Shipping a 2-minute game in 7 days
Day 7 · Jul 14, 2026Write the ship-day entry here: what got cut to hit 2 minutes, and what the final submission actually looked like compared to the day-1 pitch.
A 2-minute game, built solo, start to finish, in 7 days for the GMC Winter Jam — 1 of 23 entries.
Jam ranking wasn't released at time of writing. Add your final placement out of 23 entries here once it drops.
Project P.E.T. is a 2-minute game built solo for the GMC Winter Jam, an Australian-hosted 7-day game jam. I handled every part of it myself: programming, level design, and the narrative that holds the short experience together.
Add a fuller breakdown here of the jam theme, the concept you built around it, and what the player actually does in those 2 minutes.
Notes from across the jam. Newest entries first — duplicate one of these blocks to add your own.
Write the ship-day entry here: what got cut to hit 2 minutes, and what the final submission actually looked like compared to the day-1 pitch.
Write about the halfway point here: what was working, what wasn't, and any hard calls made to keep the scope solo-sized.
Write about day one here: the jam theme, the concept you landed on, and what the first playable prototype looked like a few hours in.