The 404 Kajam runs for all of May! 5

toasty • 13 days ago on 16th Kajam 

Let'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 (5)

Bump  • 3 days ago • 

Is there a file size limit, etc?

FlipBit • 3 days ago • 

My guess is that browsergames are the only ones that are eligible in practice and they should probably be fairly small.

M2tias • 2 days ago • 

Yeah, must be a browser game of course and I think the size (or loading time more importantly) is one reason the post says "some or all of the games will get to live there".

toasty  • 2 days ago • 

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 🥲

Bump  • 1 day ago • 

What are the rating criteria? Also, there is no theme other than the limitation of 404 right?

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