It seems we might have some newcomers here which is awesome! One of the reasons Alakajam is special is the Alakajam Tournament which is a separate event where we play past games and try to compete in them. So if your game has a measurable way to compete it may very well be that your game will be played years to come!

Some examples:

• High score counter
• Timer display
• Number of deaths (the smaller the better)

After this all you need to do is enable high scores on your entry page:

The next Alakajam Tournament is in March so now is a great time to try to get your game featured there!

It's great to see the many new users coming from DaFluffyPotato's video :)

If you haven't already, come join us on Discord! It's a great place to share your progress during the jam, talk about gamedev, look for a team, and more.

I'm also coming from DaFluffyPotatos video on joining game jams! I'm a 23 year old Brazilian, currently working in web dev, and hoping to use more of my creative side on game-making stuff :)

Last and only game jam I participated in was the Pirate Software's Game Jam 16, earlier this year. That was a 2 week event, so I'm very scared of how things will go with only 48 hours!

I'm planning on using Godot / GDScript, and hope to have something playable by the end of the event. Nice to meet you all!

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Feel free to reach out! Github Bluesky My last game

I watched a video by one of my favorite coders DaFluffyPotato and decided to try this Jam.

Looks like fun, you guys are very organized.

Hopefully I will have an entry that folks will enjoy.

I will be using SDL3 and C/C++

Thanks for hosting the jam, and I am in!!

Hey guys! :D
I'm Vintera, 24 years old, and this will be my first Game Jam. I came across this event thanks to a video by DaFluffyPotato!

Currently, I work as a web developer and study Computer Science in Germany, but I really want to make games in my free time!

Especially pixel art games made with Pygame or LÖVE2D. I also tried Ursina once to get my feet wet with 3D game development in Python.

This time, I guess I'll stick with Pygame since this is my first Jam, and I'm really exited.

I can't wait to see your games and learn more about your art and projects!
Let's have a great time, guys!

Hello, I'm a 15-year-old programmer from Brazil who really enjoys making 2D games with p5.js and started using raylib-go for a Voxel Engine!
Here are some pictures of the games I have already worked on:

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Protahovatsi-Stroj - The voxel engine I'm currently working on

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A Google Chrome Dinosaur game clone I have made a year ago using p5.play.js

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I have been introduced to this jam by DaFluffyPotato and I'm very excited to take part in the 21st Alakajam with my friends Lucas and Felipe.
I'm looking forward to learning from other developers and improving my skills during the jam.

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Feel free to follow me and keep up with my work! I'm always open to feedback and collaborations.

Hello, AKJers!

AKJ 20 has joyfully finished and I'm happy with my result. This is the first jam for me since 2021-ish, and there has been a few changes to my development environment:

• The time I can spend for the jam has been greatly reduced (to only a few hours!).
• I've lost my desktop Linux.

So I've also changed my development style to adapt for this:

• Make most tasks doable with Windows + VS Code only.
• Make everything very raw and primitive. No engine and no external depdendency. It's just a plain vanilla JS with HTML. (If you're curious, take a look at the source of my entry (https://games.tabesugi.net/regex/)
• Proactively make a set of copy-pastable code (a.k.a. "the framework").

This has been working well so far. But jam-wise, I see a few rooms for improvement:

• Be mindful of the "mechanics" of a game. I tend to cram many things into one game and people see it's "chaotic". (in my game, things like a peculiar one-button control, circular level, multiplying enemies and river, etc.)
• Think carefully what could be randomized or changed. In hindsight, I probably shouldn't change the control schema (a.k.a "regex" pattern) every time, so that people can get used to control.
• A little playtesting before submission would have been useful. (The game was probably too hard for many.)

That's it! I'm looking forward to particupate more. Thank you for organizing this event.

i'm really glad I got this project done. I've been meaning to learn godot for such a long time now, but, yknow, committment issues. anyways, I GOT IT DONE!!

i ran out of time to compose music properly, so instead I sat down at the piano, improvised some space-y lofi sounding stuff, then bitcrushed it to hell and back and called it a day. i like the way it turned out, personally.

i'm looking forward to playing the other entrants' games!!!! :3

I made my game Yelp for the limitations kajam. Despite 6 weeks of jam time, I was still coding in the final hour. 🥲

I'm glad I submitted something, but there's very little actual gameplay and it's not particularly fun either. I focused mainly on the "Over-sensitive" limitation (use as many inputs as possible) and chose to use the microphone to propel the player and trigger attacks, but I quickly ran into technical issues. I couldn't always reliably detect and utilise microphone input (possibly because of noise cancelling and/or a lack of API understanding), so ultimately I restricted it to just attacking. Even then there is a noticeable lag between screaming at the computer and it actually attacking (possibly this could be reduced if I better understood the various HTML/JS audio APIs). Still, I think it's pretty novel for a jam game and I'm glad I tried.

Originally I'd aimed for a horror game, and the game briefly had a shroud around most of the screen. Not being able to see what's coming is a common horror trope and it did improve the feel. But I also wanted to aim for the "Geometron" (no textures; geometry only) limitation, and a decent-looking shroud meant technically using a texture, even if it was auto-generated. It's also a tall order to create a horror game without sounds for atmosphere.

I learned a lot, though. This is the first graphical (i.e. not mostly HTML/UI) game I've made in a while. Turns out Pixi.js is still a solid rendering engine. I was less keen on matter-js for physics, mostly because the docs aren't very helpful and the API isn't always predictable. I'd happily use Pixi again, but would be tempted to seek another physics solution (library or roll my own).