B-JAM Game Jam -- 2026

The name of the game is Five Word Chess , and there is a reason for that!

This game will have you using your word knowledge and matching skills to find five five letter words to BLACKOUT the board!

Credits

The background music was created by Alexander Nakarada entitled Forest Walk.
The graphics were edited using Paint.NET.
The graphics came from myself

Development Framework

Raylib 6.0
Visual Studio 2022
Programming Language: 'C'

Game Play

  • 1. Game board consists of five words with letters shuffled
  • 2. Object of the game is to spell five words and BLACKOUT the board
  • 3. Each letter has a value i.e. A = 1, X = 8 etc.
  • 4. Click on a letter to make a word..
  • 5. Word is displayed below in white letters
  • 6. When you think you have a word click 'Submit'
  • 7. Click 'Next Round' to get a new set of words.
  • 8. Scoring is as follows:
  • Full words are scored by adding each letter value.
  • Only Full words are scored.
  • If you use 'Next Round' the letters not used will be subtracted.
  • Yellow 2x, Blue 3x, Red 4x bonus per letter.
  • Board BLACKOUT adds 300 to your round score
Updated 56 minutes ago
Published 4 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
AuthorBeebster

Comments

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This was super fun and I could get really lost in this one. Great job and stoked to play more offline!!