The 3rd AKJ Tournament begins!

It's time for the 3rd AKJ Tournament, folks! From the 15th to 31st of March 2019 we'll be playing and competing at six games which have been submitted to jams on this very site. You can see the tournament rules here.

Quiet! Gimme the games!

Below you'll find the games we'll be playing this month, along with their owner and the jam they were entered for. We have some real gems this time, so make sure you don't miss out and play them all! :)

Game	Author(s)	Genre	Jam
Nonomino	thomastc	Dynamic puzzler	6th Kajam
The Lost Beans	dollarone	Caffeinated platformer	Coffee Jam
Illustrious Escape	M2tias, Juutis, bradur	First person teleporter	5th Alakajam!
You are the Grimoire	Aurel300	Rapid-fire genre mashup	5th Alakajam!
Shinobi Blocks	dwemthy	Tetris/platformer love child	4th Alakajam!
Electric Tango	laaph	Shocking Olypmian apple picker	6th Kajam

For the next couple weeks, Alakajam! is not hosting a gamedev event. Instead, we will play jam games! (omg)

How it works

For two weeks, everyone will get to play on a selection of 6 games (mostly from the last Alakajam! events) on which they'll try to make the highest scores/best times as possible. Using screenshots as proof, players will battle to enter (and remain in) the leaderboards.

Leaderboards points are awarded to all players that enter the top 10 of a game. At the end of the event, on March 31st, the player with the most points wins the tournament! Check the 2nd tournament winners to see the current title holders :)

As usual, there's no prizes to be won other than bragging rights. We're just here to have fun!

It's official: the results for the 5th Alakajam! are out! You can find the results here:

Solo winners | Team winners

Kudos, high fives and back slaps to everyone who participated, in whatever way(s) you chose to. We hope you had a blast! If you have any feedback or suggestion about the event, feel free to let us know with a comment.

What's next?

The date of the 6th Alakajam is not set in stone yet but will should place in late May/early June. We will confirm it as soon as possible.

But way before that, next week-end actually, we'll start the 3rd AKJ Tournament, where the community is invited like last time to play & compete on jam games!

If you want to submit your own game to the event, follow this link.

Behind the Scenes

The jam was run by @toasty, @TimBeaudet, @thrainsa and @tipyx because nicks starting with Ts rule the world! Although not only Ts ran the jam to be honest, with the excellent @Danae and @Aurel300 bringing the event to life thanks to their livestreams :)

Also many thanks to those of you who jammed, played, streamed and/or speedran(runned?), as well as you, the community, for making this what it is.

We hope to see you in the upcoming Tournament!

Check out WizKnight!!

We only have a few more to go! we'll return the favor and rate the games of everyone who rates ours so come drop by and give WizKnight a play!

I start rating games late but I hope it will be enought to get the 10 votes ;)

Come and check our Trinity game entry for the 5th Alakajam.
I'll rate more games tomorrow so don't hesitate to leave a comment so I can check your game tomorrow ;)

There is Our timelapse.

The 3rd AKJ Tournament is nearly upon us!

And you know what that means, right? Correct! We need some games to play. Have you recently made a game you think would be a good fit for the tournament? Then submit it here by 14th March!

If your game has a score which people can screenshot, it's elligible!

You can donate to the Alakajam! team by following the link above. All financial help is welcome! It will help us cover the costs of the servers, plus the occasional little gifts we award during events like stickers and magnets. Also maybe, someday, we can host a jam a yacht.

To keep things transparent you can keep track of the donations and expenses below. Big thanks to you for supporting the community!

Revenues & Expenses

2024

Month	Description	Revenue	Expenses
January-December 2024	DigitalOcean hosting		103.68$ (~94€)

2023

Month	Description	Revenue	Expenses
May 2023	Gandi domain name renewal (2 years)		37.22€
January-December 2023	DigitalOcean hosting		103.68$ (~94€)

2022

Month	Description	Revenue	Expenses
January-December 2022	DigitalOcean hosting		103.68$ (~94€)

2021

Month	Description	Revenue	Expenses
September 2021	Donations	30.00€
May-December 2021	DigitalOcean hosting		49.12€

2020

Month	Description	Revenue	Expenses
November 2020	OVH Hosting (3 months)		14.36 €
September 2020	Donations	15.00 €
August 2020	Donations	15.00 €
August 2020	OVH Hosting (3 months)		14.36 €
June 2020	Donations	20.00 €
June 2020	Gandi domain name renewal (3 years)		46.80 €
June 2020	OVH Hosting (3 months)		14.36 €
March 2020	OVH Hosting (3 months)		14.36 €
February 2020	Donations	49.36 €

2019

Month	Description	Revenue	Expenses
December 2019	OVH Hosting (3 months)		14.36 €
September 2019	OVH Hosting (3 months)		14.36 €
August 2019	Donations	10.00 €
July 2019	Donations	10.00 €
June 2019	Domain name renewal (1 year)		15.60 €
June 2019	OVH Hosting (3 months)		14.36 €
May 2019	Donations	45.00 €
April 2019	T-Shirts for team meetup		81.36 €
April 2019	Donation for team meetup	81.36 €
April 2019	Goodies for gifts		26.00 €
March 2019	OVH Hosting (3 months)		14.36 €
March 2019	Donations	98,47 €

2018

Month	Description	Revenue	Expenses
December 2018	OVH Hosting (3 months)		14.36 €
September 2018	OVH Hosting (3 months)		14.36 €

Check out WizKnight!!

We'll prioritize rating the games of anyone who rates and comments on WizKnight some come trade ratings with us!

Sooooo sad I didnt have time to put an entry in for this Alakajam :( Unfortunately I was struck with sudden food poisoning, and have been out for over a week. I look forward to playing the entries that everyone else submitted though!

Better luck next time for me :(.