GAME CONTEST 2026 [OPEN] | WIN 100 FOLLOWS remix

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╔════════════════════╗ DUNE44 GAME CONTEST 2026 ╚════════════════════╝ ➜ CONTEST OFFICIAL STUDIO https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/51942089/ ✨DEADLINE: 2026 November 5 :D So, I recently hit 5 followers, and to celebrate this MASSIVE milestone, I'm hosting a game contest! This game contest is the real deal. There are prizes. Lots of prizes. (soon) ➜ PRIZE GIVERS NEEDED! • PGs get a follow from @dunealt after contest ends • PGs can enter too • Comment "PG" to apply • More info below ➜ PRIZE GIVERS (22 and growing) full list in official contest studio: https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/51942089/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ THEME THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING Sometimes, it only takes one thing. A discovery, mistake, decision, person, a new rule. What changes? Why does it matter? What happens next? That's completely up to you. Interpret "THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING" however you want. Be creative. Unexpected interpretations are encouraged. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ HOW TO ENTER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ➜ 1. REMIX THIS PROJECT ➜ 2. TURN THE REMIX INTO YOUR GAME • Replace any sprites, scripts, art or sounds • The remix simply connects your entry to the contest ➜ 3. USE THE THEME • THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING ➜ 4. SHARE BEFORE NOVEMBER 5 ➜ 5. SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY • Your finished project should be a remix of this project. I will add it to the official contest studio when you submit it. Follow me to stay updated. Favourite the contest so more PGs and Contestants ➜ TL;DR REMIX. CREATE. SHARE. SUBMIT. easy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ JUDGING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TOTAL ➜ 100 POINTS ➜ GAMEPLAY | 40 How enjoyable is the game to actually play? • responsiveness • challenge • meaningful controls • player skill • decision-making • satisfying mechanics ➜ DESIGN | 30 How well is the game put together? • pacing • progression • level design • difficulty • mechanics • how systems work together ➜ IDENTITY | 20 Does the game feel like its own thing? • originality • personality • memorable ideas • distinctive presentation • creative interpretation ➜ STORY | 10 Story can include: • characters • atmosphere • dialogue • environmental storytelling • context / lore • meaningful endings ➜ THEMING There is no separate theme score. Your interpretation of 'THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING' can influence: • Design • Identity • Story Unusual interpretations are completely fine. I want to see ideas I would never have thought of. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ RULES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. One entry per person. 2. Your submission must be a playable Scratch game. 3. Your game must be newly created for this contest. 4. Your entry must remix the official contest project. 5. Your project must stay shared until judging is complete. 6. The game must primarily be your own work. 7. Engines, templates and remixes are allowed if you add substantial original work. 8. Credit borrowed music, artwork, code, tutorials, engines and assets. 9. Stolen or barely changed projects will be disqualified. 10. All entries must follow the Scratch Community Guidelines. 11. Collabs are allowed and encouraged. • Maximum 4 people • Credit everyone in your team If something technically avoids a rule but obviously goes against the purpose of the contest, it may still be rejected. Use common sense and good faith. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ PRIZES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The prize pool is community-built. Prize amounts depend on how many Prize Givers join. 1ST PLACE ➜ 100% of Prize Givers and a follow from me, 2ND PLACE ➜ 75% of Prize Givers and a follow from me, 3RD PLACE ➜ 50% of Prize Givers and a follow from me, ✦ RUNNERS UP ➜ 4th, 5th and 6th ➜ 25% of Prize Givers, and a follow from me, ✦ HONORABLE MENTIONS ➜ Contestants who just missed the podium get credit ➜ Follow from my alt, , and a follow from myself, Winners receive written judging feedback ➜ WANT TO BE A PRIZE GIVER? Comment 'PG' Your name will be added to the list View in official contest studio. Prize Givers receive a follow from after contest ends Once results are released, I will tell every PG who they need to reward. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ TIMELINE ➜ CONTEST OPEN NOW ➜ ENTRIES CLOSE November 5, 2026 ➜ JUDGING November 6 to November 20 ➜ RESULTS November 22 Late entries may not be judged. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ THE POINT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This is a GAME contest - MY game contest, and I'm looking for games that are genuinely worth playing. So, make something memorable. Make something you would actually want somebody else to sit down and play. MAKE SOMETHING WORTH PLAYING. Oh, and of course... Have fun :) Thanks for 5 followers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ PROJECT CREDITS ➜ MUSIC "Zankyou Sanka" by Aimer ➜ CONTEST Hosted + judged by Thumbnail partial AI gen