After a few years of talking about it we were finally able to open an online shop with all the designs from previous editions of the competition, so you can update your collection accordingly! We’ve started the shop using Spreadshirt’s service, which seems to be the best for our case…

The video recording from the Kick-off Meetup that happened on Sunday August 13th is now available on our YouTube channel for all those who missed it. I went through a short slide deck about the new things in the js13kGames competition this year, then presented some non-coding tips and tricks. We wrapped the whole thing with a quiz (not in the video) where three lucky winners: Newman5, Dastardly, and Cody won js13kGames 2023 t-shirt each, congratulations!

It’s that time of the year again - the twelfth edition of the online js13kGames competition happening every year in August just started! Build a Web game in a month and within the 13 kilobyte zip size limitation and submit it before September 13th to win fame and fortune! Theme announcement This…

We’ve decided to open the Decentralized category during this year’s js13kGames compettion a bit - there are no specific challenges, and you don’t even need to use any blockchain technologies to qualify. The main point is to encourage you to play with the web3 tech, and it will still give…

As per one of the traditions, we’ll be meeting online on the day the js13kGames competition starts and the theme is being announced - come join us to comment over the theme and your potential participation! To get the sense of how our meetups look like if you haven’t attended one yet, you can watch last year’s recording, where the js13kBreakouts project was introduced showcasing the three most popular JS13K tools: Kontra, LittleJS, and Goodluck.

The 12th edition of the js13kGames competition is about to begin at the end of this week, so let’s look at the new design of the t-shirts that will be given to the authors of the top 100 entries this year and shipped worldwide for free. Designed - as always - by Ewa Mazur, those will be sent to the best entries, but also our experts as well for their effort. Every package, beside the t-shirt itself, will also contain some cool swag (this year: pins and patches), and a collection of our own stickers. All for free, thanks to our awesome Partners.

As you might (or might not yet) know, every year we’re offering unique t-shirts along with cool JS13K branded swag for free to the authors of top100 entries, shipped worldwide for free as well. This year we’ll be having pins and patches, plus something brand new: medals for top13 winners! …

It’s been five hundred weeks, or 3500 days since the beginning of January 2014 when I started publishing the Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter. Time flies so fast! It began for the same reason js13kGames was created in 2012: there was no such thing at the time, so I decided to start…

Following the tradition of “starting a countdown”, which runs for a few good years already, we’re letting you know that the twelfth edition of the js13kGames competition will begin exactly in a month from now! The preparations to this year’s JS13K started right after Gamedev.js Jam 2023 has wrapped. You…