One day after KaJam starts, another competition is worth checking out. CrazyGames, the publisher who is actively supporting indie game developers through various activities, including partnering with the js13kGames competition in the past years, is organizing a Game Jam with Unity where you can win $50k in publishing deals. The…
A Journey Through Medieval Grudziądz’s Water Supply – created by Polish developer Scriptwelder. This game is developed using Phaser, just like the recently featured Birdfood. Welcome to medieval Grudziądz (how to pronounce), a town steeped in history and ingenuity! Ever wondered what it would be like to manage the essential…
We had many game jams in August, but there are more coming soon as well. On October 31st the first Kaplay (formerly known as Kaboom) game jam will launch – KaJam 2024 begins this Thursday on Itch. KAJAM is the first edition of the competition of KAPLAY games, as you…
Screenshots of the Flappy Bird mobile game
Ten years after Flappy Bird first landed on the mobile gaming platform. Within months of release the mobile game had gone viral and tens of millions of mobile gamers were tapping their screens to achieve new high scores. A simple, fun yet frustrating game with one-touch controls soon became a…
Single-keyboard, local multiplayer games are a rare but welcome genre nowadays. Birdfood is an adorable, single button, mini HTML5 game made with Phaser by Christian Montoya, where you control a rotating bird to catch an apple. The game mechanics are instantly clear: the bird is always spinning, and you can…
Winners of the thirteenth edition of the yearly online js13kGames competition for web game developers building games that fit into a 13 kilobyte zip packages each were announced a few days ago. Beside the overall results, the best Mobile optimized entries were picked, and also WebXR ones where folks were…
The thirteenth edition of the online js13kGames competition for web game developers trying to squeeze their entries into 13 kilobyte zip packages within a month and following the triskaidekaphobia theme wrapped submissions on September 13th, and you can play all of this year’s games already. This year the competition introduced…
The js13kGames online competition is celebrating its thirteenth edition this year, as it started all the way back in 2012. You have a whole month between August 13th and September 13th to create a web game that fits into a 13 kilobyte zip package and follows a given theme: Triskaidekaphobia…
Just before the start of the thirteenth edition of the js13kGames competition tomorrow, long time participant and legendary creator of multiple useful mini tools, Maxime Euzière, released another one: Pxtex – mini randomized pixel-art textures. His list of code-golfing tools and other projects is truly amazing – if you need…
A few days before the thirteenth edition of js13kGames starts on August 13th, the most popular micro-library used in the competition made by Steven Lambert, Kontra, was updated to version 10. There are some breaking changes in this release: seedRand: no longer returns rand as a function but instead modifies…
