Comment by suioir
1 month ago
What if you've already been working on a language for a while and want to use it instead of making a new one just for this?
1 month ago
What if you've already been working on a language for a while and want to use it instead of making a new one just for this?
I would say the spirit of a jam is to start from scratch, but using parts and techniques you're used to is fine. e.g. repurpose your number parser but not the entire grammar and runtime. A lot of being successful at a jam is doing the right prep work so you're not making decisions and figuring things out at jam time.