Voting to pick the winners in Gamedev.js Jam 2025, the sixth yearly edition of an online competition for web game developers has wrapped – let’s see the winners picked by participants themselves! Here’s the top10 overall ranking:
- Balaline by Ex0
- Sloshed: a Long Way to Bed by FishoJr
- Playtesters and Co. by SeeOne, Lina_Zatmenie_Art, RazorFlip
- Work-Life Balance by Stiggstogg
- Steady Store by Blivi0, Devillas, Cuhrean, MULTI
- On/uo by Jae, Jaagerz, Peygar
- Split Spell by Doctor_Succubus
- Treemino by Lemuronmars
- Split Push by Florian Castel
- ShaderClash by Ascheda1
Here are the full results. This year’s edition ended up with 4614 developers joined on Itch, 420 games submitted, and 8538 ratings cast, which is our new record – thank you all who participated! Make sure to check the criteria rankings for best games in Gameplay, Theme, Innovation, Graphics, and Audio as those are awarded with prizes as well.
The results of the optional Challenges (Open Source, Build it with Phaser, and $NOODS) judged by dedicated experts will be announced tomorrow at the same time. The deadline for the fourth optional Challenge, V Shaders, was extended till May 22nd.
We’d like to thank our Partners for their support:
- Platinum: OP Guild, V Systems
- Gold: GitHub, Phaser Studio, OP Games, Playhop
- Silver: Poki, Arcadia, Playgama.com
- Bronze: Litemint, Enclave Games, js13kGames
Congratulations to the winners and all participants again – I hope you enjoyed your time and will be back next year! Our Discord is always open if you’d like to chat with fellow devs about your experience, and make sure to subscribe to the Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter if you haven’t already.
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.
