The overall winners of Gamedev.js Jam 2024 were announced yesterday, and now we’re publishing the rankings of all four Challenges – if you participated in any of them, check out your standings below.
- Open Source Challenge by GitHub
- Build it with Phaser Challenge by Phaser Studio
- NPC Challenge by OP Games
- js13kGames Challenge by Enclave Games
Winners were picked by dedicated experts assigned to given Challenges or based on the overall results.
Open Source Challenge by GitHub
- 1. Mech Motion
- 2. Puckit!
- 3. Gleep Gym
- 4. IONCLAD
- 5. PowerLess Hotel
- 6. Power Lifting
- 7. Power-Up Adventure
- 8. Power Cut
- 9. Power Saver
- 10. Power Crisis
Honorable mentions: Chrono Switch, PowerSurge!, Who Cut The Cables.
In partnership with GitHub. Prize pool: 10 GitHub Copilot licenses for individuals for 12 months and $600 in GitHub Shop vouchers. Expert: Michelle Duke.
Build it with Phaser Challenge by Phaser Studio
- 1. Puckit!
- 2. Mech Motion
- 3. Power Up Adventure
- 4. Ionclad
- 5. Chrono Switch
- 6. Power Toys
- 7. Circuit Rescue
- 8. NanoRevolt
- 9. Shinobot
- 10. Power Crisis
Honorable mentions: I am Survivor, Let Him Brew!, Charge Guardian.
In partnership with Phaser Studio. Prize pool: $1000 and 10 Vampire Survivors bundles. Experts: Richard Davey and the whole Phaser Studio team – check out their detailed feedback!
NPC Challenge by OP Games
- 1. Powered by HI
- 2. Labor Power
- 3. Potatype
- 4. The Supernatural Power Troll
- 4. Let Him Brew!
Honorable mentions: QuestMaster, Realm Escape.
In partnership with OP Games. Prize pool: 1000 USDC. Experts: Paul Gadi and Chase Freo.
js13kGames Challenge by Enclave Games
- 1. The Power Of Two
- 2. Power Down
- 3. Power Racer
- 4. Synaptic Harmonics
- 5. Bulbs
- 6. CPU Merge
- 7. Pixel Power
- 8. Star-Hopper: Ring Rescue
- 9. Red Right Fist
- 10. BoxPushing
- 11. Powers of Dropping
- 12. Lumi-Snake
- 13. Cube Star Rescue
In partnership with Enclave Games. Prize pool: 13 Badlucky t-shirts and 5 framed posts. Expert: Andrzej Mazur.
Top5 picks
We also had two experts, Emanuele Feronato and Taufik Sani, who both picked their favourite top5 entries from Build it with Phaser and js13kGames Challenges respectively. Those were:
- Emanuele Feronato: Circuit Rescue, Chrono Switch, Power Crisis, Power-Up Adventure, Puckit!
- Taufik Sani: Power Racer, The Power Of Two, Star-Hopper: Ring Rescue, Bulbs, Power Down
Check out their feedback for those entries.
Summary
Thank you all who joined the optional Challenges this year, I do hope you enjoyed participating! The prizes will be sent in the coming days, so make sure to check out your email address you provided in the form when submitting an entry.
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HTML5 Game Developer, Enclave Games indie studio founder, js13kGames competition creator and Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter publisher. Mozilla Tech Speaker, Gamedev.js community firestarter. Organizes meetups / workshops / hackathons in Poland, passionate about new, Open Web technologies, excited about WebXR and PWAs. Likes eating sushi and playing Neuroshima Hex.