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Gamma is a yearly game showcase event, usually held in Montreal, organized by Kokoromi. The number of submissions increases exponentially each year:


Gamma 1: 7, Gamma 256: 18, Gamma 3D: 14, Gamma IV: 154.

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Common rules[]

Usually each entered game is required to be possible to finish in 5 minutes.

Editions[]

Gamma 01 : Audio Feed[]

Gamma 01 had 7 entrants

Gamma 256[]

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Gamma 256 had 18 entrants.

Rules[]

The entered games had to use a frame of 256 pixels tops, in whatever shape they wanted.

Games[]

Passage (Jason Rohrer) | "Standard Bits" stdBits (Mark Johns) | Bloody Zombies (Petri Purho) | Mr. Heart Loves You Very Much (Zaphos) | Mondrian Provoked (Jim McGinley)

Gamma 3D[]

Gamma 3d Gamma 3D had 14 entrants.

Rules[]

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The entered games needed to make use of stereoscopy, 3D glasses being provided at the event.

Games[]

Paper Moon (Alec Holowka) | Super Hypercube (Kokoromi & Polytron)

Gamme IV[]

150 Gamma IV had 154 entrants, quite a leap from the previous years.

Rules[]

The rules of entry were that the games needed to use 1 button per player.

Games[]

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