Top-rated entries from Game Off 2021
Here are the top games created in our annual game jam as rated and reviewed by the developers that made them. Game On! 🤘🏻
January 13, 2022
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Here are the top games created in our annual game jam as rated and reviewed by the developers that made them. Game On! 🤘🏻
The theme for this year’s Game Off is… …BUG! Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a game between now and December 1 incorporating the theme somehow, and submit it to the jam page on itch.io. After a few weeks of playing and rating the games by participants, the winners will […]
It’s that time of year again where I like to share seasonally spooktacular games plus source code—a goldmine of material for (a) those looking for coffee-break entertainment, (b) those interested in learning more about game development by example, and (c) those who just want to put on their h4xor gloves and cheat their way to […]
The 49th Ludum Dare game jam just wrapped up with almost 3000 entries. Here’s a peek at some of the highest-rated entries that you can play, plus their source code that you can poke around with. This has got a little bit of something for everybody: the usual collection of platform and puzzle games you’d […]
Game Off is an annual game jam (or “hackathon for building games”) that’s a little different from most—it lasts for the entire month of November—not just a weekend or a few days. It’s the perfect excuse to learn a new language, try out a new game engine, or even build your first game! Team up […]
If you think about it, 13kB isn’t really a lot. The image above is 81kB. This page weighs over 3MB (waaay more if you include the videos). That’s why it’s so incredibly impressive that the following developers were actually able to build something in just 13 kilobytes. 🤯 This year’s js13kGames competition theme was SPACE, […]
With Linux celebrating it’s 30 year anniversary, I thought I’d use that as an excuse to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories. If you’ve haven’t been following along, here’s part 1 and part 2 in the series. Here are the final 10 in no particular […]
Linux is celebrating its 30-year anniversary, so I’m taking the opportunity to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories. I shared the first 10 yesterday. Now it’s time for, that’s right, 11 – 20! FreeOrion FreeOrion is a 4X (that’s Xplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate) […]
Linux is celebrating its 30-year anniversary today, so I’m taking the opportunity to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories! If you like RTS, FPS, space trading, roguelike, racing, strategy, or platform games then you’re bound to find something you like below. Oh, and some of […]
The theme for Ludum Dare 48 was “deeper and deeper,” which inspired over ten thousand people to create almost four thousand games together over a weekend. As you can imagine, there were quite a lot of entries around digging or falling, but there was also a huge number of very creative (and fun) interpretations. Read […]
Game Off is our annual month-long game jam. This year’s theme was “moonshot,” and there were more than 500 tre-moon-dous submissions! 🌛 Here are some of the top-rated games as voted on by the developers themselves. A Trip to the Moon By @namra-gamedev “Outstanding art and very enjoyable experience! A beautiful tribute to Le Voyage […]
The theme for this year’s Game Off is MOONSHOT. moonshot – noun an extremely ambitious and innovative project the act of launching a spacecraft to the moon a hit or thrown ball that travels a great distance with a high trajectory moonshot thinking – noun a type of thinking that aims to achieve something that […]
WARNING: This post contains zombies, werewolves, extra dimensional beings, mummies, and more! Proceed at your own risk. Trick or treat yourself to some fangtastic Halloween-themed games this weekend. These were created for game jams, like Ludum Dare, JS13K, and our very own Game Off—all built in a variety of languages, and game engines. Some of […]
Game Off, our annual game jam (a hackathon for building games) returns this weekend. Participants will be given a secret theme on November 1 and will have the entire month of November to build a game based on their interpretation of the theme. This is a great excuse to build your first game, learn a […]
The ninth annual js13kGames competition wrapped up last weekend with over 220 games submitted. All created in a month and in less than 13kB of JavaScript. For anyone not in the know, js13kGames is a JavaScript coding competition for HTML5 game developers. This year’s theme was 404, and as with previous years, participants had the […]
The fourth annual GMTK Game Jam has broken it’s previous year’s record! GMTK Game Jam is a 48-hour game-making competition focused on design, mechanics, and clever ideas. The competition has just ended, and had a record-breaking 5.4k submissions and 18.3k participants on itch.io. This year’s theme was Out of Control and the quality of entries matched the quantity. Here are a few […]