A new competitor to Visual Studio Code emerges, and it’s a well-known one. In a somewhat surprising move, JetBrains recently announced that two of its IDEs, WebStorm and Rider, are now free to use for non-commercial purposes: learning, contributing to open source, and developing hobby projects. This is a significant…
It’s that time of year again, Game Off 2024 hosted by Lee Reilly and Github under way! This game jam is the perfect opportunity for developers of all skills to build and share their creations. Solo developers and teams; large and small, are welcome to join this month-long challenge. Github…
Eightile is a daily word game made in HTML5 by Alex Morgan where you guess 6 words from shuffled letters. Starting with a 3-letter word, each round adds an extra letter to the mix, challenging you to unscramble all words within a 5-minute time limit. If you don’t guess all…
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…
