We are so excited to announce our first community Web Game Challenge!
Running through September 29, the Web Game Challenge will be an opportunity to exercise your creativity, show off your skills, and have fun!
Long-time DEV member Andrzej Mazur will be joining us as a special guest judge to kick off this challenge. Andrzej is heavily involved in the gaming community and has opened an indie studio, Enclave Games, created the js13kGames competition, initiated the Gamedev.js community, and more!
For this challenge, we will have two prompts: one that involves building a game, and one that explains how. Each prompt will have one winner, and each winner will receive:
- A 6-month DEV++ Membership
- An exclusive DEV badge of honor
- A gift from the DEV Shop.
As with all challenges, all participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge for their efforts.
Let’s get gaming!
Our Prompts
We hope you give both challenges a try! Early submissions of the one-byte-explainer are appreciated in case it helps someone with the game challenge.
How To Participate
In order to participate, you will need to publish a post using the submission template associated with each prompt.
Please review our full rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contests rules such eligibility requirements.
Important Dates
- September 18: Web Game Challenge: Alien Edition begins!
- September 29: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PDT
- October 1: Winners Announced
We are very excited for your Web Game Challenge submissions! Questions? Ask them below.
Good luck and happy coding!
Top comments (28)
Can't wait to play through these submissions!
Nice challenge, I'm in!
Good luck everyone!
this is very intriguing, i might give it a try
I got my submission in!!!
This is gonna come down to the wire, i haven't had nearly as much time on this as I would like
Looking forward to it !!
This is going to be a fun one!!
I dont get it.
Is it only html5? What means html5? Does it mean only canvas, or I need use tags from html5 or number "5" is just randomly placed here? Because for example using tons of "div" isnt html5.
Is backend language with database allowed?
Better description will be simply "Create a game and it should be playable in browser".
Hi, thanks for the questions. We will clarify the prompt.
The game should be compatible with any typical modern webpage load. So basically any non-experimental modern HTML.
And great question about the server. We will clarify that. The rule is going to be that backends and data are allowed, but judging will primarily be on the frontend experience.
Official new prompt:
Any remaining questions?
Aliens incite fear and mockery? Dude you are overthinking quite a bit.
However even if that is the case this will not be a disappointment for me; I will still be utilizing some of the basic web technologies I know to build the game according to the theme, HTML, CSS and JavaScript/TypeScript (Sorry can I use TypeScript?)
Interesting. Just to clarify, I see that you italicized the word Aliens for the topic. Does this refer to the concept of aliens in general, or must the game somehow be related to the retro game Aliens? Good luck to all participants!
The concept of aliens in general! Will remove the italicizing, thanks for letting us know that was creating confusion.
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