This is a submission to GMTK Game Jam 2026

A downloadable game

Made for GMTK Game Jam 2026. This was meant to be a game for rating music playlists and sharing them with your friends. It ended up as more of a tech demo / proof of concept.

Game is referencing those Top 40 music countdowns, as well as the Australian music TV show named, "Countdown."


For future releases:

  • Actually adding the rating functionality. Right now there's basically no gameplay and it's just a thing that connects to Spotify.
  • Loading playlists from JSON (this is mostly done but not quite ready for the GMTK submission).
  • Comparing multiple tier lists from JSON
  • Set up a server so that players don't need to set up their own Spotify API credentials
  • Improve speed of loading album images
  • Support for other music services (Youtube Music, Apple Music, etc)
More information
Published 5 days ago
StatusReleased
Authorfantanoice
ContentNo generative AI was used

Download

Download
main.exe 21 MB

Install instructions

Right now, running the application requires Spotify API credentials. Instructions are as follows:

  1. Download executable from this page
  2. Go to the Spotify Developer page and log in with your Spotify. 
    1. https://developer.spotify.com/ 
    2. As of 27/07/2026, this requires you to have Spotify Premium
  3. Go to the Spotify Developer Dashboard
  4. Select "Create App"
  5. Give it any name and description.
  6. Set Redirect Uri to:
    1. http://127.0.0.1:8000/callback
    2. This address refers to your local computer
  7. Go back to the Spotify Developer Dashboard
  8. Select your new app
  9. Note down the Client Id and Client Secret
  10. Open the regular Spotify app
  11. Find or make a simple playlist
  12. Click the dots and select "Copy link to playlist." Note it down somewhere.
    1. You want to grab a specific part of the link. You only want the "XXXX" part of the link (after "/playlist/" and before "?si"): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/XXXX?si=00000
  13. Open the game you downloaded from this page
  14. Select the "Create New" option (the first one on the Main Menu)
  15. Fill in the details from what you noted down, then hit Next
    1. You may need to go into your Spotify account settings to find your username
  16. If your browser opens up with a "Log into Spotify" page, log in with it.
  17. It should now show your playlist items in the game.
    1. Note: If your playlist consists of tracks from various different albums, then generating will be slow.

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