laaph

laaph #969

Joined 6 years ago

Snoodoku!
by laaph
on Ludum Dare 41
Team
Treasure Island
by laaph
on Ludum Dare 40
Solo
Hamster Wheel Simulator
by laaph
on Ludum Dare 39
Team
Finding your loved one
by laaph
on Ludum Dare 38
Team
Ocean View
by laaph
on Ludum Dare 37
Team
Life of the Party
by laaph
on Ludum Dare 34
Team
Jewel Thief
by laaph
on Ludum Dare 31
Solo
You Only Get One
by laaph
on Ludum Dare 28
Solo
Color cats
by laaph
on 0 hour game jam 2013
Solo
Adventure, Level 2
by laaph
on Ludum Dare 27
Solo
A dog walking simulator
A walk in the forest
by laaph
on Molyjam Deux
Solo
Adventure
by laaph
on Ludum Dare 26
Solo
Heart Invaders
by laaph
on Global Game Jam 2013
Team
Evil Monkey
by laaph
on Ludum Dare 25
Solo
Why would you want to kill Charlie and Frank? How horrible.
Stab Charlie and Poison Frank
by laaph
on 0 hour game jam
Solo
Robot wars
by laaph
on Ludum Dare 24
Solo

And the theme is.... 4

laaph • 1 month ago 

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…

"In a loop"!

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!

The 20th Alakajam is coming! 0

laaph • 3 months ago 

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
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!

Feedback Fortnight? Funtimes? Fomething Else? 0

laaph • 7 months ago 

After a long discussion it was discovered that many Americans do not know the term "Fortnight" and confused it with the name of a popular video game. I have a confused background and had just assumed everyone knew the word, but I thought it was archaic and only used in books like "Lord of the Rings" or other situations where you want to sound like the old times. Other people told me that the word "fortnight" was a perfectly normal word in perfectly normal usage.

For those who don't know, fortnight is a word that means two weeks.

Where does that leave us? Well, we intend to keep providing an event where you can submit anything you are working on, whether from a game jam or your own deep dark secret project that will only be released when absolutely perfect, and have this event so that the community can comment on and critique games. We won't even be strict about the two weeks part, which might be additional reason to drop the "fortnight" moniker. However, what ever the name, the idea will continue.

But, in the interest of community feedback, what do you think? If you have an account on mastodon, go over and vote what you think about the name change! Comments on this will be read! https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@alakajam/112197934222212646

Or you can leave a comment on this post if you wish!

The Feedback F…… will start on April 12th and continue for two weeks until April 26th. We will open the submissions before this time, and you can even submit feedback before (or after!) this time, but those are the official dates. Be polite, be nice, be critical, and we'll provide some resources on how do that effectively. You are welcome to submit anything that still fits in to the alakajam rules. If you are submitting a commercial project, please allow for a way for alakajammers to play for free, whether by temporarily setting the price to zero or giving out keys or however you can.

Get your projects ready for public consumption! This is coming soon!

The 19th Alakajam is now open! 0

laaph • 8 months ago 

After a few stumbles, the 19th Alakajam is now open! Make your games! You have until February 25th until sometime in your local time zone (I can't handle time zones) to write your game and submit it! If this is not enough time, or you just don't want to stress, or you want to follow the unranked rules instead of the jam rules, you can go until February 26th!

There are several bits of advice that are traditionally given to game jammers. Advice I like:

  • Don't forget to sleep
  • Drink enough water
  • Have fun!

Advice I recognize as necessary but I don't like:

  • Know your tools
  • Keep the scope small

On the topic of keeping your scope small, I recently watched a TED talk featuring OK GO about why you might want to keep your scope small. They even do the math! It starts out with a song too.

Advice that is sometimes given but I think should be given more:

  • Learn things! Just remember that learning takes time, and you don't have a lot of time in a jam
  • Let your inner creative monster out! If you can fit your crazy ideas in to 48 (or 72) hours, do it!

In any case that was much more of an introduction post than I had intended, I probably forgot to write all the important things, welcome to the 19th AKJ, and have fun everyone!

Join Us for Alakajam! 3

laaph • 8 months ago 

Dear game developers,

It is with great sorrow that we see the modding Kajam come to an end. While there were… not quite a lot of great mods created, let's give a big cheer to everyone who participated! 🎉🎉

We are thrilled to announce that Alakajam is coming back bigger and better than ever! We are excited to announce that the next Alakajam will be happening on February 23rd-25th.

What is Alakajam?
Alakajam is a game jam where gamers come together to create unique games in just one weekend. The competition is fierce, and the games are amazing!

Theme submission will be opened up soon, as soon as I figure out the correct buttons to press!

Theme submission: now. Don't forget to submit themes that you don't hate!
Theme selection: Feb 20th-23rd. Don't forget to vote for the themes you hate the least!
Jam start: February 23rd
Jam end: February 25th
Extra day for unranked jams: Feb 26th. If you didn't finish on Sunday, take an extra day!
Play and rate games: Feb 26th-March 11th.
Where: this website, also our discord channel
Who: everyone
Why: for the glory!

So, mark your calendars and get ready to join the fun. We can't wait to see what you create!

If you have any questions or need more information, please feel free to contact us at the email, but really we respond better on the discord channel. Let's make some amazing games together!

The tournament is now over! 0

laaph • 10 months ago 

All good things must come to an end, and tonight the 11th Alakajam Tournament is finished! Congratulations to Juutis for getting the most high scores!

If you want your game considered for the next tournament, please check the box indicating such when you submit a game to an Alakajam event!

Coming next on 5 January 2024 will be the 14th Kajam! So enjoy the winter break and we will back in the new year!

We are starting the tournament! 1

laaph • 11 months ago 

Your poor tournament is stressed and has lots going on, but I played lots of games looking for the most fun games for this tournament! These games may have flaws but at least they are fun. We've only got three but I could only dedicate so much time to finding them. I apologize to those that when I tried to play your game it promptly crashed, because I know it worked on your computer.

In any case, we are off! Go get that high score! Don't let the higher scores intimidate you!

11th Alakajam Tournament starts soon! 0

laaph • 11 months ago 

If all goes well then in about 3 days, maybe some extra because AKJ admins are slow, but we will start the tournament soon! What happens in a tournament is that we look through Alakajam submissions, and other games that you specifically request of us, put them up on display, and compete for high scores!

How does it work? If you just want the high scores, then play the games, take screenshots of your high scores, and submit them.

If you want your game played, it must have some sort of score, with no max score, and come to the discord and ask Laaph or Laguna to feature your game. You might want to do this quick.

There is also a button in the Alakajam submission process for games submitted to jams to automatically considered for inclusion in the tournament. We will be looking through these games. We expect to feature 4 games for the tournament, but in the past there have been more or less.

We will be playing games together soon!

Feedback Fortnight has come to a close. 0

laaph • 1 year ago 

I hope everyone had fun playing all the games, and I hope people making the games learned some useful insights! But unfortunately, all good things must come to an end. But it's not too much of an end, you can still play the games and leave feedback if you haven't done so yet!

We will have our regular meeting this Wednesday! Don't forget! At 21:00UTC in everyone's favorite Discord server! If you don't know where that is, you can find it at https://discord.gg/yZPBpTn

Next up will be the 18th Alakajam, at October 27, 2023. See you then!

Alakajam yearly meeting! 0

laaph • 1 year ago 

We will be having a meeting to discuss next year's plans, to determine if we have enough manpower to provide additional events, and everything else we need to talk about! The meeting time has been official set to Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at 21:00UTC! It will take place on the Alakajam official Discord channel which, you aren't yet a part of, you can join here. https://discord.gg/yZPBpTn

See you there! (Or maybe we will just hear you there, there will be no cameras…)

High scores

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#GameScoreDate
1
Rise of Island Nations
by DiningPhilosopher, Anni
65 November 21st 2022
1
Electric Tango
by laaph
17120 March 20th 2019
4
Nonomino
by thomastc
3382 March 27th 2019
4
Pirate Dilemma
by pimkeomi
November 25th 2022
5
(Tower of) Bird
by voxel
October 22nd 2019
7
Uplifting
by thomastc
89 October 25th 2019
7
You are the Grimoire
by Aurel300
2'16"001 March 21st 2019
7
Shinobi Blocks
by dwemthy
March 23rd 2019
7
PHOSPHORUS
by rnlf
1940 October 25th 2019
8
Boostone Tomb!
by tsjost
65 October 14th 2018
8
Abyss Meal
by Ilkalys, jcochet
230 October 26th 2024
8
Volcanic Diver
by voxel
78.3 DepthMarch 27th 2020
8
Little Architect
by benjamin
2045 October 17th 2019
9
DIG DEEP: Artifactually Incorrect
by dorkulon, Elchao, cloakedninjas, treslapin
318 June 15th 2020
11
Rook
by Raindrinker
182 October 26th 2019