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The Classic 2.4HoZZT is back!

Welcome, and be prepared for a Jam-packed first half of 2025. This page will be home to not one, not two, but three compilation adventures in the 144 minute genre. Each will run on one of two weekends, an early bird special and a main event. The topic will be announced at midnight on the Friday preceding the early bird special, with the expectation that the main event take place the evening of the Saturday one week later.

The Calendar

  1. Winter '25 2.4HoZZT (COMPLETE!)
    1. Feb. 15-16 = Early Bird
    2. Feb. 22-23 = Main Event
    3. Feb. 24-28 = Submit & Review
  2. Spring '25 2.4HoZZT
    1. Mar. 29-30 = Early Bird
    2. Apr. 5-6 = Main Event
    3. Apr. 7-12 = Submit & Review
  3. Summer '25 2.4HoZZT
    1. May 24-25 = Early Bird
    2. May 31-Jun. 1 = Main Event
    3. Jun. 2-7 = Submit & Review

Topics

These topics are provided as a means of stricture to promote creativity and liberate the creative energy of the participant(s). They will appear during the early bird period for each event.

Submission PeriodResultsTopic
Winter '25 2.4HoZZTResults
"The 100 ammo": Give the player 100 ammo at the start of your game. When the player's ammo reaches 0, the game ends.
Spring '25 2.4HoZZTResults"Friend or Foe": Choose one (or both, you freakin' sickos):
1. Rescue a helpful ally.
2. Face an opponent that cannot be destroyed, only outrun or delayed.
Summer '25 2.4HoZZTN/A"Tick... Tick... Boom!": Something must explode.

Rules

You may choose to participate in one, two, or all three jams.

Streaming your dev process is encouraged, it is very cool to see people's minds at work and you might have people in your stream cheering you on. There is a section of the submission page wherein you can place a link to a stream VOD, should you have one.

The development time for an entry should be 2.4 hours, which is 144 minutes. If you run out of time or are interrupted and think you can do better, you may make a second attempt. Please include both entries in your submission and indicate which is which. 

Eastman Variation: You may use the provided theme to make a longer-form entry whose development encompasses the entire weekend or weekends. This is known as the Eastman Variation. The resulting submission will be included in the ZZT parade but participants that rank entries might not include Eastman-style entries in their rankings.

Whatever it is you make, ideally Zeta should play ithttps://zeta.asie.pl/ if you're working in an exotic medium, it may be difficult to incorporate you into the ZZT parade but we will not stop you.

Submitting entries should be done within the submission and review period given above. This page will remain available to capture entries from all three compos with the intention of including entries from all three in the subsequent ZZT parade. Note: itch.io lifted the restriction on only one "entry" per jam per account, so feel free to submit 3 times, once for each jam in the circuit.

Questions

If you have questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to folks in the MGG Discord: 

https://discord.gg/UQCyP5AY9J

For assistance in ZZT game creation or to workshop your entry with fellow creators, you can visit the Museum of ZZT discord here:

https://museumofzzt.com/discord

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Think fast in this short ZZT adventure game
Adventure
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Find the Future
The world's worst escape room, in ZZT form.
Action
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The World's First "Bean Defense" Game
Action
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Keep your bomb's fuse lit long enough to blow up the core!
Action
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Grow your way to victory!
Puzzle
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Escape a murderer.
Survival
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Two (soon to be three) games made in two hours, twenty-four minutes each.
Adventure
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Escape an alien office with your buddy. Made in ZZT for the 2 Point 4 Hours Jam Circuit
Puzzle
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A boss rush made for a 144 minute microjam.
Action
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Have a nice tour! :v
Action
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You're the best of the best of the available
Action
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Bomodi, a quick little exploration puzzler for a 2.4 hour game jam, inspired by Barbuta / minit
Puzzle
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a very misguided attempt at a 2.4hoz game with multiple endings
Outrun encroaching death in this short ZZT time-attack!
Action
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A game made in ZZT, made for the Spring 2025 2.4 ho ZZT ​"Friend or Foe" Game Jam.
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Fight like hell, or live in it.
Action
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A game about a bomb factory
Puzzle
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Conquer 3 dungeons with unique challenges for higher scores. Be careful though, 100 ammo is all you get!
Action
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Those yellow mascots that I hate.
Adventure
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