The fourteenth yearly edition of the online js13kGames competition starts… NOW! Build a web game following the theme within the next month and fit it into a 13 kilobyte zip package to win lots of cool prizes, eternal fame, and respect from fellow devs!
This year’s theme is… Black Cat!
Quite straightforward and literal, but you can use this particular black cat however you like: as a main character, element of the story, gameplay, or as an NPC. You can make a simple Doodle Jump clone like our Triska Reloaded with Badlucky , or fully 3D RPG. It could even be a C.A.T. codename for anything really, not involving felines at all - unleash your creativity!
When you’re ready, send your game through the Submit form when it opens a couple of days from now, around Monday August 18th.
Categories
Beside the standard Desktop and Mobile , we have cool hardware prize in the WebXR category again, the Decentralized category without any specific challenges, and one half-official MMO challenge coming your way very soon.
Also, don’t forget we still have Unfinished category if you end up with incomplete entry (for any reason) you’d still like to show on the compo website.
Partners
The support from the companies listed below is crucial for our competition.
Those are: OP Guild, GitHub, Cloudflare, Poki, Playhop, and Geodework. Plus our own brands, Enclave Games and Gamedev.js.
Prizes
We have more than 20 different types of prizes this year, so plenty of cool things to win.
The exact design of our traditional t-shirt for top100 participants and this year’s gadget will be revealed in the next few days.
Experts
We can’t have this competition without our lovely experts providing valuable feedback to your entries.
They will carefully play through the games assigned to them and write their advice.
Collaborate, document, share, promote
We’re all in this together and other participants can help you if you return the favor. Collaborate with fellow devs, suggest theme ideas, help fix bugs, or playtest their entries and you will get the same. Join our Slack or Discord where all the cool folks are!
Document as you go, share your progress using #js13k hashtag on X/Twitter, Mastodon, or Bluesky, so it will be easier for you to recap what you did and write that Post Mortem of what went good and what could’ve been done better.
Last, but not least: help promote the competition itself, share the good news with your local communities, friends from work, and invite them all to participate! The bigger we are the better for everyone, thank you so much for everything!
That’s it - good luck and have fun!
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