The winners of Gamedev.js Jam 2025 were announced yesterday already, and today the results of our optional Challenges are revealed – if you participated in any of them, then check out your standings below. Open Source Challenge by GitHub Build it with Phaser Challenge by Phaser Studio $NOODS Challenge by…Read…

Voting to pick the winners in Gamedev.js Jam 2025, the sixth yearly edition of an online competition for web game developers has wrapped – let’s see the winners picked by participants themselves! Here’s the top10 overall ranking: Balaline by Ex0 Sloshed: a Long Way to Bed by FishoJr Playtesters and…Read…

Sixth yearly edition of the online competition for web game developers just started! Join Gamedev.js Jam 2025 on Itch – you have exactly 13 days between April 13th, 5 PM CET and April 26th, 5 PM CET to build an HTML5 game and win cool prizes in the process! Theme…Read…

The four optional challenges in the upcoming Gamedev.js Jam 2025 starting April 13th all bring their own extra prizes – you can mix and match them together to participate in as many as you want. Those challenges were summarized in the recent posts: V Shaders by V Systems Open Source…Read…

The fourth and the last optional challenge (after V Shaders, Build it with Phaser, and $NOODS) in the upcoming Gamedev.js Jam 2025 starting April 13th is the Open Source one from GitHub. Provide the source code of your entry on GitHub in a readable form to have a chance of…Read…

Hassan Shaikley created Pico-PubSub, the smallest PubSub library possible. With zero dependencies and only 149 bytes of code it beats the competition, both Tiny-PubSub and Nano-PubSub. PubSub is a pattern I really like, but I have to be careful when pulling in dependencies that are too big. In the context…Read…

A modern, open-source game engine written in Rust, Fyrox is designed for 2D and 3D game development. A feature-rich, production-ready, general purpose 2D/3D game engine written in Rust with a scene editor. Formerly known as rg3d. It focuses on ease of use, performance, and safety, leveraging Rust’s memory safety features…Read…

Jack Le Hamster, who have both The Test of Insanity and The Supernatural Power Troll available on Steam, wrote a detailed blog post on how he managed to publish those web games using Electron. This guide walks you through the steps needed to package your game as a desktop app,…Read…

Samuel van Egmond published a lenghty blog post explaining in detail how he managed to create such a wonderful WebXR game using the A-Frame library and squeezing his own source code into a 13 kilobyte zip package for the js13kGames 2024 competition. Everything in the game is procedurally generated at runtime,…Read…

Philippe Vaillancourt, inspired by participating in the js13kGames competition, decided to build his own WebGPU game engine that would fit in the 13 kilobyte zip size limitation – that’s how Nanojet was born. A lightweight, modular game engine built for modern browsers using WebGPU. Designed to be small enough for…Read…