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:
The 21st edition of our 48 hour game jam starts on Friday, February 21st!
The event is about making a game, from nothing, in a weekend. Teams or solo devs, beginners and professionals are all welcome to participate. If you opt-in to the competition, you will get to be ranked against every other contestant! Or if you prefer a more relaxed setting, maybe even work on your current hobby project, the Open jam will still give you an opportunity to get plays and comments.
Dates | Phase | Description |
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February 7th | Theme submission and voting | You can submit theme ideas for the jam and vote for all other submissions. |
February 14th | Theme shortlist | Only the best 10 themes are kept. Rank them by order of preference in this final phase of theme voting. |
February 21, 6pm UTC | Kickoff stream | A livestream will be hosted by @DanaePlays and @Aurel300 in the final hour before the start! |
February 21, 7pm UTC | ![]() ![]() |
Start making a game solo or as a team, and simply submit it before the deadline! |
February 23, 7pm UTC | End of ranked jam | The main competition ends here, exactly 48 hours after the start time. Submissions will remain open for an additional hour after the deadline. |
February 24,10pm UTC | End of open jam | This permissive deadline, without game ratings, lets you work on your current game project and submit it for feedback. It aso works if you want to go for a relaxed weekend without ratings, or just need the extra time to finish your work. |
March 9, 7pm UTC | Results | After two weeks during which all entrants are invited to play, rate and comment on other peoples games… The results are released and the winners crowned! |
There are three divisions:
- Solo, in which you make a whole game alone in 48 hours
- Team, in which any number of persons can gather to make a game in 48 hours
- Open, a more open division which grants about 72 hours to finish the game. Useful for those not interested in the competitive aspect of the event, want to work on an existing project of theirs, or simply did not finish their game in time.
See the full rules for the Alakajam.
All you need to do is:
A tradition for jammers is also to introduce themselves with an "I am in" blog post before the event. Describe what tools and frameworks and engines you will use to create your awesome game! Which themes do you like? Let us and the community know!
If you can, feel free to spread the word about the jam - the more we are, the merrier! glhf ;)
As a small event in-between the game jams, we challenge you to post high scores on a selection of games from past Alakajam events!
It includes Abyss Meal (by @Ilkalys and @jcochet) and Cave Exploder (by @yozy) as fun little arcade games, and two more games that are more on the puzzle side: CARA GRABS ANTIMATTER (by @voxel) is a nice puzzler with speedrun potential, while Work Until Done (by @thomastc) is a more involved optimization game that will get you busy for a while.
Big thanks to the game authors for opening up their games for tournament use, and good luck to all players to climb the leaderboard!
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:
So I've also changed my development style to adapt for this:
This has been working well so far. But jam-wise, I see a few rooms for improvement:
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
For the 20th Alakajam, the theme as voted on and run through the process and corrupted by evil hackers and memes made up by dedicated alakajammers, is…
With this announcement, the 20th AKJ has begun! To reiterate what I said before, we will have
13-15th Sep main jam
16th extra day for unranked participants
17th-31 Sep rate the games!
1 Oct reveal the results!
Go make your wonderful games! May the theme inspire you!
Prepare your game engines! The 20th AKJ will take place on 13th-15th of September. The week before will be dedicated to theme voting! And before that, we will submit themes! Since we always seem hate the theme, don't forget to submit a theme you actually like!
Our dates will look like:
Dates | Event | Comments |
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1-5 September | Theme submission | We know you have some good themes hiding in you! |
6-12 September | Theme shortlist voting | Choose the final theme among the best submissions! |
13 September, 7pm UTC | Alakajam! starts | The jam itself! Make your games! |
15 September, 7pm UTC | Ranked jam ends | Make sure to submit your game during the jam, you can still update your page after submissions are closed. |
16 September | Extra day for unranked division | In case you want more time or don't want to constrain yourself to other rules! |
17-31 September | Game rating | Play all the games and rate them! Leave comments telling what is good or not! |
1 October | Results reveal | Hopefully your admins are sober enough to wrap up the event and post scores! |
If you've participated in an Alakajam before, you should know what to expect! And if not, it is easy to follow along, and we will be putting more info before things happen!
@Psychic_Ash Sorry about that.
Did it crash ? Or maybe Windows Defender doesn't let you run it ?
Did it create a "log.txt" file ? What OS and graphics card... <a href="/20th-alakajam/1526/train-of-thought/#c10351">(read more)</a>
I'm part of Alakajam! 21!
Welcome aboard! Good luck - I hope you have a fun jam and stick around for the ranking phase after the jam