I have been working on and off on turning my award-winning AKJ 2 entry, Misty Isles, into a full-fledged mobile release. The idea is to make it about the journey of Odysseus, following the story of the Odyssey but making the characters a bit more colourful.

It still needs a fair amount of work: more levels, character art, dialogue, sound, music, and some more mechanics to keep it interesting. But it should all be doable in a month if I put my mind to it, and approach it game jam style: "don't think, just do it".

Oh, if anyone has a good idea for a title ("Misty Isles" is a bit boring), please let me know!

I'm pumped for the Alakajam! this Febuary! This time, I am going to be prepared! I'm going to make a library for Unity to help me code faster, i'll have a stable idea for each of the top 10 themes, and I'll try to rank it as Solo. I might even team with someone! =-)
Good luck in advance!

It's official: the results for the 4th 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!

Now, we've got a teeny tiny little survey which you can fill in—just some feedback on how things are running, whether you'd like to get involved, and asking your opinion on some important future decisions.

OK, what's next?

November Challenge: November 2018
What's a November Challenge? Good question! Ever wondered what happens after you've made a game? @DaFluffyPotato will host this event taking us through marketing & releasing a game to the outside world, and maybe even making a profit :o

Behind the Scenes

Many thanks to the awesome @Tipyx for hosting this jam, and his little minions for helping out with maintenance and streaming. 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 soon! :)

I loved this jam, and hoping to work hard to get time off to do more in the future! Not only is this community really supportive but people put their heart and soul into most of these games - if not all.

Thanks for the awesome time! And hope to see you guys at the next jam! Can't wait to see the results. I think I know who is first place - but I'll keep that a Greek'fall' hush hush.

i took 15 minute to make a prototype… the thing is i made joke at scool telling friends how it would be funny if that game had bether vote than the last one i made for the 3rd alakajam, than i received the first comment. and… peaple seems to like the game? than i showed it to my family who also found the game fun! that make me realise that i wast too meny effort on part of my game that peaple probably dont care about. and being lazy while making a game can be efficient at the end. this inspired me to make another game wich is still in development but i whanted to share with you my expirience during this alakajam. with my cold irony of a game called FREE_GAME.
https://alakajam.com/4th-alakajam/376/free_game/

It's you last chance to rate Falling in Love!

As always, we'll return the favor for rating and leaving a comment by playing and commenting on your game! So be sure to drop us a rating so we can give yours a play too!

And since it's Screenshot Saturday, here's a new and exciting gameplay GIF for you to enjoy!

Its been a long time since the jam started. Now I have played all the games and rated all of them. Dont forget to play THEMAYOR

While messing around with my own games mechanics, I've tried to take some time to play other entries in this Alakajam. Many of the ones I got to play were either great, or had lots of potential with just a bit of polish.

I am so greatful for all the feedback that I have gotten for my own game, and I am implementing what I can to polish it up just a bit :).

I am a bit sad that some games are windows exclusive :(, and many of them look really cool to play! I run on a Mac, and try as I might, I can't get BootCamp or anything else to run windows properly. Old tech, ya see. I also have issues rendering 3D games. One of them actually crashed my computer.

Ah well, what can you do.

Before knowing who will be the top 3 of this 4th Alakajam!

But to allow some games to be ranked, they'll need your help… and your rating! This is why we entered in "rescue mode".
You can too give them useful feedback and criticism on how improve their games.

The soundtrack from Falling in Love is now available on Soundcloud!

Listen on Soundcloud.

If you haven't given the game a try yet, play it here!