Hello! Welcome to our programming competitions / Lynx game jams page! This is a regular event that Atari Lynx Vault holds to encourage new game development for Atari Lynx. This event runs annually starting in the last week of November and ending in mid December.
If you're interested in making a game or demo for the Atari Lynx, enter one of our game jams and show off your skills!
Please check our sister website, Atari Lynx Developer Resources for programming resources, tutorials and various other tools.
All of the submitted games are available for download here - Game Jam ROM Pack Downloads.
Below is the list of current and past programming competitions that we have ran...
2023 - LynxJam 2023
Coming soon!
^2022 - LynxJam 2022
 This game jam was hosted on itch.io - LynXjam 2022 | Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make an Atari Lynx mini-game within the next 22 days, to have fun and put a smile on players' faces. This is an unranked jam and we encourage collaboration and showing off your skills, but above all to have fun making a new mini-game. The emphasis here is on mini. A single screen game would be perfect, but you can also go with scrolling if you like. There's only so much time to make your game, so use it wisely and keep it simple. This year's theme is... Make a game that pokes fun at various pranks, activities, or challenges that have gone viral on social media. To get your mind going, here's a list of ideas you can steal or borrow from: Beer chugging extravaganza
Think of your game as a single event from California Games, and if you need further inspiration, watch this video...California Games 2018 (NES) - Fictional Bad Games. You must -
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2021 - LynxJam 2021
 This game jam was hosted on itch.io - LynXjam 2021 | Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make an Atari Lynx game within the next 23 days, to have fun and put a smile on players' faces. This is an unranked jam and we encourage collaboration and showing off your skills, but above all to have fun making a new game. This year's theme is "Let's make something scary". So dig up your bodies, pull out the skeletons from the closet, unleash the monsters, spill some (pixelated) blood and maybe have a witch or two fly by. Let's make it the best scary game jam so far! You must -
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2020 - LynXMas 2020
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make an Atari Lynx game within the next 15 days, to have fun and put a smile on players' faces. There are no prizes this time around, it is just for fun and enjoyment and to show off your skills.
Your game must -
- Have a holiday/festive season theme
- Be a single screen game, but can have a separate screen for intro, menu, credits, etc.
- Be less than 32KB (this includes the boot loader)
- Reference "LynXmas 2020" somewhere in your game e.g. title screen
This jam was hosted on itch.io - LynXmas 2020
^2020 - Lynx 2020 Programming Competition - Future
This year's theme is "Future", but that's future with a twist. Think about how the future would have been imagined back in the 1990s when this console was new. Think of the retro movie posters and the games at the time and imagine them 50 years forward. Flying cars, space exploration, living on the moon, visiting other planets, intelligent robots, blasters and mind control, plus many other wonderful things that were yet to come. We're talking about what the 2040s would look like if you were living in the 90s.
This competition was hosted on itch.io - Lynx Programming Competition 2020
2019 - Atari Lynx 30th Birthday Programming Competition
Atari Lynx turns 30 this year and we here at Atari Gamer are set on making this a birthday to remember. As part of the celebration we've created the best Lynx games voting page and are now introducing the...Atari Lynx 30th Birthday Programming Competition!
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