The 404 Kajam runs for all of May! 6 5
toastyLet's make a playable 404 page for Alakajam!
When someone visits the Alakajam site with an invalid URL, they see text explaining that the page doesn't exist. Let's make that experience a bit more fun - by adding a game!
At the end of the month, we'll set up the 404 page and some or all of the games will get to live there for a Long Time™*.
Jam schedule
Start: 20:00 UTC, 1st May
Finish: 20:00 UTC, 31st May
Rules
See the usual Kajam rules. Remember people will be accessing your game via a browser, and plan appropriately. 😇
(* Until we decide to do another one of these, or possibly forever.)
Comments (6)
We didn't want to set a hard limit for things like file size - but yes, we may need to consider practicalities like that.
I would use your judgement about what makes a sensible game - bear in mind that it's a 404 page, so you might want something that can load quickly and draws the player in instantly, for example. We'll try our best to host every submission there, but if you submit a 16GB executable it might not be feasible 🥲
Fun idea! Hope to make something. A few questions come to mind:
First, I'm guessing the 404 page will pick one game to show per visit, rather than containing several games, right? How will it pick — randomly per visit? Or maybe a hash of the URL?
Secondly, should the game itself have some "404" or "Not Found" text visible when it loads? Or will it be displayed alongside a static "404" header or similar?
Oh, one more. Will you iframe the game, or will it go directly onto the page? Just want to get a sense of the execution environment, to think about what's possible to implement.
Is there a file size limit, etc?