end3r Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 The fifth edition of the js13kGames competition starts in more than two months, but I wanted to slowly start organizing everything already. I'll announce everything here, and if you have any questions feel free to ask. For those who don't know: it's a JavaScript coding competition for HTML5 game developers. You have a month (from August 13th till September 13th) to create a game on the given theme (announced at the start of the compo) that have to fit into the 13 kilobytes limit with all the resources when zipped. It is a challenge, but the one that spawns creativity. Check out rules and previous entries, forum topics from 2014 and 2015, follow compo on Twitter and Facebook for updates. Check the Resources page for tools and other useful materials. And yes, I'm trying to improve the rules, voting system, and backend from your feedback taken over the years. Remember: I failed with so many things every single year and I will probably fail also this time. The compo is suppose to be for fun, and I'm doing everything mostly on my own in my free time, so instead of complaining feel free to help - thanks. labrat.mobi, sanojian, blackmoondev and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecv Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Interesting. How would you know if competitors started coding on August 13th? Relying on pure honesty? Pity I'm completely lost at game coding, I guess maybe next year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
end3r Posted June 2, 2016 Author Share Posted June 2, 2016 46 minutes ago, ecv said: How would you know if competitors started coding on August 13th? Relying on pure honesty? Well, I can't, and yes - at some degree I rely on honesty ^^ Theme will be announced when the compo actually starts, and the judges will give points, among other factors, based on the implementation of the theme. It wasn't so strict through the years so if you're motivated enough and will work all year and create something without implementing the theme yet it'll be so awesome that it'll win the competition, then good for you ecv 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
end3r Posted June 7, 2016 Author Share Posted June 7, 2016 I've created a Slack channel for the js13k competition - visit http://slack.js13kgames.com to get the invite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AhmedElyamani Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 Cool! I'll hopefully make something this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
end3r Posted June 23, 2016 Author Share Posted June 23, 2016 A little update with the new additions. Sponsor: - Mozilla Judges: - Christer Kaitila - Jupiter Hadley Prizes: - 5 × Making Money with HTML5 ebook - 3 × Construct 2 game engine personal license - 10 × PlayCanvas Pro-5 account More coming soon. labrat.mobi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
end3r Posted June 27, 2016 Author Share Posted June 27, 2016 Next update. Judges: - Pablo Farías Navarro - Robert Podgórski Prizes: - 5 × ImpactJS game engine - 5 × Complete Mobile Game Development Course - 7 × WebStorm personal license Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remvst Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Definitely looking forward to this edition, it will give me an excuse to make a game, and it's always so much fun to work with these constraints. Definitely recommend participating for those who haven't yet end3r 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
end3r Posted July 4, 2016 Author Share Posted July 4, 2016 Next update. Sponsor: - Heroic Labs Judge: - Jason Weathersby Prizes: - 3 × Pusher $300 credit - 1 × Proto.io Startup account If you want to offer sponsorship or prizes feel free to ping me via PM, email or social media way - thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
end3r Posted July 25, 2016 Author Share Posted July 25, 2016 Next update. Sponsor: - Hired Judge: - Elle Chen Prizes: - 5 × Cloud9 IDE individual subscriptions - 10 × Elliot Quest game - 25 × A Wizard's Lizard and A Wizard's Lizard 2: Soul Thief games The competition starts in 18 days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d13 Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 Hi Everyone, Just in case this might be useful, 2 years ago I created a micro game engine specifically for making JS13K games: https://github.com/kittykatattack/ga ... Yes, that's right - it has most of the features of Phaser (inlcuding a built-in sound effects generator!) but the code base is about 100 times smaller It compresses down to 6.5k gzipped, which leaves you with another 6.5k for your game code - that's plenty. Ga is still under active maintenance and development (it's my baby!) so if anyone wants to try it - go ahead! I'm too busy to make a game for JS13K this year, but I'll have my eye on Ga's GitHub Issues in case anyone has any questions, bug reports, or wants to contribute to the project (... bonus points for removing code!) Cheers, -d13 end3r, ecv and Mattia 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
end3r Posted July 30, 2016 Author Share Posted July 30, 2016 14 hours ago, d13 said: Just in case this might be useful, 2 years ago I created a micro game engine specifically for making JS13K games: https://github.com/kittykatattack/ga I've added it to the Resources page (I was wondering why it wasn't there already), thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Spark Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 Is there any place we can vote for themes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
end3r Posted August 3, 2016 Author Share Posted August 3, 2016 14 minutes ago, Red Spark said: Is there any place we can vote for themes? I'm chosing the theme for every year by myself, but I was thinking about an option to give this away to community at some point ;] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
end3r Posted August 9, 2016 Author Share Posted August 9, 2016 Next update. Sponsors: - Jscrambler - Gameasy Judges: - Pedro Fortuna - Frederic Rezeau Prizes: - 10 × The Curious Expedition game - 5 × Kendo UI Professional - 3 × CodePen Pro account - 30 × GitHub personal account - 10 × Phaser Editor - 3 × Jscrambler license The competition starts in just FOUR DAYS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
end3r Posted August 13, 2016 Author Share Posted August 13, 2016 js13k 2016 has STARTED! Theme for this year is: glitch. Spread gamedev love and join! labrat.mobi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DexterZ Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 This is awesome! I'll join if I can shrink my Framework+Game into 13Kb... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitsensitive Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Sounds interesting. Might join it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
end3r Posted August 16, 2016 Author Share Posted August 16, 2016 5 hours ago, DexterZ said: I'll join if I can shrink my Framework+Game into 13Kb... Shrinking a "normal" framework might be too much of a challenge - there are a few microframeworks already that you could use, check the Resources page: http://js13kgames.github.io/resources/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DexterZ Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 8 hours ago, end3r said: Shrinking a "normal" framework might be too much of a challenge - there are a few microframeworks already that you could use, check the Resources page: http://js13kgames.github.io/resources/ Thanks for the link, I'll see what I can do Sir ^ _ ^ y Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
end3r Posted September 29, 2016 Author Share Posted September 29, 2016 The winners of 2016 edition of the js13kGames competition were announced! http://2016.js13kgames.com/#winners Congrats to everyone who participated! Mattia, mattstyles, InvisionUser and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
end3r Posted October 28, 2016 Author Share Posted October 28, 2016 An interview with Evil Glitch author, and the competition winner, was published on the Hacks blog: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/10/an-interview-with-giovanny-beltran-js13kgames-winner/ Mattia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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