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A game jam is like a weekend hacking event where a bunch of people make small games in a short time frame and then get feedback or compared. A demake is a remake but usually for older systems or in an older style / lower resolution. In the indie game scene lots of the big hit games were first created at a game jam. No tomfoolery, they're useful words to describe things, that don't have other easy ways to describe.

[Hammershaft]

Demakes can also be games that boil down the essence of their genre or original game to simpler rules. A great example of this is Footsies, which is a demake of the trad fighting genre.

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