly.io

THEME

[ LEADING CANDIDATE · CONFIRM @ 13:00 ]
PINNED
MULTI·PLAYER 2D
browser-native · everyone in one tab
backup oracle in case the room wants to roll the dice at 1pm.