Competitions

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Game7 Game Jam

The Game7 community is organizing their very first Game Jam, along with the help from Rensa Games. It will offer three Challenges: Mouse-only madness, Web 2.5 gaming, and Swap it, with the total prize pool of $9000, and will run for two weeks between February 17th and March 2nd. Although…Read…

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500 already joined the upcoming Jam!

14th December 2022

The Gamedev.js Jam 2023 is still four months away from happening, and we haven’t even started any announcements yet, but the number of devs who joined on Itch have already reached half a thousand! It will be the fourth yearly competition already – check the previous years (2020, 2021, 2022)…Read…

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js13kGames 2022 winners

28th November 2022

It’s been almost two months since the winners of js13kGames 2022 were announced, but if you missed that for any reason, now is a good opportunity to catch up. Make sure to check the results of all the categories, from the standard ones like Desktop, Mobile, and Server, to the…Read…

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Game Off 2022

22nd November 2022

The yearly Game Off competition organized by Lee Reilly from GitHub is slowly coming to a close, but you can still join if you can spare a few days for development, since it’s running for the whole month of November. The Game Off 2022 competition is hosted on Itch.io, and…Read…

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js13kGames 2022 is on!

15th August 2022

The eleventh edition of the online js13kGames competition has started – you have a whole month between August 13th and September 13th to build an HTML5 game that will fit within 13 kilobytes zip package. As usual, we have a whole lot of prizes you can win (including a Game Boy…Read…

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Claim our POAP – Proof of Attendance for Gamedev.js Jam 2022

6th May 2022

If you’re into Web3 you might already know what a POAP is. If you don’t – the short answer is the abbreviation of it: Proof of Attendance Protocol. It is an online protocol carrying an information about you attending an event, physically or virtually. Something like a digital ticket for…Read…

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Best entries from Web Monetization and Decentralized categories, challenges, and expert feedback

5th May 2022

Overall results (calculated from your own votes) were announced yesterday, and today is the time to publish the winners from: Web Monetization category Decentralized category NEAR challenge IPFS challenge MPL challenge Expert feedback Web Monetization category 1. Dwarf Workday 2. Untamed Lands 3. IT’S TOO RAW! 4. Clash of Cuisine…Read…

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Gamedev.js Jam 2022 winners announced!

4th May 2022

Here are the winners of the Gamedev.js Jam 2022 – congratulations to the best teams and all who participated! We had a record-breaking 799 participants who joined on Itch, 95 games submitted, and 1701 ratings cast. Thanks to all the developers who voted on each other’s creations! Below you can…Read…

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Hosting Decentralized Jam entries

21st April 2022

If you participated in Gamedev.js Jam‘s Decentralized category last year you already know that Itch.io limits the basic capabilities of such entries (which are embedded in an iframe) to a point that to be able to connect to a crypto wallet you have to host your game somewhere else. The…Read…

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Gamedev.js Jam 2022 start and theme announcement!

13th April 2022

Right now, on April 13th 2022 at 5 PM CEST the third yearly online competition, Gamedev.js Jam 2022, begins! You have exactly 13 days (up until April 26th) to create a Web game on a given theme (revealed at the bottom of this post) and submit it through Itch.io to…Read…