Voting for score chasers has ended and the competitors have voted on the 7 games that will be played in the tournament! Here are the 7 games in order of when they will be played.

#1: Cyber Serpent (around 4:15pm UTC)

A score based game where you need to collect pickups from the ground while avoiding and shooting enemies. Every pickup you get increases your score multiplier and score is earned based on time survived. Both you and enemies can run into your tail as well to destroy the enemies or yourself respectively.

• By @camden-obertop, @zrandolph977, @mr-sun, and @picross

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#2: Adelie - Someone Like You (around 4:45pm UTC)

A score based game where you need to keep baby penguins on the field while dropping seals into the water. Every seal you drop gives you a point and every baby penguin thats still alive gives you bonus time to do actions in. If theres no more baby penguins or a seal gets to your igloo you lose.

• By @meep

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#3: Bit Golf (around 5:15pm UTC)

A game where you have to compress text as much as possible. Compressing occurs from highlighting a sequence of letters that occurs multiple times in a piece of text.

• By @badcop

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#4: The Big Crunch (around 5:45pm UTC)

You need to complete a series of microgames that continually get faster and faster. Score is based on the amount of microgames you can complete and each microgame makes you do a different task such as landing a spaceship or dodging asteroids.

• By Team Auboreal (@ategon, @ghayoub, @vulkaara, @coeur, @nny)

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Intermission (around 6:15pm UTC)

#5: Cosmic Cursor Capture (around 6:30pm UTC)

A score based game where you need to dodge projectiles with your cursor. Score is primarily based on time survived with you also being able to do various other things on the field to increase your score.

• By @nondev

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#6: A Pawfect Date: Pomo's Cozy Romance (around 7:00pm UTC)

An undertale fan game where you dodge a random sequence of attacks as the timescale keeps increasing (in the endless version of the game).

• By @pomo

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#7 Rafty Crab (around 7:30pm UTC)

A battle royale between crabs on a raft. If you die then you become a seagull and attempt to hinder the other competitors.

• By @kuviman

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Interested?

Score chasers is a tournament where people compete to get high scores in games submitted to this Ludum Dare. This includes things such as completing a game in the lowest amount of time, getting the most score in a game, or other ways a game can be competed in. The tournament is taking place on Saturday, October 14, 2023 4:00 PM UTC at https://twitch.tv/ategondev.

Qualifications for joining is still open until 24 hours before the tournament starts. In order to qualify for the tournament you need to submit an impressive score in any game submitted to the jam. To submit you can join our discord at https://discord.gg/FhP4jaZ7KS and post a screenshot of your score in the entry submissions channel.

Hope to see you there!