Coding Blocks
Coding talk from the trenches. Technical podcast and blog, all about programming: methodologies, best practices, tips, tricks of the trade.
01/20/2023
The Game Jam theme has been selected!
🎉EVERYTHING IS BACKWARDS🎉
If you've ever wanted to make a game, now is the perfect chance to get started! Not sure what what to do, pick a tutorial in your tech of choice and have some fun - registration is open all weekend!
Coding Blocks Jam '23 A game jam from 2023-01-20 to 2023-01-30 hosted by Coding Blocks. Let's make a game! The Coding Blocks Game Jam is a light-hearted jam with an emphasis on learning something new and having fun. It doesn't matter if y...
12/10/2022
Game Jam time is coming up! The registration page is up, and check out the cool mascot we generated with Dall-E-2. Sure, it may be Skynet in disguise...but cute cats, right?
https://itch.io/jam/coding-blocks-j-j-j-jamuary
PS: Send us any theme ideas if you have them, voting will start in a week or two!
Coding Blocks Jam '23 A game jam from 2023-01-20 to 2023-01-30 hosted by Coding Blocks. Let's make a game! The Coding Blocks Game Jam is a light-hearted jam with an emphasis on learning something new and having fun. It doesn't matter if y...
02/06/2022
We clipped together a video showing all of the games and highlighting the top rated ones. Every game you see here was made over January 21st to 24th, created by a variety of different types and levels of developers. We are already looking forward to next year!
CBJAM '22 Wrap Up The 2022 Coding Blocks Game Jam is complete! Check out all the games!All Entries:https://itch.io/jam/coding-blocks-game-jam-22/entries # # Overall5. Followers ...
Final round of voting for themes is now up! (trying hard not to squeal, this is very exciting for us)
https://www.codingblocks.net/events/cbjam-22-theme-voting-round-2/
12/18/2021
It's almost that time again, is coming up!
https://itch.io/jam/coding-blocks-game-jam-22
Have any theme suggestions for it? We've got the list so far up on the registration site, but we're going to start the first round of voting next week. Eeeeeeeeeeeee!
Coding Blocks Game Jam '22 A game jam from 2022-01-21 to 2022-01-31 hosted by Coding Blocks. We are developers, we can make games. Why aren't we making more games? Let's make a game! The Coding Blocks Game Jam is a light-hearted jam with an em...
07/23/2021
We love Vscode and when we find an awesome tip that can help developers out, we have to share. Check out this tip on how to easily see the differences between text using the Partial Diff plugin. It's a short, sweet and to the point video - looking to do more "quick hitters" like this. Let us know what you think!
Quick Tip - Easily See Text Diffs in Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/Partial Diff Plugin: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ryu1kn.partial-diffVisual Studio C...
03/01/2021
It’s been a minute since we last gathered around the water cooler, as Allen starts an impression contest, Joe wins said contest, and Michael earned a participation award.
https://cb.show/episode153
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02/16/2021
Joe played through the games.groupBy(g => g.category).take(5).join().distinct() winners of the game jam. Have we mentioned how awesome these games are?
The Game Jam Winners Playing through the top 5 games in every category of the game jam.Play all of the games on itch:https://itch.io/jam/coding-blocks-2021/resultsHuge Con...
02/15/2021
We dig into all things Python, which Allen thinks is pretty good, and it’s rise in popularity, while Michael and Joe go toe-to-toe over a gripe, ahem, feature.
https://cb.show/episode152
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02/01/2021
We step back to reflect on what we learned from our first game jam, while Joe’s bathroom is too close and Allen taught Michael something (again).
https://cb.show/episode151
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02/01/2021
results are in! Winners have been voted across a few different categories, and there are 46 games just waiting to be played: https://itch.io/jam/coding-blocks-2021/results
And if you missed this year? Don't worry, we'll *beat* doing it again. ;)
Top ranked games in the Coding Blocks Game Jam 2021 46 entries were submitted between 2021-01-21 05:00:00 and 2021-01-25 04:59:59. 678 ratings were given to 46 entries (100.0%) between 2021-01-25 04:59:59 and 2021-01-31 05:00:00. The average number of ratings per game was 14.7 and the median was 15.
01/25/2021
Game Jam complete! Congratulations to everybody that participated, we had a lot of fun with this. Maybe too much? Hard to say.
Anyway, you can see all of the submissions here. Technically, this is like...programmer stuff, so it's totally fine to play at work. Maybe.
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