retro repairs is my second solo game jam and my submission for the 2026 athena game jam, the theme being "retrofit". after some research into retrofitting i decided to make a play on the name by making an arcade styled repair shop, fitting the retrofit theme and going further by limiting the colour palette to 4 colours and the camera's aspect ratio to 4:3 to emulate CRTs. despite being a late addition to the game jam and only putting in around 15 hours i am quite proud of the result.

• further develop quick prototyping skills

• focus on creating a tight gameplay loop

• strengthened my skills with creating smaller scale projects

• learned how minimalistic visual styles can be effective

the leaderboard system is my personal highlight from the game jam, as i attempted it during last years game jam but couldn't quite figure it out. using the save/load game nodes it dynamically fills out the leaderboard using a handful of functions and updates at runtime when adding a new entry to the leaderboard taking in player input for a name.